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This file photo released by NASA shows the planet Venus in a composite of data from NASA's Magellan spacecraft and Pioneer Venus Orbiter NASA announced two new missions to Venus Wednesday that will launch at the end of the decade. - AFPn

NASA announces two missions to Venus

This file photo released by NASA shows the planet Venus in a composite of data from NASA's Magellan spacecraft and Pioneer Venus Orbiter NASA announced two new missions to Venus Wednesday that will launch at the end of the decade. - AFPWASHINGTON: NASA announced two new missions to Venus on Wednesday that will launch at the end of the decade and are aimed at learning how Earth's nearest planetary neighbor became a hellscape while our own...

TOKYO: The countdown clock for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games is displayed with 50 days before the opening ceremony outside a Tokyo station yesterday. - AFP n

Tokyo 2020 chief says Games '100%' on, with 50 days to go

TOKYO: The countdown clock for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games is displayed with 50 days before the opening ceremony outside a Tokyo station yesterday. - AFPTOKYO: The Tokyo Olympics are "100 percent" certain to go ahead, the chief organizer said yesterday, but warned that a major coronavirus outbreak mid-Games could slam the door shut on fans. Tokyo 2020 president Seiko Hashimoto made the comments exactly 50 days before the pandemic-postponed...

SALT LAKE CITY: Jordan Clarkson #00 of the Utah Jazz shoots the ball against the Memphis Grizzlies during Round 1, Game 5 of the 2021 NBA Playoffs on Wednesday. - AFP n

Sixers, Hawks and Jazz advance in NBA playoffs

SALT LAKE CITY: Jordan Clarkson #00 of the Utah Jazz shoots the ball against the Memphis Grizzlies during Round 1, Game 5 of the 2021 NBA Playoffs on Wednesday. - AFPLOS ANGELES: The Philadelphia 76ers, Atlanta Hawks and Utah Jazz powered into the conference semi-finals of the NBA playoffs on Wednesday as an electrifying display from Luka Doncic took the Dallas Mavericks to the brink of a series victory. Seth Curry's 30-point display helped the...

NICE: France's forward Karim Benzema misses to score on a penalty kick during the friendly football match between France and Wales at the Allianz Riviera Stadium on Wednesday. - AFP n

'Good omen' for Benzema despite penalty miss on France return

NICE: France's forward Karim Benzema misses to score on a penalty kick during the friendly football match between France and Wales at the Allianz Riviera Stadium on Wednesday. - AFPNICE: Karim Benzema said he was happy with his performance despite a missed penalty as he made his first France appearance in almost six years in Wednesday's 3-0 Euro 2020 friendly win over Wales in Nice. Benzema had been left out of Didier Deschamps' squad since Oct...

BERLIN: Parked aircraft operated by German airline Lufthansa are pictured at Berlin Brandenburg BER airport Willy-Brandt in Schoenefeld near Berlin. - AFP

EU air lobbies fear summer travel chaos

BERLIN: Parked aircraft operated by German airline Lufthansa are pictured at Berlin Brandenburg BER airport Willy-Brandt in Schoenefeld near Berlin. - AFPPARIS: A year after the coronavirus pandemic emptied airports, air travel associations fear chaos during Europe's summer holiday season as travellers could wait hours before boarding planes due to health checks. Strict controls are still in place at most European airports even though...

CONAKRY: A young girl sits with a motor-taxi driver a taxi stop in Conakry. Hopping on a two-wheeled taxi is crucial for anyone who wants to avoid the notorious traffic jams in Conakry. -AFPnnn

Motorbike blues: Guinea struggles to crack down on two-wheel taxis

CONAKRY: A young girl sits with a motor-taxi driver a taxi stop in Conakry. Hopping on a two-wheeled taxi is crucial for anyone who wants to avoid the notorious traffic jams in Conakry. -AFPCONAKRY, Guinea: Tension is high these days on the streets of Conakry, where motorcycle taxi drivers and police are embroiled in a game of cat and mouse. Two-wheeled taxis are essential for anyone who wants to avoid the West African capital's notorious...

Participants attend a session of the St Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) in Saint Petersburg yesterday.-AFPnnnnnn

Russia gathers thousands for business forum despite COVID

Participants attend a session of the St Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) in Saint Petersburg yesterday. - AFPSAINT PETERSBURG, Russia: A flagship economic forum has returned to Saint Petersburg, with Russia aiming to signal it has moved beyond the coronavirus pandemic and is open for business despite political tensions. The Saint Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF), often dubbed the Russian Davos, officially starts...

WASHINGTON: A survey of firms in the US released Wednesday gave a generally upbeat view of the economy's comeback from the turmoil created by COVIDE-19. - AFPn

Supply bottlenecks and worker shortage challenge US recovery

WASHINGTON: A survey of firms in the US released Wednesday gave a generally upbeat view of the economy's comeback from the turmoil created by COVID-19. - AFPWASHINGTON: American businesses remain optimistic about their recovery from the pandemic, but a Federal Reserve report shows supply disruptions and labor shortages have begun to boost prices and crimp output. The survey of firms nationwide released Wednesday gave a generally upbeat view of...

Ivorion-Burkinabè fashion designer Pathé Ouedraogo, known as Pathé’O, poses for a photograph in his store in Abidjan. — AFP photosn

Mandela's tailor on mission to boost African fashion

Ivorion-Burkinabè fashion designer Pathé Ouedraogo, known as Pathé’O, poses for a photograph in his store in Abidjan. — AFP photosIvorian-Burkinabe tailor Pathe'O can look back on a 50-year career that has seen him rise from self-taught improviser to supplier of Africa's wealthy and powerful, including anti-apartheid torchbearer Nelson Mandela. As well as South Africa's first black president, his richly coloured shirts have graced the...

This file photo taken in Paris shows French writer David Diop posing during a photo session. – AFP n

France's David Diop wins International Booker with WWI novel

This file photo taken in Paris shows French writer David Diop posing during a photo session. – AFPFrench novelist David Diop on Wednesday won the prestigious International Booker Prize for books translated into English with his World War I-set novel, "At Night All Blood is Black". The Paris-born writer became the first French winner of the prize, awarded for a book translated into English and published in the UK or Ireland, in a ceremony...

The wedding dress of Diana, Princess of Wales is seen on display at an exhibition entitled 'Royal Style in the Making' at Kensington Palace in London. — AFP n

Diana's iconic wedding dress is star of royal fashion exhibit

The wedding dress of Diana, Princess of Wales is seen on display at an exhibition entitled 'Royal Style in the Making' at Kensington Palace in London. — AFPPrincess Diana's wedding dress for her 1981 marriage to Prince Charles was one of the best-kept secrets in fashion history. The gown sparked such intense interest that young designers David and Elizabeth Emanuel locked the ivory silk dress, which had a 25-foot (7.6-metre) long train, in a...

Deliveryman Mountazar Abbas announces the arrival of his cylinder-laden rickshaw by singing. - AFPn

Iraq's last gas bottle delivery crooner dreams of stardom

Deliveryman Mountazar Abbas announces the arrival of his cylinder-laden rickshaw by singing. - AFPIn the Karrada district of Iraq's capital, residents awake to a gas bottle deliveryman's dulcet tones-once a country-wide tradition, but now a solo act. "My heart rediscovers love, as if it learnt nothing from past suffering," croons Mountazar Abbas, in homage to famous Iraqi singer Yass Khodr. The 22-year-old is the last gas deliveryman in Baghdad...

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