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LOS ANGELES: Vanessa Bryant (3R), wife of the late Los Angeles Lakers basketball player Kobe Bryant, her daughter Natalia Bryant (2L), and close friend Sydney Leroux (2R) depart the court house in Los Angeles, California, after a verdict was reached in Bryant's federal negligence lawsuit against Los Angeles County. – AFP

Jury awards $31m damages over Kobe Bryant crash photos

LOS ANGELES: Los Angeles County must pay $31 million in damages to Kobe Bryant's widow and a co-plaintiff over graphic photos taken at the site of the helicopter crash that killed the basketball star and eight others, a jury ordered Wednesday. Sheriff's deputies and firefighters who rushed to the scene of the January 2020 crash snapped pictures of the carnage, including the mangled remains of the Los Angeles Lakers legend and his 13-year-old...

ROME: AS Roma's British defender Chris Smalling (R) celebrates with Argentinian forward Paulo Dybala after scoring a goal during the Italian Serie A football match between AS Roma and Cremonese at the Olympic Stadium in Rome. – AFP

Dybala aiming to avoid tears on Juve return with Roma

MILAN: Paulo Dybala will lead the Roma charge on Saturday as the team seek to build on a perfect Serie A start when he returns to Juventus, the ground he last left in tears. Roma travel to Turin following two single-goal wins from matches with Salernitana and Cremonese but with some of their pre-season optimism deflated by injuries to Georginio Wijnaldum and Nicolo Zaniolo.Zaniolo has been Roma's most impressive performer in their opening two...

DUBAI: File photo shows, India's captain Virat Kohli (L) and his Pakistan's counterpart Babar Azam greet each other before the start of the ICC men's Twenty20 World Cup cricket match between India and Pakistan at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium in Dubai. – AFP

Form, bragging rights on line as giants clash in Asia Cup

DUBAI: India's Virat Kohli has the chance to find form before the World Cup while Babar Azam will look to keep Pakistan's psychological edge when the rival countries clash as the headline acts of the Asia Cup starting this weekend.Cricket giants India and Pakistan could square up three times during the two weeks of the T20 competition in the United Arab Emirates. The six-nation tournament was moved from Sri Lanka because of political unrest and...

KUWAIT: People relax on a pier at sunset. – Photo by Fouad Al-Shaikh

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In this file photo Mexican actor Diego Luna arrives for the 91st Annual Academy Awards at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, California.— AFP

'Star Wars' spy thriller 'Andor' explores galaxy's murky underworld

Following a glut of flashy, lightsaber-whirring "Star Wars" television series, spy thriller "Andor" aims to stand apart with its grounded and morally ambiguous origin story of the galaxy's brave rebels, said star Diego Luna. The new series, out next month, is the latest in a cluster of "Star Wars" shows intended to hyperboost Disney+, after the streaming platform's hit launch show "The Mandalorian" and Ewan McGregor's recent "Obi-Wan Kenobi."...

Mack Rutherford, 17, the youngest person to fly solo around the world, poses for photographers with the Guiness World Record certificates, after landing at Sofia West airport near Radomir.- AFP photos

British-Belgian teen becomes youngest round-the-world solo flier

Mack Rutherford, a British-Belgian 17-year-old, landed in Bulgaria on Wednesday to become the youngest person to fly solo around the world. Five months and a day after taking off from Bulgaria in March, Rutherford returned to the small airport near the town of Radomir, an hour from the capital Sofia, to claim his record. "I am trying to show with this trip that young people can make a difference, just follow your dreams," the teenager said after...

Belgian illusionist and 2022 World champion of Magic Laurent Piron poses in Soumagne near Liege.- AFP photos

Belgian magician's paper dance casts a spell

A crumpled ball of paper that takes on a life of its own and leads the apparently perplexed magician on a playful dance-it's a simple but poetic and engaging scene. Belgian magician Laurent Piron's twirling "Paper Ball" is not a spectacular showstopper, but last month it won the former street performer the title "World Magic Champion". Now this champion has returned from the Quebec contest to his home outside Liege in eastern Belgium, ready to...

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Thousands throng to Iran museum with Western art masterpieces

More than 20,000 people have flocked to an Iranian museum showcasing renowned Western artists' works, some for the first time-part of a treasure trove amassed before the Islamic Revolution. The museum's collection is reputed to be the greatest line-up of modern masterpieces outside Europe and the United States, and includes multi-million-dollar pieces, much of which has been kept under wraps since the 1979 revolution. The Tehran Museum of...

Yousuf Karsh’s famous portrait of Winston Churchill, taken in December 1941 in Ottawa.— photo by Yousuf Karsh

Famed Winston Churchill photograph stolen from Canada hotel

The heist of a famed portrait of a scowling Winston Churchill has gripped Canada's capital since it was discovered the photograph hanging at an Ottawa hotel for decades had been swapped for a fake. Police were called in after staff at the Fairmont Chateau Laurier hotel in Ottawa last Friday noticed the picture of the late British prime minister was askew and didn't match those of other portraits gifted by the late Armenian-born Canadian...

KUWAIT: An aerial view of Kuwait City. - Xinhua

Labor curbs eased during pandemic may be reinstated

KUWAIT: The government is contemplating reversing decisions it made previously related to labor in Kuwait during the coronavirus pandemic. Official sources said a ministerial committee discussed the cancelled decisions and found that their approval was logical and needed. The decisions also agreed with the government's plan to remedy the population structure and fix marketplace issues, as well as supervise labor licenses and work permits, prevent...

This handout photo shows US Navy F/A-18E Super Hornets, attached to Carrier Air Wing 1 (CVW-1), and Belgian Air Force F-16s flying in formation over the Mediterranean Sea on July 25, 2022. – AFP

US sends nuclear response to Iran, hits Syria militias

TEHRAN/WASHINGTON: Iran received Wednesday a response from the United States to its proposals on a final European Union draft for the revival of the 2015 nuclear deal, the foreign ministry said. The announcement comes a day after Washington said Iran had agreed to ease key demands that had held up the revival of the 2015 deal trashed by former president Donald Trump. That came one day after Tehran criticized the United States for what it said was...

A photo illustration shows a man using the Indian news media company NDTV application in a mobile phone in New Delhi on August 24, 2022. - An Indian billionaire close to Prime Minister Narendra Modi is trying to buy a broadcaster seen as the last major critical voice on television, stoking fears about media freedom in the world's largest democracy. (Photo by Money SHARMA / AFP)

Indian tycoon's bid for NDTV stokes worries

NEW DELHI: An Indian billionaire close to Prime Minister Narendra Modi is trying to buy a broadcaster seen as the last major critical voice on television, stoking fears about media freedom in the world's largest democracy. Under Modi, India has slipped 10 places in the Reporters Without Borders press freedom ranking to 150 out of 180, with critical reporters often finding themselves behind bars and hounded on social media by supporters of the...

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