New York. Hedge funds kept running away from oil as prices tumbled into a bear market. ### They cut bets on West Texas Intermediate crude’s rally to the lowest level in 12 weeks, according to data released on Friday. Optimism on Brent crude, the global benchmark, declined by the most this year. ### WTI reached…
Ras Al Khaimah: Two Emirati twin boys aged two and a half drowned in a neighbour’s swimming pool in the Khazam area of Ras Al Khaimah on Thursday night, police have said. ### Police received a call at 10.10pm to report the twin brothers had gone missing and immediately rushed to the scene to begin searching…
Bristol: Umpiring standards seem to have taken a dip in the West Indies-Australia match, similar to what happened during the recent Indian Premier League matches. ### Following the narrow defeat for the West Indies, a lot of fans here are saying that, but for the officials, Australia may not have won the match. At Trent…
### Tweeps in India were furious after a two-and-a half-year-old girl named Twinkle Sharma was reportedly brutally murdered in the Tappal town of Uttar Pradesh over a financial dispute. ### According to newspaper India Times, Sharma was “strangled to death and her eyes were gouged out,” after her parents reportedly failed to repay a loan of Rs10,000…
As the UAE celebrated an extended weekend over the Eid Al Fitr holidays, after a month of fasting and instrospection, there were many for whom it was work as usual with their respective professions. ### Gulf News Staff Photographers Ahmed Ramzan, Ahmed Kutty, Clint Egbert and Virendra Saklani went around the country, capturing some of…
New Delhi: The International Cricket Council (ICC) have rejected a request from the BCCI’s Committee of Administrators (CoA) to allow former India skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni to keep the “Balidaan Badge” on his wicketkeeping gloves. ### Dhoni, an honorary lieutenant colonel in India’s Parachute Regiment, wore gloves featuring a dagger logo in India’s win over…
SAN FRANCISCO: Facebook Inc is no longer allowing pre-installation of its apps on Huawei phones, the latest blow for the Chinese tech giant as it struggles to keep its business afloat in the face of a US ban on its purchase of American parts and software. ### Customers who already have Huawei phones will still…
In ‘Virus’, director Aashiq Abu niftily adopts a procedural, almost clinical, approach to chronicle his state’s response to the deadly 2018 Nipah virus outbreak in Kozhikode district in Kerala. ### With the help of a hugely talented cast, Abu painstakingly paints a grim picture of how a group of government officials, spearheaded by a committed…
Southampton: It was nice to know directly from Yuzvendra Chahal, India’s star performer against South Africa on Wednesday, on the influence of chess on his cricket. ### Thanks to International Cricket Council (ICC), which has arranged ‘Mixed Zone’ like football after the match through which one can interact with a few cricketers up close after…
Dubai: What sort of e-shopper are you? Someone who prefers to wait for the delivery man to drop the package off? Or who wants to do away with all that waiting and instead picks up the package on his own? ### A newly launched start-up in Dubai is hoping there will be enough e-shoppers wanting…