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KUWAIT: Kuwait’s media professionals gathered once again under the banner of Kilmitain, powered by Khaleejesque. Now in its sixth year, the event brought content creators, entrepreneurs, and industry leaders on Thursday to discuss the challenges shaping local media and explore how creativity can drive its future. During a panel at the event titled “Investing in Local Production,” Abdullah Boftain, Managing Partner of Kuwait News and Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Kuwait Times, shared his journey, along with a team of creatives, of transforming the paper from a fading legacy, the Gulf’s first English-language newspaper since 1961, into a lively platform across print…

Company sponsors 47th Otorhinolaryngology conference, organized by Zain ENT Center KUWAIT: Zain Kuwait supported the 47th Otorhinolaryngology Conference, organized by the Zain ENT Center in collaboration with the Kuwait Institute for Medical Specializations (KIMS). This comes as part of Zain’s ongoing support for the Center’s activities, which continue to achieve milestone results across the Middle East, contributing to national and regional efforts to develop healthcare services. Zain took part in the opening ceremony under the patronage and attendance of Minister of Health Dr Ahmad Abdulwahab Al-Awadhi, Chairman of the Otorhinolaryngology Departments Council and Conference President Dr Mutlaq Al-Sihan, and Zain…

KUWAIT: The Chairperson of the Kuwait Environment Protection Society (KEPS), Dr Wejdan Al-Oqab, warned of the growing threat of marine pollution, noting that environmental projections indicate that by 2050, the amount of plastic in the world’s seas could exceed the total weight of fish. She made her remarks on Saturday during the opening of the 26th edition of the “Sea Turtle Operation” at Shuwaikh Beach — an annual environmental campaign organized by KEPS in cooperation with the Japanese Society in Kuwait.Dr Al-Oqab explained that studies show nearly 80 percent of waste found in seas and oceans originates from land, often…

NEW YORK (AP) — The Rockefeller Center Christmas tree was hoisted aloft at its new home in Manhattan on Saturday, marking the start of New York City’s holiday season. This year’s tree is a 75-foot-tall (23-meter-tall) Norway spruce from the upstate town of East Greenbush, a suburb of Albany. After being cut down this week, it made the roughly 150-mile (240-kilometer) journey south on a flatbed truck, drawing curious onlookers along the way. The crowds were much bigger at 30 Rockefeller Plaza, where workers used cranes to hoist the 11-ton tree into position overlooking the iconic skating rink. People gathered…

Cristiano Ronaldo is chasing what no soccer player — despite Pelé and Romário claiming otherwise when adding in friendly matches — has ever officially achieved in competitive games: The ultimate milestone of 1,000 career goals. It’s the summit of statistical greatness, a record that would redefine the limits of individual excellence in the sport.Editor’s Picks2 RelatedThroughout his career, the Portugal superstar has broken most of the records and won most of the trophies he could have won, but being able to officially score 1,000 goals will put him in a pantheon of his own among athletes.Ronaldo is already the leading…

LONDON — Ruben Amorim raised fears that Benjamin Sesko could be facing a lengthy injury layoff after Manchester United’s £74 million ($97m) centre-forward limped out of the 2-2 draw against Tottenham with a knee problem.Sesko, a 58th minute substitute against Thomas Frank’s team, left the field in 88th minute after going down injured following a challenge by Spurs defender Micky van de Ven.The Slovenia international was able to walk off the pitch after treatment, but when asked about Sesko’s condition after the game, United head coach Amorim said that he was concerned about the extent of the injury.Benjamin Sesko was…

Substitute Josh Windass’ spot-kick sent Wrexham into the international break on the back of 1-0 win against last season’s promotion rivals Charlton.Saturday’s Championship encounter came just six months after Wrexham sealed a historic third straight promotion by beating Charlton 3-0 at a rocking SToK Cae Ras.Charlton joined Wrexham by winning the League One playoffs and saw their five-match unbeaten run come to an end as Windass struck from the spot after Onel Hernández was adjudged to have handled.The 77th-minute penalty saw the Welsh side win three straight home league matches in the second tier for the first time since 1982…

Last month, Skyscanner published its annual report of destinations around the world that are trending for 2026.To determine the ranking, Skyscanner looked at destinations with the biggest year-over-year increases in searches to which shows where exactly travelers are most interested in heading to in the upcoming year.Skyscanner, in partnership with OnePoll, an international market research company, surveyed 22,000 travelers from June to July 2025.Skyscanner’s report found that U.S. travelers are looking to visit under-the-radar destinations.”2025 was about collective experience and 2026 is less about the escape and more about self-expression,” Loudres Losada, Director of Americas, Skyscanner, tells CNBC Make It.”Travelers…

In 2020, Anita Kinoshita, 28 years old at the time, started looking into buying a house.Kinoshita was living in California and making around $70,000 a year as a software engineer for the Department of Defense.As a first-generation American from a farming family in Mexico, Kinoshita believed the best way to finally achieve the American dream her family had for her was to own property.”I had my first big girl job and thought the next responsible thing to do would be to buy a house,” Kinoshita tells CNBC Make It. “I didn’t necessarily want to buy a house. In fact, I…

Middlesbrough put talk of head coach Rob Edwards joining Wolves to one side by beating Birmingham 2-1 at the Riverside Stadium.The Boro fans made their feelings known about Edwards’ pending Molineux switch throughout the 90 minutes, while the players on the pitch did what was required to move back into the Championship’s top two. Even though Teessider Dael Fry’s 17th-minute volley was cancelled out by Demarai Gray’s close-range strike 12 minutes later, Middlesbrough found a way to respond with a winner. Hayden Hackney cleverly flicked Aidan Morris’ long-range effort into the net in the fifth minute of first-half stoppage time…