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Yemeni labourers remove the rubble ahead of restoration works on the site of a collapsed UNESCO-listed building following heavy rains, in the old city of the Yemeni capital Sanaa, on August 12, 2020. - Flash floods triggered by torrential rains have killed at least 172 people across Yemen over the past month, damaging homes and UNESCO-listed world heritage sites, officials said. (Photo by Mohammed HUWAIS / AFP)
Yemen's heritage battered first by bombs, then floods
SANAA: Yemeni laborers remove the rubble ahead of restoration works on the site of a collapsed UNESCO-listed building following heavy rains, in the old city of the Yemeni capital Sanaa. _ AFP SANAA: Muddy waters lap overfoot in Sanaa's Old City, inhabited without interruption for more than 2,500 years but now facing disaster after floods that threaten the collapse of irreplaceable houses. The deluge risks finishing off the destruction of its...
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Sudan boosts security as tribal clashes kill 32
KHARTOUM: Sudan has beefed up security in Red Sea state and imposed a curfew in its main sea gateway of Port Sudan after 32 people died in recent tribal clashes, the country's interior ministry said late on Wednesday. Sudan is one year into a three-year transition after the overthrow of former President Omar al-Bashir and faces challenges including simmering insecurity in several regions and a deep economic crisis. Security forces arrested 85...
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Brazil struggles to rescue housemaids from slavery
BEIJING: Photo shows former massage therapist Xiao Jia preparing ahead of an online makeup class she teaches for blind people at her home in Beijing. - AFP RIO DE JANEIRO: Whenever Elisa goes out in her small town in northeastern Brazil, she fears seeing the family she once considered her own. After almost three decades of domestic work with no pay and little freedom, Elisa realized she was a slave and plotted to escape the household where she...
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Kuwait records 717 new COVID-19 cases, three deaths
KUWAIT: Kuwait's Ministry of Health said Wednesday 717 people tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) while three persons died of the disease in the past 24 hours. MoH spokesman Dr Abdullah Al-Sanad said that the total registered infections reached 73,785 while deaths increased to 489.He added that 470 cases of the new infections were Kuwaiti citizens, or 65.55 percent, and 247 were non-Kuwaitis, or 34.45 percent. The MoH had...
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Last Blockbuster store lists '90s sleepover' on Airbnb
These photos show the interior of the last remaining Blockbuster store, in Bend, Oregon. -AFP photos Is 2020 proving a bit too much? The last Blockbuster store on the planet is offering guests a chance to roll back the clock to simpler times with a '90s themed sleepover, it was announced Tuesday. An Airbnb listing for the holdout video rental shop in the northwestern US state of Oregon promises to convert the store into a makeshift living room...
Owner of a valliculture company Carlo Marchesi (L) and his employee Adriano Croitoru transplant reeds in the Venetian lagoon, as part of a project that aims to restore its environment by increasing fresh water input, near Venice on July 22, 2020. - Venice may be famed for Saint Mark's Square or the Bridge of Sighs, but the Italian city has another jewel oft overlooked: its lagoon. Once home to a rich variety of fish and birds, mankind's meddling has raised the water's salt content dramatically. An environmental project aims to restore it to its former glory, however, by introducing fresh water. (Photo by Celine CORNU / AFP)
Venice nurtures its lagoon back to health
Owner of a valliculture company Carlo Marchesi (left) and his employee Adriano Croitoru transplant reeds in the Venetian lagoon, as part of a project that aims to restore its environment by increasing fresh water input, near Venice.-AFP photos Venice may be famed for Saint Mark's Square or the Bridge of Sighs, but the Italian city has another jewel that is often overlooked: its lagoon. Once home to a rich variety of fish and birds, mankind's...
Sevilla's Spanish midfielder Suso (R) and Wolverhampton Wanderers' Portuguese midfielder Joao Moutinho vie for the ball during the UEFA Europa League quarter-final football match Wolverhampton Wanderers v Sevilla at the MSV Arena on August 11, 2020 in Duisburg, western Germany. (Photo by Ina Fassbender / POOL / AFP)
Sevilla, Shakhtar reach Europa semis
DUISBURG: Sevilla's Spanish midfielder Suso (R) and Wolverhampton Wanderers' Portuguese midfielder Joao Moutinho vie for the ball during the UEFA Europa League quarter-final football match Wolverhampton Wanderers v Sevilla at the MSV Arena in Duisburg, western Germany. - AFP PARIS: Sevilla qualified for the semi-finals of the Europa League on Tuesday after Lucas Ocampos' late header broke Wolverhampton Wanderers' hearts, while Shakhtar Donetsk...
Atletico Madrid's players arrive to the team hotel in Lisbon on August 11, 2020 ahead of the UEFA Champions League finals. (Photo by PATRICIA DE MELO MOREIRA / AFP)
Stars aligning for Atletico with Champions League glory not so far away
LISBON: Atletico Madrid's players arrive to the team hotel in Lisbon ahead of the UEFA Champions League finals. - AFP MADRID: Atletico Madrid's triumph over Liverpool in March was a throwback to a more celebrated past under Diego Simeone but five months on and the Champions League offers them a very real opportunity in the present. Knocking out the holders at Anfield may prove to be the first glimpse of a new era under Simeone, where the likes...
PHILADELPHIA, PA - AUGUST 11: Scott Kingery #4 of the Philadelphia Phillies forces out Dwight Smith Jr. #35 of the Baltimore Orioles at second base on an attempted double play in the sixth inning at Citizens Bank Park on August 11, 2020 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Drew Hallowell/Getty Images/AFP
Orioles edge Philadelphia on inside-the-park homer
Cyril Despres of France performs during the fifth stage of Abu Dhabi Desert Challenge in 2019. --Photo taken from www.redbullcontentpool.com PHILADELPHIA: Austin Hays hit an inside-the-park homer to lead off the 10th inning, lifting the visiting Baltimore Orioles to a 10-9 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies on Tuesday. With Andrew Velazquez stationed on second base to begin the 10th, Hays' liner off Deolis Guerra (1-2) was misplayed by...
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The ever-changing life
By Abdellatif Sharaamakes our existence on earth interesting is that ours is a dynamic and ever-changing life. One must adapt to constant changes according to the everlasting cliché, which is "always expect the unexpected". Life sometimes calls for ignorance - ignoring persons, ignoring acts and ignoring talk, and this makes one resort to getting accustomed to smart ignorance, because not everything deserves your attention.God created people...
(FILES) In this file photo taken on July 24, 2020 Shoppers wear face masks on Oxford Street om London on July 24, 2020, after wearing facemasks in shops and supermarkets became compulsory in England as a measure to combat the spread of the novel coronavirus. - Britain's economy contracted by a record 20.4 percent in the second quarter with the country in lockdown over the coronavirus pandemic, official data showed on August 12, 2020. (Photo by Tolga AKMEN / AFP)
UK in recession as economy shrinks 20%
LONDON: Shoppers wear face masks on Oxford Street in London. Britain's economy contracted by a record 20.4 percent in the second quarter with the country in lockdown over the coronavirus pandemic, official data showed yesterday.-AFP LONDON: Britain's economy contracted by a record 20.4 percent in the second quarter with the country in lockdown over the coronavirus pandemic, official data showed yesterday. "It is clear that the UK is in the...
(FILES) In this file photo taken on June 22, 2020 People wait in line outside an Apple store on June 22, 2020 in the Brooklyn Borough of New York City. - Apple is on the verge of becoming the first $2 trillion company following a gravity-defying surge that has highlighted the value of its iPhone ecosystem during the global pandemic.nShares in Apple have roughly doubled from late March lows, an astonishing performance which has lifted chief executive Tim Cook's net worth to $1 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index calculation. Apple's market value based on its share price was just above $1.9 trillion on Tuesday, well ahead of Big Tech peers Amazon ($1.56 trillion) Microsoft ($1.55 trillion) and Google parent Alphabet ($1.01 trillion). (Photo by Angela Weiss / AFP)
Apple on cusp of $2tn milestone, defying pandemic
NEW YORK: People wait in line outside an Apple store in the Brooklyn Borough of New York City. Apple is on the verge of becoming the first $2 trillion company following a gravity-defying surge that has highlighted the value of its iPhone ecosystem during the global pandemic. -AFP WASHINGTON: Apple is on the verge of becoming the first $2 trillion American company following a gravity-defying surge that has highlighted the value of its iPhone...
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