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Huawei FreeBuds 3, your comfortable and noise cancelling Bluetooth Earphones
KUWAIT: Are you someone who hits the gym at odd hours just so that you can enjoy your music peacefully while working out? Or maybe someone who goes shopping as soon as the mall opens so that you don't have to deal with the noisy hustle-bustle of people? Some of us even book tickets a day early from the weekend so the airport isn't loud and noisy. With the Huawei FreeBuds 3, you don't have to go out of your way to get your own peaceful world....
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KANA's new drama 'Vyram': A tale of wrath and retribution
By Sajeev K PeterKerala Arts and Nataka Academy (KANA) Kuwait presented its new theatrical production 'Vyram' (The Wrath) before a jam-packed audience at the Indian Community School (Senior), Salmiya. The auditorium resonated with loud cheers and applause as the curtain fell on the third show of the play on Feb 8. Written by eminent Malayalam playwright Hemanth Kumar, the play narrates the tale of a fictitious land called 'Kodumundapuram' and...
Migratory birds fly over a boat on the Yamuna River amidst heavy smog conditions in New Delhi on January 21, 2020. (Photo by Noemi Cassanelli / AFP)
Air pollution costs $2.9 trillion a year: NGO
NEW DELHI: Migratory birds fly over a boat on the Yamuna River amidst heavy smog conditions in New Delhi on January 21, 2020. - AFP PARIS: The global cost of air pollution caused by fossil fuels is $8 billion a day, or roughly 3.3 percent of the entire world's economic output, an environmental research group said yesterday. The report from the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA) and Greenpeace Southeast Asia is the first to assess...
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Hockney's pop art icon 'The Splash' sells for £23.1 million
In this file photo gallery assistants are pictured posing next to an artwork entitled 'The Splash' 1966, by British artist David Hockney, during a photo call at Sotheby's Galleries in central London.-AFP Seminal pop art painting "The Splash" by David Hockey sold for £23.1 million ($29.8 million) at a London auction on Tuesday, the third highest price paid for a work by the British artist. "The Splash", which was painted in 1966, depicts the...
Visitors wearing protective facemasks walk past a Boeing 787 model display at the Singapore Airshow in Singapore on February 12, 2020. (Photo by Roslan RAHMAN / AFP)
Boeing sounds alarm about virus impact on aviation
SINGAPORE: Visitors wearing protective facemasks walk past a Boeing 787 model display at the Singapore Airshow in Singapore yesterday.-AFP SINGAPORE: Boeing issued a stark warning yesterday about the impact of the deadly coronavirus outbreak, saying there was "no question" it would hammer the aviation industry and the broader economy. The virus has killed more than 1,100 people and infected tens of thousands in China, and spread to over two...
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China virus deaths top 1,000; WHO warns of global threat
YOKOHAMA: Relatives of passengers wave towards the Diamond Princess cruise ship, with around 3,600 people quarantined onboard due to fears of the new coronavirus, as the ship departs from Daikoku Pier Cruise Terminal yesterday for a day to dump wastewater and generate potable water. - AFP BEIJING: The death toll from the novel coronavirus outbreak surged past 1,000 in China yesterday as the World Health Organization warned that the epidemic...
Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief Arvind Kejriwal gestures towards his supporters at the party headquarters in New Delhi on February 11, 2020. (Photo by Money SHARMA / AFP)
AAP crushes BJP in Delhi election
NEW DELHI: Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief Arvind Kejriwal gestures towards his supporters at the party headquarters yesterday. - AFP NEW DELHI: Followers of an upstart Indian political party danced in the streets yesterday after inflicting a crushing defeat on Prime Minister Narendra Modi's right-wing party in a key election in the capital. The poll was the first electoral test for Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party after it passed a controversial...
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - FEBRUARY 11: Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas holds up a Vision for Peace map while speaking at the United Nations (UN) Security Council on February 11, 2020 in New York City. Abbas used the world body to denounce the US peace plan between Israel and Palestine. Donald Trump's proposal for Israeli-Palestinian peace, which was released on January 28, has been met with universal Palestinian opposition. Spencer Platt/Getty Images/AFPn== FOR NEWSPAPERS, INTERNET, TELCOS & TELEVISION USE ONLY ==
Palestinian leader warns UN on Trump's 'Swiss cheese' peace
NEW YORK: Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas holds up the US Vision for Peace map while speaking at the United Nations Security Council yesterday. – AFP UNITED NATIONS: Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas yesterday urged the UN Security Council to reject President Donald Trump's Middle East plan, saying it would splinter Palestinian lands and never bring lasting peace. Brandishing a large map of a future Palestine as laid out by Trump, Abbas...
An Iraqi girl plays with her mother in the snow in the holy Shiite city of Karbala on February 11, 2020. - Iraq's capital Baghdad woke up covered in a thin layer of fresh snow, an extremely rare phenomenon for one of the world's hottest countries. Snow also covered the Shiite holy city of Karbala further south and Mosul in the north, where heavier precipitation left a blanket of snow over the city's centuries-old ruins. (Photo by Atta KENARE / AFP)
Ultra-rare snowfall carpets Baghdad as Kuwait shivers
KARBALA: An Iraqi girl plays with her mother in the snow in this holy Shiite city yesterday. – AFP KUWAIT/BAGHDAD: Residents of Baghdad rushed to have snowball fights or take photographs yesterday as the Iraqi capital woke carpeted in white by only its second snowfall in a century. In neighboring Kuwait, the temperature is expected to drop below zero degrees Celsius tonight as a cold wave continues to sweep through the country. The weather...
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Article 18 visa renewal online from March 1
KUWAIT: Interior Ministry Assistant Undersecretary for Residency Affairs Maj Gen Talal Maarafi said renewal of article 18 residencies can be done online through the interior ministry's official website from March 1. Maarafi said the interior ministry has launched a new system to link companies, allowing them to renew residencies of their workers online without the need to go to residency departments. He said each company will have its own...
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Kuwait govt takes measures to probe suspected corruption in aircraft deals
KUWAIT: His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah chairs the Cabinet's meeting. - KUNA KUWAIT: The Kuwaiti Cabinet held on Monday its customary meeting at Bayan Palace, under the chairmanship of His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah. Upon His Highness the Premier's directives on combating corruption and boosting transparency, and after media reports on suspicion of bribes and...
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Amir meets Canadian Prime Minister, new ambassadors, Iraqi Speaker
KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah meets with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. - Amiri Diwan photos KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah received yesterday at Bayan Palace His Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah. His Highness the Amir also received His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah, who escorted Canadian...
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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