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Starbucks is opening the world’s largest Roastery in Chicago. The company said the restaurant will open on November 15, overtaking Tokyo as its biggest location of the lavish offshoot. The four-story Chicago Roastery is 43,000 square feet and is replacing a former Crate and Barrel location in the city’s Magnificent Mile neighborhood. Roasteries are intended to be tourist attractions in themselves. They feature specialty coffees and teas, on-premise roasters and massive coffee casks where freshly roasted beans are held. They also have bars with craft cocktails and serve fancier food than a normal Starbucks location. When Starbucks announced the Chicago location in 2017, it said…

An American woman has been charged with human trafficking for allegedly attempting to smuggle an undocumented six-day-old baby out of the Philippines hidden in a bag. Jennifer Erin Talbot was arrested at Manila’s airport on Wednesday and charged with human trafficking, kidnapping, and child abuse. Talbot was able to pass through the airport immigration counter without declaring the baby boy but was intercepted at the boarding gate by airline personnel. The 43-year-old was unable to produce any passport, boarding pass or government permits for the baby, airport officials said. Allegedly, she planned to board a Delta flight to Ohio. “She’s from a…

Manama: The Indian School Bahrain (ISB) hosted several activities   to honour teachers as part of the celebrations for Teachers’ Day on September 5 at the Isa Town campus. The ISB Middle Section and Senior Section students organised programmes to honour their teachers on the day. Principal VR Palaniswamy garlanded the photo of Dr S Radhakrishnan and gave a keynote speech on the occasion. ‘The teaching profession requires people who have the conviction to nurture young minds and mould them into something great. Since time immemorial, the profession of teaching has been considered as one of the noblest professions. Educators have…

Bahrain head coach Helio Sousa has called on the senior men’s national team to be “better than before” as they kick off their campaign in joint-qualifying for the Fifa World Cup 2022 and the AFC Asian Cup 2023. The Bahrainis are set to face Iraq tonight in their first of eight matches in this stage of the qualifiers. The game is scheduled for a 7.30pm kick-off at the National Stadium in Riffa. It will be a re-match of the final of this year’s West Asian Football Federation (WAFF) Championship held just last month in Iraq, when Bahrain won 1-0 for…

BRAVE Combat Federation, one of the biggest MMA promotions in the world, founded in the Kingdom of Bahrain, has joined forces with LFC, the biggest martial arts organization in Colombia. The first event of that landmark partnership will take place this Saturday night, in Bogotá, with a fight card mixing the absolute best Colombian talent with some of the biggest international stars. Yesterday, a few of the biggest names from the fight card paid a visit to DCRI, Centro de Rehabilitación Inclusiva. While there, they showed the wounded soldiers and police officers some of the techniques they hope to put…

Officials said Thursday they have restored landline telephone service in Indian-administered Kashmir after suspending most communications on Aug. 5, when India’s Hindu nationalist-led government downgraded the Muslim-majority region’s autonomy and imposed a strict security lockdown. The government says it suspended communications across the Kashmir Valley, including the main city of Srinagar, to prevent rumors from spreading after the state was downgraded to two federal districts. The suspension by the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi has almost completely isolated people in Indian-ruled Kashmir. Firdous Ahmad, a Srinagar resident, said the restoration of landline service “definitely brings a sigh of relief”…

A 74-year-old woman on Thursday set a world record by delivering twins at a hospital in Andhra Pradesh’s Guntur town. Mangayamma, who conceived through the In Vitro Fertilisation (IVF) process, delivered twin girls at the Ahalya Nursing Home in Guntur. A team comprising four doctors performed the cesarean operation. Dr. Sanakkayala Umashankar, who headed the team of doctors, said both the mother and the babies were doing well. Hailing from Nelapartipadu in East Godavari district, Mangayamma was childless even after 57 years of marriage. She married Yerramatti Raja Rao in 1962. Recently, a woman who lives near their house got…

 Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday here took up with his Malaysian counterpart Mahathir Mohamed the issue of extradition of controversial Islamic preacher Zakir Naik, who is a fugitive in India and has taken shelter in Malaysia. Modi took up the matter with Mohamed during their bilateral meeting here on the sidelines of the Eastern Economic Forum, Foreign Secretary Vijay Gokhale told media persons while briefing on the meeting. It was decided that officials of the two countries will be in touch, he said while responding to a question on the issue in the context of India’s request to Malaysia…

The week was quite tumultuous for former Finance Minister and senior Congress leader P. Chidambaram. On Monday, after a high-pitch legal drama, the Supreme Court refused him interim protection, asked him to seek interim bail from the trial court and ordered that he be not sent to Tihar. The apex court also extended his CBI custody till Thursday. Today (Thursday), a trial court judge put an end to all by ordering that Chidambaram be sent to Tihar jail. Chidambaram’s lawyers had begged against any adverse order before the Supreme Court on Monday in the INX Media case, registered by the…

All eyes are on Nice at the Ironman 70.3 World Championship this weekend as the Bahrain Endurance 13 fly the racing red on the notoriously tough course. Daniela Ryf, Holly Lawrence, and Javier Gomez aim to add another 70.3 world title to their collection, while Alistair Brownlee and Ben Kanute seek the title for the first time. Ryf is going for an unprecedented fifth consecutive title and has been unstoppable all season long. However, Lawrence came second to her at Ironman 70.3 Oceanside and has won the Middle East, Asia Pacific, North American, and European 70.3 championships against fierce competition. The…