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LIVERPOOL: Liverpool's players wave to supporters from an open-top bus during a parade through the streets of Liverpool in north-west England, to celebrate winning the 2021-22 League Cup and FA Cup. Despite the disappointment of losing to real Madrid in the final of the UEAF Champions League, Klopp has called on Liverpool fans to take to the streets of the city on Sunday when they parade the League Cup and FA Cup. - AFP

UEFA apologizes to fans over Champions League final chaos

LAUSANNE: UEFA apologized to spectators for the first time on Friday for their "frightening and distressing" experience ahead of the Champions League final, saying no football fan should go through such mayhem. Thousands of supporters were unable to access European club football's showpiece match between despite having genuine tickets, in chaotic scenes that saw the French police use tear gas at close range even against children."UEFA wishes to...

People visit the newly opened Portuguese Royal Treasure Museum, where the Portuguese Crown's jewels are exhibited in Lisbon on June 2, 2022. - AFP photos

Portugal at last gets to marvel at its crown jewels

It has taken 227 years, but Portugal's stunning crown jewels have finally gone on display in a giant strong room inside the country's long unfinished royal palace. The Ajuda Palace overlooking the capital's historic Belem district was home to Portugal's last royal dynasty, the Braganzas, whose reign ended when the country became a republic in 1910."After (Lisbon's) terrible earthquake and tsunami of 1755, the royal family decided to move here...

Students perform a routine during their mermaiding class at the Merschool in Kayalami, near Midrand, on June 3, 2022. - AFP photos

South Africans splash into mermaiding as a sport

A dozen South Africans dressed as mermaids and mermen frolic in a Johannesburg pool, mimicking the movement of the mystical sea creatures. Mermaiding is a fast-growing sport worldwide, and now South Africa has its own school to teach it - the "Merschool". Before diving in, students each slip on a brightly colored fabric tail ending in a monofin.The swimmers are black and white, from 13 years old to in their forties. They include a schoolteacher,...

In this picture taken on May 27, 2022, South Korean singer and producer Psy performs his biggest hit song, ‘Gangnam Style’, during a concert at an outdoor venue in the grounds of the Korea University in Seoul. – AFP photos

10 years after ‘Gangnam Style’, Psy is happier than ever

Ten years after “Gangnam Style” became a global phenomenon, South Korean rapper Psy is living his best life — proud of his “greatest trophy” and free from the pressure of repeating that unprecedented success. Uploaded to YouTube on July 15, 2012, the song’s wacky music video became a runaway megahit, with its trademark horse-riding dance spawning thousands of imitations, spoofs and spinoffs.It was the first YouTube video to reach one...

Bagpipe students, members of the Vieira Brum music band, play at the Marica beach, in Marica, Rio de Janeiro state, on May 28, 2022. – AFP photos

Brazil bagpipe band channels sound of Scotland

It’s a gorgeous day at the beach in Brazil: the bright blue ocean sparkles in the sun, the palm trees sway in the breeze and the peaceful sound of... er, bagpipes? Thousands of kilometers (miles) from the United Kingdom, the kilts are out on a Rio de Janeiro beach that suddenly looks like something out of the Scottish Highlands. Eleven-year-old Davi Portugal is playing a set of bagpipes nearly as big as he is, inflating his cheeks to...

A pumpjack operates in the desert oil fields of Sakhir in southern Bahrain on April 22, 2020. (Photo by Mazen Mahdi / AFP)

OPEC+ agrees bigger output boost amid Russian isolation

VIENNA: Major oil producers led by Saudi Arabia and Russia agreed on Thursday to open the taps wider than expected amid soaring prices and hard on the heels of an EU ban on Russian oil imports. Analysts had foreseen OPEC+ producers sticking to their policy of modest output increases, as they have done since May 2021.However, pressure has been rising for the 23-strong group to boost output further to try to stabilize prices, which have hit record...

SANAA: A member of the traffic police loyal to the Houthi rebels controls traffic along a road outside the old city in this March 24, 2022 photo. – AFP

Yemen's warring parties renew two-month truce

DUBAI: Yemen's warring parties have agreed to renew a two-month truce, the United Nations said on Thursday, in an 11th-hour move on the day it was set to expire. Aid agencies and Western governments had urged the Yemeni government and Houthi rebels to extend the truce, which went into effect in April and significantly reduced the intensity of fighting in a conflict the UN says has triggered the world's worst humanitarian crisis."I would like to...

JENIN: Mourners carry the flag-draped body of a Palestinian youth killed by Zionist troops in the town of Yabad a day earlier during his funeral on June 2, 2022. - AFP

4 Palestinians killed by Zionist forces in 2 days

RAMALLAH: Zionist troops shot dead a teen in the West Bank on Thursday, the Palestinian health ministry said, the fourth Palestinian killed in the occupied territory in two days. The ministry identified the slain Palestinian as 17-year-old Odeh Odeh, who was hit in the chest by what it said was a Zionist bullet near the village of Al-Madiya, west of Ramallah.It came hours after a Palestinian man was killed during a clash with Zionist forces...

SAN ANTONIO: This May 31, 2022 image shows a before (left) image of a patient's ear and an image 30 days after surgery to reconstruct the earlobe. - AFP

3D ear made of living cells transplanted

WASHINGTON: A US medical team said Thursday they had reconstructed a human ear using the patient's own tissue to create a 3D bioimplant, a pioneering procedure they hope can be used to treat people with a rare birth defect. The surgery was performed as part of an early-stage clinical trial to evaluate the safety and efficacy of the implant for people with microtia, in which the external ear is small and not formed properly.AuriNovo, as the...

KUWAIT: Photo shows a construction worker as a site. The huge rise in the prices of construction materials has affected building of houses, with some citizens freezing construction of their properties, while others have speeded up work over worries about further price increases.

Huge rise in prices of construction materials

By Majd OthmanKUWAIT: The huge rise in the prices of construction materials has affected building of houses, with some citizens freezing construction of their properties, while others have speeded up work over worries about further price increases. Meanwhile, the COVID-19 pandemic and increase in residency costs for workers in Kuwait has resulted in a labor shortage, leading to a huge rise in daily wages of workers.Kuwait Times visited...

RIYADH: Foreign Minister heads Kuwait's delegation in the Gulf countries and Russia meeting at the Secretariat's headquarters in Riyadh.- KUNA

Gulf Arab nations back mediation efforts to end Russia-Ukraine war

RIYADH: The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) has threw its weight behind mediation efforts to resolve the Russia-Ukraine conflict, emphasizing that such measures should fall in line with international laws and principles. These efforts should comply with the principle of sovereignty and non-interference in the internal affairs of countries, which encapsulate the GCC's stance towards the Russia-Ukraine conflict, according to a final communique drawn...

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KD 53 million raised during in Ramadan

KUWAIT: An official at the Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor said on Thursday that total donations gathered by charitable entities during the Holy Month of Ramadan last year had reached KD 53 million. In a press statement, head of the charitable societies' administration at the ministry Abdulaziz Al-Ajmi affirmed that the aforementioned number reflected Kuwaiti society keenness on providing alms and assistance to the needy. The donations would...

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GAZA: Friends and relatives mourn over the body of photojournalist Ibrahim Muhareb, who was killed as he was covering the advance of Zionist forces north of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip the previous day, at Al-Nasser Hospital on Aug 19, 2024. - AFP

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