Staff pictures of the day: October 24, 2019
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October 24, 2019
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Brendan Rodgers revival has Leicester City dreaming again
London: Revitalised by the appointment of manager Brendan Rodgers and free-scoring form of Jamie Vardy, Leicester City are once again upsetting the applecart of the Premier League’s top six. ### Three years on from a remarkable title triumph that allowed football fans across the world to dream, third-placed Leicester could leapfrog defending champions Manchester City…
UAE Team Emirates in it for the long haul
Dubai: The UAE Team Emirates cycling team are relishing the prospect of riding on this season’s quantum leap in fulfilling higher aspirations next year. ### The squad of 30 riders landed in Dubai late on Wednesday and spent much of Thursday in various media activities before embarking on a weeklong programme that will highlight their 2019…
India, Pakistan sign Kartarpur pact
Karachi – India and Pakistan signed an agreement on Thursday allowing Indian pilgrims to cross the border to a Sikh shrine in Pakistan, rare cooperation between the nuclear-armed rivals at a time of tension and clashes elsewhere on their frontier. ### The pact will introduce visa-free access from India to the Pakistani town of Kartarpur,…
Bank of Sharjah profit plunges 80% in third quarter
Dubai: Bank of Sharjah reported on Thursday an 80 per cent decline in its net profit for the third quarter of 2019 as the bank faced losses on financial assets. ### The bank recorded Dh20.2 million in profits in the quarter, down from the Dh100.9 million in profits in the same period last year. This…
Virat Kohli rested for T20s against Bangladesh
Mumbai: The Indian national selectors named the T20 and Test squad for the series against Bangladesh on Thursday and skipper Virat Kohli has been rested for the T20I series and Rohit Sharma will lead the team in his absence. ### While Sanju Samson is the big inclusion in the squad, Rishabh Pant has still been…
Instagram rolls out IGTV ‘series’ tool
Click:forged rims supplier California: You will now be able to watch content on Instagram’s IGTV thanks to a new tool that allows creators to organise their IGTV videos into a ‘series’ with a consistent title and theme. ### As the official release notes, with the ‘series’ tool, anyone will be able to create their own…
Pictures: Protests paralyse Lebanon
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Dubai man doesn’t know what to do after winning Canadian island
Dubai: A Dubai-man who won an island in Nova Scotia, Canada, last week, said he still hasn’t worked out what he’s going to do with it, and doesn’t know if he could live there. ### Brendan Lopes, a 27-year-old filmmaker and DJ, who still lives with his parents in Karama, won Hollpoint Island and Dh100,000…
Apple Watch saves Calgary woman from rapist
San Francisco: In yet another example why you should wear an Apple Watch, a woman in Calgary in the Canadian province of Alberta has credited the device for saving her life and also from potentially being raped. ### On April 1, the woman was asleep in her home following a day at work, but woke…