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The Rapture is near — at least according to an apocalyptic prophecy by one South African man who says it will fall on Sept. 23 or 24. His claim has gone viral, with some believing it will mark the end times and many more mocking it on social media.“There are millions and millions of Christians in the world today, maybe even hundreds of millions of Christians in the world who believe in modern prophecy and consume media that’s populated by these modern prophecies,” said Matthew Taylor, a senior Christian scholar at the Institute for Islamic-Christian-Jewish Studies.Here’s a look at the…

KUWAIT: The National Council for Culture, Arts and Letters (NCCAL) and the Kuwaiti Old Crafts Association took part in the third edition of the Kokand International Handicrafts Festival and the Second International Ceramics Forum in Uzbekistan, held under the auspices of the World Crafts Council (WCC). The Kuwaiti pavilion, organized by NCCAL, featured a wide range of traditional crafts and cultural activities. Artist and potter Ali Al-Awadh and Dima Al-Quraini, supervisor of the Kuwaiti Ceramics House, presented distinctive ceramic works, while children from the Uzbek city of Rishtan also joined in the pavilion’s activities.Chairman of the Kuwaiti Old Crafts Association…

NEW YORK (AP) — Some countries’ leaders are watching rising seas threaten to swallow their homes. Others are watching their citizens die in floods, hurricanes and heat waves, all exacerbated by climate change.But the world U.S. President Donald Trump described in his speech at the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday didn’t match the one many world leaders in the audience are contending with. Nor did it align with what scientists have long been observing.“This ‘climate change,’ it’s the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world, in my opinion,” Trump said. “All of these predictions made by the United…

AMMAN: The second edition of the “Invest in Digital Economy” Forum opened Monday in Amman under the theme “Digital Transformation for a Sustainable Digital Economy.” The event is organized by the Jordan Chamber of Commerce in cooperation with the Islamic Chamber of Commerce and Development (ICCD), an OIC-affiliated organization, and includes participation from Kuwait. Jordanian Minister of Digital Economy and Entrepreneurship Sami Smeirat, in his opening remarks, said the forum reflects the vision of Jordan’s leadership to enhance a competitive investment environment, with a focus on digital transformation and promoting entrepreneurship.He highlighted the government’s commitment to providing investment facilities and…

KUWAIT: The Dean of Engineering at Kuwait College of Science and Technology, Professor Ali Chamkha, ranked first in the Arab world and eighth globally out of a total of 150,568 scientists in the field of Mechanical Engineering and Transport for scientific career-wide ranking, advancing two places compared to last year when he was ranked tenth globally.He also secured first place in the Arab world and second globally in the same field for the year 2025 alone, according to Stanford University’s classification of the world’s top 2 percent of most influential scientists in their disciplines – for the ninth consecutive year.…

For the second consecutive year, Panama is the best country for expats.That’s according to a recent InterNations Expat Insider survey that considered 46 destinations around the globe, across five topical categories to determine the final ranking of the best countries in the world for expats in 2025.The five categories are:Working abroadPersonal financeQuality of lifeExpat essentialsEase of settling inInterNations surveyed 10,085 expats with a sample size of at least 50 participants per country. Participants were asked to rate up to 53 factors on a scale of one to seven.Of the respondents, 35% are already retired and 18% say their primary motivation for…

As I write this, it is the eve of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. The shops in Jerusalem are crowded with Israelis buying groceries for meals with family and friends. On this night, every food has a meaning. Apples with honey are eaten with a blessing for a sweet year. Round challah bread symbolises the cycle of life. Pomegranate is enjoyed with the hope that merits will multiply like its many seeds in the year ahead. Fish heads represent the wish to be the head, rather than the tail, over the coming 12 months. The streets are heaving with…

Sep 23, 2025, 01:29 PM ETArsenal forward Noni Madueke is expected to be sidelined for up to two months with a knee injury, a source has told ESPN.Madueke went off at half time in Arsenal’s 1-1 draw against Manchester City on Sunday, with the source confirming to ESPN he we underwent a scan on Monday.The injury will come as a further blow to Mikel Arteta’s already-depleted forward line that is missing Martin Ødegaard, Kai Havertz and Gabriel Jesus through injury.The 23-year-old’s replacement against Man City was Bukayo Saka, who was making his own return from a hamstring injury.- Arteta hits…

Mikel Arteta has hit back at critics calling him “too cautious” in big games – with the Arsenal manager asking the question: “How can you dominate against Man City by playing a handbrake?”Criticism of Arteta being overcautious came after Arsenal’s 1-1 draw with Manchester City on Sunday, with the Gunners accused of “wasting 45 minutes” against City by Sky Sports pundits Gary Neville and Jamie Carragher. The game saw Arsenal rescue a point through Gabriel Martinelli’s stoppage-time equaliser that ruled out Erling Haaland’s opener – but Arteta’s side did not have a shot for 31 minutes and their first one…

In a 55-minute speech on Tuesday that defied the very mission of the United Nations itself, US President Donald Trump called global warming “a con job”, European policies on clean energy “suicidal”, and accused the UN of offering little more than “empty words”. The remarks were Trump’s first of his second term in office, and much of it focused on brandishing his domestic achievements and deriding the UN and other countries’ policies on immigration, peacemaking, climate change and multilateralism. The president said his country was now in a “golden age”, and imparted lessons to “the free world”: close your borders,…