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Volunteers hang lights on The National COVID Memorial Wall.

London wall illuminates COVID's enduring pain at Christmas

UK families of some 240,000 people who died from COVID-19 have hung festive lights on a London wall, a symbol of love, anger and pain ahead of another Christmas overshadowed by loss. As the fifth anniversary of the global pandemic approaches, emotio...

Items are seen from the collection of Bob Borzello, 88, owner of 43 Camden Passage, in London.--AFP photos

London toy ‘shop’ window where nothing is for sale

With its twinkling Christmas fairy lights and nostalgic array of vintage toys, the window of one London “shop” never fails to enchant passers-by. A Punch and Judy puppet, old board games, model trains and planes, papier mache masks adorn the win...

Carriages are pictured in an exhibition hall at the Imperial Carriage Castle Museum (Wagenburg) of the Schoenbrunn Palace in Vienna.

Pimp my carriage: How to ride in style like Austria’s famed emperor Franz Joseph

A long-lost carriage once used almost daily by Austria’s longest-serving monarch Franz Joseph for his commute from the Schoenbrunn palace to his office in central Vienna has gone on display after an epic renovation. With tourists flocking to Vienn...

Ronaldo Teixeira, owner of Bar do Lacador, shows a photo of him with singer Bruno Mars at the bar in Belo Horizonte, Brazil.--AFP photos

Brazil bar gets 24K Magic moment with Bruno Mars visit

The mayor of Rome, Roberto Gualtieri (fourth right) throws a coin in the Trevi fountain on the day of its reopening after renovation works in Rome.--AFP

Rome’s Trevi Fountain reopens to limited crowds

Rome’s famous Trevi Fountain reopened Sunday following a three-month clean-up, but visitors will for now be limited to 400 to avoid the crowds of the past, said the city’s mayor. Imposing the limit, which might later be modified, will “allow e...

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Kuwait nationality law amended

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Kuwaiti pastor Emmanuel Gharib, Chairman of the National Evangelical Church Kuwait and Pastor of the Kuwait Presbyterian Church, leads a Christmas mass at a church in Kuwait City on December 24, 2018. — Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat

Kuwait’s unity seen through the eyes of its first pastor

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Former Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in this file photo.

Bangladesh tells India it wants Hasina back for ‘judicial process’

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RIYADH: Minister of Interior Sheikh Fahad Al-Yousef Saud Al-Sabah tours key security facilities accompanied by officials during an official visit to Saudi Arabia on Monday, December 23, 2024. — KUNA photos

Deputy Prime Minister visits key security facilities in Saudi Arabia

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UAB: 7 Kuwaiti banks among top 100 banks