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BIRMINGHAM, United Kingdom: Australia's Emma McKeon reacts after the women's 100m backstroke swimming semi-final at the Sandwell Aquatics Centre, on day two of the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, central England. - AFP

Australian swim star McKeon, N Zealand cyclists dazzle at Commonwealths

BIRMINGHAM: Emma McKeon needs just one more title to break the record for most Australian Commonwealth Games golds after yet another win in the pool on Saturday as New Zealand dominated on the cycling track. McKeon, 28, swam the anchor leg as Australia won the women's 4x100 metres relay to put her alongside Ian Thorpe, Susie O'Neill and Leisel Jones on 10 gold medals."It's nice to do that 10th one in a relay," she told Australia's Channel 7....

This handout photo courtesy of an anonymous shows paramedics (front left and right) treating two dancers on stage after an overhead video screen fell during a concert by boy band Mirror at the Hong Kong Coliseum in Hong Kong. - AFP photos

Hong Kong boy band ends show after falling screen hits dancers

At least two Hong Kong dancers were injured on Thursday night after being hit by a falling screen at a concert of the city's most popular boy band Mirror. Footage of the incident circulated online showed a group of white-clad dancers performing onstage at the Hong Kong Coliseum when a giant overhead video screen fell and crushed a man. The screen then toppled onto at least one other person before the remaining performers rushed to help.Mirror's...

In this file photo Swedish pianist Esbjorn Svensson performs during a concert at the 27th Vitoria Jazz Festival, in the Spanish northern city of Vitoria.-AFP

Esbjorn Svensson album released 14 years after jazz legend's death

A previously unreleased solo album by Swedish jazz legend Esbjorn Svensson will be released in November, 14 years after the artist's death, his record company said on Thursday. Titled "HOME.S.", a play on the pianist's initials, the album contains the first known solo recordings by Esbjorn Svensson, founder of the Esbjorn Svensson Trio (e.s.t.). "It's really the only time, the first time, that he can be heard solo on a record," Michael Gottfried,...

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Johnny Depp sells his artwork for £3 million

Johnny Depp on Thursday sold a collection of prints he created of Hollywood and rock icons for around £3 million via a UK gallery chain. The 59-year-old "Pirates of the Caribbean" star has spent millions on a bitter legal battle with his ex-wife, the 36-year-old actress Amber Heard.Depp wrote on Instagram on Thursday morning that the prints were going on sale online at Castle Fine Art, which runs a network of UK galleries. The art retailer...

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At Least 27 million COVID patients may have long-term loss of smell, taste

Long-lasting smell or taste dysfunction may affect about 27 million people globally who have had SARS-CoV-2 infection, a meta-analysis with parametric cure modeling showed. An estimated 5.6% and 4.4% of COVID-19 patients may develop persistent self-reported smell and taste dysfunction, respectively, representing 15 million and 12 million cases worldwide as of July 2022, reported Song Tar Toh, MBBS, of the National University of Singapore, and...

(FILES) This illustration file photo taken on July 26, 2022, shows a Mega Millions lottery ticket in Washington, DC. - The jackpot for the upcoming drawing of the Mega Millions lottery has ballooned to more than $1 billion USD, the fourth highest prize ever, its US organizer announced on July 27, 2022. (Photo by OLIVIER DOULIERY / AFP)

Lottery hopefuls flock to 'lucky' California store as $1bn jackpot looms

The odds of claiming this week's bonanza US lottery prize are less than one-in-300-million-but one "lucky" convenience store outside Los Angeles is already counting its winnings. A sign above the counter of the otherwise unassuming shop in California's Chino Hills proclaims itself the "LUCKIEST 7-ELEVEN IN THE WORLD," six years after it sold a winning ticket for the largest jackpot in US lottery history.With the nationwide Mega Millions prize now...

KUWAIT: Motorists wait at the traffic signal in Kuwait City. Ministry of Interior, on Thursday, called on drivers and beachgoers to exercise caution due to unstable weather. - Photo by Fouad Al-Shaikh

Interior cautions drivers amid unstable weather

KUWAIT: Ministry of Interior, on Thursday, called on drivers and beachgoers to exercise caution due to unstable weather, in addition to the warnings of the Meteorological Department of the possibility of rainfall in the coming days. In a press statement, the ministry also called on everyone not to hesitate and to call (112) when facing any emergency.Kuwait Meteorological Department said the heat will continue on Friday with hot wind. The...

BERLIN: An environmental activist cuts an orange, painted as a globe, during an event to mark the Earth Overshoot Day in Berlin. Earth Overshoot Day marks the date when we (all of humanity) have used more from nature than our planet can renew in the entire year. - AFP

Alarm as Earth hits 'Overshoot Day' Thursday

PARIS: Mankind marks a dubious milestone Thursday - the day by which humanity has consumed all earth can sustainably produce for this year, with NGOS warning the rest of 2022 will be lived in resource deficit. The date-dubbed "Earth Overshoot Day"-marks a tipping point when people have used up "all that ecosystems can regenerate in one year", according to the Global Footprint Network and WWF."From January 1 to July 28, humanity has used as much...

VESOUL: A nurse prepares a syringe for an injection of a COVID-19 vaccine at a vaccination centre in Vesoul, eastern France.- AFP

Loss of smell, taste in 5% COVID cases

PARIS: Around five percent of people who have had COVID-19 develop long-lasting problems with their sense of smell or taste, a large study said Thursday, potentially contributing to the burden of long COVID. A lost sense of smell has been a hallmark of contracting coronavirus since the early days of the pandemic, but it has not been clear how often symptoms like this occur - or how long they can last. Seeking to find out, researchers analyzed the...

QUEBEC, Canada: Pope Francis arrives at the National Shrine of Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupre in Quebec, Canada, where he will celebrate Mass on July 28, 2022. – AFP

Pope denounces 'ideological colonization'

QUEBEC CITY, Canada: Pope Francis decried "ideological colonization" Wednesday and renewed his apology to Indigenous peoples for decades of abuse in a speech to Canada's top officials, who invited him to take further action leading to "real reconciliation."The leader of the world's 1.3 billion Catholics was speaking in Quebec City, the latest stage of his landmark tour of Canada which he kicked off this week with a powerful apology for the...

BAGHDAD: Iraqis walk along a street in central Baghdad's Tahrir Square on July 28, 2022, a day after supporters of Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr stormed the country's parliament. - AFP

Pro-Sadr protesters storm Iraqi parliament in fortified Green Zone

BAGHDAD: Hundreds of supporters of powerful Iraqi cleric Moqtada Sadr danced and sang in parliament Wednesday after storming Baghdad's high-security Green Zone in protest at a rival bloc's nomination for prime minister. Police fired barrages of tear gas in a bid to stop the protesters from breaching the gates of the heavily fortified Green Zone, but the crowds surged forward and entered parliament. "I am against the corrupt officials who are in...

LIMA, Peru: File photo shows Peruvian national Zoila Lecarnaque Saavedra, who was convicted of drug trafficking in Hong Kong in 2014, upon her return flight home at Jorge Chavez Airport in Lima. – AFP

Easy targets: Drug mules fill women's jails in Hong Kong

HONG KONG: Zoila Lecarnaque Saavedra sealed her fate when she agreed to transport a package from Peru to Hong Kong-a decision that landed her more than eight years in prison. A quarter of Hong Kong's prisoners are women, a record-high percentage skewed by impoverished foreign drug mules who are often duped or coerced. Awaiting deportation after her release, Lecarnaque Saavedra sat on a bunk bed in a cramped hostel and described how she lost...

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GAZA: A Palestinian child injured in a Zionist strike reacts as she is carried to Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on Aug 21, 2024. - AFP

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