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KABUL: An Afghan security personnel inspects the site of a bicycle bomb explosion targeted an army vehicle yesterday. — AP

Taleban fighters enter Afghan city of Kunduz - Militants take position in houses

KABUL: An Afghan security personnel inspects the site of a bicycle bomb explosion targeted an army vehicle yesterday. — APKUNDUZ: Taleban fighters pushed into the centre of the northern Afghan city of Kunduz yesterday, taking control of the central intersection where they raised their flag a year ago in their biggest success of the 15-year-old conflict.Witnesses and police said the insurgents, who entered the city in the early hours, were...

Yoshinori Ohsumi Japanese scientist Yoshinori Ohsumi answers a phone call following a news that he won this year's Nobel Prize in medicine at his office in the Tokyo Institute of Technology campus in Yokohama, south of Tokyo, Monday, Oct. 3, 2016.

Japanese wins Medicine Nobel for cell ‘recycling’

Yoshinori Ohsumi Japanese scientist Yoshinori Ohsumi answers a phone call following a news that he won this year's Nobel Prize in medicine at his office in the Tokyo Institute of Technology campus in Yokohama, south of Tokyo, Monday, Oct. 3, 2016.STOCKHOLM: Yoshinori Ohsumi of Japan won the Nobel Medicine Prize yesterday for his pioneering work on autophagy - a process whereby cells “eat themselves” - which when disrupted can cause...

MINBIJ, SYRIA: A general view taken on September 25, 2016 shows the flag of the Islamic State (IS) group painted on the wall outside the ancient Minbij hotel. —AFP

Syrian fighter returns to the jail where IS tortured him - 'Our feet never touched the ground'

MINBIJ, SYRIA: A general view taken on September 25, 2016 shows the flag of the Islamic State (IS) group painted on the wall outside the ancient Minbij hotel. —AFPMANBIJ: In the dark basement of the Manbij Hotel, Ahmad Othman stares defiantly into the room where he spent 32 days strung up by a chain, tortured by the Islamic State group. "Our feet never touched the ground. Sometimes they pulled the chain up and down" to make the pain worse,...

PASADENA: In this Jan. 16, 2015 file photo, Donald Trump, host of the reality television series “The Celebrity Apprentice,” poses for photographers at the NBC 2015 Winter TCA Press Tour. —AP

AP: "Apprentice" cast and crew say Trump was lewd and sexist - Trump's past continues to haunt him

PASADENA: In this Jan. 16, 2015 file photo, Donald Trump, host of the reality television series “The Celebrity Apprentice,” poses for photographers at the NBC 2015 Winter TCA Press Tour. —APNEW YORK: In his years as a reality TV boss on "The Apprentice," Donald Trump repeatedly demeaned women with sexist language, according to show insiders who said he rated female contestants by the size of their breasts and talked about which ones he'd...

DRESDEN, SAXONY, GERMANY: German Chancellor Angela Merkel (C) and the Prime Minister for the federal state of Saxony Stanislaw Tillich (L) arrive at the Semperoper Opera House during celebrations of the Day of German Unity yesterday. —AFP

Merkel greeted with shouts of ‘Get out’ in Dresden

DRESDEN, SAXONY, GERMANY: German Chancellor Angela Merkel (C) and the Prime Minister for the federal state of Saxony Stanislaw Tillich (L) arrive at the Semperoper Opera House during celebrations of the Day of German Unity yesterday. —AFPDRESDEN, GERMANY: Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel was greeted yesterday by whistles and shouts of “Get out” after arriving in Dresden-birthplace of xenophobic movement Pegida-for German reunification...

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Indonesian jailed over IS-linked terror plots

JAKARTA: An Indonesian militant was jailed for six years yesterday over a series of failed plots hatched under the guidance of an Indonesian jihadist fighting with the Islamic State group in Syria. Arif Hidayatullah plotted to assassinate Jakarta governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, an ethnic Chinese Christian, and bomb a Jewish community centre and a mosque used by members of the Muslim Shia minority, a court heard.The 31-yearold, who was detained...

KOLKATA: India’s captain Virat Kohli (C) is watched by teammates Cheteshwar Pujara (L) and wicketkeeper Wriddhiman Saha (2R) as he takes a catch to dismiss New Zealand’s Matt Henry (R) during play on the fourth day of the second Test cricket match between India and New Zealand at The Eden Gardens Cricket Stadium in Kolkata yesterday. — AFP

India crush N Zealand to reclaim top ranking

KOLKATA: India’s captain Virat Kohli (C) is watched by teammates Cheteshwar Pujara (L) and wicketkeeper Wriddhiman Saha (2R) as he takes a catch to dismiss New Zealand’s Matt Henry (R) during play on the fourth day of the second Test cricket match between India and New Zealand at The Eden Gardens Cricket Stadium in Kolkata yesterday. — AFPKOLKATA: India crushed New Zealand by 178 runs in the second test yesterday to clinch the three-match...

Kuwait’s consumer inflation drops to 2.9% - NBK ECONOMIC REPORT

.KUWAIT: Inflation in consumer prices retreated slightly to 2.9 percent year-on-year (y/y) in August. The pace remains near 3.0 percent, the average of the last three months, and of the first eight months of the year. The small dip in August was mainly due to a decline in food prices. Food inflation slid into negative territory in August as global food prices remained in decline. However, core inflation (excluding food costs) edged higher, from...

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Bahrah Malabar Bulls lift Kuwait Kerala Premier trophy

Bahrah Malabar BullsKUWAIT: In a thrilling final held at the Doha Entertainment City cricket ground, Bahrah Trading Company Malabar Bulls cricket team lifted the Kuwait Kerala Premier League Division B Trophy defeating Royal Kings Trivandrum by 30 runs. Bahrah Malabar Bulls won the toss and elected to bat first and made a mammoth total of 201 for the loss of 2 wickets on the back of an unbeaten match winning partnership of 150 runs between...

Facebook launches buy and sell 'marketplace' - 'Lite' version of Messenger overseas unveiled

BERLIN: The “Facebook”-logo on the sidelines of a press preview of the so-called “Facebook Innovation Hub” in Berlin. Facebook yesterday launched a new online “Marketplace” allowing members of the huge social network to buy and sell with each other. —AFPNEW YORK: Facebook says some 450 million people use its site - mainly the "Groups" feature - to buy and sell stuff locally, anything from cars to baby clothes to furniture. Now, the...

Healthy body & healthy mind at IISM KG

.India international school, Mangaf KG organized ‘Healthy body & Healthy mind’, to teach our tiny buddies the basics personal hygiene for keeping themselves healthy and clean.So our kindergarten teachers organized a workshop on Healthy Hand wash. Children were shown how to use Hand wash dispenser, proper technique of Brushing and Healthy Diet Tiffin.Great effort was taken by the KG teachers to arrange a puppet show where the puppets enacted...

Why top fashion models never smile

.They wear the world's most beautiful and expensive clothes yet their faces are the picture of blank boredom. Why do fashion models always look so miserable? "You don't smile. It is just not done," said model Ty Ogunkoya as catwalk stars criss-crossed Paris for fashion week. In his decade as a top model, the 26-year-old Nigerian-born Londoner has never once permitted himself a grin. "I have modeled for everyone, and no one has ever asked me...

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