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KUWAIT: A shot of Kuwait's famed Mutlaa Ridge by photographer Daniela Buiting (Instagram: @picts_of_kuwait). To have your photo considered for Kuwait Times' Photo of the Day, send to local@KuwaitTimes.com or via direct message to Kuwait Times' Instagram account @kuwaittimes. Photos should be high resolution, with no processing or editing.nn
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KUWAIT: A shot of Kuwait's famed Mutlaa Ridge by photographer Daniela Buiting (Instagram: @picts_of_kuwait).
HONG KONG: This general view shows residential buildings at 21 Borrett Road in Hong Kong yesterday where a five-bedroom, 3,378 square-foot penthouse flat has sold for $59.3 million. - AFPn
$59m Hong Kong flat sale sets new Asia record
HONG KONG: This general view shows residential buildings at 21 Borrett Road in Hong Kong yesterday where a five-bedroom, 3,378 square-foot penthouse flat has sold for $59.3 million. - AFPHONG KONG: Hong Kong may be in its worst recession in years but its luxury property market is still thriving after a five-bedroom apartment broke records with its $59 million price tag. While there have been more expensive properties sold in Hong Kong, the...
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Fortnite's Epic takes Apple feud to Europe
BRUSSELS: Fortnite maker Epic Games yesterday lodged a complaint against Apple with EU antitrust authorities, deepening its bitter feud with the iPhone-maker over its app store. Apple and Epic have been locked in a fierce battle over whether Apple's tight control of the App Store, and its 30-percent cut of revenue, is abusive. The dispute took a dramatic turn in August when Apple expelled Fortnite, one of the world's most popular games, from its...
RAUB, Malayasia: Workers inspecting the quality of durians at a collecting center in Raub in Malaysia's Pahang state as traders become more reliant on China's appetite for the world's smelliest fruit. - AFPn
Malaysian durian trade battered as lockdown bites
RAUB, Malayasia: Workers inspecting the quality of durians at a collecting center in Raub in Malaysia's Pahang state as traders become more reliant on China's appetite for the world's smelliest fruit. - AFPRAUB, Malaysia: Durians falling from trees are collected in nets on a farm in Malaysia, where a long lockdown has slowed domestic demand and left traders more reliant on China's appetite for the world's smelliest fruit. Grown across tropical...
POTOMAC: World Trade Organization Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala speaks during an interview with AFP at her home in Potomac, Maryland on Tuesday.-AFPn
New WTO chief's pile of problems
POTOMAC: World Trade Organization Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala speaks during an interview with AFP at her home in Potomac, Maryland on Tuesday.-AFPGENEVA: The coronavirus pandemic, log-jammed trade talks and a long-delayed meeting of member states are just a few of the crises awaiting Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala as she takes the helm of the World Trade Organization next month. The WTO needs a kiss of life-and fast-and the first female and first...
MELBOURNE: Greece's Stefanos Tsitsipas (right) and Spain's Rafael Nadal greet each other after their men's singles quarter-final match on day ten of the Australian Open tennis tournament in Melbourne yesterday. - AFPn
Tsitsipas upsets Nadal in Melbourne
MELBOURNE: Greece's Stefanos Tsitsipas (right) and Spain's Rafael Nadal greet each other after their men's singles quarter-final match on day ten of the Australian Open tennis tournament in Melbourne yesterday. - AFPMELBOURNE: Stefanos Tsitsipas ended Rafael Nadal's Grand Slam record bid in five gripping sets yesterday as home hopes were dashed when top-ranked Ashleigh Barty was knocked out in the Australian Open quarter-finals. Greece's...
BUDAPEST: Liverpool's Egyptian midfielder Mohamed Salah (center) and Leipzig's Korean forward Hwang Hee-chan (left) vie for the ball during the UEFA Champions League round of 16 first leg football match between RB Leipzig and FC Liverpool at the Puskas Arena in Budapest on Tuesday. – AFPn
Liverpool seize control over RB Leipzig in Budapest
BUDAPEST: Liverpool's Egyptian midfielder Mohamed Salah (center) and Leipzig's Korean forward Hwang Hee-chan (left) vie for the ball during the UEFA Champions League round of 16 first leg football match between RB Leipzig and FC Liverpool at the Puskas Arena in Budapest on Tuesday. – AFPBUDAPEST: Liverpool rediscovered lost form and seized the initiative against RB Leipzig in the first leg of their Champions League last-16 clash by cruising to...
BARCELONA: Barcelona's Spanish defender Gerard Pique (left) challenges Paris Saint-Germain's French forward Kylian Mbappe during the UEFA Champions League round of 16 first leg football match between FC Barcelona and Paris Saint-Germain FC at the Camp Nou stadium in Barcelona on Tuesday. - AFPn
Europe's media hails 'hurricane' Mbappe
BARCELONA: Barcelona's Spanish defender Gerard Pique (left) challenges Paris Saint-Germain's French forward Kylian Mbappe during the UEFA Champions League round of 16 first leg football match between FC Barcelona and Paris Saint-Germain FC at the Camp Nou stadium in Barcelona on Tuesday. - AFPPARIS: Europe's media lavished praise on PSG's "hurricane" superstar Kylian Mbappe after a stunning Champions League hat-trick blew away Lionel Messi's...
BARCELONA: Paris Saint-Germain's Argentinian head coach Mauricio Pochettino and Barcelona's Dutch coach Ronald Koeman (right) attend the UEFA Champions League round of 16 first leg football match between FC Barcelona and Paris Saint-Germain FC at the Camp Nou stadium in Barcelona on Tuesday. – AFPn
Koeman faces scrutiny after PSG halt Barca revival
BARCELONA: Paris Saint-Germain's Argentinian head coach Mauricio Pochettino and Barcelona's Dutch coach Ronald Koeman (right) attend the UEFA Champions League round of 16 first leg football match between FC Barcelona and Paris Saint-Germain FC at the Camp Nou stadium in Barcelona on Tuesday. – AFPMADRID: Ronald Koeman said Barcelona were not ready yet to win the biggest trophies but Paris Saint-Germain showed them on Tuesday how far they have...
BARCELONA: Barcelona's Argentinian forward Lionel Messi walks off the pitch at the end of the UEFA Champions League round of 16 first leg football match between FC Barcelona and Paris Saint-Germain FC at the Camp Nou stadium in Barcelona on Tuesday. – AFPn
PSG banish memory of 'remontada'
BARCELONA: Barcelona's Argentinian forward Lionel Messi walks off the pitch at the end of the UEFA Champions League round of 16 first leg football match between FC Barcelona and Paris Saint-Germain FC at the Camp Nou stadium in Barcelona on Tuesday. – AFPPARIS: Kylian Mbappe had already won the World Cup and scored in the final, but he had not yet produced a Champions League performance on the level of his devastating display that blew away...
In this file photo National youth poet laureate Amanda Gorman recites during the inauguration of Joe Biden as the 46th US President at the US Capitol in Washington, DC.-AFP n
Amanda Gorman poem to be published in French
In this file photo National youth poet laureate Amanda Gorman recites during the inauguration of Joe Biden as the 46th US President at the US Capitol in Washington, DC.-AFPA poem by Amanda Gorman, the young star of President Joe Biden's inauguration, is being translated into French, the Editions Fayard publishing house said yesterday. The inauguration poem by the 22-year-old US National Youth Poet Laureate, "The Hill We Climb", is due out in...
A youth plays an online multiplayer game at an internet cafe in Iran's capital Tehran.-AFPn
'We just want to play': Iran gamers battle reality of US sanctions
A youth plays an online multiplayer game at an internet cafe in Iran's capital Tehran.-AFPIran's millions-strong legion of gamers revel in online worlds, but they have to fight daily real-life obstacles imposed by US sanctions in their quest to level up and keep playing. "It's a problem between governments and a pain for the consumer," said 24-year-old gamer and game journalist Amir Golkhani."We have no political demands. We just want to play,"...
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