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MANCHESTER: Leeds players celebrate at the end of the English Premier League football match between Manchester City and Leeds United at the Etihad Stadium in Manchester, north west England yesterday. – AFPn
Ten-man Leeds shock Man City
MANCHESTER: Leeds players celebrate at the end of the English Premier League football match between Manchester City and Leeds United at the Etihad Stadium in Manchester, north west England yesterday. – AFPMANCHESTER: Manchester City suffered just a fourth Premier League defeat of the season as 10-man Leeds United shocked the runaway leaders thanks to Stuart Dallas's double in a 2-1 win at the Etihad yesterday. Dallas opened the scoring three...
GRANADA: Granada's Venezuelan midfielder Yangel Herrera reacts next to Manchester United's Uruguayan striker Edinson Cavani (right) after missing a goal opportunity during the UEFA Europa League football match between Granada FC and Manchester United at the Nuevo Los Carmenes stadium in Granada on Thursday. - AFPn
Cavani undecided over future at Man Utd, says Solskjaer
GRANADA: Granada's Venezuelan midfielder Yangel Herrera reacts next to Manchester United's Uruguayan striker Edinson Cavani (right) after missing a goal opportunity during the UEFA Europa League football match between Granada FC and Manchester United at the Nuevo Los Carmenes stadium in Granada on Thursday. - AFPLONDON: Edinson Cavani remains unsure about his Manchester United future beyond the end of the Premier League season, manager Ole...
MUNICH: Paris Saint-Germain's French forward Kylian Mbappe celebrates scoring the 2-3 goal during the UEFA Champions League quarter-final first leg football match against FC Bayern Munich in Munich, southern Germany, on April 7, 2021. - AFPn
Mbappe 'focused' on PSG amid Real Madrid rumors: Pochettino
MUNICH: Paris Saint-Germain's French forward Kylian Mbappe celebrates scoring the 2-3 goal during the UEFA Champions League quarter-final first leg football match against FC Bayern Munich in Munich, southern Germany, on April 7, 2021. - AFPPARIS: Kylian Mbappe is not distracted by rumors of a possible move to Real Madrid, Paris Saint-Germain coach Mauricio Pochettino insisted on Friday. The France World Cup-winning superstar has long been linked...
BARCELONA: FC Bayern Munich's German center Leon Radosevic (left) challenges Barcelona's Spanish center Pau Gasol during the Euroleague basketball match between Barcelona and Bayern Munich at the Palau Blaugrana arena in Barcelona on Friday. - AFPn
Pau Gasol dons Barca shirt again, twenty years later
BARCELONA: FC Bayern Munich's German center Leon Radosevic (left) challenges Barcelona's Spanish center Pau Gasol during the Euroleague basketball match between Barcelona and Bayern Munich at the Palau Blaugrana arena in Barcelona on Friday. - AFPMADRID: Twenty years after leaving Barcelona for the riches of the NBA, 40-year-old Pau Gasol returned to the Spanish club on Friday, playing in a EuroLeague clash against Bayern Munich. Gasol, who was...
TOKYO: Japan's Rikako Ikee reacts after winning the women's 50m freestyle final during the Japan National Swimming Championships, which doubles as a qualifier event for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, at the Tokyo Aquatics Centre yesterday. - AFPn
Japan swimmer Ikee claims clean sweep but misses Olympic spot
TOKYO: Japan's Rikako Ikee reacts after winning the women's 50m freestyle final during the Japan National Swimming Championships, which doubles as a qualifier event for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, at the Tokyo Aquatics Centre yesterday. - AFPTOKYO: Leukemia survivor Rikako Ikee completed a clean sweep of four wins at Japan's Olympic swimming trials yesterday -- but missed out on an individual place at the Tokyo Games. Ikee, who only resumed...
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Pumpkins, peas, peonies: New York exhibit celebrates Japan's Kusama
A visitor to Bonhams auction house in Hong Kong on April 7, 2021 photographs a painting titled "Untitled", part of some of the earliest recognized works by Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama - which have never been exhibited in public and will be offered in a special single-owner collection sale at Bonhams New York on May 12, 2021. - AFP photosJapanese artist Yayoi Kusama grew up among plants; walking through her grandfather's vast nursery as a child...
This photograph taken on March 20, 2021 shows tattoo artist Ngoc Like designing a tattoo over a female customer's scar at her studio in Hanoi. - AFP photos n
Scar tissue: Vietnamese women find healing with tattoos
This photograph taken on March 20, 2021 shows tattoo artist Ngoc Like designing a tattoo over a female customer's scar at her studio in Hanoi. - AFP photosIn her tiny Hanoi apartment, tattoo artist Ngoc inks middle-aged women whose lives have been upended by divorce or illness, each of them searching for healing through an art form that is still largely taboo in Vietnam. Although attitudes are changing, tattoos remain associated with gangsters,...
In this picture taken on Jan 31, 2021, female students of the Hazara community warm up before a martial arts training class at the Kazmi International Wushu Academy in Quetta. - AFP photosn
Pakistan's Hazara women strike back with martial arts
In this picture taken on Jan 31, 2021, female students of the Hazara community warm up before a martial arts training class at the Kazmi International Wushu Academy in Quetta. - AFP photosHundreds of Pakistani Hazara women are learning how to deliver side kicks and elbow blows as martial arts booms within the marginalized community. Hazaras, who are mainly Shia Muslims, have faced decades of sectarian violence in the southwestern city of Quetta,...
In this file photo taken on June 28, 2019, DMX performs at Masters Of Ceremony 2019 at Barclays Center in New York City. - AFP photos n
DMX, rap's explosive, tortured star, dies at 50
In this file photo taken on June 28, 2019, DMX performs at Masters Of Ceremony 2019 at Barclays Center in New York City. - AFP photosDMX, the hardcore hip-hop star whose raw, snarling raps chronicled the struggles of the American street and his own inner pain, has died. He was 50 years old. The rapper's longtime lawyer confirmed DMX's death to AFP, with a statement from his family saying the artist, born Earl Simmons, died after nearly a week on...
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How did Game of Thrones become such a 'phenomenon'?
In this file photo taken on Sept 23, 2019, the cast of "Game of Thrones" speaks onstage during the 71st Emmy Awards at the Microsoft Theatre in Los Angeles. - AFPWinter came and went, leaving millions disappointed by the ending and a generation of adolescent boys exhausted from over-stimulation. Many more wondered whether all the blood and bare bottoms were strictly necessary. But few would argue that HBO's "Game of Thrones", celebrating its...
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'Fleabag' actor Waller-Bridge to star in new 'Indiana Jones'
Phoebe Waller-Bridge"Fleabag" actor and creator Phoebe Waller-Bridge will star alongside Harrison Ford in the new "Indiana Jones" movie due to hit screens next summer, Lucasfilm said Friday. The series' fifth installment, to be directed by James Mangold ("Ford v Ferrari") has been billed as 78-year-old Ford's final film as the hero archaeologist. The "new adventure" will feature a "dream team of all-time great filmmakers" including producers...
KUWAIT: National Assembly Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanem (right) is seen during a parliamentary session at the National Assembly on March 30, 2021. - Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyatn
Twenty-three MPs demand removal of assembly speaker
KUWAIT: National Assembly Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanem (right) is seen during a parliamentary session at the National Assembly on March 30, 2021. - Photo by Yasser Al-ZayyatBy B IzzakKUWAIT: As many as 23 opposition lawmakers yesterday submitted an unprecedented motion demanding the dismissal of assembly speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanem for breaching the constitution and the internal charter. MP Bader Al-Mulla led the motion and 22 other MPs signed it and...