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A plane takes off as smoke rises from an area of an electrical substation a day after it caught fire and wiped out power at Heathrow International Airport. Reuters

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Dejan Lovren, Mohamed Salah and Xherdan Shaqiri of Liverpool celebrate after winning the Premier League in July 2020. Getty Images

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British Home Secretary Yvette Cooper greets Bruno Retailleau, France's Interior Minister, at the Border Security Summit in London. EPA

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Dr Charles Elachi. Photo: Christopher Michel / Wikimedia Commons

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Zaid Al-Qassab, chief executive officer of M&C Saatchi Plc, before a Bloomberg Television interview in London. Bloomberg

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Hanan Issa. Photo: Camera Sioned / Literature Wales

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Robert Mardini had many guises at the ICRC, including regional director of the Near and Middle East for seven years, but each role was always much more than just a job. Photo: Shutterstock

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From his desk overlooking Tuborg Harbour near Copenhagen, Novo Holdings chief executive Kasim Kutay manages the assets of the world’s wealthiest enterprise entity, the Novo Nordisk Foundation. Photo: Novo Holdings

Why boss of Ozempic parent company revels in his Arab-British heritage

Memories of the community in the block where he grew up while military conflict reigned outside left an indelible mark on the young Habib Haddad's consciousness that was to inform his life's work. Photo: Habib Haddad

Tech entrepreneur Habib Haddad's childhood lesson from war-torn Beirut

The life's work of the Lebanese-British archaeologist Claude Doumet-Serhal at the Sidon site began from a hunch as to the whereabouts of the mysterious ancient capital of the Canaanite and Phoenician people. Photo: Claude Doumet-Serhal

Arab ShowcaseArchaeologist Claude Doumet-Serhal unearthed secrets of a lost civilisation

Dr Charles Elachi. Photo: Christopher Michel / Wikimedia Commons

Arab ShowcaseCharles Elachi's stellar career from Bekaa to the great beyond

Mark Shrime. Photo: Mercy Ships

Arab ShowcaseGlobal surgeon Mark Shrime finds purpose in faith and patients

Zaid Al-Qassab, chief executive officer of M&C Saatchi Plc, before a Bloomberg Television interview in London. Bloomberg

Arab ShowcaseThe prime time of new global M&C Saatchi CEO Zaid Al-Qassab

Hanan Issa. Photo: Camera Sioned / Literature Wales

Arab ShowcaseThe fantastic tale of Wales’s first Muslim national poet Hanan Issa

Robert Mardini had many guises at the ICRC, including regional director of the Near and Middle East for seven years, but each role was always much more than just a job. Photo: Shutterstock

On a mission: How former ICRC chief found hope in darkest of times

From his desk overlooking Tuborg Harbour near Copenhagen, Novo Holdings chief executive Kasim Kutay manages the assets of the world’s wealthiest enterprise entity, the Novo Nordisk Foundation. Photo: Novo Holdings

Why boss of Ozempic parent company revels in his Arab-British heritage

Memories of the community in the block where he grew up while military conflict reigned outside left an indelible mark on the young Habib Haddad's consciousness that was to inform his life's work. Photo: Habib Haddad

Tech entrepreneur Habib Haddad's childhood lesson from war-torn Beirut

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