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2 days agoDomingo Zapata Is Painting the World's Largest Mural in Saudi Arabia
Spanish artist Domingo Zapata will paint the world's largest mural in Saudi Arabia, covering about 540,000 square feet (nine football fields).
BRADY: You know what? I'm actually a little worried for you because PAUL: For me? BRADY: Well, you're a good athlete, but you're like these guys are on another level. PAUL: I am the highest level. I am the level. BRADY: No, you're not the level. PAUL: I am the level. BRADY: You're a good athlete PAUL: Great athlete. BRADY: but honestly, when I'm thinking of Saquon Barkley and I'm thinking of, like, Odell Beckham, and Justin Jefferson
The show will feature a men's and women's Royal Rumble match, with the winners earning an opportunity to challenge for a world championship at WrestleMania 42 in April in Las Vegas. Also on the card, Undisputed WWE champion Drew McIntyre will look to defend his title against Sami Zayn and AJ Styles will put his in-ring career on the line against Gunther. As the road to WrestleMania begins, here's a look at the history of its first stop.
Researchers have discovered the naturally mummified and skeletal remains of 61 cheetahs, which were hidden deep inside caves in northern Saudi Arabia for hundreds, and in some cases thousands, of years. The find indicates that these big cats roamed the Arabian Peninsula for millennia before they disappeared from the landscape between 49 and 188 years agoevidence that bolsters an effort to rewild the region with modern-day cheetahs, according to Ahmed Boug, general director of the National Center for Wildlife in Riyadh.
AC Milan are looking at the front line and considering their options. One is already set to arrive, but it may get busier. Niclas Fullkrug, as reports suggest, is about to join Milan, with a deal ready to go in the next 24 hours. However, the German is not the only option for the mercato, and with London already calling, another idea could grow.
As of Friday, the STC controlled almost all of Yemen's south and east, including most of the governorates of Hadramout and Mahra, local oil facilities and the city of Aden home to the internationally recognized government. Aidarous al-Zubaidi, the leader of the STC, has already announced that the "next goal must be Sanaa, peacefully or through war, until justice returns to its people and aggression is defeated."
It is known as the sport of the sheikhs, with thousands of fans packing desert tracks to watch robot jockeys compete for huge prizes. Now professional camel racing has a new high-profile investor: Paul Pogba. The Monaco midfielder said he had become a shareholder in the Saudi Arabia-based Al Haboob, the world's first professional camel racing team competing across the United Arab Emirates and the Gulf, because he wanted to elevate the sport on to a global stage.
Tonight's South Park is something of a breather in what has been their most story-driven season (or seasons, as it turned out) ever. There is some advancement to the overriding plot of Donald Trump attempting to kill the unborn baby he's expecting with his lover, Satan, before it can unleash the prophesied apocalypse a plot that involves master manipulator (and new Trump sex partner) JD Vance and billionaire/self-proclaimed antichrist expert Peter Thiel (recently incarcerated by South Park's finest for kidnapping Eric Cartman).
For decades, musical performances and other non-religious public gatherings were strictly controlled by the Saudi government. This practically confined most forms of public cultural expression, especially music, to the privacy of homes and gated communities. By 2016, the country witnessed wholesale social, cultural, and economic transformations to wean off religious extremism, improve the quality of life, and attract foreign investment.
Donald Trump's administration opted to not send anyone to the UN climate summit in Brazil that culminated over the weekend a first for the US in 30 years of these annual gatherings and another representation of the president's disdain for the climate crisis, which he has called a hoax and a con job. But even without the administration touting drill, baby, drill at the grey conference center in Belem, near the mouth of the Amazon river,
Two years later, the charges were reduced to so-called cyber crimes and he was sentenced to a 30-year ban on leaving Saudi Arabia. The announcement that Almadi, a dual citizen and retired engineer who had lived in the US since the 1970s, would be free to leave the country came after the US president delivered a speech touting US-Saudi ties, including arms sales and investment deals, during a second day of public events in Washington.
Well, if you can tell by his body language and the whole setup there, Trump gave him an out. Like, you know, Trump went and attacked that ABC reporter. MBS didn't have to say anything, he interrupted Trump, and he had a pre-canned answer that he wanted to get out there. There's no way he thought up and concocted that answer on the spot.
When the F-35s tore across the sky above the White House on Tuesdaylow, loud, and flying in a perfect Vit looked less like a foreign visit and more like a demonstration. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman wasn't just being welcomed back to Washington. He was being showcased, affirmed, and rehabilitatednot despite what happened seven years ago, but because the price had been paid.
Indian media reports have not confirmed the death toll, but one official reported that up to 45 people many from the southern Indian state of Telangana, had perished. Diplomats and politicians expressed their condolences over the tragic incident. Prime Minister Narendra Modi wrote on social media that he was deeply saddened, that his thoughts are with the families who have lost their loved ones, and that he was praying for the swift recovery of all those injured.
India's consulate said a "tragic bus accident" involving Umrah pilgrims took place near Saudi Arabia's Medina. More than 40 Indian nationals are feared dead. The Indian Consulate in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia's second-largest city, said in a press release Monday that Indian pilgrims were involved in a bus accident near the pilgrimage city of Medina. Saudi officials did not immediately confirm the crash or any casualties.
Can you imagine someone giving you $170,000 (129,000)? What would you buy? Can you imagine getting another $170,000 one minute later? And the handouts then continuing every minute for years? If so, you have a feel for the colossal cash machine that is Saudi Arabia's state oil company Aramco, the world's biggest producer of oil and gas last year. That tidal wave of cash keeps the authoritarian kingdom afloat,
Sitting on an investment panel in Saudi Arabia last week flanked by fellow billionaires, Bill Ackman's mind was more than 6,500 miles away. Leaning forward in his black leather chair, the outspoken hedge fund manager prodded his finger towards the other business leaders, including JP Morgan boss Jamie Dimon and Blackrock's Laurence Fink, who were all seated around the table in the vast Riyadh conference room.
The esports partnership between the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and Saudi Arabia is no more. On Thursday, the IOC said that it and the Saudi Olympic and Paralympic Committee (SOPC) have "mutually agreed" to part ways. The breakup comes weeks after Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund and other investors bought EA for $55 billion. The IOC and SOPC agreed on a 12-year esports partnership in 2024.
Saudi Arabia has named Sheikh Saleh bin Fawzan al-Fawzan as the country's new grand mufti, the kingdom's top religious scholar. The state-run Saudi Press Agency reported that King Salman appointed the 90-year-old to the position late on Wednesday, based on a recommendation from his son, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. list of 2 itemsend of list Born in Saudi Arabias al-Qassim province, Sheikh Saleh studied the Quran with a local imam after his father's death and gained prominence through the Noor ala al-Darb (Light the Way) radio show, as well as his books and his television appearances.