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Artificial limbs: 'Like you have a hand again'
NEW YORK: Today's artificial limbs can look very natural, and now an innovative process makes prosthetic hands move more naturally as well. In an innovative experiment, scientists have shown that the nerves in patients' arms can be trained to control the movements of prosthetic fingers and thumbs. "This is the biggest advance in motor control for people with amputations in many years," said Paul Cederna, a professor of plastic surgery and...
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Emergency in California as cruise ship held off coast over virus fears - COVID-19 death toll in US rises to 11
The Grand Princess-the same cruise ship on which California's first victim was thought to have contracted the virus-was held offshore Wednesday night. LOS ANGELES: California declared a state of emergency over the novel coronavirus Wednesday as a cruise ship was held off the coast over fears of a new outbreak. Separately, the federal government said it was going to buy 500 million respirators to stockpile for use by healthcare professionals. The...
TOPSHOT - Migrants run from riot police after being pushed to go back to Moria camp from the port of Mytilene, on the island of Lesbos, where they were hoping to get on a ferry to Athens on March 3, 2020. - Several aid groups on Greece's Lesbos said they were suspending work with refugees and evacuating staff on March 3 in the wake of violence and threats, as tensions soar on an island in the crosshairs of the migrant crisis. EU chiefs pledged millions of euros of financial assistance to Greece to help tackle the migration surge. (Photo by LOUISA GOULIAMAKI / AFP)
In a bind over Turkey, EU finds money to contain immigration
LESBOS ISLAND: Migrants run from riot police after being pushed to go back to Moria camp from the port of Mytilene, on the island of Lesbos, where they were hoping to get on a ferry to Athens. - AFP BRUSSELS: European Union countries offered more money for border policing in Greece and humanitarian aid in Syria's Idlib, but they were in a bind over Turkey as they sought to avert a mass influx of migrants. EU interior ministers met in Brussels...
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Made in Albania: Carnival masks that travel the world
Visitors look for carnival masks in a salon of the Venice art Mask workshop.-AFP photos In a quiet studio in northern Albania, artists delicately paint, gild and bejewel tens of thousands of Venetian masks that revelers around the world have been donning for carnival season. Some 50 staff hand-craft the one-of-a-kind pieces from their factory in lakeside Shkoder, which exports up to 30,000 masks around the globe every year. "At first every...
(FILES) In this file photo taken on January 05, 2020 Daniel Craig attends the 77th Annual Golden Globe Awards at The Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California. - The makers of the new James Bond movie due for global release next month said on Wednesday it would be delayed until November amid fears over the coronavirus outbreak. (Photo by Frazer Harrison / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / AFP)
No time to release a film: Latest Bond delayed on virus fears
In this file photo Daniel Craig attends the 77th Annual Golden Globe Awards at The Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California.-AFP The makers of the new James Bond movie due for global release next month said on Wednesday it would be delayed until November amid fears over the new coronavirus outbreak. The film, "No Time to Die", had been set to have its premiere in London on March 31, before its rollout worldwide in April. "MGM,...
Students sit for the Gujarat Board Xth examination as they wear facemasks provided by the school management at Sadhana Vinay Mandir school, following the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak, in Ahmedabad on March 5, 2020. - More than 95,000 people have been infected and over 3,200 have died worldwide from the new coronavirus, which by on March 5 had reached some 80 countries and territories. (Photo by SAM PANTHAKY / AFP)
As India coronavirus cases spike, experts warn of South Asia spread
AHMEDABAD: Students sit for the Gujarat Board Xth examination as they wear facemasks provided by the school management at Sadhana Vinay Mandir school, following the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak, in Ahmedabad yesterday.-AFP MUMBAI: India has ramped up the screening of travellers to keep the coronavirus at bay but a flurry of new cases has experts warning that it may be hard to contain a spread in densely populated South Asia with its generally...
A cameraman films the Olympic Rings at the International Olympic Committee (IOC) headquarters in Lausanne on March 3, 2020. - The COVID-19 which has already killed more than 3000 people in the World will be at the center of a meeting of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) on March 3 and 4, 2020 in Lausanne less than five months before the opening ceremony of the Olympics in Tokyo. (Photo by Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP)
How the coronavirus has hit global sport
LAUSANNE: A cameraman films the Olympic Rings at the International Olympic Committee (IOC) headquarters in Lausanne. - AFP PARIS: The International Olympic Committee insist that a potential cancellation or postponement of this year's Tokyo Olympics due to the global spread of the deadly coronavirus were "not mentioned" at a meeting of their Executive Board on Wednesday. However, the virus, which has killed 3,200 people while infecting 90,000 in...
Birmingham City's Danish defender Kristian Pedersen (L) fouls Leicester City's English midfielder Marc Albrighton during the English FA Cup fifth round football match between Leicester City and Birmingham City at King Power Stadium in Leicester, central England on March 4, 2020. (Photo by Ben STANSALL / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE. No use with unauthorized audio, video, data, fixture lists, club/league logos or 'live' services. Online in-match use limited to 120 images. An additional 40 images may be used in extra time. No video emulation. Social media in-match use limited to 120 images. An additional 40 images may be used in extra time. No use in betting publications, games or single club/league/player publications. /
Manchester City, Leicester into FA Cup quarter-finals
LEICESTER: Birmingham City's Danish defender Kristian Pedersen (left) fouls Leicester City's English midfielder Marc Albrighton during the English FA Cup fifth round football match between Leicester City and Birmingham City at King Power Stadium on March 4, 2020. - AFP LONDON: Manchester City won a 20th consecutive domestic cup tie to move into the quarter-finals of the FA Cup with a 1-0 win at Sheffield Wednesday as Tottenham crashed out on...
An electronic flight departure board displays 'cancelled' status's for all Flybe flights due to have taken-off from Exeter Airport in Exeter, south-west England on March 5, 2020, following the news that the airline had collapsed into bankruptcy. - British regional airline Flybe crashed into bankruptcy Thursday after the deadly coronavirus proved to be the final nail in its coffin. The biggest operator of UK domestic flights said it has sunk into administration -- a last-ditch process aimed at salvaging at least some of the company. (Photo by GEOFF CADDICK / AFP)
Coronavirus hit to airlines could top $100bn
EXETER, Britain: An electronic flight departure board displays 'cancelled' status's for all Flybe flights due to have taken-off from Exeter Airport in Exeter, south-west England yesterday following the news that the airline had collapsed into bankruptcy. - AFP LONDON/SINGAPORE: The coronavirus epidemic could rob passenger airlines of up to $113 billion in revenue this year, an industry body warned yesterday, more than three times a projection it...
BOSTON, MA - MARCH 3: Taurean Prince #2 of the Brooklyn Nets shoots the ball against the Boston Celtics on March 03, 2020 at the TD Garden in Boston, Massachusetts. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and or using this photograph, User is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement. Mandatory Copyright Notice: Copyright 2020 NBAE Brian Babineau/NBAE via Getty Images/AFP
LeVert scores 51 as Nets top Celts in OT
BOSTON: Taurean Prince #2 of the Brooklyn Nets shoots the ball against the Boston Celtics at the TD Garden in Boston, Massachusetts. – AFP BOSTON: Caris LeVert scored a career-high 51 points, 37 from the fourth quarter on, as the Brooklyn Nets rallied from 21 points down to stun the host Boston Celtics 129-120 in overtime Tuesday. LeVert shot 17 of 26 from the field and scored all 11 of the Nets' points in the extra period as they overcame 21...
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Forty years on, 'Ringer's match' remains a byword for violence
Paul Ringer (right) only became the second player in Wales ever to be broadcast on a day of shame. LONDON: Rugby Union internationals between England and Wales are often passionate and fiercely-contested affairs. But Saturday's Six Nations match between the old rivals at Twickenham will have to go some way to match the excess of emotion that marred their 1980 encounter at 'headquarters' and ensured lasting infamy for Paul Ringer after the Wales...
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Minister inspects measures against coronavirus at Kuwait int'l airport
KUWAIT: Minister of Social Affairs and Minister of State for Economic Affairs and Acting Minister of State for Services Mariam Al-Aqeel tours Kuwait International Airport yesterday. - KUNA photos By Meshaal Al-Enezi KUWAIT: Minister of Social Affairs and Minister of State for Economic Affairs and Acting Minister of State for Services Mariam Al-Aqeel yesterday visited Kuwait International Airport to inspect the precautionary procedures the...
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KUWAIT CITY: Jassim Al-Awadhi waits at a bus stop as a bus approaches in this file photo.
Disorganized bus network behind lacking transit system
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Kuwait's fencer Yusuf Al-Shamlan
Shamlan leaves Olympic Games
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KUWAIT: Young girls participate in Girl Up Kuwait's first conference which focused on the role of women in Kuwaiti society and politics.
Girl Up Kuwait: Young trailblazers give girls a voice
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Air Force carries out aeromedical evacuation exercise
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Kuwaiti pilots learn to fly Turkish Bayraktar drones