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He has played only four Tests out of the ten Pakistan have played in the UAE since his return, and perhaps there's a good reason for it. One glance at Mohammad Amir's record there suggests this isn't the kind of bowler Pakistan need on pitches in that part of the world - their home, mind you. In those four Tests, against West Indies and Sri Lanka, Amir averages 56.42 for his seven wickets. Amir may have played in fewer than 13% of the Tests Pakistan have contested in the UAE since making it their home, but he has played in 37.5% of their defeats; Pakistan lost three of the four Tests in which the left-arm quick lined up for them. You may have begun whispering it at some point, or finally reached the end of your tether and let it out, as captain Sarfraz Ahmed did after the Cape Town loss, publicly lamenting the lack of pace from Amir. But for anyone who saw him perform in South Africa, that much was evident. On day one in Cape Town, according to Cricviz , 61...

Frank McKinney’s “micro-mansion” is meant for high-net-worth buyers looking for a more manageable space. Courtesy of Frank McKinney According to the Realtors Association of the Palm Beaches, in February, there were 66 homes on the market in Ocean Ridge, a nine-month supply. The median sale price was $893,500, down 33.9% from the median of $1.35 million a year earlier. The current price range of listed single-family homes in the town is $624,900 to $9.8 million, according to realtor.com. News Corp, owner of Mansion Global, also owns Move Inc., which operates  realtor.com . McKinney, who purchased the quarter-acre site for the micro-mansion in October for $350,000, hasn’t yet set a price for the finished house. He said only that it will be priced between $4 million and $10 million and that he will finalize the price when completion is closer. There’s been a surge in interest in micro-apartments and homes, particularly in large cities where development costs and rents ha...

Facebook Twitter Pinterest   Chris Christie says he turned down numerous roles in the administration but was frustrated in not being offered vice-president or attorney general. Photograph: Eduardo Munoz/Reuters US attorney general, the other role Christie would have accepted, also eluded him. As with most appointments he is scathing about the man who got the job, Jeff Sessions, whom he calls “not-ready-for-prime-time” and whose recusal from the Russia investigation he blames for its ever-growing scale. Trump did apparently offer Christie “special assistant to the president in the White House”, which he turned down, prompting from the president-elect “an expression that said maybe he hadn’t heard me right”. Christie would have taken chair of the Republican National Committee and seemed poised to get it. But according to Christie, once again Trump’s family worked against him. In a near-comic scene, Reince Priebus, the RNC chair who would become Trump’s first chief of staf...

Chris Christie accuses Jared Kushner of political 'hit job' in explosive new book Exclusive: ex-New Jersey governor, who had prosecuted Kushner’s father, was sacked as head of Trump’s transition  Chris Christie, who was ousted as chairman of Donald Trump’s White House transition team in 2016, has written a blistering attack on Jared Kushner, whom he accuses of having carried out a political “hit job” on him as an act of revenge for prosecuting his father, Charles Kushner, a decade ago. In his soon to be published book, Let Me Finish, Christie unleashes both barrels on Trump’s son-in-law, who remains a senior White House adviser with responsibilities for Middle Eastern peace, sentencing reform and “American Innovation”. Christie blames this key player in the president’s inner circle for his ignominious dismissal shortly after Trump’s election victory in November 2016. Christie, the former governor of New Jersey, write...

“The books from the library of one collector were found in seven different cities,” she said. Markus Stumpf, a provenance researcher at the University of Vienna Library, said that about 15 Austrian libraries have returned at least 15,000 books since 2009. Books owned by Leopold Singer, an Austrian engineer whose library was looted by the Nazis, were returned to his family, who donated them to the Vienna Technical Museum. Credit Technisches Museum Wien Image work is tracking down owners or descendants,” he said. “Some come easy. Some take years if there are no heirs. With many books, the nameplates, stamps or signatures have been torn out. Names are sometimes unreadable. “Sometimes,” Mr. Stumpf continued, “it’s difficult to decide who gets the book back if you have one book and five family members. In one case involving one book, we found one family member who lives in the United States and the other in Germany. One didn’t know the other exis...

They hoped to utilize the books after the war was won to study their enemies and their culture so as to protect future Nazis from the Jews who were their enemies,” Ms. Grimsted said. Many of the looted books recovered after the war ended up at a depot outside Frankfurt where the United States Army unit popularly known as the Monuments Men attempted to process them for return. Credit Yad Vashem Photo Archives Image Many of the looted books recovered after the war ended up at a depot outside Frankfurt where the United States Army unit popularly known as the Monuments Men attempted to process them for return. Credit Yad Vashem Photo Archives After the war, the Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives unit of the United States Army, better known as the “Monuments Men” and famed for the return of looted art, also saved millions of books. Its main book collection point, the Offenbach Archival Depot outside Frankfurt, was the former headquarters of IG Farben,...