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ANFIELD: Arsenal's English striker Danny Welbeck (R) vies with Liverpool's Brazilian midfielder Roberto Firmino (2nd R) during the English Premier League football match between Liverpool and Arsenal at Anfield in Liverpool, north west England yesterday. - AFP
Liverpool punish Wenger gamble
ANFIELD: Arsenal's English striker Danny Welbeck (R) vies with Liverpool's Brazilian midfielder Roberto Firmino (2nd R) during the English Premier League football match between Liverpool and Arsenal at Anfield in Liverpool, north west England yesterday. - AFPLIVERPOOL:  Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger's surprise decision to drop star player Alexis Sanchez backfired as Liverpool won 3-1 in the English Premier League at Anfield to reignite its...
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Zain powers 8 Kuwaiti tech SMEs at MWC17
KUWAIT/BARCELONA: Zain, the leading telecommunications company in Kuwait, powered eight young Kuwaiti entrepreneurs in its dedicated booth at the 4YFN Startup Conference during the 2017 Mobile World Congress (MWC) held last week in Barcelona. MWC is the world’s leading telecom event, gathering innovative tech small and medium sized enterprises (SME) from around the globe.Zain’s initiative is aimed at supporting and empowering Kuwaiti SMEs...
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Kuwait may post KD5bn budget deficit
KUWAIT: By the end of February 2017, the 11th month of the current fiscal year 2016/2017 ended and for the third consecutive month oil prices continued their consolidation around $50 per barrel. The average price for Kuwaiti oil for February was $52.4 per barrel. Consequently, the average price of the Kuwaiti barrel of oil during the 11 months period of the current fiscal year from April 2016 to February 2017- was $44.3, which is $9.3 per barrel,...
Waleed Mandani receiving the awards
KFH wins 4 prestigious awards from IFN
Waleed Mandani receiving the awardsKUWAIT: Kuwait Finance House (KFH) won 4 prestigious awards from Islamic Finance News Magazine (IFN), which are "Best Islamic Bank in Kuwait", "Syndicated Deal of the Year" where KFH was an arranger and part of EGA (Emirates Global Aluminum) US$4.9 billion Commodity Murabaha based Syndicated Term Financing Facility, "Kuwait Deal of the Year" where KFH was an arranger and part of Boubyan Tier 1 $250 million...
DUBAI: World number one Andy Murray (R) of Great Britain and Spain's Fernando Verdasco celebrate with their respective first and second-place trophies after the conclusion of their ATP final tennis match during the Dubai Duty Free Championships yesterday. Murray clinched his first title of 2017 and 45th of his career as he dominated Spain's Fernando Verdasco 6-3, 6-2 to win the Dubai Tennis Championships. - AFP
Murray claims 45th career title with Dubai triump
DUBAI: World number one Andy Murray (R) of Great Britain and Spain's Fernando Verdasco celebrate with their respective first and second-place trophies after the conclusion of their ATP final tennis match during the Dubai Duty Free Championships yesterday. Murray clinched his first title of 2017 and 45th of his career as he dominated Spain's Fernando Verdasco 6-3, 6-2 to win the Dubai Tennis Championships. - AFPDUBAI: World number one Andy Murray...
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Kuwait stocks come under selling pressure
KUWAIT: The Boursa Kuwait Indices witnessed a negative week as indices decreased this week. The Boursa price index closed at 6,767.04 an decrease of 0.63 percent down 42.74 points compared to the previous week. As the MUDX witnessed an decrease this week of 0.79 percent to close at 664.35  for the week. Furthermore, the market blue-chip index the KSX15 closed on an decrease of 1.17 points down 0.12 percent during the week to close at 970.49.The...
THONYOR: Photo shows a baby getting a Mid-Upper Arm Circumference (MUAC) test for malnutrition. South Sudan, the world’s youngest nation formed after splitting from the north in 2011 has declared famine in some regions, saying 100,000 people faced starvation and another million were on the brink of famine. —AFP
Over 100 million at risk of starvation globally
102 million people face acute malnutrition THONYOR: Photo shows a baby getting a Mid-Upper Arm Circumference (MUAC) test for malnutrition. South Sudan, the world’s youngest nation formed after splitting from the north in 2011 has declared famine in some regions, saying 100,000 people faced starvation and another million were on the brink of famine. —AFPROME: The number of people facing severe hunger worldwide has surpassed 100 million and...
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Oh Snap! Silicon Valley school makes $24m off of investment
Fund pays off when Snap began selling shares to public Simon ChiuMOUNTAIN VIEW:  Bake sales and car washes? Not for one Silicon Valley parochial high school that hit it big this week and, by doing so, highlighted anew gaping economic disparities in the region.St. Francis High School in Mountain View parlayed a $15,000 investment in the company that developed the Snapchat app into a windfall of at least $24 million, capitalizing on a unique...
This image released by Disney shows Josh Gad as Le Fou, left, and Luke Evans as Gaston in a scene from, ‘Beauty and the Beast’. — AP
Subtle gay moment in new Disney film generates buzz
This image released by Disney shows Josh Gad as Le Fou, left, and Luke Evans as Gaston in a scene from, ‘Beauty and the Beast’. — APThe so-called "gay moment" in Disney's new live-action version of "Beauty and the Beast" is subtle - so subtle that one could easily miss it with an ill-timed sneeze or glance away from the screen. And it may sail over the heads of young viewers. But the cast and director say it is indeed a gay moment -one...
Australian actor Hugh Jackman looks at a gift of a Wolverine puppet during a press conference for the film Logan in Taipei.
Jackman slices and dices one last time as Wolverine
Australian actor Hugh Jackman looks at a gift of a Wolverine puppet during a press conference for the film Logan in Taipei.After eight movies over 17 years, Hugh Jackman returns this weekend for his final hurrah as Wolverine in "Logan," an edgier, darker take on everyone's favorite hairy, metal-clawed mutant anti-hero. Jackman, 48, had agreed with director James Mangold that if he was going to reprise his iconic role as the cigar-chomping loner...
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Death penalty in Philippines
Italian fashion designer Maria Grazia Chiuri acknowledges the crowd following the Christian Dior women’s Fall-Winter 2017-2018 readyto- wear collection fashion show in Paris. — AFP photos
Dior in blue jeans raises the black beret of revolt
Italian fashion designer Maria Grazia Chiuri acknowledges the crowd following the Christian Dior women’s Fall-Winter 2017-2018 readyto- wear collection fashion show in Paris. — AFP photosThe first female designer to lead Dior took her feminist revolution to another level on Friday, unleashing models in workers' blue overalls and Black Panther leather berets.  Maria Grazia Chiuri continued her radical shake-up of the fabled French label with...
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VINHEDO, Brazil: An aerial view of the wreckage of an airplane that crashed with 62 people on board on Aug 10, 2024. - AFP
Brazil plane crash kills 62
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People walk past a poster of slain Palestinian Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Iran's capital Tehran on August 10, 2024, amid regional tensions during the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip. - AFP
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