World in focus - best photos for November 2, 2019

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Kanguva

Director: Siva

Stars: Suriya, Bobby Deol, Disha Patani, Yogi Babu, Redin Kingsley

Rating: 2/5

Company profile

Name: The Concept

Founders: Yadhushan Mahendran, Maria Sobh and Muhammad Rijal

Based: Abu Dhabi

Founded: 2017

Number of employees: 7

Sector: Aviation and space industry

Funding: $250,000

Future plans: Looking to raise $1 million investment to boost expansion and develop new products

Electoral College Victory

Trump has so far secured 295 Electoral College votes, according to the Associated Press, exceeding the 270 needed to win. Only Nevada and Arizona remain to be called, and both swing states are leaning Republican. Trump swept all five remaining swing states, North Carolina, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin, sealing his path to victory and giving him a strong mandate.

Popular Vote Tally

The count is ongoing, but Trump currently leads with nearly 51 per cent of the popular vote to Harris’s 47.6 per cent. Trump has over 72.2 million votes, while Harris trails with approximately 67.4 million.

Baftas 2020 winners

BEST FILM

1917 - Pippa Harris, Callum McDougall, Sam Mendes, Jayne-Ann Tenggren
THE IRISHMAN - Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal, Martin Scorsese, Emma Tillinger Koskoff
JOKER - Bradley Cooper, Todd Phillips, Emma Tillinger Koskoff
ONCE UPON A TIME… IN HOLLYWOOD - David Heyman, Shannon McIntosh, Quentin Tarantino
PARASITE - Bong Joon-ho, Kwak Sin-ae

DIRECTOR

1917 - Sam Mendes
THE IRISHMAN - Martin Scorsese
JOKER - Todd Phillips
ONCE UPON A TIME… IN HOLLYWOOD - Quentin Tarantino
PARASITE - Bong Joon-ho

OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM

1917 - Sam Mendes, Pippa Harris, Callum McDougall, Jayne-Ann Tenggren, Krysty Wilson-Cairns
BAIT - Mark Jenkin, Kate Byers, Linn Waite
FOR SAMA - Waad al-Kateab, Edward Watts
ROCKETMAN - Dexter Fletcher, Adam Bohling, David Furnish, David Reid, Matthew Vaughn, Lee Hall
SORRY WE MISSED YOU - Ken Loach, Rebecca O’Brien, Paul Laverty
THE TWO POPES - Fernando Meirelles, Jonathan Eirich, Dan Lin, Tracey Seaward, Anthony McCarten

FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

THE FAREWELL - Lulu Wang, Daniele Melia
FOR SAMA - Waad al-Kateab, Edward Watts
PAIN AND GLORY - Pedro Almodóvar, Agustín Almodóvar
PARASITE - Bong Joon-ho
PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE - Céline Sciamma, Bénédicte Couvreur

LEADING ACTRESS

JESSIE BUCKLEY - Wild Rose
SCARLETT JOHANSSON - Marriage Story
SAOIRSE RONAN - Little Women
CHARLIZE THERON - Bombshell
RENÉE ZELLWEGER - Judy

LEADING ACTOR

LEONARDO DICAPRIO - Once Upon a Time… In Hollywood
ADAM DRIVER - Marriage Story
TARON EGERTON - Rocketman
JOAQUIN PHOENIX - Joker
JONATHAN PRYCE - The Two Popes

SUPPORTING ACTOR

TOM HANKS - A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
ANTHONY HOPKINS - The Two Popes
AL PACINO - The Irishman
JOE PESCI - The Irishman
BRAD PITT - Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood

SUPPORTING ACTRESS

LAURA DERN - Marriage Story
SCARLETT JOHANSSON - Jojo Rabbit
FLORENCE PUGH - Little Women
MARGOT ROBBIE - Bombshell
MARGOT ROBBIE - Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

THE IRISHMAN - Steven Zaillian
JOJO RABBIT - Taika Waititi
JOKER - Todd Phillips, Scott Silver
LITTLE WOMEN - Greta Gerwig
THE TWO POPES - Anthony McCarten

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

BOOKSMART - Susanna Fogel, Emily Halpern, Sarah Haskins, Katie Silberman
KNIVES OUT - Rian Johnson
MARRIAGE STORY - Noah Baumbach
ONCE UPON A TIME… IN HOLLYWOOD - Quentin Tarantino
PARASITE - Han Jin Won, Bong Joon ho

DOCUMENTARY

AMERICAN FACTORY - Steven Bognar, Julia Reichert
APOLLO 11 - Todd Douglas Miller
DIEGO MARADONA - Asif Kapadia
FOR SAMA - Waad al-Kateab, Edward Watts
THE GREAT HACK - Karim Amer, Jehane Noujaime

OUTSTANDING DEBUT BY A BRITISH WRITER, DIRECTOR OR PRODUCER

BAIT - Mark Jenkin (Writer/Director), Kate Byers, Linn Waite (Producers)
FOR SAMA - Waad al-Kateab (Director/Producer), Edward Watts (Director)
MAIDEN - Alex Holmes (Director)
ONLY YOU - Harry Wootliff (Writer/Director)
RETABLO - Álvaro Delgado-Aparicio (Writer/Director)

ANIMATED FILM

FROZEN 2 - Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee, Peter Del Vecho
KLAUS - Sergio Pablos, Jinko Gotoh
A SHAUN THE SHEEP MOVIE: FARMAGEDDON - Will Becher, Richard Phelan, Paul Kewley
TOY STORY 4 - Josh Cooley, Mark Nielsen

CASTING

JOKER - Shayna Markowitz
MARRIAGE STORY - Douglas Aibel, Francine Maisler
ONCE UPON A TIME… IN HOLLYWOOD - Victoria Thomas
THE PERSONAL HISTORY OF DAVID COPPERFIELD - Sarah Crowe
THE TWO POPES - Nina Gold

EE RISING STAR AWARD (voted for by the public)

AWKWAFINA
JACK LOWDEN
KAITLYN DEVER
KELVIN HARRISON JR.
MICHEAL WARD

CINEMATOGRAPHY

1917 - Roger Deakins
THE IRISHMAN - Rodrigo Prieto
JOKER - Lawrence Sher
LE MANS ’66 - Phedon Papamichael
THE LIGHTHOUSE - Jarin Blaschke

EDITING

THE IRISHMAN - Thelma Schoonmaker
JOJO RABBIT - Tom Eagles
JOKER - Jeff Groth
LE MANS ’66 - Andrew Buckland, Michael McCusker
ONCE UPON A TIME… IN HOLLYWOOD - Fred Raskin

COSTUME DESIGN

THE IRISHMAN - Christopher Peterson, Sandy Powell
JOJO RABBIT - Mayes C. Rubeo
JUDY - Jany Temime
LITTLE WOMEN - Jacqueline Durran
ONCE UPON A TIME… IN HOLLYWOOD - Arianne Phillips

PRODUCTION DESIGN

1917 - Dennis Gassner, Lee Sandales
THE IRISHMAN - Bob Shaw, Regina Graves
JOJO RABBIT - Ra Vincent, Nora Sopková
JOKER - Mark Friedberg, Kris Moran
ONCE UPON A TIME… IN HOLLYWOOD - Barbara Ling, Nancy Haigh

SOUND

1917 - Scott Millan, Oliver Tarney, Rachael Tate, Mark Taylor, Stuart Wilson
JOKER - Tod Maitland, Alan Robert Murray, Tom Ozanich, Dean Zupancic
LE MANS ’66 - David Giammarco, Paul Massey, Steven A. Morrow, Donald Sylvester
ROCKETMAN - Matthew Collinge, John Hayes, Mike Prestwood Smith, Danny Sheehan
STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER - David Acord, Andy Nelson, Christopher Scarabosio, Stuart Wilson, Matthew Wood

ORIGINAL SCORE

1917 - Thomas Newman
JOJO RABBIT - Michael Giacchino
JOKER - Hildur Guđnadóttir
LITTLE WOMEN - Alexandre Desplat
STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER - John Williams

SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS

1917 - Greg Butler, Guillaume Rocheron, Dominic Tuohy
AVENGERS: ENDGAME - Dan Deleeuw, Dan Sudick
THE IRISHMAN - Leandro Estebecorena, Stephane Grabli, Pablo Helman
THE LION KING - Andrew R. Jones, Robert Legato, Elliot Newman, Adam Valdez
STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER - Roger Guyett, Paul Kavanagh, Neal Scanlan, Dominic Tuohy

MAKE UP & HAIR

1917 - Naomi Donne
BOMBSHELL - Vivian Baker, Kazu Hiro, Anne Morgan
JOKER - Kay Georgiou, Nicki Ledermann
JUDY - Jeremy Woodhead
ROCKETMAN - Lizzie Yianni Georgiou

BRITISH SHORT FILM

AZAAR - Myriam Raja, Nathanael Baring
GOLDFISH - Hector Dockrill, Harri Kamalanathan, Benedict Turnbull, Laura Dockrill
KAMALI - Sasha Rainbow, Rosalind Croad
LEARNING TO SKATEBOARD IN A WARZONE (IF YOU’RE A GIRL) - Carol Dysinger, Elena Andreicheva
THE TRAP - Lena Headey, Anthony Fitzgerald

BRITISH SHORT ANIMATION

GRANDAD WAS A ROMANTIC - Maryam Mohajer
IN HER BOOTS - Kathrin Steinbacher
THE MAGIC BOAT - Naaman Azh

RESULTS

5pm: Maiden (PA) Dh80,000 1,200m
Winner: Shafaf, Sam Hitchcott (jockey), Ahmed Al Mehairbi (trainer)
5,30pm: Wathba Stallions Cup Handicap (PA) Dh70,000 1,200m
Winner: Noof KB, Tadhg O’Shea, Ernst Oertel
6pm: The President’s Cup Listed (TB) Dh380,000 1,400m
Winner: Taamol, Jim Crowley, Ali Rashid Al Raihe
6.30pm: The President’s Cup Group One (PA) Dh2,500,000 2,200m
Winner: Rmmas, Tadhg O’Shea, Jean de Roualle
7pm: Arabian Triple Crown Listed (PA) Dh230,000 1,600m
Winner: Ihtesham, Szczepan Mazur, Ibrahim Al Hadhrami
7.30pm: Handicap (PA) Dh80,000 1,400m
Winner: AF Mekhbat, Antonio Fresu, Ernst Oertel

On Women's Day

Dr Nawal Al-Hosany: Why more women should be on the frontlines of climate action

Shelina Janmohamed: Why shouldn't a spouse be compensated fairly for housework?

Justin Thomas: Challenge the notion that 'men are from Mars, women are from Venus'

The National Editorial: Is there much to celebrate on International Women's Day 2021?

Some of Darwish's last words

"They see their tomorrows slipping out of their reach. And though it seems to them that everything outside this reality is heaven, yet they do not want to go to that heaven. They stay, because they are afflicted with hope." - Mahmoud Darwish, to attendees of the Palestine Festival of Literature, 2008

His life in brief: Born in a village near Galilee, he lived in exile for most of his life and started writing poetry after high school. He was arrested several times by Israel for what were deemed to be inciteful poems. Most of his work focused on the love and yearning for his homeland, and he was regarded the Palestinian poet of resistance. Over the course of his life, he published more than 30 poetry collections and books of prose, with his work translated into more than 20 languages. Many of his poems were set to music by Arab composers, most significantly Marcel Khalife. Darwish died on August 9, 2008 after undergoing heart surgery in the United States. He was later buried in Ramallah where a shrine was erected in his honour.

Disclaimer

Director: Alfonso Cuaron

Stars: Cate Blanchett, Kevin Kline, Lesley Manville

Rating: 4/5

Types of policy

Term life insurance: this is the cheapest and most-popular form of life cover. You pay a regular monthly premium for a pre-agreed period, typically anything between five and 25 years, or possibly longer. If you die within that time, the policy will pay a cash lump sum, which is typically tax-free even outside the UAE. If you die after the policy ends, you do not get anything in return. There is no cash-in value at any time. Once you stop paying premiums, cover stops.

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Critical illness cover: this pays a cash lump sum if you suffer from a serious illness such as cancer, heart disease or stroke. Some policies cover as many as 50 different illnesses, although cancer triggers by far the most claims. The payout is designed to cover major financial responsibilities such as a mortgage or children’s education fees if you fall ill and are unable to work. It is cost effective to combine it with life insurance, with the policy paying out once if you either die or suffer a serious illness.

Income protection: this pays a replacement income if you fall ill and are unable to continue working. On the best policies, this will continue either until you recover, or reach retirement age. Unlike critical illness cover, policies will typically pay out for stress and musculoskeletal problems such as back trouble.

From Zero

Artist: Linkin Park

Label: Warner Records

Number of tracks: 11