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Gandhi's gold glasses sell for $340,000
BRISTOL: A pair of glasses that once belonged to Mohandas Gandhi are seen. - AFP LONDON: A pair of gold-plated glasses worn by Indian independence hero Mahatma Gandhi has sold in Britain for £260,000 ($340,000), the auction house said. "We found them just four weeks ago in our letterbox, left there by a gentleman whose uncle had been given them by Gandhi himself," East Bristol Auctions wrote on Instagram after the sale late Friday. "An...
(FILES) In this file photo taken on May 8, 2020 Fredie Blom talks about his recollections as he celebrates his 116th birthday at his home in Delft, near Cape Town. - One of South Africa's oldest citizens Fredie Blom, has died aged 116, his family said on August 22, 2020. Possibly one of the oldest men in the world, Blom was born 8 May 1904, in the rural town of Adelaide, tucked near the Great Winterberg mountain range of South Africa's Eastern Cape province. (Photo by RODGER BOSCH / AFP)
'Unofficial' world's oldest man dies
DELFT, South Africa: In this photo taken on May 8, 2020, Fredie Blom celebrates his 116th birthday at his home. - AFP JOHANNESBURG: A 116-year-old survivor of the 1918 Spanish Flu believed to be among the world's oldest people died yesterday in South Africa, his family said. Born on May 8 1904, Fredie Blom had "lived this long because of God's grace," he told AFP this year. Guinness World Records lists the oldest currently living man as Briton...
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British govt debt exceeds £2 trillion
LONDON: British government debt has exceeded £2 trillion for the first time following massive state borrowing as the coronavirus pandemic pushed the UK economy into a record recession, official data showed Friday .-AFP LONDON: British government debt has exceeded £2 trillion for the first time following massive state borrowing as the coronavirus pandemic pushed the UK economy into a record recession, official data showed Friday. At the end of...
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EU, Britain trade blame after scant progress towards post-Brexit deal
BRUSSELS: EU's Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier holds a news conference after a meeting with Britain's chief negotiator in Brussels on Friday. Barnier said he was worried and "disappointed" at the lack of progress in the latest round of Brexit trade talks. - AFP BRUSSELS/LONDON: Britain and the European Union made scant progress towards a deal on future ties in talks this week, and their chief negotiators blamed each other for the stalemate as...
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World Bank warns extreme poverty could surge by 100m
MANILA: Men queue up to receive food aid in Manila after the Philippines economy plunged into recession. - AFP WASHINGTON: The coronavirus pandemic may have driven as many as 100 million people back into extreme poverty, World Bank President David Malpass warned.The Washington-based development lender previously estimated that 60 million people would fall into extreme poverty due to COVID-19, but the new estimate puts the deterioration at 70 to...
Sevilla's players celebrate with the trophy after winning the UEFA Europa League final football match Sevilla v Inter Milan on August 21, 2020, in Cologne, western Germany. (Photo by Lars Baron / POOL / AFP)
Sevilla win sixth Europa League
COLOGNE: Sevilla's players celebrate with the trophy after winning the UEFA Europa League final football match Sevilla v Inter Milan, in Cologne, western Germany. - AFP COLOGNE: Sevilla boss Julen Lopetegui said he does not look back at what might have been with Spain and Real Madrid after leading the Spanish side to a sixth Europa League title thanks to a 3-2 win over Inter Milan in a thrilling final in Cologne. Lopetegui was sacked as Spain...
Bayern Munich's German midfielder Serge Gnabry (C) celebrates with Bayern Munich's German forward Thomas Mueller (2ndL) and Bayern Munich's Polish forward Robert Lewandowski after scoring a goal during the UEFA Champions League semi-final football match between Lyon and Bayern Munich at the Jose Alvalade stadium in Lisbon on August 19, 2020. (Photo by Miguel A. Lopes / POOL / AFP)
How Bayern Munich grew into super club of German football
LISBON: File photo shows Bayern Munich's German midfielder Serge Gnabry (C) celebrates with Bayern Munich's German forward Thomas Mueller (2ndL) and Bayern Munich's Polish forward Robert Lewandowski after scoring a goal during the UEFA Champions League semi-final football match between Lyon and Bayern Munich in Lisbon. -- AFP BERLIN: Bayern Munich can complete only the second treble in their proud history by beating Paris Saint Germain in...
CLEVELAND, OHIO - AUGUST 21: Second baseman Jonathan Schoop #8 of the Detroit Tigers tries to tag Tyler Naquin #30 of the Cleveland Indians during the first inning at Progressive Field on August 21, 2020 in Cleveland, Ohio. Jason Miller/Getty Images/AFP
Tigers end 20-game losing streak, A's cruise past slumping Angels
CLEVELAND: Second baseman Jonathan Schoop #8 of the Detroit Tigers tries to tag Tyler Naquin #30 of the Cleveland Indians during the first inning at Progressive Field in Cleveland, Ohio. - AFP CLEVELAND: Rookie Isaac Paredes belted a grand slam to power Detroit past the host Cleveland Indians 10-5 on Friday, snapping the Tigers' 20-game losing streak between the two teams. Jonathan Schoop slugged a two-run homer among his four hits, Victor Reyes...
(FILES) In this file photo taken on May 30, 2020 relatives carry the coffin of a suspected COVID-19 victim at the Nueva Esperanza cemetery, one of the largest in Latin America, in the southern outskirts of Lima. - Almost six months after it was first detected in Latin America, the coronavirus death toll has reached 250,000 and exacerbated the problems of poverty and inequality, threatening to undo a decade of slow social progress. (Photo by ERNESTO BENAVIDES / AFP)
WHO sees virus over in two years
LIMA: Relatives carry the coffin of a suspected COVID-19 victim at the Nueva Esperanza cemetery, one of the largest in Latin America, in the southern outskirts of Lima. - AFP GENEVA: The world should be able to rein in the coronavirus pandemic in less than two years, the World Health Organization said, as millions of Lebanese wearily entered a new lockdown following a spike in coronavirus infections. Western Europe was also enduring the kind of...
WILMINGTON, DELAWARE - AUGUST 20: Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, his wife Dr. Jill Biden, Democratic Vice Presidential nominee Kamala Harris and her husband Douglas Emhoff raise their arms on stage outside the Chase Center after Biden delivered his acceptance speech on the fourth night of the Democratic National Convention from the Chase Center on August 20, 2020 in Wilmington, Delaware. The convention, which was once expected to draw 50,000 people to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, is now taking place virtually due to the coronavirus pandemic. Win McNamee/Getty Images/AFPn== FOR NEWSPAPERS, INTERNET, TELCOS & TELEVISION USE ONLY ==
Battered by Democrats, Trump fires back against 'total anarchy, madness, chaos'
WILMINGTON: Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, his wife Dr Jill Biden, Democratic Vice Presidential nominee Kamala Harris and her husband Douglas Emhoff raise their arms on stage outside the Chase Center after Biden delivered his acceptance speech. - AFP WASHINGTON: After being accused by Democrats of being a chaotic and dishonest leader, President Donald Trump countered on Friday that Democrats, not he, would bring chaos to the United...
A priest (L) and a woman visit the Chora or Kariye Museum, formally the Church of the Holy Saviour, a medieval Byzantine Greek Orthodox church, on August 21, 2020, in the Fatih district in Istanbul. - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on August 21, 2020, ordered another ancient Orthodox church that became a mosque and then a popular Istanbul museum to be turned back into a place of Muslim worship. Located in today's Fatih district in Istanbul, the building was constructed as a monastery in 534 during the Byzantine period. After Istanbul was taken over by the Ottomans in 1453, it was converted into a mosque in 1511, just like Hagia Sophia in Istanbul. Serving as a mosque for 434 years, it was converted into a museum by a Council of Ministers decree in 1945, after the Republic of Turkey was established in 1923. (Photo by BULENT KILIC / AFP)
Turkey leader converts another Orthodox church into a mosque
ISTANBUL: A priest (left) and a woman visit the Chora or Kariye Museum, formally the Church of the Holy Savior, a medieval Byzantine Greek Orthodox church in the Fatih district in Istanbul. _ AFP ISTANBUL: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday ordered another ancient Orthodox church that became a mosque and then a popular Istanbul museum to be turned back into a place of Muslim worship. The decision to transform the Kariye Museum into...
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California's fires spread, fouling air and spurring evacuations
CALIFORNIA: Photo shows a large area covered in thick smoke from the CZU Lightning Complex Wildfire burning in the Santa Cruz mountains, near Santa Cruz, California. - AFP LOS ANGELES: Thick smoke blanketed large areas of central and northern California on Friday as more people fled some of the biggest fires in the state's history which have raged largely uncontrolled through the week. One of the largest group of fires, dubbed the LNU Lightning...
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