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Equities buoyant despite policy conundrums
KUWAIT: Global equities in August closed in the green for the most part. The MSCI All Country Index was up 0.2 percent with the MSCI Emerging Market Index closing up 2.0 percent. In the US, equity markets posted minimal gains. The S&P 500 was up 0.1 percent while the Dow Jones increased 0.3 percent. The potential shutdown of the government, due to the dispute over the federal budget and debt ceiling, has affected markets. At the recent Jackson...
In a high-tech world, car designers still rely on clay
This 1954 photo Courtesy of General Motors shows Buick Design Studio creative clay sculptors as they mold the clay on a model GM automobile.— APWARREN, Mich: Car designers have every kind of software and virtual reality tool. But when they want to make sure a car's curves look just right, they rely on one of the world's oldest materials: clay.Every vehicle by every major carmaker, from Mercedes to Tesla to Toyota, is formed in clay long before...
Bollywood turns spotlight on India’s real-life mafia dons
This file photo shows Indian Bollywood actor Arjun Rampal (right) and South Indian actress Aishwarya Rajesh (left) take part in a promotional event for the political crime drama Hindi film ‘Daddy’ in Mumbai. — AFPA movie about the life of a notorious Mumbai mafia don comes out in Indian cinemas this week as Bollywood steps up its long-held fascination with the financial capital's criminal underworld. "Daddy", a biopic on...
French fashion giants ban ultra-thin models
File photo shows models take a rest backstage after the Christian Dior’s Spring- Summer 2015 Haute Couture fashion collection presented in Paris. — APA host of French-owned fashion labels spanning Christian Dior to Saint Laurent pledged yesterday to ban ultra-thin models from their advertising and catwalk shows following repeated scandals about anorexia and mistreatment. French holding companies LVMH and Kering, which own dozens of top...
Ghostly, translucent lobster hauled from ocean off Maine
Photo shows lobster with a translucent shell.Maine lobstermen Alex Todd has hauled in blue lobsters and even some lobsters that were half blue, or half orange. But he says those don't compare on the scale of weirdness to the translucent crustacean that he recently pulled up in a trap. The lobster that Todd caught on Aug 24 is a ghostly, pale blue. It almost looks to be transparent.Todd, from Chebeague Island, said he knew when he saw the...
Dozens of items linked to Princess Diana hit auction block
A locket containing a photograph of Princess Diana and her sons Prince Harry, left, and Prince William, sterling silver perfume bottle, engraved on the front with Princess Diana’s pre-marriage initials “D.S.” (Diana Spencer) and a charm in the shape of her first initial D, thought to have been worn as a teen by Princess Diana.It’s been 20 years since Princess Diana’s death, yet her legacy has barely faded. Now, dozens of items with a...
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Kuwait and US to hold first-of-its-kind forum
Amir makes a historic trip to US amid regional crisis File photo shows His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah during a meeting with US President Donald Trump. — KUNAWASHINGTON: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah's current visit to Washington is historic both in the timing and the level of the accompanying delegation, said a Kuwaiti diplomat yesterday. This visit also comes at a very delicate...
KNPC launches key liquefied gas project
First phase of a liquefied gas tank project in Mina Al-Ahmadi refineryKUWAIT: Kuwait National Petroleum Company (KNPC) kicked off yesterday the first phase of a liquefied gas tank project in Mina Al-Ahmadi refinery. The project was initiated after the export of the first shipment of propane and butane gases, KNPC’s official spokesman Abdullah Al-Ajmi told KUNA.He spoke of the significance of the enterprise as a major project that will prove...
MPs have constitutional right to grill, says Min Al-Sabeeh
Hind Al-Sabeeh receives Eid well wishers.KUWAIT: Kuwait’s Minister of Social Affairs and Labor Hind Al-Sabeeh proclaimed yesterday that it is a parliamentarian’s prerogative to interpolate any government official and that right is supported by the constitution. Al-Sabeeh’s remarks come in response to the growing speculation that she could be subject to a grilling procedure in parliament, a prospect that she welcomed and described as “a...
Kuwait consumption of oil decreases by 1.3 per cent
KUWAIT: BP's sixth annual report recently indicated that that Kuwait consumption of oil decreased by 1.3 per cent to 499,000 barrels per day while KSA remains the highest in GCC and ME in consumption rates. International oil consumption has grown by 1.6 billion barrels/day (1.6 per cent), which more than the 1.2 per cent average that had been dominant for ten years. The report said that China had the lion's cut of the consumption increase with...
Capital driving test department ready to move to new location
KUWAIT: MOI relations and security media department said that the capital driving test department would be moved to its nearby new location within the capital driving school and that the new department would start receiving the public starting from the official working hours on Sunday, September 10, 2017. Elsewhere, the acting MOI undersecretary, lit general Sheikh Mohammed Al-Yousif Al-Sabah yesterday visited the services directorate, the...
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