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Celebrate Eid with your loved ones at Assila Hotel
Saudi GazetteAs we bid farewell to the holy month of Ramadan, Assila Hotel is all set to welcome its guests for Eid celebrations. Most Saudi families gather together for breakfast after the Eid prayer. The hotel will host a traditional breakfast at Assila Ballroom this year for the first two days of Eid. Using the highest quality of products, regional and international cuisine choices, artisanal food and unparalleled service, Assila claims to have a ‘breakfast buffet like no other in the city’. Children have their own designated menu including scrumptious food with cotton candy, a chocolate fountain, popcorn and a playground area designated for them.If you’re excited about the World Cup, get together with your friends over dinner and watch the game at Aubergine restaurant on the 20th...
June 15, 2018

Celebrate Eid with your loved ones at Assila Hotel

In this file photo taken on May 22, 2018 a rare Imperial Qianlong porcelain vase (18th century) is displayed at Sotheby's auction company in Paris.  An 18th-century Chinese vase forgotten for decades in a shoe box in a French attic has been sold for 16.2 million euros ($19 million) at Sotheby's in Paris on Tuesday — more than 30 times the estimate. — AFP
Chinese vase found in attic sells for 16.2 million euros
PARIS — An 18th-century Chinese vase forgotten for decades in a shoe box in a French attic sold for 16.2 million euros ($19 million) at Sotheby's in Paris on Tuesday — more than 30 times the estimate. Experts at the auction house said the exquisite porcelain vessel was made for the Qing dynasty Emperor Qianlong and had set a guide price of a much more modest 500,000 euros. "This is a major work of art, it is as if we had just discovered a Caravaggio," Olivier Valmier, the Asian arts expert at the auction house, told reporters before the sale. The vase, which was in perfect condition, "is the only known example in the world bearing such detail," he added. Rare porcelain from the Qian period has been going for astronomical prices recently. A bowl made for...
June 12, 2018

Chinese vase found in attic sells for 16.2 million euros

This April 18, 2018 file photo shows a model presenting a creation by student designer Runny Soemadipradja on the first day of the Indonesia Muslim Fashion Festival in Jakarta. - Reuters
Islamic fashion school cuts a faithful figure in Indonesia
BANDUNG - Indonesia's first Islamic fashion school is teaching students in the world's largest Muslim-majority country the usual skills of design, styling and marketing - but with a religion-specific twist.As demand grows for Islamic apparel, featuring variations on traditional headscarves and long, flowing dresses for women, while men are targeted with robes or shirts embroidered with religious motifs, about 140 students have signed up."We want our students to make unique designs and become leaders in modest fashion," said Deden Siswanto, who founded the Islamic fashion Institute nearly three years ago in Indonesia's third largest city of Bandung."We also teach them about wearing clothes according to Islamic rules."Nearby sat a group of young women working...
June 11, 2018

Islamic fashion school cuts a faithful figure in Indonesia

Actor Tony Shalhoub poses with his award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical for
"The Band's Visit" sweeps Tony Awards as "Harry Potter" wins best play
NEW YORK - "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" won the Tony for best play on Monday while "The Band's Visit" swept the musical categories with 10 wins, including the top award best musical at Broadway's annual honors for the best in theater.Glenda Jackson and Andrew Garfield took home acting prizes and rocker Bruce Springsteen received a special Tony, while a revival of the AIDS drama "Angels in America" was named best play revival and "Once On This Island" won best musical revival.But the biggest surprise of the night came when Robert De Niro, appearing on stage to introduce Springsteen, used the "F-bomb" against US President Donald Trump.De Niro's comments brought the cheering crowd at Radio City Music Hall to its feet but...
June 11, 2018

"The Band's Visit" sweeps Tony Awards as "Harry Potter" wins best play

Kanye West
Kanye ties number one streak with new album
NEW YORK - Headline-grabbing rapper Kanye West has tied the record for the longest streak of albums to hit number one on the US chart with his latest release, "Ye."The album debuted at the top on the benchmark Billboard 200 chart announced Monday, marking his eighth straight release to reach number one - tying West with The Beatles in their heyday as well as fellow rapper Eminem."Ye" sold 208,000 albums or the equivalent in downloads and streaming in the week through Thursday, tracking service Nielsen Music said, easily topping the chart's number two, rapper Post Malone's "beerbongs and bentleys."West released "Ye" after going silent for a year due to mental health issues. He returned by making characteristic waves on social media, notably by...
June 11, 2018

Kanye ties number one streak with new album

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The women of 'Ocean's 8' steal a big lead at the box office
LOS ANGELES - The women of "Ocean's 8" proved this weekend that they know how to steal the show - and much more - as the new heist flick took in an estimated $41.5 million in North American theaters.With an all-star cast led by ever-popular Sandra Bullock and supported by Cate Blanchett, Anne Hathaway, Helena Bonham Carter, Mindy Kaling and Rihanna, the Warner Bros. film was Hollywood's latest experiment - after "Ghostbusters" - in replacing an all-male cast with female stars.The result: One of the top 10 openings of the year so far, which also best three earlier "Ocean's" editions.The film stars Bullock as Debbie Ocean, sister of Danny Ocean (originally played by George Clooney), as she assembles a gang of talented women to plan a seemingly...
June 11, 2018

The women of 'Ocean's 8' steal a big lead at the box office

Youths sing and bang on improvised drums as they walk around their neighborhood to wake up residents for Sahoor before the start of the fasting day in Jakarta, Indonesia. - AFP
Waking up the neighbors: Indonesia's Ramadan alarm clocks
JAKARTA - Most of Jakarta is fast asleep at 2 a.m. but for Fajar Ramadin and his pint-sized comrades it's time to wake up the neighborhood.The motley group of children yell and bang on tambourines and drums as they roam the quiet streets of Indonesia's capital on a mission to stir sleeping residents for the predawn Sahoor meal."Sahoor! Sahoor! Please wake up sir, madam!" hollers the 20-strong group of kids, aged seven to 15.It's music to the ears of dozens of other children who stream out of their houses to join in, adding the thump of empty paint cans and water jugs to the ensemble."This tradition has been around for a long time - every kid is happy to do it," said 13-year-old Ramadin."I like it because this not only entertains people, but also helps...
June 10, 2018

Waking up the neighbors: Indonesia's Ramadan alarm clocks

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HBO orders 'Game of Thrones' spinoff pilot
LOS ANGELES - Fans of "Game of Thrones" could be treated to a prequel series set thousands of years before the hit fantasy saga, network HBO announced.According to a statement released to US media Sunday, HBO has ordered a pilot episode of the spinoff - one of five such projects in the works - created by the author of the original book series George R.R. Martin along with British screenwriter Jane Goldman.The statement added that the prequel, if picked up, will give viewers the chance to see "the world's descent from the golden Age of Heroes into its darkest hour."No "Game of Thrones" spinoffs, however, will be broadcast until after the much-anticipated eighth and final season of the phenomenally popular show, expected in 2019.Martin has said that fans...
June 10, 2018

HBO orders 'Game of Thrones' spinoff pilot

Priyanka Chopra
Bollywood star Chopra apologizes over 'Quantico' Hindu terror plot
NEW DELHI - Bollywood superstar Priyanka Chopra apologized Sunday after a furor over a US TV series that showed her uncovering a terror plot hatched by Indian Hindu nationalists.The episode of spy thriller "Quantico" showed Chopra's character, an FBI agent named Alex Parrish, thwarting the plan and noticing one of the terrorists wearing a Hindu rosary.The terrorists had tried to frame Pakistanis for the attack planned ahead of a summit on Kashmir, a disputed Himalayan territory that arch-rivals India and Pakistan claim as their own.Kashmir has been a source of historical tension between the nuclear-armed neighbors who have fought two wars over it.The episode, aired on June 1, triggered outrage in India with many fans taking to social media to "shame" the Indian-born...
June 10, 2018

Bollywood star Chopra apologizes over 'Quantico' Hindu terror plot

 Kid Cudi, left and Kanye West
Another week, another Kanye - this time, darker
NEW YORK - The omnipresent Kanye West returned Saturday with his second album in as many weeks, this time a darker take on life's anxieties with his protege Kid Cudi.After a year of silence in which he sought treatment for mental health, West roared back in April with typical headline-grabbing antics as he became a rare African American celebrity to support President Donald Trump.West on June 1 returned with his eighth studio album, "Ye," in which he turned introspective about his insecurities but, with a hasty seven tracks, showed himself to be less ambitious than when he put out sprawling opuses a decade ago.The rap superstar made good on the schedule promised over his Twitter feed as he released another seven-track album on Saturday, a collaboration with Kid Cudi called...
June 09, 2018

Another week, another Kanye - this time, darker

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