Talal | Kuwait Times Newspaper

Kuwait Times

WEST PALM BEACH: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump addresses a press conference following his victory in the Florida state primary on Tuesday. —AFP

Trump, Clinton move closer to clinching party nominations - Rubio Drops out of the Race

WEST PALM BEACH: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump addresses a press conference following his victory in the Florida state primary on Tuesday. —AFPWASHINGTON: Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump were solidly on course yesterday for their party's presidential nomination for the November general election after convincing wins in the latest batch of US primary elections.Clinton won at least four states, dealing a...

PESHAWAR: A Pakistani man who was injured in a bomb blast arrives at a local hospital. —AP

Bus blast kills 16 in Pakistan

PESHAWAR: A Pakistani man who was injured in a bomb blast arrives at a local hospital. —APPESHAWAR: At least 16 people were killed and more than two dozen wounded when a bomb blew up inside a bus in Peshawar, the main city of Pakistan’s insurgency- wracked northwest, officials said, with the toll feared to rise. No group has so far claimed responsibility for the explosion, which took place as the bus carrying mainly government employees was...

COLOGNE: This photo taken on December 31, 2015 shows people gathering in front of the main railway station where a rash of sexual assaults in crowds on New Year’s Eve drew intense media coverage. —AFP

Germany tightens rape law in wake of Cologne assaults

COLOGNE: This photo taken on December 31, 2015 shows people gathering in front of the main railway station where a rash of sexual assaults in crowds on New Year’s Eve drew intense media coverage. —AFPBERLIN: The German government yesterday approved a tightening of the country’s rape law to cover cases in which a victim withheld consent but did not physically fight back. Chancellor Angela Merkel’s cabinet signed off on the measure, which...

No Image

Thai mototaxi driver nicked for nicking 4,000 knickers

BANGKOK: A taxi driver accused of stealing some 4,000 items of women’s underwear in Thailand has been publicly paraded by police, the second time in six years the alleged panty thief has been nabbed for fuelling his fetish.The 54-year-old motorbike taxi chauffeur was paraded before local media yesterday next to a mountain of bras and underwear that he allegedly stole in between ferrying passengers around the Thai capital on the back of his...

PYONGYANG: American student Otto Warmbier, center, is escorted at the Supreme Court.—AP

North Korea sentences US tourist to 15 years in prison - Tried to steal a propaganda banner

PYONGYANG: American student Otto Warmbier, center, is escorted at the Supreme Court.—APPYONGYANG: North Korea's highest court sentenced an American tourist to 15 years in prison with hard labor for subversion yesterday, weeks after authorities presented him to media and he tearfully confessed that he had tried to steal a propaganda banner.Otto Warmbier, a University of Virginia undergraduate, was convicted and sentenced in a one-hour trial in...

A combination of file pictures shows then (left to right) general-secretary of the Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football (CONCACAF) Chuck Blazer, CONCACAF president Jeffrey Webb and FIFA Vice President and CONCACAF President Jack Warner in Barcelona. - AFP

FIFA suspect keeps up champagne lifestyle

A combination of file pictures shows then (left to right) general-secretary of the Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football (CONCACAF) Chuck Blazer, CONCACAF president Jeffrey Webb and FIFA Vice President and CONCACAF President Jack Warner in Barcelona. - AFPNEW YORK: Jeffrey Webb, the disgraced former FIFA vice president, has kept up a millionaire lifestyle quaffing champagne, gambling and partying while under...

CALIFORNIA: World No 1 Serena Williams of USA returns a shot to Kateryna Bondarenko of Ukraine at the BNP Paribas Open at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden. — AFP

Serena Williams sets up Halep showdown

CALIFORNIA: World No 1 Serena Williams of USA returns a shot to Kateryna Bondarenko of Ukraine at the BNP Paribas Open at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden. — AFPCALIFORNIA: Serena Williams sent down seven aces on her way to a comprehensive 6-2 6-2 victory over Kateryna Bondarenko at the BNP Paribas Open on Tuesday, setting up a mouth-watering quarter-final against defending champion Simona Halep. “It’ll be a really good match I think for...

No Image

9 Ball Tournament

KUWAIT: Chairman of the Higher Organizing Committee of the late Khalid Al-Ghunaim Annual 9 Ball Tournament said the latest Championship was a vital event in the history of the tournament since its launch in 1984, adding that it completed all the requirements that qualify it to be one of the major championships.He said the top 10 players worldwide participated and the number of professional players who registered was 128 including American Sahne...

MUMBAI: West Indies’s Chris Gayle plays a shot during the World T20 cricket tournament match between England and West Indies at The Wankhede Cricket Stadium in Mumbai yesterday. — AFP

Gayle-force blows away England at World T20

MUMBAI: West Indies’s Chris Gayle plays a shot during the World T20 cricket tournament match between England and West Indies at The Wankhede Cricket Stadium in Mumbai yesterday. — AFPMUMBAI: Chris Gayle blasted a scintillating century to propel the West Indies to a stunning six-wicket win against England in their World Twenty20 opener in Mumbai yesterday.The powerful left-hander smashed 11 sixes and five fours as the Windies successfully...

KOLKATA: Pakistan’s Mohammad Hafeez (left) is watched by captain Shahid Afridi as he celebrates after scoring a half-century (50 runs) during the World T20 cricket tournament match between Pakistan and Bangladesh yesterday.— AFP

Afridi powers Pakistan to big opening win

KOLKATA: Pakistan’s Mohammad Hafeez (left) is watched by captain Shahid Afridi as he celebrates after scoring a half-century (50 runs) during the World T20 cricket tournament match between Pakistan and Bangladesh yesterday.— AFPKOLKATA: Proud captain Shahid Afridi said he had been determined to lead by example yesterday after starring in Pakistan’s demolition of Bangladesh, drawing a line under his side’s troubled World Twenty20...

No Image

Gulf Bank receives approvals for subordinated tier 2 bond issuance

KUWAIT: Gulf Bank yesterday announced that it has received approvals from the Central Bank of Kuwait (CBK) and Capital Markets Authority (CMA), as well as the approval of the Bank’s Ordinary General Assembly meeting held on 9/3/2016, regarding the issuance of a Tier 2 Basel III compliant subordinated bond for up to KD 100 million. The Bank plans to use the proceeds of the offering for general corporate purposes and to strengthen its capital...

SAN FRANCISCO: Nick Pino of TechRadar tries out a PlayStation VR video game at a Sony press event. —AFP

PlayStation virtual reality gear to launch in October - PlayStation VR headgear priced at $399

SAN FRANCISCO: Nick Pino of TechRadar tries out a PlayStation VR video game at a Sony press event. —AFPSAN FRANCISCO: Sony plans to make virtual reality-long the stuff of films cast off into a distant futuremainstream with the October release of PlayStation VR headgear priced at $399. “Virtual reality represents a new frontier for gaming, one that will forever change the way users interact with games,” Sony Computer Entertainment chief...

most read

1

Kuwait under unsteady northern and northwesterly winds triggering dust. - KUNA

Kuwait weather to remain unstable

2

MAJDAL SHAMS: Druze elders and mourners surround the coffins of 10 of the 12 people killed in a rocket strike from Lebanon a day earlier, during a mass funeral in this Druze town in the Zionist-annexed Golan Heights on July 28, 2024. - AFP

Mideast seethes amid carnage

3

KUWAIT: Photo provided by the Al-Zour oil Refinery shows a view of the facility, in Al-Zour, south of Kuwait City. – AFP

The impact of oil discoveries

4

No Image

Overstayers, sponsors to be deported

5

Hand of female holding sunscreen. Very sun light Sky background.Health concepts and skin care

‘Protect yourself against skin cancer,’ CAN warns