• Bradley Cooper holds up a sign reading Real Men Don’t Buy Girls. Courtesy Bradley Cooper
    Bradley Cooper holds up a sign reading Real Men Don’t Buy Girls. Courtesy Bradley Cooper
  • Spanish actor Antonio Banderas, member of the cast of The Expendables 3, holds a cardboard reading Bring Back Our Girls, as a sign of support for the kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirls, while posing on the red carpet during the 67th edition of the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, France, on May 18, 2014. Loic Venance / AFP photo
    Spanish actor Antonio Banderas, member of the cast of The Expendables 3, holds a cardboard reading Bring Back Our Girls, as a sign of support for the kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirls, while posing on the red carpet during the 67th edition of the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, France, on May 18, 2014. Loic Venance / AFP photo
  • Gerard Butler holds up a sign reading Read Men Don’t Buy Girls in support of the movement. Courtesy Gerard Butler
    Gerard Butler holds up a sign reading Read Men Don’t Buy Girls in support of the movement. Courtesy Gerard Butler
  • The cast of The Expendables 3, from left, Kelsey Grammer, Wesley Snipes, Sylvester Stallone, Ronda Rousey and Mel Gibson hold up banners reading, Bring Back Our Girls, part of a campaign calling for the release of nearly 300 abducted Nigerian schoolgirls being held by Nigerian Islamic extremist group Boko Haram, as they arrive for the screening of The Homesman at the 67th international film festival in Cannes, France on May 18, 2014. Alastair Grant / AP photo
    The cast of The Expendables 3, from left, Kelsey Grammer, Wesley Snipes, Sylvester Stallone, Ronda Rousey and Mel Gibson hold up banners reading, Bring Back Our Girls, part of a campaign calling for the release of nearly 300 abducted Nigerian schoolgirls being held by Nigerian Islamic extremist group Boko Haram, as they arrive for the screening of The Homesman at the 67th international film festival in Cannes, France on May 18, 2014. Alastair Grant / AP photo
  • Simon Baker holds up a sign reading Real Men Don’t Buy Girls. Courtesy Simon Baker
    Simon Baker holds up a sign reading Real Men Don’t Buy Girls. Courtesy Simon Baker
  • Musician Ricky Martin arrives at the 2014 Billboard Music Awards in Las Vegas, Nevada on May 18, 2014 holding up a sign referring to the girls kidnapped in Nigeria. L.E. Baskow / Reuters
    Musician Ricky Martin arrives at the 2014 Billboard Music Awards in Las Vegas, Nevada on May 18, 2014 holding up a sign referring to the girls kidnapped in Nigeria. L.E. Baskow / Reuters
  • From left, Eva Longoria, Ashton Kutcher, Demi Moore hold up a sign reading Real Men Don’t Buy Girls in support of the kidnapped Nigerian girl students. May 2014. Courtesy Ashton Kutcher
    From left, Eva Longoria, Ashton Kutcher, Demi Moore hold up a sign reading Real Men Don’t Buy Girls in support of the kidnapped Nigerian girl students. May 2014. Courtesy Ashton Kutcher
  • Ben Stiller holds up a sign in support of the kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirls. Courtesy Ben Stiller
    Ben Stiller holds up a sign in support of the kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirls. Courtesy Ben Stiller
  • Justin Timberlake holds up a Real Men Don’t Buy Girls sign in support of the Nigerian schoolgirls. Courtesy Justin Timberlake
    Justin Timberlake holds up a Real Men Don’t Buy Girls sign in support of the Nigerian schoolgirls. Courtesy Justin Timberlake
  • Sean Combs aka Puff Daddy holds up a #BringBackOurGirlsNow sign. Courtesy Sean Combs
    Sean Combs aka Puff Daddy holds up a #BringBackOurGirlsNow sign. Courtesy Sean Combs
  • Sean Penn holds up a Real Men Don’t Buy Girls sign. Courtesy Sean Penn
    Sean Penn holds up a Real Men Don’t Buy Girls sign. Courtesy Sean Penn
  • Alicia Keys holds up a #BringBackOurGirls sign. Courtesy Alicia Keys
    Alicia Keys holds up a #BringBackOurGirls sign. Courtesy Alicia Keys
  • Ellen DeGeneres shows support by holding up a #BringBackOurGirls sign on her show. Courtesy The Ellen DeGeneres Show
    Ellen DeGeneres shows support by holding up a #BringBackOurGirls sign on her show. Courtesy The Ellen DeGeneres Show
  • Jamie Foxx holds up a Real Men Don’t Buy Girls sign. Courtesy Jamie Foxx
    Jamie Foxx holds up a Real Men Don’t Buy Girls sign. Courtesy Jamie Foxx
  • Amy Poehler holds up a #BringBackOurGirls sign in support of the Nigerian schoolgirls. Courtesy Amy Poehler
    Amy Poehler holds up a #BringBackOurGirls sign in support of the Nigerian schoolgirls. Courtesy Amy Poehler
  • Adam Schulman and his wife Anne Hathaway hold up signs showing their support for the Bring Back Our Girls campaign. Courtesy Anne Hathaway
    Adam Schulman and his wife Anne Hathaway hold up signs showing their support for the Bring Back Our Girls campaign. Courtesy Anne Hathaway
  • CNN anchor Christiane Amanpour and prime minister David Cameron hold up the sign #Bring Back Our Girls in support of the kidnapped Nigerian girl students. Courtesy CNN
    CNN anchor Christiane Amanpour and prime minister David Cameron hold up the sign #Bring Back Our Girls in support of the kidnapped Nigerian girl students. Courtesy CNN
  • Michelle Obama holds a #BringBackOurGirls sign. Courtesy The White House
    Michelle Obama holds a #BringBackOurGirls sign. Courtesy The White House
  • Pakistani activist Malala Yousafzai supporting a social media campaign over the abduction of 276 schoolgirls in Nigeria last month, flooding social media with posts using the hashtag: #BringBackOurGirls. Courtesy EPA.
    Pakistani activist Malala Yousafzai supporting a social media campaign over the abduction of 276 schoolgirls in Nigeria last month, flooding social media with posts using the hashtag: #BringBackOurGirls. Courtesy EPA.
  • French director Lisa Azuelos, left, and French actress Julie Gayet, right, hold a sign #BringBackOurGirls as they arrive for the screening of Saint Laurent during the 67th annual Cannes Film Festival, in Cannes, France, 17 May 2014. Sebastien Nogier / EPA
    French director Lisa Azuelos, left, and French actress Julie Gayet, right, hold a sign #BringBackOurGirls as they arrive for the screening of Saint Laurent during the 67th annual Cannes Film Festival, in Cannes, France, 17 May 2014. Sebastien Nogier / EPA

In pictures: Celebrities show their support for the Bring Back Our Girls movement


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A number of celebrities have been photographed showing their support for the Bring Back Our Girls movement in protest of nearly 300 abducted Nigerian schoolgirls by Nigerian Islamic extremist group Boko Haram.

About Housecall

Date started: July 2020

Founders: Omar and Humaid Alzaabi

Based: Abu Dhabi

Sector: HealthTech

# of staff: 10

Funding to date: Self-funded

The bio

Job: Coder, website designer and chief executive, Trinet solutions

School: Year 8 pupil at Elite English School in Abu Hail, Deira

Role Models: Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk

Dream City: San Francisco

Hometown: Dubai

City of birth: Thiruvilla, Kerala

ESSENTIALS

The flights

Emirates flies from Dubai to Phnom Penh via Yangon from Dh2,700 return including taxes. Cambodia Bayon Airlines and Cambodia Angkor Air offer return flights from Phnom Penh to Siem Reap from Dh250 return including taxes. The flight takes about 45 minutes.

The hotels

Rooms at the Raffles Le Royal in Phnom Penh cost from $225 (Dh826) per night including taxes. Rooms at the Grand Hotel d'Angkor cost from $261 (Dh960) per night including taxes.

The tours

A cyclo architecture tour of Phnom Penh costs from $20 (Dh75) per person for about three hours, with Khmer Architecture Tours. Tailor-made tours of all of Cambodia, or sites like Angkor alone, can be arranged by About Asia Travel. Emirates Holidays also offers packages. 

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US PGA Championship in numbers

Joost Luiten produced a memorable hole in one at the par-three fourth in the first round.

To date, the only two players to win the PGA Championship after winning the week before are Rory McIlroy (2014 WGC-Bridgestone Invitational) and Tiger Woods (2007, WGC-Bridgestone Invitational). Hideki Matsuyama or Chris Stroud could have made it three.

Number of seasons without a major for McIlroy, who finished in a tie for 22nd.

4 Louis Oosthuizen has now finished second in all four of the game's major championships.

In the fifth hole of the final round, McIlroy holed his longest putt of the week - from 16ft 8in - for birdie.

For the sixth successive year, play was disrupted by bad weather with a delay of one hour and 43 minutes on Friday.

Seven under par (64) was the best round of the week, shot by Matsuyama and Francesco Molinari on Day 2.

Number of shots taken by Jason Day on the 18th hole in round three after a risky recovery shot backfired.

Jon Rahm's age in months the last time Phil Mickelson missed the cut in the US PGA, in 1995.

10 Jimmy Walker's opening round as defending champion was a 10-over-par 81.

11 The par-four 11th coincidentally ranked as the 11th hardest hole overall with a scoring average of 4.192.

12 Paul Casey was a combined 12 under par for his first round in this year's majors.

13 The average world ranking of the last 13 PGA winners before this week was 25. Kevin Kisner began the week ranked 25th.

14 The world ranking of Justin Thomas before his victory.

15 Of the top 15 players after 54 holes, only Oosthuizen had previously won a major.

16 The par-four 16th marks the start of Quail Hollow's so-called "Green Mile" of finishing holes, some of the toughest in golf.

17 The first round scoring average of the last 17 major champions was 67.2. Kisner and Thorbjorn Olesen shot 67 on day one at Quail Hollow.

18 For the first time in 18 majors, the eventual winner was over par after round one (Thomas shot 73).

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U19 World Cup in South Africa

Group A: India, Japan, New Zealand, Sri Lanka

Group B: Australia, England, Nigeria, West Indies

Group C: Bangladesh, Pakistan, Scotland, Zimbabwe

Group D: Afghanistan, Canada, South Africa, UAE

UAE fixtures

Saturday, January 18, v Canada

Wednesday, January 22, v Afghanistan

Saturday, January 25, v South Africa

UAE squad

Aryan Lakra (captain), Vriitya Aravind, Deshan Chethyia, Mohammed Farazuddin, Jonathan Figy, Osama Hassan, Karthik Meiyappan, Rishabh Mukherjee, Ali Naseer, Wasi Shah, Alishan Sharafu, Sanchit Sharma, Kai Smith, Akasha Tahir, Ansh Tandon

While you're here
Avatar: Fire and Ash

Director: James Cameron

Starring: Sam Worthington, Sigourney Weaver, Zoe Saldana

Rating: 4.5/5

Trolls World Tour

Directed by: Walt Dohrn, David Smith

Starring: Anna Kendrick, Justin Timberlake

Rating: 4 stars

PREMIER LEAGUE FIXTURES

Saturday (UAE kick-off times)

Watford v Leicester City (3.30pm)

Brighton v Arsenal (6pm)

West Ham v Wolves (8.30pm)

Bournemouth v Crystal Palace (10.45pm)

Sunday

Newcastle United v Sheffield United (5pm)

Aston Villa v Chelsea (7.15pm)

Everton v Liverpool (10pm)

Monday

Manchester City v Burnley (11pm)

'Worse than a prison sentence'

Marie Byrne, a counsellor who volunteers at the UAE government's mental health crisis helpline, said the ordeal the crew had been through would take time to overcome.

“It was worse than a prison sentence, where at least someone can deal with a set amount of time incarcerated," she said.

“They were living in perpetual mystery as to how their futures would pan out, and what that would be.

“Because of coronavirus, the world is very different now to the one they left, that will also have an impact.

“It will not fully register until they are on dry land. Some have not seen their young children grow up while others will have to rebuild relationships.

“It will be a challenge mentally, and to find other work to support their families as they have been out of circulation for so long. Hopefully they will get the care they need when they get home.”

UK’s AI plan
  • AI ambassadors such as MIT economist Simon Johnson, Monzo cofounder Tom Blomfield and Google DeepMind’s Raia Hadsell
  • £10bn AI growth zone in South Wales to create 5,000 jobs
  • £100m of government support for startups building AI hardware products
  • £250m to train new AI models
RESULTS

Light Flyweight (48kg): Alua Balkibekova (KAZ) beat Gulasal Sultonalieva (UZB) by points 4-1.

Flyweight (51kg): Nazym Kyzaibay (KAZ) beat Mary Kom (IND) 3-2.

Bantamweight (54kg): Dina Zholaman (KAZ) beat Sitora Shogdarova (UZB) 3-2.

Featherweight (57kg): Sitora Turdibekova (UZB) beat Vladislava Kukhta (KAZ) 5-0.

Lightweight (60kg): Rimma Volossenko (KAZ) beat Huswatun Hasanah (INA) KO round-1.

Light Welterweight (64kg): Milana Safronova (KAZ) beat Lalbuatsaihi (IND) 3-2.

Welterweight (69kg): Valentina Khalzova (KAZ) beat Navbakhor Khamidova (UZB) 5-0

Middleweight (75kg): Pooja Rani (IND) beat Mavluda Movlonova (UZB) 5-0.

Light Heavyweight (81kg): Farida Sholtay (KAZ) beat Ruzmetova Sokhiba (UZB) 5-0.

Heavyweight (81 kg): Lazzat Kungeibayeva (KAZ) beat Anupama (IND) 3-2.

 

 

Citadel: Honey Bunny first episode

Directors: Raj & DK

Stars: Varun Dhawan, Samantha Ruth Prabhu, Kashvi Majmundar, Kay Kay Menon

Rating: 4/5