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Shutdown showdown threatens US govt pay and welfare checks
WASHINGTON: Millions of Americans braced Monday for pay and welfare checks to stop within days as Congress careened toward a damaging government shutdown, with Republican right wingers blocking attempts to pass a budget. Four months after barely avoiding the more serious prospect of a credit default, the world’s largest economy is once again on the verge of a convulsion, with the lights due to go out at the weekend. Republicans leading the...
CBK develops questionnaire for PMI
KUWAIT: The Central Bank of Kuwait (CBK) said that it had developed a questionnaire for the Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI). The index enables prompt data collection, processing, and analysis to be produced in the form of timely and accurate periodic reports reflecting the real developments of economic activity in Kuwait. This came in a press statement by the Governor of the CBK, Basel A Al-Haroon, announcing that the success of this...
Sudan’s crucial date industry struggles in war-hit economy
KARIMA, Sudan: The lush palm groves of Karima are a long way from Sudan’s battlefields, but the war’s effects are all too present, leaving farmers struggling to find buyers for this year’s harvest. Prices have collapsed in the vital date industry, the latest economic sector to become a casualty of war in the northeast African country. Every autumn, until this September, date farmers in northern Sudan pulled their harvests down from palm...
Huawei Watch GT 4 is now available for pre-order
KUWAIT: The Huawei Watch GT 4, the upcoming flagship smartwatch from Huawei, is now available for pre-order. This new watch adopts a fresh design on its exterior and introduces enhanced health and fitness features. It brings users holistic health management with more accurate heart rate monitoring and improved sleep tracking. The watch also debuts the Sleep Breathing Awareness feature and the innovative Stay Fit calorie management app. The...
NBK launches NBK Tech Academy
KUWAIT: Demonstrating its unwavering commitment to investing in the human capital, National Bank of Kuwait (NBK) greatly focuses on providing the Kuwaiti youth with the best-in-class and most advanced training programs as per the highest international standards. In this context, the bank has launched the first wave of its new NBK Tech Academy. NBK Tech Academy is one of its kind. It is the first of its kind Academy, focusing on digital and data...
The humble sardine: A key ingredient of Portuguese life
The humble sardine, a feature of the street parties that pop up across Portugal in summer, makes up two thirds of the country’s fish catch and has spawned an important canning industry. “Where there are sardines, there are people, beer, friends and a sense of community. Sardines bring people together,” 27-year-old Goncalo Ortega told AFP at a Sardine Festival street party in Lisbon this summer.Nearly every town and village has its own...
Stock photo giant Getty releases AI image generator
Photo agency Getty Images is launching an image generator powered by artificial intelligence and using its trove of stock photos, the company said Monday. With one of the world’s most extensive photo archives, Getty is positioning itself as a competitor to the giants of generative AI, such as Dall-E creator OpenAI or Google, with its Imagen program, but also start-ups Midjourney or Stable Diffusion.Midjourney became famous earlier this year as...
‘Dead Man Walking,’ an emotional look at death row, opens Met Opera season
It’s been three decades since Sister Helen Prejean entered the public eye for her memoir “Dead Man Walking,” a recounting of her relationship with a death row inmate whose execution she witnessed. The 1993 best-selling memoir was made into an Oscar-winning film starring Susan Sarandon and Sean Penn, as well as an opera examining love, pain and redemption that after twenty-some years on the stage is core to the contemporary canon, and this...
Belgium students' love story with Taylor Swift
A hubbub grips the class in the Belgian city of Ghent as university students eagerly discuss whether US pop star Taylor Swift is a "literary genius". The question elicits passionate responses from students, and it's an exercise their professor hopes will enliven their engagement with more traditional figures of the English Literature canon. The course is among a handful that have popped up at universities around the world as pop titan Swift has...
Paris Fashion Week opens with drama and dashes of humor
Milan Fashion Week was not even over and the fashionistas were already back in Paris on Monday for another 100-plus shows in the hectic womenswear season. The spring-summer 2024 collections in the French capital run until October 3, with 107 brands presenting, of which 67 are giving runway shows. All eyes are on Balmain’s show on Wednesday night after the dramatic theft of 50 of its outfits. Armed robbers seized the clothes on their way from...
The ‘tyranny of thinness’ still dominates fashion
Despite claims that the fashion industry is embracing curvier bodies, the data suggests it could be guilty of what one expert calls “fat-washing”. While a handful of plus-size models such as Paloma Elsesser have grabbed media attention in recent years, the figures shows they remain a vanishingly small minority. Vogue Business looked at 9,137 outfits unveiled during 219 shows in New York, London, Milan and Paris last season and found that 0.6...
KHS to celebrate World Heart Day
By Abdellatif SharaaKUWAIT: Coinciding with World Heart Day, Kuwait Heart Society (KHS) will celebrate this important event on Sept 29, extending the festivities for one week at Souq Al-Kuwait Market in collaboration with the Sabah Al-Ahmad Heart Center. The celebrations are scheduled to commence on Sept 28 and conclude on Oct 4.Secretary-General of KHS Dr Rashid Al-Owayesh said during this period, the society will offer a range of medical tests,...
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