One of the great Test-match series of all-time came to a dramatic climax this week as India completed a sensational victory in Australia.
Batsman Rishabh Pant was the fulcrum to India's record 328-run chase at the Gabba with a brilliant 138-ball 89, becoming the first team since the West Indies in 1988 to beat Australia at their Brisbane stronghold.
Wicketkeeper-batsman Pant called it "one of the biggest moments of my life" as India triumphed by three wickets and seal a 2-1 series win.
In football, there was contrasting fortunes for two of the game's great rivals in Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo.
The former saw red for the first time in his career when he was sent-off in Barcelona's Spanish Super Cup defeat against Athletic Bilbao.
No such problems for Ronaldo who scored his 760th senior goal in Juventus' Italian Super Cup win over Napoli. The win earned Andrea Pirlo his first trophy as Juve manager after taking charge in August.
In motor-racing world, the Dakar Rally also reached its conclusion last weekend when the remarkable Stephane Peterhansel won the event for a record-extending 14th time.
It was the 55-year-old's eighth victory in the car category, after a gruelling two weeks in the Saudi Arabian deserts.
The Uefa Awards winners
Uefa Men's Player of the Year: Virgil van Dijk (Liverpool)
Uefa Women's Player of the Year: Lucy Bronze (Lyon)
Best players of the 2018/19 Uefa Champions League
Goalkeeper: Alisson (Liverpool)
Defender: Virgil van Dijk (Liverpool)
Midfielder: Frenkie de Jong (Ajax)
Forward: Lionel Messi (Barcelona)
Uefa President's Award: Eric Cantona
WOMAN AND CHILD
Director: Saeed Roustaee
Starring: Parinaz Izadyar, Payman Maadi
Rating: 4/5
Museum of the Future in numbers
- 78 metres is the height of the museum
- 30,000 square metres is its total area
- 17,000 square metres is the length of the stainless steel facade
- 14 kilometres is the length of LED lights used on the facade
- 1,024 individual pieces make up the exterior
- 7 floors in all, with one for administrative offices
- 2,400 diagonally intersecting steel members frame the torus shape
- 100 species of trees and plants dot the gardens
- Dh145 is the price of a ticket
Gertrude Bell's life in focus
A feature film
At one point, two feature films were in the works, but only German director Werner Herzog’s project starring Nicole Kidman would be made. While there were high hopes he would do a worthy job of directing the biopic, when Queen of the Desert arrived in 2015 it was a disappointment. Critics panned the film, in which Herzog largely glossed over Bell’s political work in favour of her ill-fated romances.
A documentary
A project that did do justice to Bell arrived the next year: Sabine Krayenbuhl and Zeva Oelbaum’s Letters from Baghdad: The Extraordinary Life and Times of Gertrude Bell. Drawing on more than 1,000 pieces of archival footage, 1,700 documents and 1,600 letters, the filmmakers painstakingly pieced together a compelling narrative that managed to convey both the depth of Bell’s experience and her tortured love life.
Books, letters and archives
Two biographies have been written about Bell, and both are worth reading: Georgina Howell’s 2006 book Queen of the Desert and Janet Wallach’s 1996 effort Desert Queen. Bell published several books documenting her travels and there are also several volumes of her letters, although they are hard to find in print. Original documents are housed at the Gertrude Bell Archive at the University of Newcastle, which has an online catalogue.
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