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Commuters make their way amidst smog on a flyover in New Delhi, India.(Reuters photo)

Study: Pollution Killed Nine Million People in 2015

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Oct 20, 2017 | Lifestyle & Culture

Pollution claimed the lives of nine million people in 2015, one in every six deaths that year, according to a study published in The Lancet medical journal on Friday. Almost all the deaths, 92 percent, happened in low- and middle-income countries, researchers said,...

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The Holland players react to the disappointment of failing to qualify for their second major football tournament in a row. Photograph: Emmanuel Dunand/AFP/Getty Images

The Decline of Holland’s Football Team: Doomed by Total Obsession with Past

by Priya Ramesh | Oct 20, 2017 | Sports

London — In Graham Swift’s novel Waterland his narrator, a history teacher going through a mid-life crisis, says: “And where history does not undermine and set traps for itself in such an openly perverse way, it creates this insidious longing to revert. It begets this...

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Howard Wilkinson, pictured in 2000, says: ‘These are young people and many are not getting what they have been promised and a number naturally feel genuinely let down.’ Photograph: Dan Chung for the Guardian

Howard Wilkinson Calls for Review, Overhaul of Academy System he Designed

by David Conn | Oct 19, 2017 | Sports

London – Howard Wilkinson, the architect of English football’s modern youth development programme, has called for the system to be reviewed and overhauled, accusing the top clubs of failing in their “moral responsibility” to give young players opportunities....

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Marcus Rashford (left) is pictured in England training ahead of Thursday’s World Cup qualifer against Slovenia. Photograph: Paul Currie/BPI/Rex/Shutterstock

Marcus Rashford Stays Grounded but is Hoping to Propel England to Russia

by Daniel Taylor | Oct 19, 2017 | Sports

London – As Marcus Rashford stretched out his limbs on one of the white leather seats at St George’s Park, the great young hope of English football stopped for a moment to consider how life had changed since those days when even his team-mates at Manchester...

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Female Saudi telephone operators work at the International Medical Center in Jeddah June 4, 2007. REUTERS/Susan Baaghil

Saudi Women to be Recruited in Leading Posts in Civil Aviation

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Oct 19, 2017 | Lifestyle & Culture

Riyadh- President of General Authority of Civil Aviation Abdul Hakim bin Mohammed Al Tamimi asserted that Saudi women will be able to reach leading positions in GACA soon. During a meeting with GACA’s employees, Tamimi said the General Authority for Civil Aviation has...

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Seniors are encouraged improve their exposure to vitamin D for
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Sports Can Make the Human Body 10 Years Younger

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Oct 19, 2017 | Lifestyle & Culture

London — Recent analysis of data from a long-term study into the effects of an active lifestyle show those who lead active lifestyles were around 10 years younger in terms of motor skills. The results of the study were published by the Sports Institute at the German...