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Chelsea Manning makes waves with Vogue swimsuit spread This file photo shows transgender former soldier Chelsea Manning one day after being released from a top-security US military prison. — AFP
Chelsea Manning makes waves with Vogue swimsuit spread
Chelsea Manning makes waves with Vogue swimsuit spread This file photo shows transgender former soldier Chelsea Manning one day after being released from a top-security US military prison. — AFPTransgender soldier Chelsea Manning, the former Army intelligence analyst jailed for leaking troves of classified information to WikiLeaks, has turned heads by posing in a red one-piece bathing suit for the September issue of Vogue. "Guess this is what...
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Bollywood film spotlights India’s toilet shortage
Bollywood may be famous for its blingy song and dance numbers, but a new movie released Friday deals with a distinctly less glamorous subject-India's chronic lack of toilets. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has made building more toilets a key priority in the country of 1.25 billion people, around half of whom still have to go into the fields to answer the call of nature. Campaigners estimate that nearly 200,000 infants die every year due to...
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Time for tweet is over
Zain Vice-Chairman & Group CEO Bader Al Kharafin
Zain to sell treasury shares to Omantel - Deal valued at KD 255.4m
Zain Vice-Chairman & Group CEO Bader Al KharafiKUWAIT: Mobile Telecommunications Company (Zain), a leading telecom pioneer in eight markets across the Middle East and Africa, announced yesterday that it has entered into a definitive agreement to sell its entire block of treasury shares, representing 9.84 percent of Zain's fully paid in and issued share capital, to Oman Telecommunications Company (Omantel). Under the agreement, Zain will sell...
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Hot, humid weather during weekend in Kuwait
KUWAIT: Hot and humid weather is expected during the weekend, especially in coastal areas, said the official at the Kuwait Meteorological Department Abdulaziz Al-Qarawi yesterday. Today's weather will be hot and humid especially on the coastal areas, with southeast light to moderate wind at speeds between eight to 35 kph, the high temperature will be between 45-47 Degrees Celsius, said Qarawi.The status of sea Friday will be light to moderate...
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Kuwait's ice industry, a historical perspective
KUWAIT: With the temperature in Kuwait soaring up to 50 Degrees Celsius and beyond, people mostly tend to stay at their air-conditioned dwellings drinking icy cold beverages to fend off the heat. Today, it might be typical and even normal to fetch ice from the refrigerator or the nearest supermarket, but getting ice in the past was not as simple as a walk in the park.Back in the day, Kuwaitis need for ice was satisfied via shipments from Iraq's...
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Weekend sky to witness Perseids meteors shower
KUWAIT: The Perseids meteors shower is expected to be visible in Kuwait on Friday evening and Saturday, Astronomer and historian Adel Al-Saadoun. It will be the clearest meteors shower seen in over a hundred year, Saadoun said yesterday. Hundreds meteors can be seen per hour. He said that these meteors are the dusty debris of Comet Swift-Tuttle that approaches the Sun once every 120 years, and when it travels away, it leaves debris and gases...
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Truck overturns on sixth ring road
KUWAIT: A truck carrying frozen meats turned over at the Sixth Ring Road opposite to Saad Al-Abdullah following an accident. No injuries were reported in the incident. - By Hanan Al-Saadoun
DUBAI: In this Tuesday, July 25, 2017 photo, Korean waitresses play music at the Pyongyang Okryu-Gwan North Korean Restaurant in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. —AP
Kuwait tells AP: North Korean workers welcome amid crisis
DUBAI: In this Tuesday, July 25, 2017 photo, Korean waitresses play music at the Pyongyang Okryu-Gwan North Korean Restaurant in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. —APDUBAI: Stalwart US ally Kuwait will continue to grant visas to North Korean laborers whose wages allegedly aid Pyongyang in evading international sanctions, its government told The Associated Press on Thursday before its ruler travels to Washington to meet President Donald Trump.In a...
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Seven arrested for stealing cables
KUWAIT: Criminal detectives arrested seven Asian men accused of stealing land power cables from inside manholes. Detectives received information about some people damaging manholes in Jaber Al-Al, so investigations were launched. Detectives eventually found a vehicle that was carrying a number of freshly-cut cables.The arrested the people who were inside the vehicle, and they confessed to cutting the cables in order to sell them to a scrap shop...
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Was invasion a lesson?
Muna Al Fuzai Last week was the 27th anniversary of the brutal Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. This painful anniversary brought back many memories to citizens who remained in Kuwait, and to expats who found themselves forced to leave or the few of them who remained and suffered from torture and humiliation. In 1990, no one in Kuwait expected this historic disaster. Back then, everyone said the invasion was a lesson learned. Today, I wonder how much...
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Right before you give up hope
They say that hope is the first step to disappointment or hope is the only thing you have before giving up. I found myself in an unknown situation for the past year of my life, until a couple of days back, when I had an interesting conversation with a very good friend. Sometimes we lose things that mean the world to us (excluding humans) - a job that meant something to you; a task; a sport that you loved very much but had to give up due to an...
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This undated imageshows a colorized transmission electron micrograph of mpox particles (green) found within an infected cell (pink and purple) cultured in the laboratory. - AFP
Mpox global health emergency, Kuwait monitoring situation
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VARANASI: Medical students shout slogans and hold posters as they protest the rape and murder of a young medic from Kolkata, in Varanasi on August 15, 2024. -- AFP
Protests sweep India over rape and murder of doctor
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Kuwait Society for Relief’s second relief plane. - KUNA photos
Kuwait sends relief planeload to Sudan
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KUWAIT: People watch pearl diving boats as they arrive at the main beach at the end of the 33rd annual pearl diving festival. Pearl-diving trips are held annually under the patronage of the Kuwaiti Amir in order to keep traditions alive.
Pearl diving trip winds up
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NEW DELHI: India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi inspects the guard of honor to mark the country's Independence Day, at the Red Fort in New Delhi on August 15, 2024. -AFP
Modi renews push for common civil code for India