Frida Kahlo’s La Casa Azul garden, Mexico City, Mexico
The Mexican surrealist, painter and revolutionary Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) was born and died within the walls of her family home, La Casa Azul, in Mexico City.
Bought by her father in 1904, the house’s name comes from the bright blue colour that Frida and her husband, the Mexican muralist Diego Rivera, used to paint the walls after the death of Frida’s father in 1941.
The garden features a patio, courtyard and red ochre pyramid built by Rivera as a tribute to and means of displaying pre-Columbian art. It became an extension of Kahlo’s studio when her long-standing disabilities (she was almost killed in a trolley-car accident two months after her 18th birthday, and had more than 30 operations on her pelvis and spine) confined the artist to the house towards the end of her life.
Derek Jarman’s Garden, Prospect Cottage, Kent, England
Next to the wooden fisherman’s cottage that became his home, and within sight of a nuclear power station, the artist and filmmaker Derek Jarman (1942-1994) created a garden from the flints, driftwood and marine debris that washed up on the otherworldly shingle shore at Dungeness in Kent.
“Paradise haunts gardens, and some gardens are paradises. Mine is one of them,” Jarman said. “Others are like bad children, spoilt by their parents, over-watered and covered with noxious chemicals.”
Profoundly idiosyncratic, this eccentric, romantic, rebellious garden has become an inspiration for many gardeners, and a pilgrimage site for Jarman’s fans.
Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé's Jardin Majorelle, Marrakech, Morocco
It took the French painter Jacques Majorelle (1886-1962), the son of the famous art-nouveau designer Louis Majorelle, 40 years to create the exotic four-hectare garden in the heart of Marrakech that was to become his most famous work.
By the time Majorelle died in 1962, the garden had already been opened to the public, and four years later it was discovered by Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé during their first visit to the Ochre City.
The couple saved the garden from demolition by buying Majorelle’s estate in 1980, then restored it with the help of a team of 20 gardeners.
Saint Laurent died in Paris in June 2008, and his ashes were scattered in the estate’s rose garden. A memorial was built in the garden, designed around a Roman pillar with a plate bearing the designer’s name.
Edward James’s Las Pozas, Xilitla, Mexico
An Eton- and Oxford-educated multimillionaire, Edward James (1907-1984) was one of surrealism’s foremost patrons, and counted Salvador Dalí and René Magritte among his friends. Among his commissions were Dalí’s Mae West Lips sofa (1937) and Lobster Telephone (1936), both of which became 20th-century art-and-design icons.
James discovered Xilitla deep in the Mexican jungle in 1947 while he was searching for a “surreal Eden” that might house his orchid collection, and immediately bought 100 hectares of forest.
Of that purchase, 20 hectares became Las Pozas, a garden that required 50 full-time gardeners to keep the surrounding jungle at bay.
In 1962, a rare frost destroyed James’s entire orchid collection. From that moment, he worked with a local carpenter to build the extraordinary concrete structures that dominate the garden today.
Niki de Saint Phalle's Giardino dei Tarocchi, Tuscany, Italy
A riotous garden of mosaic-clad, oversized sculptures inspired by the tarot, Antonio Gaudí’s Parc Güell in Barcelona and the 16th-century Parco dei Mostri in Bomarzo, Italy, the Giardino dei Tarocchi was created by the French sculptor, painter and filmmaker Niki de Saint Phalle (1930-2002) in Tuscany, between 1979 and 1998, when it was opened to the public.
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The specs
Engine: 2.0-litre four-cylinder turbo hybrid
Power: 680hp
Torque: 1,020Nm
Transmission: 9-speed auto
Fuel consumption: 7.5L/100km
On sale: Early 2024
Price: From Dh530,000 (estimate)
COMPANY PROFILE
Company name: Revibe
Started: 2022
Founders: Hamza Iraqui and Abdessamad Ben Zakour
Based: UAE
Industry: Refurbished electronics
Funds raised so far: $10m
Investors: Flat6Labs, Resonance and various others
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EMIRATES'S REVISED A350 DEPLOYMENT SCHEDULE
Edinburgh: November 4 (unchanged)
Bahrain: November 15 (from September 15); second daily service from January 1
Kuwait: November 15 (from September 16)
Mumbai: January 1 (from October 27)
Ahmedabad: January 1 (from October 27)
Colombo: January 2 (from January 1)
Muscat: March 1 (from December 1)
Lyon: March 1 (from December 1)
Bologna: March 1 (from December 1)
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RESULTS
Catchweight 82kg
Piotr Kuberski (POL) beat Ahmed Saeb (IRQ) by decision.
Women’s bantamweight
Corinne Laframboise (CAN) beat Cornelia Holm (SWE) by unanimous decision.
Welterweight
Omar Hussein (PAL) beat Vitalii Stoian (UKR) by unanimous decision.
Welterweight
Josh Togo (LEB) beat Ali Dyusenov (UZB) by unanimous decision.
Flyweight
Isaac Pimentel (BRA) beat Delfin Nawen (PHI) TKO round-3.
Catchweight 80kg
Seb Eubank (GBR) beat Emad Hanbali (SYR) KO round 1.
Lightweight
Mohammad Yahya (UAE) beat Ramadan Noaman (EGY) TKO round 2.
Lightweight
Alan Omer (GER) beat Reydon Romero (PHI) submission 1.
Welterweight
Juho Valamaa (FIN) beat Ahmed Labban (LEB) by unanimous decision.
Featherweight
Elias Boudegzdame (ALG) beat Austin Arnett (USA) by unanimous decision.
Super heavyweight
Maciej Sosnowski (POL) beat Ibrahim El Sawi (EGY) by submission round 1.
The specs
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Power: 666hp at 6,000rpm
Torque: 850Nm at 2,300-4,500rpm
Transmission: 8-speed auto
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Price: from Dh1.15 million (estimate)
Gender equality in the workplace still 200 years away
It will take centuries to achieve gender parity in workplaces around the globe, according to a December report from the World Economic Forum.
The WEF study said there had been some improvements in wage equality in 2018 compared to 2017, when the global gender gap widened for the first time in a decade.
But it warned that these were offset by declining representation of women in politics, coupled with greater inequality in their access to health and education.
At current rates, the global gender gap across a range of areas will not close for another 108 years, while it is expected to take 202 years to close the workplace gap, WEF found.
The Geneva-based organisation's annual report tracked disparities between the sexes in 149 countries across four areas: education, health, economic opportunity and political empowerment.
After years of advances in education, health and political representation, women registered setbacks in all three areas this year, WEF said.
Only in the area of economic opportunity did the gender gap narrow somewhat, although there is not much to celebrate, with the global wage gap narrowing to nearly 51 per cent.
And the number of women in leadership roles has risen to 34 per cent globally, WEF said.
At the same time, the report showed there are now proportionately fewer women than men participating in the workforce, suggesting that automation is having a disproportionate impact on jobs traditionally performed by women.
And women are significantly under-represented in growing areas of employment that require science, technology, engineering and mathematics skills, WEF said.
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Starring: Lakshya, Tanya Maniktala, Ashish Vidyarthi, Harsh Chhaya, Raghav Juyal
Rating: 4.5/5
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How to come clean about financial infidelity
- Be honest and transparent: It is always better to own up than be found out. Tell your partner everything they want to know. Show remorse. Inform them of the extent of the situation so they know what they are dealing with.
- Work on yourself: Be honest with yourself and your partner and figure out why you did it. Don’t be ashamed to ask for professional help.
- Give it time: Like any breach of trust, it requires time to rebuild. So be consistent, communicate often and be patient with your partner and yourself.
- Discuss your financial situation regularly: Ensure your spouse is involved in financial matters and decisions. Your ability to consistently follow through with what you say you are going to do when it comes to money can make all the difference in your partner’s willingness to trust you again.
- Work on a plan to resolve the problem together: If there is a lot of debt, for example, create a budget and financial plan together and ensure your partner is fully informed, involved and supported.
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