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MANCHESTER: Tottenham Hotspur's Portuguese head coach Jose Mourinho (right) talks with Tottenham Hotspur's Welsh striker Gareth Bale following the English Premier League football match between Manchester City and Tottenham Hotspur at the Etihad Stadium in Manchester, north west England, on February 13, 2021. Manchester City won the match 3-0. - AFPn

Lackluster Bale's Spurs return goes sour

MANCHESTER: Tottenham Hotspur's Portuguese head coach Jose Mourinho (right) talks with Tottenham Hotspur's Welsh striker Gareth Bale following the English Premier League football match between Manchester City and Tottenham Hotspur at the Etihad Stadium in Manchester, north west England, on February 13, 2021. Manchester City won the match 3-0. - AFPLONDON: Gareth Bale faces a fight to salvage his tarnished reputation after the Tottenham forward's...

YOKOHAMA: In this file photo taken on February 16, 2020, a police car drives past the Diamond Princess cruise ship, with people quarantined onboard due to fears of the new COVID-19 coronavirus, at the Daikaku Pier Cruise Terminal in Yokohama port. - AFPn

A year after Diamond Princess, cruise industry eyes return

YOKOHAMA: In this file photo taken on February 16, 2020, a police car drives past the Diamond Princess cruise ship, with people quarantined onboard due to fears of the new COVID-19 coronavirus, at the Daikaku Pier Cruise Terminal in Yokohama port. - AFPTOKYO: David Abel and his wife Sally might have had the cruise from hell last year on the coronavirus-hit Diamond Princess, but they can't wait to get back to sea. A year after the ill-fated ship...

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Bitcoin surges past $50,000 for first time

ISTANBUL: A physical imitation of a Bitcoin at a crypto currency "Bitcoin Change" shop, near the Grand Bazaar, in Istanbul. Bitcoin soared above $50,000 for the first time yesterday after surging by almost 75 percent this year.-AFPLONDON: Bitcoin soared above $50,000 for the first time yesterday as an increasing number of corporate heavyweights back the world's most popular virtual currency. At around 1235 GMT, Bitcoin hit an all-time high of...

SINGAPORE: People walk during lunch time at the Raffles Place financial business district in Singapore yesterday.-AFPn

Singapore rolls out new budget boost for virus-hit firms

SINGAPORE: People walk during lunch time at the Raffles Place financial business district in Singapore yesterday.-AFPSINGAPORE: Singapore yesterday unveiled a fresh multi-billion-dollar package to help pandemic-battered businesses and fund a vaccination drive, as part of the city-state's annual budget. The coronavirus has plunged the financial hub into its worst-ever recession, with the crucial aviation and tourism sectors hit particularly hard...

LONDON: Finance Minister Rishi Sunak, who delivers his annual budget on March 3, should focus on securing economic recovery instead of raising taxes to fix virus-ravaged public finances.n

UK budget must extend virus support: Analysts

LONDON: Finance Minister Rishi Sunak, who delivers his annual budget on March 3, should focus on securing economic recovery instead of raising taxes to fix virus-ravaged public finances.LONDON: Britain must use next month's budget to extend coronavirus financial support measures and tackle inequalities exacerbated by the COVID crisis before a gradual withdrawal as the virus lockdown is eased, analysts urged yesterday. Finance minister Rishi...

DHAKA: Police escort a convicted man (second right) after a Bangladesh anti-terrorism court sentenced five Islamist extremists to death over the brutal murder of Avijit Roy, a Bangladeshi-US writer and rights activist, in Dhaka yesterday.-AFP n

5 Bangladesh Islamists sentenced to death for writer's murder

DHAKA: Police escort a convicted man after a Bangladesh anti-terrorism court sentenced five Islamist extremists to death over the brutal murder of Avijit Roy, a Bangladeshi-US writer and rights activist, in Dhaka yesterday.-AFPDHAKA, Bangladesh: Five Islamist extremists were sentenced to death yesterday over the brutal murder of a Bangladeshi-American writer and rights activist six years ago. Avijit Roy, a prolific blogger and the author of 10...

BUENOS AIRES: Handout picture released by the Argentine Senate showing Zulema Menem (center) and her sons Luca Bertoldi Menem (left) and Malek Pocovi Menem (center), her mother Zulema Yoma (second left) and her half-brother Carlos Nair Menem (right) mourning next to the coffin with the remains of late former Argentine president and senator Carlos Saul Menem, as he lies in state at the funeral chapel set at the Congress in Buenos Aires.-AFP n

Carlos Menem buried with military honors

BUENOS AIRES: Handout picture released by the Argentine Senate showing Zulema Menem (second right) and her sons Luca Bertoldi Menem (left) and Malek Pocovi Menem (center), her mother Zulema Yoma (second left) and her half-brother Carlos Nair Menem (right) mourning next to the coffin with the remains of late former Argentine president and senator Carlos Saul Menem, as he lies in state at the funeral chapel set at the Congress in Buenos Aires. -...

A local farmer walking in a swarm of desert locust in Meru, Kenya. - AFPn

Kenya's locust hunters on tireless quest to halt ancient pest

A local farmer walking in a swarm of desert locust in Meru, Kenya. - AFPMERU, Kenya: As dawn breaks in central Kenya, a helicopter lifts off in a race to find roosting locusts before the sun warms their bodies and sends them on a ravenous flight through farmland. Pilot Kieran Allen begins his painstaking survey from zebra-filled plains and lush maize farms, to dramatic forested valleys and the vast arid expanses further north, his eyes scouring...

An Iraq man sells nuts in the old bazaar in Arbil, the capital of the northern Iraqi Kurdish autonomous region.-AFP photosn

In Iraq, generous Mideast tradition of 'istiftah' lives on

An Iraq man sells nuts in the old bazaar in Arbil, the capital of the northern Iraqi Kurdish autonomous region.-AFP photosAs the sun rises over Arbil's historic bazaar, shopkeepers sweep their stoops and eagerly await the "istiftah"-the first customer of the day, believed to be a good omen. For a country as famously hospitable as Iraq, where lunch tables are often overflowing with platters of meat as big as truck tyres, the custom of "istiftah",...

A general view shows Bormio's world famous ski resort in the Italian Alps. - AFP

Hopes dashed again as Italy ski resorts stay shut

A general view shows Bormio's world famous ski resort in the Italian Alps. - AFP"It's so frustrating! They are having a laugh," vented skier Matteo Morsia, after the long-awaited reopening Monday of Italy's resorts was postponed at the last minute over fresh coronavirus fears. The 27-year-old travelled 200 kilometers to the Italian Alps from Milan to take advantage of the first day of skiing this season-only for the government to announce on...

Children on excursions with their daycare groups, cross-country skiing on trails made of artificial snow in Oslo, Norway. -AFP photosn

Norway moves mountains to bring skiing to the people

Children on excursions with their daycare groups, cross-country skiing on trails made of artificial snow in Oslo, Norway. -AFPNorwegians, the saying goes, are born with skis on their feet. But with a lack of snow and the pandemic this year leaving many in despair, authorities are bringing snow and ski trails to downtown Oslo. For the past few weeks, big trucks have been dumping hundreds of cubic meters of fluffy white stuff, made by snow cannons...

Catalan rapper Pablo Hasel is arrested by police at the University of Lleida, 150 kms west of Barcelona, yesterday where he had barricaded himself.-AFP n

Spanish police arrest rapper holed up in university

Catalan rapper Pablo Hasel is arrested by police at the University of Lleida, 150 kms west of Barcelona, yesterday where he had barricaded himself. - AFPSpanish police yesterday arrested a rapper who barricaded himself inside a university after he was controversially sentenced to nine months in jail over a string of tweets, television images showed. Pablo Hasel, 32, had been given until last Friday night to turn himself in to begin serving his...

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