ARSENAL RATINGS: Aaron Ramsdale 5/10 - Fairly comfortable evening for the Arsenal shot-stopper who was seldom tested. However, got himself into a horrible position which led to the Villa equaliser. Must be stronger when commanding his area. Action Images
ARSENAL RATINGS: Aaron Ramsdale 5/10 - Fairly comfortable evening for the Arsenal shot-stopper who was seldom tested. However, got himself into a horrible position which led to the Villa equaliser. Must be stronger when commanding his area. Action Images
Kieran Tierney 7 - Enjoyed himself going forward and was competent with his defensive duties. A solid showing from the Scottish full-back. Reuters
Kieran Tierney 7 - Enjoyed himself going forward and was competent with his defensive duties. A solid showing from the Scottish full-back. Reuters
Gabriel Magalhaes 8 - Looked excellent throughout. Won his aerial duels and looked assured playing out from the back. Really impressive. Getty
Gabriel Magalhaes 8 - Looked excellent throughout. Won his aerial duels and looked assured playing out from the back. Really impressive. Getty
William Saliba 6 - Looked exposed on occasion and was probably the weak link in the Arsenal defence. Has enjoyed a fantastic start to the season, but struggled to deal with Watkins. Will be interesting to see how he fares against more physical strikers. AP
William Saliba 6 - Looked exposed on occasion and was probably the weak link in the Arsenal defence. Has enjoyed a fantastic start to the season, but struggled to deal with Watkins. Will be interesting to see how he fares against more physical strikers. AP
Ben White Ben White 6 - Comfortable night for White who did his defensive duties well. Did not have quite the same influence when going forward, but did not really put a foot wrong. AP
Ben White Ben White 6 - Comfortable night for White who did his defensive duties well. Did not have quite the same influence when going forward, but did not really put a foot wrong. AP
Granit Xhaka 7 - Played an important role in the opener, and controlled the midfield well. Xhaka’s array of passing was on show and he looked to excel in the middle alongside Lokonga. Looks to enjoy his more advanced role under Arteta. EPA
Granit Xhaka 7 - Played an important role in the opener, and controlled the midfield well. Xhaka’s array of passing was on show and he looked to excel in the middle alongside Lokonga. Looks to enjoy his more advanced role under Arteta. EPA
Albert Sambi Lokonga 7 - Injuries to Elneny and Partey saw Lokonga thrown into the action, and he did not look out of place at all. Complimented Xhaka very nicely in midfield. EPA
Albert Sambi Lokonga 7 - Injuries to Elneny and Partey saw Lokonga thrown into the action, and he did not look out of place at all. Complimented Xhaka very nicely in midfield. EPA
Gabriel Martinelli 8 - Looked a threat throughout. Bagged the winner as Arsenal did not let their heads drop following the equaliser. Could have had more, but was kept at bay on a couple of occasions by Martinez. Impressive performance and constantly buzzed around. AP
Gabriel Martinelli 8 - Looked a threat throughout. Bagged the winner as Arsenal did not let their heads drop following the equaliser. Could have had more, but was kept at bay on a couple of occasions by Martinez. Impressive performance and constantly buzzed around. AP
Bukayo Saka 6 - Struggled in the final third, but his cross saw the Gunners get themselves back ahead. Should have got himself on the scoresheet, but no one can fault the Englishman’s effort. Always pressing defences. Getty
Bukayo Saka 6 - Struggled in the final third, but his cross saw the Gunners get themselves back ahead. Should have got himself on the scoresheet, but no one can fault the Englishman’s effort. Always pressing defences. Getty
Martin Odegaard 8 - Ran the show. Such a joy to watch the Norwegian when he plays like this. Had the visitors in his palm until he was forced off with injury. AP
Martin Odegaard 8 - Ran the show. Such a joy to watch the Norwegian when he plays like this. Had the visitors in his palm until he was forced off with injury. AP
Gabriel Jesus 7 - Opened the scoring and looked dangerous in the first-half. Found chances more few and far between in the second-half as Arsenal struggled to create as much. Getty
Gabriel Jesus 7 - Opened the scoring and looked dangerous in the first-half. Found chances more few and far between in the second-half as Arsenal struggled to create as much. Getty
SUBS: Takehiro Tomiyasu (White 64') 6 - Did not have much of an impact, but helped Arsenal secure the win. Reuters
SUBS: Takehiro Tomiyasu (White 64') 6 - Did not have much of an impact, but helped Arsenal secure the win. Reuters
Emile Smith Rowe (Odegaard 81') N/A - Did his job as Arsenal managed to hold on for the three points. EPA
Emile Smith Rowe (Odegaard 81') N/A - Did his job as Arsenal managed to hold on for the three points. EPA
Rob Holding N/A (Saka 88') - Helped the Gunners over the line with Villa pressing for an equaliser. Reuters
Rob Holding N/A (Saka 88') - Helped the Gunners over the line with Villa pressing for an equaliser. Reuters
Eddie Nketiah (Jesus 88') N/A - Came on late with the hosts trying to close out the game. Did his job as he helped run the clock down with smart solo runs. PA
Eddie Nketiah (Jesus 88') N/A - Came on late with the hosts trying to close out the game. Did his job as he helped run the clock down with smart solo runs. PA
ASTON VILLA RATINGS: Emiliano Martinez 6 - A mixed bag for the Villa goalkeeper. Made a top save to keep Martinelli at bay, but a deflection caught out the shot-stopper which led to the opener. Does look to have a mistake in him. Action Images
ASTON VILLA RATINGS: Emiliano Martinez 6 - A mixed bag for the Villa goalkeeper. Made a top save to keep Martinelli at bay, but a deflection caught out the shot-stopper which led to the opener. Does look to have a mistake in him. Action Images
Matty Cash 5 - Struggled against Martinelli and strangely backed off the Brazilian in dangerous situations. Got forward on occasion and looked threatening when he did. AP
Matty Cash 5 - Struggled against Martinelli and strangely backed off the Brazilian in dangerous situations. Got forward on occasion and looked threatening when he did. AP
Ezri Konsa 4 - Did not have a good evening. Jesus found it far too easy against Konsa who looked very exposed against Arsenal’s forwards. AP
Ezri Konsa 4 - Did not have a good evening. Jesus found it far too easy against Konsa who looked very exposed against Arsenal’s forwards. AP
Tyrone Mings 6 - Looked to have struggled early on, but found a way to give some much-needed organisation to a Villa defence that was ran ragged for the majority of the evening. EPA
Tyrone Mings 6 - Looked to have struggled early on, but found a way to give some much-needed organisation to a Villa defence that was ran ragged for the majority of the evening. EPA
Lucas Digne 5 - Fairly anonymous going forward, but did keep Saka quiet for most of the encounter. EPA
Lucas Digne 5 - Fairly anonymous going forward, but did keep Saka quiet for most of the encounter. EPA
Jacob Ramsey 5 - Struggled to influence the game. Arsenal found it very easy to bypass the youngster who could not keep up with the pace of the game. Getty
Jacob Ramsey 5 - Struggled to influence the game. Arsenal found it very easy to bypass the youngster who could not keep up with the pace of the game. Getty
Boubacar Kamara 8 - Another promising performance from Kamara who continuously won the ball back and started Villa attacks. Was a bright-spark for the visitors midfield which looked disjointed. EPA
Boubacar Kamara 8 - Another promising performance from Kamara who continuously won the ball back and started Villa attacks. Was a bright-spark for the visitors midfield which looked disjointed. EPA
John McGinn 6 - Did not disappoint with his trademark tough-tackling, but seldom ventured forward. Defensive duties were done well, however, offered very little going forward which led to rare chances for the visitors. AP
John McGinn 6 - Did not disappoint with his trademark tough-tackling, but seldom ventured forward. Defensive duties were done well, however, offered very little going forward which led to rare chances for the visitors. AP
Leon Bailey 5 - Looked threatening until he got into the final third where his final ball let him down constantly. Arsenal’s defence managed to keep him relatively quiet. EPA
Leon Bailey 5 - Looked threatening until he got into the final third where his final ball let him down constantly. Arsenal’s defence managed to keep him relatively quiet. EPA
Ollie Watkins 7 - Strangely Arsenal’s defence found it difficult to deal with Watkins - despite the Englishman having very little service or chances. Saliba, in particular, looked exposed. Did admirably with such little service. Getty
Ollie Watkins 7 - Strangely Arsenal’s defence found it difficult to deal with Watkins - despite the Englishman having very little service or chances. Saliba, in particular, looked exposed. Did admirably with such little service. Getty
Emiliano Buendia 8 - Was a constant threat, which was impressive due to Villa struggling to get forward. Always getting himself about, and was a good outlet when Steven Gerrard’s side had rare spells of attacking dominance. PA
Emiliano Buendia 8 - Was a constant threat, which was impressive due to Villa struggling to get forward. Always getting himself about, and was a good outlet when Steven Gerrard’s side had rare spells of attacking dominance. PA
SUBS: Philippe Coutinho (Buendia 73') 5 - Offered little threat and was not able to pull Villa level in the last 10 minutes. Getty
SUBS: Philippe Coutinho (Buendia 73') 5 - Offered little threat and was not able to pull Villa level in the last 10 minutes. Getty
Douglas Luiz (McGinn 73') 7 - Made an instant impact, with his corner evading everyone to find the back of the net. However, could not help his team from conceding minutes later. PA
Douglas Luiz (McGinn 73') 7 - Made an instant impact, with his corner evading everyone to find the back of the net. However, could not help his team from conceding minutes later. PA
Danny Ings (Kamara 73') N/A - Could not help Villa restore parity. Had limited chances in his cameo. EPA
Danny Ings (Kamara 73') N/A - Could not help Villa restore parity. Had limited chances in his cameo. EPA

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Arsenal v Aston Villa player ratings: Odegaard 8, Jesus 7; Kamara 8, Konsa 4

Gunners maintain perfect start to the Premier League season with a 2-1 win at Emirates

Rajan Hothi

September 01, 2022

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Gabriel Jesus’s predatory instincts and a left-foot finish from Gabriel Martinelli earned Arsenal a 2-1 win over Aston Villa on Wednesday as the Gunners kept up their 100 per cent start to the Premier League season.

The Brazilian pair scored either side of the break to give Arsenal a deserved victory after they dominated the match, advancing to a maximum 15 points from five matches.

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Jesus opened the scoring in the 31st minute and Martinelli grabbed the 77th-minute winner, three minutes after Villa had equalised through substitute Douglas Luiz who scored directly from a corner.

Villa’s fourth defeat in five games added to the mounting pressure on manager Steven Gerrard.

Arsenal had several early chances before Granit Xhaka’s effort from a tight angle was fumbled by goalkeeper Emiliano Martinez and snapped up by Jesus who scored from close range.

Martinez made up for the slip with a stunning save on the stroke of halftime from Martinelli’s rasping shot and soon after the break he denied a similar effort from home captain Martin Odegaard.

Villa’s attacking effort were negligible until Leon Bailey forced a corner with a 73rd-minute shot, allowing Luiz to whip it directly into the net from the set-piece.

The goal was checked as Arsenal goalkeeper Aaron Ramsdale tangled with Boubacar Kamara as the corner was taken and found himself stuck behind the Villa attacker and unable to deal with the in-swinging effort. VAR found no infringement to give Villa hope of a much-needed point as they flounder near the foot of the table.

But Arsenal wasted no time in restoring their advantage with a long ball down the left to set Martinelli on his way for the winner. He played the ball inside before Bukayo Saka whipped it back across the goal for Martinelli to finish with aplomb.

Arsenal take their unbeaten record to Old Trafford to meet Manchester United on Sunday while there is little breathing room for Gerrard and his beleaguered side who host champions Manchester City on Saturday.

Rajan Hothi provides the player ratings in the photo gallery above. To move on to the next photo, click on the arrows or if using a mobile device, simply swipe.

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Name: The Protein Bakeshop

Date of start: 2013

Founders: Rashi Chowdhary and Saad Umerani

Based: Dubai

Size, number of employees: 12

Funding/investors:  $400,000 (2018) 

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Global state-owned investor ranking by size

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China

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UAE

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Japan

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Norway

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Canada

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Singapore

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Saudi Arabia

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South Korea
How the bonus system works

The two riders are among several riders in the UAE to receive the top payment of £10,000 under the Thank You Fund of £16 million (Dh80m), which was announced in conjunction with Deliveroo's £8 billion (Dh40bn) stock market listing earlier this year.

The £10,000 (Dh50,000) payment is made to those riders who have completed the highest number of orders in each market.

There are also riders who will receive payments of £1,000 (Dh5,000) and £500 (Dh2,500).

All riders who have worked with Deliveroo for at least one year and completed 2,000 orders will receive £200 (Dh1,000), the company said when it announced the scheme.

Copa del Rey

Barcelona v Real Madrid
Semi-final, first leg
Wednesday (midnight UAE)

THE CLOWN OF GAZA

Director: Abdulrahman Sabbah 

Starring: Alaa Meqdad

Rating: 4/5

Conflict, drought, famine

Estimates of the number of deaths caused by the famine range from 400,000 to 1 million, according to a document prepared for the UK House of Lords in 2024.
It has been claimed that the policies of the Ethiopian government, which took control after deposing Emperor Haile Selassie in a military-led revolution in 1974, contributed to the scale of the famine.
Dr Miriam Bradley, senior lecturer in humanitarian studies at the University of Manchester, has argued that, by the early 1980s, “several government policies combined to cause, rather than prevent, a famine which lasted from 1983 to 1985. Mengistu’s government imposed Stalinist-model agricultural policies involving forced collectivisation and villagisation [relocation of communities into planned villages].
The West became aware of the catastrophe through a series of BBC News reports by journalist Michael Buerk in October 1984 describing a “biblical famine” and containing graphic images of thousands of people, including children, facing starvation.

Band Aid

Bob Geldof, singer with the Irish rock group The Boomtown Rats, formed Band Aid in response to the horrific images shown in the news broadcasts.
With Midge Ure of the band Ultravox, he wrote the hit charity single Do They Know it’s Christmas in December 1984, featuring a string of high-profile musicians.
Following the single’s success, the idea to stage a rock concert evolved.
Live Aid was a series of simultaneous concerts that took place at Wembley Stadium in London, John F Kennedy Stadium in Philadelphia, the US, and at various other venues across the world.
The combined event was broadcast to an estimated worldwide audience of 1.5 billion.

UAE currency: the story behind the money in your pockets
Real estate tokenisation project

Dubai launched the pilot phase of its real estate tokenisation project last month.

The initiative focuses on converting real estate assets into digital tokens recorded on blockchain technology and helps in streamlining the process of buying, selling and investing, the Dubai Land Department said.

Dubai’s real estate tokenisation market is projected to reach Dh60 billion ($16.33 billion) by 2033, representing 7 per cent of the emirate’s total property transactions, according to the DLD.

Benefits of first-time home buyers' scheme
  • Priority access to new homes from participating developers
  • Discounts on sales price of off-plan units
  • Flexible payment plans from developers
  • Mortgages with better interest rates, faster approval times and reduced fees
  • DLD registration fee can be paid through banks or credit cards at zero interest rates
Sole survivors
  • Cecelia Crocker was on board Northwest Airlines Flight 255 in 1987 when it crashed in Detroit, killing 154 people, including her parents and brother. The plane had hit a light pole on take off
  • George Lamson Jr, from Minnesota, was on a Galaxy Airlines flight that crashed in Reno in 1985, killing 68 people. His entire seat was launched out of the plane
  • Bahia Bakari, then 12, survived when a Yemenia Airways flight crashed near the Comoros in 2009, killing 152. She was found clinging to wreckage after floating in the ocean for 13 hours.
  • Jim Polehinke was the co-pilot and sole survivor of a 2006 Comair flight that crashed in Lexington, Kentucky, killing 49.
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Company: Justmop.com

Date started: December 2015

Founders: Kerem Kuyucu and Cagatay Ozcan

Sector: Technology and home services

Based: Jumeirah Lake Towers, Dubai

Size: 55 employees and 100,000 cleaning requests a month

Funding:  The company’s investors include Collective Spark, Faith Capital Holding, Oak Capital, VentureFriends, and 500 Startups. 

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Lexus LX700h specs

Engine: 3.4-litre twin-turbo V6 plus supplementary electric motor

Power: 464hp at 5,200rpm

Torque: 790Nm from 2,000-3,600rpm

Transmission: 10-speed auto

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F1 The Movie

Starring: Brad Pitt, Damson Idris, Kerry Condon, Javier Bardem

Director: Joseph Kosinski

Rating: 4/5

Cryopreservation: A timeline
  1. Keyhole surgery under general anaesthetic
  2. Ovarian tissue surgically removed
  3. Tissue processed in a high-tech facility
  4. Tissue re-implanted at a time of the patient’s choosing
  5. Full hormone production regained within 4-6 months
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ICC Women's T20 World Cup Asia Qualifier 2025, Thailand

UAE fixtures
May 9, v Malaysia
May 10, v Qatar
May 13, v Malaysia
May 15, v Qatar
May 18 and 19, semi-finals
May 20, final

Key facilities
  • Olympic-size swimming pool with a split bulkhead for multi-use configurations, including water polo and 50m/25m training lanes
  • Premier League-standard football pitch
  • 400m Olympic running track
  • NBA-spec basketball court with auditorium
  • 600-seat auditorium
  • Spaces for historical and cultural exploration
  • An elevated football field that doubles as a helipad
  • Specialist robotics and science laboratories
  • AR and VR-enabled learning centres
  • Disruption Lab and Research Centre for developing entrepreneurial skills
As it stands in Pool A

1. Japan - Played 3, Won 3, Points 14

2. Ireland - Played 3, Won 2, Lost 1, Points 11

3. Scotland - Played 2, Won 1, Lost 1, Points 5

Remaining fixtures

Scotland v Russia – Wednesday, 11.15am

Ireland v Samoa – Saturday, 2.45pm

Japan v Scotland – Sunday, 2.45pm

UAE - India ties

The UAE is India’s third-largest trade partner after the US and China

Annual bilateral trade between India and the UAE has crossed US$ 60 billion

The UAE is the fourth-largest exporter of crude oil for India

Indians comprise the largest community with 3.3 million residents in the UAE

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi first visited the UAE in August 2015

His visit on August 23-24 will be the third in four years

Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces, visited India in February 2016

Sheikh Mohamed was the chief guest at India’s Republic Day celebrations in January 2017

Modi will visit Bahrain on August 24-25

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UAE group fixtures (all in St Kitts)

  • Saturday 15 January: UAE beat Canada by 49 runs 
  • Thursday 20 January: v England 
  • Saturday 22 January: v Bangladesh 

UAE squad:

Alishan Sharafu (captain), Shival Bawa, Jash Giyanani, Sailles
Jaishankar, Nilansh Keswani, Aayan Khan, Punya Mehra, Ali Naseer, Ronak Panoly,
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How Islam's view of posthumous transplant surgery changed

Transplants from the deceased have been carried out in hospitals across the globe for decades, but in some countries in the Middle East, including the UAE, the practise was banned until relatively recently.

Opinion has been divided as to whether organ donations from a deceased person is permissible in Islam.

The body is viewed as sacred, during and after death, thus prohibiting cremation and tattoos.

One school of thought viewed the removal of organs after death as equally impermissible.

That view has largely changed, and among scholars and indeed many in society, to be seen as permissible to save another life.

How does ToTok work?

The calling app is available to download on Google Play and Apple App Store

To successfully install ToTok, users are asked to enter their phone number and then create a nickname.

The app then gives users the option add their existing phone contacts, allowing them to immediately contact people also using the application by video or voice call or via message.

Users can also invite other contacts to download ToTok to allow them to make contact through the app.

 

Scoreline:

Cardiff City 0

Liverpool 2

Wijnaldum 57', Milner 81' (pen)

Updated: September 01, 2022, 4:31 AM`
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