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Spain's forward Mikel Oyarzabal (R) scores a goal during the UEFA Nations League A group 4 football match between Spain and Switzerland at the Alfredo Di Stefano stadium in Valdebebas in northeastern Madrid on October 10, 2020. (Photo by GABRIEL BOUYS / AFP)
Spain edge Swiss 1-0; Germany stun Ukraine in Nations League
VALDEBEBAS: Spain's forward Mikel Oyarzabal (right) scores a goal during the UEFA Nations League A group 4 football match between Spain and Switzerland at the Alfredo Di Stefano stadium in Valdebebas in northeastern Madrid on October 10, 2020. - AFP PARIS: Mikel Oyarzabal pounced on a horror slip by Swiss captain Granit Xhaka to seal a 1-0 victory for Spain in the Nations League on Saturday. The night's other League A Group 4 match saw Germany...
Virat Kohli during his unbeaten knock of 90 runs in Dubai on Saturday.
Skipper Kohli stars as Bangalore thrash Chennai Super Kings in IPL
Virat Kohli during his unbeaten knock of 90 runs in Dubai. DUBAI: Skipper Virat Kohli hit an unbeaten 90 as Royal Challengers Bangalore outplayed Chennai Super Kings by 37 runs in the Indian Premier League on Saturday. Kohli held the innings strong despite early losses including AB de Villiers for nought and a slow start to take the attack to the opposition in Bangalore's 169 for four in Dubai. The star batsman scored his second half-century of...
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Zain signs exclusive partnership with e-commerce company Brandatt.com
KUWAIT: Zain, the leading digital service provider in Kuwait, announced the signing of an exclusive partnership agreement with Brandatt.com, an e-commerce company that specializes in beauty products, accessories, and perfumes. Through this partnership, Zain offers its prepaid and postpaid customers with a range of special and exclusive offers, as well as reward them with free Internet GBs when they purchase any of the offers on...
Locals and tourists walk by a kiosk at Monastiraki square, an area popular with tourists, in Athens, on October 9, 2020. - Only about half of Greece's little kiosks across the country survived the economic crisis. At the end of September, because of the spike in the number of Covid-19 cases, the government ordered the closure of the kiosks from midnight to five o'clock in the morning to discourage after-hours bar crowds from gathering on squares. (Photo by LOUISA GOULIAMAKI / AFP)
Coronavirus-hit Athens kiosk owners fear for their future
ATHENS: Locals and tourists walk by a kiosk at Monastiraki square, an area popular with tourists, in Athens on Saturday. Only about half of Greece's little kiosks across the country survived the economic crisis. - AFP ATHENS: Only about half of Greece's periptera, the little kiosks selling cigarettes and newspapers in town squares across the country, survived the economic crisis. Now, those still standing face a fresh threat, from the...
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Pandemic fuels NY used-car sale surge, risking 'Carmageddon'
NEW YORK: Increasing numbers of New Yorkers are buying cars as they avoid public transport because of the coronavirus pandemic, igniting the second-hand market but undermining hopes of less congestion in the Big Apple. Julien Genestoux, 35, never owned a car when he lived in Lyon, Rome and San Francisco. And he got through five years in New York without needing one. "Using a car in the city is a nightmare," he told AFP. "There's the traffic...
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5G iPhone expected to star at Apple event
In this file photo taken on September 15, 2020, Apple CEO Tim Cook kicks off a special event at Apple Park in Cupertino, California. Apple is expected tomorrow to unveil a keenly anticipated iPhone 12 line-up starring models tuned to super-fast new 5G telecom networks in an update considered vital to the company's fortunes. -AFP SAN FRANCISCO: Apple is expected tomorrow to unveil a keenly anticipated iPhone 12 line-up starring models tuned to...
A man stands by what is said is the remains of a Tochka U missile in a field in Fizuli district, Azerbaijan, on October 11, 2020, during the ongoing military conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh. (Photo by TOFIK BABAYEV / AFP)
Under-fire Azerbaijanis call for war
FIZULI, Azerbaijan: A man stands by what is said is the remains of a Tochka U missile in a field yesterday. - AFP TERTER: Sakhib Khashimov was in no mood to talk about peace as he picked through the wreckage of his shelled-out apartment on the Azerbaijani side of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. Ethnic Armenian separatists had shelled the frontline town of Terter-home to around 1,000 families displaced by decades of fighting-for days before...
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N Korean leader speaks softly, shows off new military might
PYONGYANG: This picture taken on Saturday shows a ceremony marking the 75th anniversary of the founding of the Workers' Party of Korea in Kim Il Sung square. - AFP SEOUL: North Korea's unprecedented nighttime military parade on Saturday showcased an unusually broad array of new weapons, from a show-stopping "monster" ballistic missile to previously unseen battle tanks. The hardware, likely still in varying stages of development, offered leader...
A Turkish-Cypriot woman casts her ballot at a voting station in the northern part of Nicosia, the capital of the self-proclaimed Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC), during the presidential elections on October 10, 2020. - The TRNC started a vote today for a new leader amid heightened tensions on the divided island and in the wider eastern Mediterranean region.nThe election in the breakaway republic that is recognised only by Ankara comes three days after Turkish troops controversially reopened access to the seaside ghost town of Varosha for the first time in decades. (Photo by Birol BEBEK / AFP)
Turkish Cypriots vote for new leader amid east Med tensions
NICOSIA: A Turkish-Cypriot woman casts her ballot at a voting station during presidential elections yesterday. - AFP NICOSIA: The self-proclaimed Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus was voting yesterday for a new leader amid heightened tensions on the divided island and in the wider eastern Mediterranean. The presidential election in the breakaway region pits the incumbent Mustafa Akinci, who supports the reunification of Cyprus, against...
CREOLE, LOUISIANA - OCTOBER 10: An aerial view of flood waters from Hurricane Delta surrounding structures destroyed by Hurricane Laura (R) on October 10, 2020 in Creole, Louisiana. Hurricane Delta made landfall near Creole as a Category 2 storm in Louisiana initially leaving some 300,000 customers without power. Mario Tama/Getty Images/AFPn== FOR NEWSPAPERS, INTERNET, TELCOS & TELEVISION USE ONLY ==
Delta leaves Louisianans reeling and out of power
CREOLE, Louisiana: An aerial view shows floodwaters from Hurricane Delta surrounding structures destroyed by Hurricane Laura on Saturday. - AFP LAKE CHARLES: Weary residents of coastal Louisiana began cleaning up yesterday from wind and water damage inflicted by Hurricane Delta to their already storm-battered region, even as it weakened and moved northeast. Delta made landfall near the town of Creole in Cameron Parish early Friday evening as a...
Members of the Armenian community march towards the Azerbaijan and Turkey Embassies in Buenos Aires, on October 10, 2020 during a protest in support of Armenia and Karabakh amid the territorial dispute with Azerbaijan over Nagorno Karabakh. (Photo by ALEJANDRO PAGNI / AFP)
Armenians in Argentina decry Karabakh conflict
BUENOS AIRES: Members of the Armenian community march towards the Azerbaijan and Turkey embassies on Saturday during a protest. - AFP BUENOS AIRES: Hundreds of people from Argentina's Armenian community demonstrated Saturday in Buenos Aires, calling for an end to fighting in the separatist region of Nagorno-Karabakh. The protesters, some wrapped in the red, blue and orange flags of Armenia and the contested enclave, marched from the Azerbaijan...
People wearing facemasks as a preventive measure against the Covid-19 coronavirus are seen in a market area in the old quarters of New Delhi on October 11, 2020. - India's coronavirus cases surged past seven million on October 11, taking it ever closer to overtaking the United States as the world's most infected country. (Photo by Sajjad HUSSAIN / AFP)
The mystery of India's low COVID death rate
People wearing facemasks as a preventive measure against the Covid-19 coronavirus are seen in a market area in the old quarters of New Delhi - AFP NEW DELHI: India, with its population of 1.3 billion people, has the world's second-highest number of coronavirus cases, now more than seven million, but far fewer reported deaths than other badly-hit countries. The figures have baffled experts, with explanations ranging from the young population to...
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A helicopter flied over burning oil fields which were set on fire by Iraqi soldiers before they retreated from Kuwait.
How Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait upended lives of expatriates
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ADDIS ABABA: Pedestrians walk on the newly built walkway in Addis Ababa. The Ethiopian birr weakened by 28 percent against the dollar this week after the central bank adopted a market-determined foreign exchange rate. – AFP
Ethiopian authorities crack down on price hikes after currency float
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KUWAIT: Oil wells were set ablaze by Iraqi troops. – KUNA
Kuwait marks 34th invasion anniversary, remembers support
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(Left) Iranians take part in a funeral procession for late Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran on Aug 1, 2024, ahead of his burial in Qatar. (Right) Hezbollah fighters and mourners carry the casket of slain top commander Fuad Shukr during his funeral in Beirut's southern suburbs on Aug 1, 2024. - AFP photos
Hamas, Hezbollah vow revenge
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Being in Kuwait during invasion: Soldier’s sister shares story