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US actress Amber Heard (L) leaves on the fourth day of the libel trial by her former husband US actor Johnny Depp against News Group Newspapers (NGN), at the High Court in London, on July 10, 2020. - The blockbuster lawsuit against the publisher News Group Newspapers (NGN) and executive editor Dan Wootton, who wrote the article, is designed to clear Depp's name. (Photo by Tolga AKMEN / AFP)
Ex-wife or friend defecated in their bed to marriage: Depp
US actress Amber Heard (left) leaves on the fourth day of the libel trial by her former husband US actor Johnny Depp against News Group Newspapers (NGN), at the High Court in London. _ AFP Movie star Johnny Depp told London's High Court on Friday that his ex-wife Amber Heard or her friend had defecated in their bed in what he described as a "fitting end to the relationship". Giving evidence over four days in his libel action against Britain's...
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Fair and unlovely: India confronts dark-skin bias
Photo shows packages of Unilever 'Fair and Lovely' skin-lightening creams on the counter of a shop in New Delhi. - AFP When Chandana Hiran was a child, strangers would urge her to lighten her skin. Today the Indian student is leading a campaign against whitening creams as global anti-racism protests highlight the obsession with fair complexions for many in Asia. The campaign achieved its first victory when cosmetics giant Unilever dropped the...
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High blood sugar elevates COVID mortality risk
PARIS: Patients with abnormally high blood sugar levels are more than twice as likely to die from COVID-19, researchers in China said yesterday. It is the first time scientists have been able to confirm that patients with hyperglycemia, but not diagnosed with diabetes, are at higher risk of death from COVID-19, they wrote in the journal Diabetologia. The researchers examined death rates for 605 COVID-19 patients at two hospitals in Wuhan,...
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Kuwait advises against travel abroad due to coronavirus
KUWAIT: Kuwait is advising its citizens and residents against travelling abroad at the moment due to the instability of the coronavirus pandemic, and the spread of the virus despite strict measures applied worldwide, the health ministry announced in a statement on Twitter on Friday. Last month, Kuwait’s communications office said that commercial flights at Kuwait International Airport will resume from Aug 1, after being suspended in March...
ISTANBUL: People pray outside the Hagia Sophia on Friday as they gather to celebrate after a top Turkish court revoked its status as a museum, clearing the way for it to be turned back into a mosque. — AFP
Turkey turns Hagia Sophia back to mosque
ISTANBUL: People pray outside the Hagia Sophia on Friday as they gather to celebrate after a top Turkish court revoked its status as a museum, clearing the way for it to be turned back into a mosque. — AFP ISTANBUL: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced Friday that the Hagia Sophia, one of the architectural wonders of the world, would be reopened for Muslim worship as a mosque, sparking fury in the Christian community and...
SACHENDI, India: Policemen stand guard next to an overturned vehicle after the gangster Vikas Dubey was shot dead by police on a highway in Uttar Pradesh on Friday. - AFP
Furor after Indian police kill gangster
SACHENDI, India: Policemen stand guard next to an overturned vehicle after the gangster Vikas Dubey was shot dead by police on a highway in Uttar Pradesh on Friday. - AFP LUCKNOW: Indian police shot dead one of the country’s most wanted gangsters on Friday just a day after his dramatic arrest, sparking accusations of a staged extrajudicial killing. Officials said Vikas Dubey, detained for the killing of eight police officers, was shot as he...
KUWAIT: His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah meets with representatives of government inspection bodies. — KUNA
Kuwait fight against corruption reached its climax: Prime Minister
KUWAIT: His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah meets with representatives of government inspection bodies. — KUNA KUWAIT: Meeting with representatives of government inspection bodies, including Kuwait’s anti-corruption watchdog, His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah said on Thursday that the country’s fight against corruption has reached its climax. The talks with...
DUBAI: An engineer observes a KhalifaSat model at the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre on July 5, 2020. — AFP
Six decades of Mars missions
DUBAI: An engineer observes a KhalifaSat model at the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre on July 5, 2020. — AFP The six-decade space race to explore Mars has led to some 40 missions, at least half of which have been successful, and still the Red Planet inspires new adventures. A look back at some key Mars missions over the last 60 years:1960-1964: Soviet failuresAt first, the Soviet Union leads the way, sending probes from 1960, just three years...
VALDEBEBAS: Real Madrid’s Brazilian midfielder Casemiro (C) challenges Alaves’ Scottish midfielder Oliver Burke (L) and Alaves’ Panamanian midfielder Jose Luis Rodriguez during the Spanish League football match between Real Madrid and Alaves at the Alfredo Di Stefano stadium in Valdebebas near Madrid. — AFP
Real Madrid in sight of title
VALDEBEBAS: Real Madrid’s Brazilian midfielder Casemiro (C) challenges Alaves’ Scottish midfielder Oliver Burke (L) and Alaves’ Panamanian midfielder Jose Luis Rodriguez during the Spanish League football match between Real Madrid and Alaves at the Alfredo Di Stefano stadium in Valdebebas near Madrid. — AFP MADRID: Real Madrid could win La Liga tomorrow after a routine 2-0 win over Alaves on Friday put them within touching distance of...
SOUTHAMPTON: West Indies’ Shannon Gabriel loses his wicket for four runs on the third day of the first Test cricket match between England and the West Indies at the Ageas Bowl in Southampton, southwest England on July 10, 2020. —AFP
Dowrich keeps Windies on top despite Stokes’ four wickets
SOUTHAMPTON: West Indies’ Shannon Gabriel loses his wicket for four runs on the third day of the first Test cricket match between England and the West Indies at the Ageas Bowl in Southampton, southwest England on July 10, 2020. —AFP SOUTHAMPTON: Shane Dowrich steered the West Indies into a commanding lead over England on the third day of the first Test at Southampton on Friday. Dowrich made 61 after opener Kraigg Brathwaite had top-scored...
BARCELONA: File photo shows Barcelona’s Spanish defender Jordi Alba (L) and Barcelona’s Argentine forward Lionel Messi warm up with teammates before the Spanish League football match between Barcelona and Espanyol at the Camp Nou stadium in Barcelona on July 8, 2020. —AFP
Champions League draw throws up Barcelona-Bayern clash in Lisbon
BARCELONA: File photo shows Barcelona’s Spanish defender Jordi Alba (L) and Barcelona’s Argentine forward Lionel Messi warm up with teammates before the Spanish League football match between Barcelona and Espanyol at the Camp Nou stadium in Barcelona on July 8, 2020. —AFP PARIS: Barcelona and Bayern Munich will meet in a blockbuster Champions League quarter-final should both sides make it through, after Friday’s draw for the latter...
In this file photo, medical equipment and coronavirus testing kits provided by the World Health Organization are pictured passing by an Emirates airlines Airbus A380-861 at the Al-Maktoum International airport in Dubai. —AFP
Emirates airline to cut up to 9,000 jobs
In this file photo, medical equipment and coronavirus testing kits provided by the World Health Organization are pictured passing by an Emirates airlines Airbus A380-861 at the Al-Maktoum International airport in Dubai. —AFP DUBAI:  Emirates airline has cut a tenth of its workforce during the novel coronavirus pandemic in layoffs that could rise to 15 percent, or 9,000 jobs, its president said, according to a report yesterday. The Middle...
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