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Former Pakistan fast bowler Wahab Riaz has been appointed as the chief selector of the national men’s selection committee, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) announced on Friday. His first assignment will be the selection of the national men’s squad for the three-match Test series against Australia from December 14 to January 7, 2024 in Australia and the five-match T20I series against New Zealand from January 12 to 21 in New Zealand. Wahab, who made his international debut in 2008, represented Pakistan in 27 Tests, 91 ODIs and 36 T20Is picking up 237 wickets and scoring 1200 runs across the three…
To be a younger sibling is to be born with the uncanny ability to annoy the older one. And even upstage them in key moments. Those of us with siblings know this well. And so does the LG XL7S XBoom Bluetooth speaker – which is not the subject of this review. Instead, it is the aforementioned speaker’s younger sibling – the XL5S XBoom Bluetooth speaker – that we are taking a look at today. But why, then, did we start with the bigger one? Because a month or so ago, when we reviewed LG’s flagship large portable Bluetooth speaker, the…
Resident Jebel Ali Stables handler Michael Costa continued his strong start to the season when he saddled a pair of exciting winners at the at Jebel Ali Racecourse this weekend. Costa was the toast of the town when he sent out five winners at the opening meeting at the ‘yellow’ racecourse two weeks ago and he delivered once again. The Australia trainer, enjoying his second season at the helm at the stables created by Major General Sheikh Ahmed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Deputy Chief of Dubai Police and Public Security, also landed the feature race of the day for the…
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The Dubai stretch of the UAE’s busiest highway will transform into the world’s largest running track as it hosts a run this weekend. Vehicles will be emptied off the Sheikh Zayed Road as runners take over the highway for the Dubai Run on Sunday, November 26, serving as the finale of the month-long Dubai Fitness Challenge. The free run will see thousands of people join, irrespective of their age and running ability. The Dubai Run offers two route options, both of which will take runners past the city’s most iconic landmarks: 5km Downtown stretch: This route begins on the Sheikh…
A Pakistani anti-corruption court on Friday granted the accountability bureau a four-day permission to interrogate jailed former prime minister Imran Khan in the Al-Qadir Trust graft case. Khan, 71, has been incarcerated in the Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi since September 26 in various cases. Judge Muhammad Bashir conducted the in-prison hearing in the high-security jail on Friday. During the hearing, the judge rejected the National Accountability Bureau’s (NAB) pleas for a physical remand and granted the anti-graft body a four-day permission to interrogate the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party chief inside the Adiala jail in the case about the alleged corruption…
Zoho Corp, a leading global technology company and Telr, a leading payment gateway provider in the Middle East, on Tuesday announced a partnership, which aims to promote the digital economy by providing small and medium enterprises in the Mena region access to enterprise-grade technology from both the companies. As part of the MoU, Zoho will provide Telr customers access to its diverse portfolio of over 55 applications at a special rate. This will enable them to move all their business operations — from sales and marketing to finance and HR — to the cloud. Zoho users can utilise Telr integration…
Visitors Turkey shocked Euro 2024 hosts Germany 3-2 in a friendly on Saturday to spoil coach Julian Nagelsmann’s home debut after taking the job in September. The Germans, racing to get a strong team together for next year’s tournament on home soil, still have a way to go and their leaking defence remains a major cause for concern. They made a strong start and took a fifth-minute lead when forward Kai Havertz tapped in a Leroy Sane cutback in front of a sold-out 70,000 crowd. The visitors made the most of a string of defensive errors to hit back with…
If you’ve always wanted to buy a Dyson cordless vacuum but they’ve been beyond your budget, now’s the perfect time to get one because there are massive discounts in this year’s Dyson Black Friday deals. Here’s an excellent offer from Best Buy — the Dyson V8 cordless vacuum for just $300, following a $170 discount on its original price of $470. That’s pretty cheap for such a powerful cleaning machine, and a lot of shoppers are probably thinking the same thing, so proceed with the purchase quickly while stocks are still available. Why you should buy the Dyson V8 cordless…
Celebrating the opening of the state-of-the-art Terminal A at Abu Dhabi International Airport, free city check-in services are being offered to some passengers. Morafiq Aviation Services, which operates the city check-in services, announced free-of-cost service for passengers travelling on Etihad Airways. Morafiq’s city check-in locations are the Abu Dhabi Cruise Terminal, which is open round the clock, and the Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre, which functions from 9 am to 9 pm. Morafiq is a joint initiative between Abu Dhabi Airports, Capital Travel, Etihad Airport Services, OACIS Middle East and Tourism 365. By depositing baggage at the city check-in, passengers…