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KARACHI: England's captain Ben Stokes (right) plays a shot during the fourth day of third Test match between Pakistan and England at the National Stadium in Karachi on December 20, 2022.- AFP

England inflict first-ever 3-0 Test whitewash on Pakistan

KARACHI: England beat Pakistan by eight wickets in the third and final Test in Karachi Tuesday to sweep the series 3-0 and hand the Pakistanis their first home whitewash. "It won't really sink in until we get home or in the new year," skipper Ben Stokes said after securing what was only England's second series whitewash in the subcontinent, following a similar result in Sri Lanka in 2018.Resuming on 112-2, England reached the modest 167-run...

GREVENA, Greece: A lumberjack walks as a mule carry wood in a forest near Grevena, northern Greece. Their arduous work, a local tradition which goes back generations, has become all the more vital this winter amid soaring prices for heating fuels. -- AFP

Greek woodcutters give energy crisis the chop as gas bills soar

GREVENA, Greece: Huddled around a campfire sipping hot tea, a group of Greek lumberjacks take a badly needed break in an oak forest not far from the Albanian border. With petrol and gas bills increasing, loggers in northern Greece say they are doing their best to keep up with rising demand for wood, considered a more affordable option for people to heat their homes. Many Greeks, still reeling from their country's decade-long economic crisis, are...

MANILA: Photo shows forensic pathologist Raquel Fortun arranging the skeletal remains of a drug war victim for autopsy in her laboratory at the University of the Philippines College of Medicine in Manila. - AFP

Philippine corpse-whisperer seeks justice for drug war victims

MANILA, Philippines: Raquel Fortun whispers to the human skeletal remains spread out in a makeshift morgue in the Philippine capital Manila. She is seeking the truth about their violent deaths-and justice for their families. Six months after Rodrigo Duterte left office, Fortun, 60, continues to examine the bodies of some of the thousands of people killed during the former president's brutal drug war. One of only two forensic pathologists in the...

BUENOS AIRES: Argentina's players celebrate on board a bus with a sign reading 'World Champions' with supporters after winning the Qatar 2022 World Cup tournament as they leave Ezeiza International Airport en route to the Argentine Football Association (AFA) training centre in Ezeiza, Buenos Aires province on December 20, 2022. - AFP

Argentina lauds united players in divided crisis-riven country

BUENOS AIRES: For the last month, Lionel Messi and his Argentina teammates have brought success and unity to their fans, in stark contrast to the country's economic woes and polarized political landscape. Years of economic crisis weighs heavily on the daily lives of people in a country where some 40 percent live in poverty as rampant inflation and a depreciating currency have decimated ordinary people's savings and purchasing power.And yet on...

KUWAIT: Vice Chairman and CEO of Arkan Al-Kuwait for Real Estate Company Abdulrahman Hamad Al-Terkait (center) addresses the ordinary general assembly meeting on Tuesday.

Al-Terkait: Arkan assets grew by 67% to KD 150m

By Majd OthmanKUWAIT: Vice Chairman and CEO of Arkan Al-Kuwait Real Estate Company Abdulrahman Hamad Al-Terkait announced that the company's board of directors succeeded in setting plans and strategies that contributed significantly to reach the planned goals to maintain the company's stability and maximize assets to grow annual profits for shareholders and maintain the financial stability of the company in order to achieve the best possible...

TOULOUSE: In this file photo, a camp stove burns under a rising curve, in Toulouse, southwestern France. EU energy ministers reached a deal on December 19, 2022, setting a price cap for natural gas in the bloc, officials said, with Malta's minister saying the threshold was 180 euros per megawatt hour. - AFP

EU energy ministers reach gas price cap deal, angering Russia

BRUSSELS: EU energy ministers on Monday overcame months of wrangling to agree a price cap for natural gas in the bloc, drawing an immediate warning from Russia that the move was "unacceptable". The price ceiling was fixed at 180 euros per megawatt hour, but with conditions attached and a word of caution from the European Commission that it may suspend the measure if "the risks outweigh the benefits".The aim of the cap on gas prices traded within...

In this file photo a man looks at Andy Warhol’s ‘Shot Sage Blue Marilyn’ during Christie’s 20th and 21st Century Art press preview at Christie’s New York in New York City.— AFP

Record year for auction houses Christie’s and Sotheby’s

Auction house Christie’s on Monday announced record sales of $8.4 billion in 2022, outshining its rival Sotheby’s, which also posted its best-ever result at $8 billion for the year. Christie’s racked up $7.2 billion in auctions and another $1.2 billion in private sales, easily topping the $7.1 billion it made in 2021 as the art world emerged from the COVID-19 pandemic, which greatly hindered auction operations. “In 2022, despite a...

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Nigerian artist turns old soles into mosaic portraits

Picking through a field of garbage, Nigerian artist Eugene Konboye hunts for particular type of trash: plastic flipflops that he turns into multi-colored mosaic portraits of his community. Both an artist and environmentalist, Konboye says recycling flipflops targets one of the worst plastic polluting items in Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation, with more than 210 million people and growing fast.Only a tiny fraction of waste is recycled in...

In this file photo Actor Amber Heard leaves for the day during the Depp vs Heard deformation trial at Fairfax County Court in Fairfax, Virginia. – AFP photos

Amber Heard agrees to pay Johnny Depp $1m in defamation case

Johnny Depp and Amber Heard have settled their acrimonious defamation case, they said Monday, with the actress agreeing to pay her former husband $1 million over claims he physically abused her. In a post on Instagram, Heard said she was dropping an appeal against the $10 million payout she had been ordered to make by a jury because she “simply cannot go through” another trial. “After a great deal of deliberation I have made a very...

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Oscar-winning Iranian filmmaker backs jailed actor Alidoosti

Iranian director Asghar Farhadi on Tuesday urged the release of Taraneh Alidoosti, who has starred in four of his films, after the actor's arrest for supporting the three-month protest movement. Alidoosti, 38, was arrested on Saturday, official media said, after making a string of social media posts supporting the protests sparked by Mahsa Amini's death-including removing her headscarf and condemning the execution of activists.Farhadi, who...

DOHA: Qatar's Amir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani stands next to the World Cup trophy during the award ceremony after the final match between Argentina and France at Lusail Stadium on Dec 18, 2022. - AFP

Qatar Amir says 'exceptional' World Cup delivered to fans

DOHA: Qatar's ruler said Sunday that the Gulf state had delivered on a vow to hold an "exceptional" World Cup. Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani, who gave Argentina captain Lionel Messi a bisht, a traditional Arab cloak after his side won the trophy, paid tribute to the finalists and fans in a Twitter statement after the match."We have fulfilled our promise to organize an exceptional championship by Arab countries, which provided an opportunity for...

KUWAIT: The National Assembly.

MPs to examine conflict of interests and penal code

KUWAIT: Kuwait's National Assembly upcoming sessions due on Tuesday and Wednesday are set to examine tabled items, namely voting on conflict of interest draft laws, and amendments to the penal code. The conflict of interests' bill, to be voted on in second deliberation, serves the reinforcement of transparency. Then, the session is set to move on to voting on a draft law amending the penal code specifying penal responsibility for the judicial...

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KUWAIT: H the Amir Sheikh Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah receives Qatari Minister of State for Energy Affairs and Managing Director and CEO of QatarEnergy Saad Al-Kaabi on Aug 26, 2024.

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