TEAMS
Al Shabab
31-Salem Abdulla, 3-Abdulla Darwish, 5-Walid Abbas, 9-Lamine Diarra, 10-Carlos Villanueva, 19-Mohammed Ahmed, 21-Adel Abdulla, 24-Essa Obaid, 26-Abdelaziz Hussain, 27-Julio Cesar, 29-Esam Dahi
Subs: 1-Hasan al Sahrif, 7-Ali Mohammed, 11-Suroor Salem, 12-Nasser Yousuf, 14-Mohammed Nasser, 15-Dawood Ali, 20-Nasser Masood
Baniyas
30-Ayyoub al Marzouqi, 5-Amer Abdulrahman, 8-Mohammed Fawzi, 9-Andre Senghor, 10-Fawzi Bashir, 11-Sultan al Ghaferi, 14-Fareed Ismail, 20-Eder, 22-Theyab Awana, 24-Thamer Mohammed Ahmed, 26-Yousuf Jaber
Subs: 1-Mohammed Khalef, 6-Ali Msarri, 15-Saqer Hammadi, 16-Fawaz al Awana, 17-Yousuf al Hammadi, 28-Fahad Feraish, 88-Hassan Zahran
Formula Middle East Calendar (Formula Regional and Formula 4)
Round 1: January 17-19, Yas Marina Circuit – Abu Dhabi
Round 2: January 22-23, Yas Marina Circuit – Abu Dhabi
Round 3: February 7-9, Dubai Autodrome – Dubai
Round 4: February 14-16, Yas Marina Circuit – Abu Dhabi
Round 5: February 25-27, Jeddah Corniche Circuit – Saudi Arabia
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Favourite pet: cats. She has two: Eva and Bito
Favourite city: Cape Town, South Africa
Hobby: Running. "I like to think I’m artsy but I’m not".
Favourite move: Romantic comedies, specifically Return to me. "I cry every time".
Favourite spot in Abu Dhabi: Saadiyat beach
Veil (Object Lessons)
Rafia Zakaria
Bloomsbury Academic
At a glance
Global events: Much of the UK’s economic woes were blamed on “increased global uncertainty”, which can be interpreted as the economic impact of the Ukraine war and the uncertainty over Donald Trump’s tariffs.
Growth forecasts: Cut for 2025 from 2 per cent to 1 per cent. The OBR watchdog also estimated inflation will average 3.2 per cent this year
Welfare: Universal credit health element cut by 50 per cent and frozen for new claimants, building on cuts to the disability and incapacity bill set out earlier this month
Spending cuts: Overall day-to day-spending across government cut by £6.1bn in 2029-30
Tax evasion: Steps to crack down on tax evasion to raise “£6.5bn per year” for the public purse
Defence: New high-tech weaponry, upgrading HM Naval Base in Portsmouth
Housing: Housebuilding to reach its highest in 40 years, with planning reforms helping generate an extra £3.4bn for public finances
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