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Khaleej Times
3 days ago
- Business
- Khaleej Times
UAE Lottery: 7 residents bag Dh100,000 each in 13th lucky chance draw
The 13th draw of the Lucky Day, Lucky Chance draw at the UAE Lottery brought life-changing news to seven participants on Saturday, May 31, with each winning Dh100,000 in the weekly Lucky Chance raffle. The jackpot-winning numbers — days 3, 8, 18, 22, 25, and 31 followed by the month 7. Lucky Chance Draw Nunber 250531 announced the following winning ticket numbers: BH3282182 CH5863285 CH5844534 BJ3445984 CL6274201 BE2929558 DC7937029 Each of these ticket holders is now Dh100,000 richer, a reward that could help fulfill long-held dreams, cover family expenses, or support education and savings goals. The UAE's first and only regulated lottery was launched in December last year, offering a Dh100-million jackpot. Depending on how many numbers are matched, players can take home prizes ranging between Dh100 and Dh100 million. While the odds of winning the jackpot are one in over 8 million, "someone in the UAE will win the Dh100 million for sure," Bishop Woosley, director of Lottery Operations at The Game, which operates UAE Lottery, had earlier told Khaleej Times. Asked if the company was working to better the odds, Woosley had said they were looking at 'player preferences, what they play, how much they play and what games they like.' The lottery is for residents aged 18 and above in the UAE. Players are not allowed to participate in the games unless they are physically present in the country at the time of playing. As of now, the prizes are not subject to any taxes.
Arabian Business
19-04-2025
- General
- Arabian Business
UAE Lottery results: Check winning numbers for $27m grand prize draw on April 19
The draw for the UAE Lottery has taken place and winning numbers for the AED100m ($27m) grand prize have been revealed. The winning numbers for the Saturday, April 19 draw are: 17 12 8 28 14 20 Monthly number: 3 The UAE Lottery draw was hosted by presenters Chadi Khalaf and Diala Makki. UAE Lottery results: Saturday, April 19 The new jackpot draw is the first federally licensed lottery in the region and is operated by The Game LLC under licence from the General Commercial Gaming Regulatory Authority (GCGRA). In addition to the grand prize draw the UAE Lottery also offered Lucky Chance winners the chance to claim AED100,000 ($27,200). The winning numbers for the draw were: BV4660178 BN3868176 BD2893225 CY7511459 AV2030658 BI3395916 BN3810683 The UAE Lottery offers residents aged 18 and above multiple ways to win cash prizes. Tickets for the next lottery draw, scheduled for May 3, are available through the lottery's official website and cost AED50 ($13.60) each. To play the UAE lottery, participants must choose numbers from the 'Days' section and 1 number from the 'Months' section of the website. The numbers in the 'Days' section range from 1 to 31, so the 6 numbers you choose represent your lucky days. The numbers in the 'Months' section range from 1 to 12, so the number you choose represents your lucky month. How to win the UAE Lottery Jackpot: If all seven numbers (6+1) match with the draw result, the winning ticket holder(s) will win the Jackpot. In the event that there are more than one Jackpot winning ticket holders, the Jackpot prize will be split evenly among all the eligible winning ticket holders. 2nd Prize: If all six numbers from the 'Days' section (6+0) match with the draw result, the winning ticket holder(s) will win the second prize. 3rd Prize: If five numbers from the 'Days' section and 1 number from the 'Months' (5+1) match with the draw result, the winning ticket holder(s) will win the third prize. 4th Prize: If five numbers from the 'Days' section (5+0) OR 4 numbers from the 'Days' section and 1 number from the 'Months' section (4+1) match with the draw result, the winning ticket holder(s) will win the fourth prize. 5th Prize: If three numbers from the 'Days' section and 1 number from the 'Months' section (3+1), OR 2 numbers from the 'Days' section and 1 number from the 'Months' section (2+1), OR 1 number from the 'Days' section and 1 number from the 'Months' section (1+1), OR 1 number from the 'Months' section (0+1) match with the draw result, the winning ticket holder(s) will win the fifth prize. How much can you win in UAE Lottery Jackpot: AED100,000,000 ($27.2m) 2nd Prize: AED1,000,000 ($272,000) 3rd Prize: AED100,000 ($27,200) 4th Prize: AED1,000 ($272) 5th Prize: AED100 ($27) Odds of winning the UAE Lottery Jackpot: 1 in 8,835,372 2nd Prize: 1 in 803,216 3rd Prize: 1 in 58,902 4th Prize: 1 in 1,437 5th Prize: 1 in 12.1
Arabian Business
05-04-2025
- General
- Arabian Business
UAE Lottery results: Check winning numbers for $27m grand prize draw on April 5
The draw for the UAE Lottery has taken place and winning numbers for the AED100m ($27m) grand prize have been revealed. The winning numbers for the Saturday, April 5 draw are: 9 17 20 5 1 24 Monthly number: 9 The UAE Lottery draw was hosted by presenters Chadi Khalaf and Diala Makki. UAE Lottery results: Saturday, April 5 The new jackpot draw is the first federally licensed lottery in the region and is operated by The Game LLC under licence from the General Commercial Gaming Regulatory Authority (GCGRA). In addition to the grand prize draw the UAE Lottery also offered Lucky Chance winners the chance to claim AED100,000 ($27,200). The winning numbers for the draw were: AM1183358 CB5217331 AT1804514 DD8021363 CP6639399 CU7145687 AC0130830 The UAE Lottery offers residents aged 18 and above multiple ways to win cash prizes. Tickets for the next lottery draw, scheduled for April 19, are available through the lottery's official website and cost AED50 ($13.60) each. To play the UAE lottery, participants must choose numbers from the 'Days' section and 1 number from the 'Months' section of the website. The numbers in the 'Days' section range from 1 to 31, so the 6 numbers you choose represent your lucky days. The numbers in the 'Months' section range from 1 to 12, so the number you choose represents your lucky month. How to win the UAE Lottery Jackpot: If all seven numbers (6+1) match with the draw result, the winning ticket holder(s) will win the Jackpot. In the event that there are more than one Jackpot winning ticket holders, the Jackpot prize will be split evenly among all the eligible winning ticket holders. 2nd Prize: If all six numbers from the 'Days' section (6+0) match with the draw result, the winning ticket holder(s) will win the second prize. 3rd Prize: If five numbers from the 'Days' section and 1 number from the 'Months' (5+1) match with the draw result, the winning ticket holder(s) will win the third prize. 4th Prize: If five numbers from the 'Days' section (5+0) OR 4 numbers from the 'Days' section and 1 number from the 'Months' section (4+1) match with the draw result, the winning ticket holder(s) will win the fourth prize. 5th Prize: If three numbers from the 'Days' section and 1 number from the 'Months' section (3+1), OR 2 numbers from the 'Days' section and 1 number from the 'Months' section (2+1), OR 1 number from the 'Days' section and 1 number from the 'Months' section (1+1), OR 1 number from the 'Months' section (0+1) match with the draw result, the winning ticket holder(s) will win the fifth prize. How much can you win in UAE Lottery Jackpot: AED100,000,000 ($27.2m) 2nd Prize: AED1,000,000 ($272,000) 3rd Prize: AED100,000 ($27,200) 4th Prize: AED1,000 ($272) 5th Prize: AED100 ($27) Odds of winning the UAE Lottery Jackpot: 1 in 8,835,372 2nd Prize: 1 in 803,216 3rd Prize: 1 in 58,902 4th Prize: 1 in 1,437 5th Prize: 1 in 12.1
Telegraph
16-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Telegraph
Emma Rice on Alfred Hitchcock: ‘Cancel him? That's the road to madness'
'With paper and a pair of scissors, an aerosol can and some suitcases,' is Emma Rice's answer when I ask her how she plans to stage the famous biplane scene in her forthcoming adaptation of North by Northwest. Another director might have been tempted to use hi-tech wizardry, or video projection at the very least, to recreate the unforgettable moment Cary Grant's Roger Thornhill dives into a cornfield to escape a murderous aircraft in Hitchcock's 1959 Cold War caper. But in Rice's show, she says, the most sophisticated gizmo is a revolving door. 'We've only got a cast of six, and the actors not only play several characters but have to remember whether their door is spinning clockwise or anti-clockwise. So it's fiendishly structured, just like Hitchcock.' We are talking, before rehearsals begin, in the Lucky Chance – the former Methodist church in Frome, Somerset, which Rice's theatre company, Wise Children, recently acquired as its permanent home. It's draughty and a bit damp, but, in typical Emma Rice fashion, it's warmly fitted out in a kitsch, giddy way – neon-pink paint everywhere, fairy lights, mirrors. A director with a folk spirit, who revels in the sensual and the romantic – her hits with her former company, Kneehigh, include a screen-to-stage adaptation of Brief Encounter and the magical Marc Chagall homage The Flying Lovers of Vitebsk – Rice is not an obvious fit for the work of a cinema auteur known for ice-cold psychosexual riddles. Yet she argues that North by Northwest, in which Thornhill, on the run for a crime he didn't commit, finds himself embroiled in a plot to smuggle state secrets out of the country, is more progressive than it might initially seem. 'Eve is the film's moral compass, she's a feminist icon,' says Rice, referring to the femme fatale who becomes Thornhill's lover, played in the film by Eva Marie Saint. 'You have this brave, committed woman and this totally lost man. Hitchcock thought it was his best depiction of a marriage.' Rice has been drawing, too, on the stage directions in Ernest Lehman's original screenplay, which, she says, 'are very sexual. The scene between Thornhill and Eve over dinner on the train: it's alarmingly explicit. So I've had a bit of fun with that.' I ask if she has any qualms about adapting the work of a director whose legacy sits somewhat uneasily alongside accusations of misogyny and reports of unsavoury behaviour on set; in her 2016 memoir, the actress Tippi Hedren claimed the director sexually assaulted her while filming The Birds and Marnie in the 1960s. 'Can you ignore that side of him?' Rice asks rhetorically. 'You know, I might have done. He's iconic, and I liked the idea of thinking, 'I'll have a bit of that.' I don't feel I need to apologise or worry – that's the road to madness. You'll never find the perfect artist who has never said or done anything wrong. 'Anyway,' she adds, 'I'm more interested in the material than the artist. I'll never do one of those desperate 19th-century Hedda Gabler-type plays in which women kill themselves. I can't bear victimhood. I like my women to stay alive and surprise us all and be naughty and sexy and smart.' As a description, that pretty well fits Rice herself. She is forthright, mischievous and more than a little punk, dressed today in leopardskin leggings, her silvery quiff as perky as a porcupine's quills. In 2015, she was appointed artistic director of Shakespeare's Globe, in a move that was greeted with both surprise and delight. Rice – the daughter of a lecturer and a social worker, who attended a Nottingham comprehensive school before training at the Guildhall – is no traditionalist and admitted at the time that she preferred The Archers to the Bard. Yet many thought her irreverent, though exacting, approach would be just the breath of fresh air the venue so sorely needed. Within two years, she was gone, after the Globe board objected to her disregard of original practices and fondness for glitterballs. The dismissal was brutal, humiliating and, for Rice, deeply hurtful. Looking back, a decade on, she sees how the episode ultimately had a galvanising effect on her career. 'Thanks to what happened with the Globe, I'm sometimes portrayed as anti-establishment, but I was never reacting against something,' she says. 'I'm for all sorts of theatre; I'm not against any of it. But I do love being popular. Making work that people are moved by – but also, crucially, entertained by – really matters to me.' In fact, Rice straddles both the margins and the mainstream. Her work is in thrall to fairy tale and slapstick, but it's also firmly establishment: Brief Encounter was a West End hit, and she works frequently with major theatre companies, including, most recently, the RSC, for which her staging of Hanif Kureishi's landmark 1990 debut novel The Buddha of Suburbia was a critical and commercial success. Although she may have a reputation for whimsy and clowning, her ideas are nevertheless deeply rooted in British social history. 'I return over and over again in my work to the period after the Second World War and that bubble of hope that meant my mother and father became the first in their families to go to university,' she says. 'My grandparents were working class and weren't able to be educated, while my grandad fought in the war and never spoke about it. So I have this immense gratitude for that period. 'The reason I can sit in this magic playground' – she casts an arm around the Lucky Chance bar – 'is because my parents did the work and my grandparents made the sacrifice. And North by Northwest sits in that really fertile pot of hope and fear, and that feeling that the war, which by implication its male characters would almost certainly have fought in, must never happen again. 'And yet,' she says, taking a breath, 'here we are today, once again on the verge.' We are speaking in the week that Trump described Zelensky as a dictator. 'God knows what's going to happen. I feel as though I haven't been fearful in my whole life and now suddenly I am.' Rice once told an interviewer she was a child of Thatcher, much to the horror of her socialist parents: she later clarified that she had merely meant she grew up under Thatcher, rather than ascribed to her politics. Yet now she says: 'You look back on that period and you think, well, at least it was decent and transparent and had a clear moral code. At least Thatcher had a plan, and loved talking to the press because she wanted to have the argument. And now..?' The last time I spoke to Rice was in the middle of the pandemic and Wise Children, the company she set up after leaving the Globe was, like so many, on its knees. Things are much more stable now, to the point that the company was able to buy the Lucky Chance outright on the back of such successful productions as her wild and fabulous 2021 adaptation of Wuthering Heights, which is about to embark on an international tour. But the fear of failure never leaves her. 'I think the unthinkable all the time,' she says. 'There are fewer audiences regionally, so there is less money, and it costs three times as much to stage a show now as it did before the pandemic, so I've had to scale back what we do.' The day before we meet, Lisa Nandy, the Culture Secretary, announced an extra £270 million of arts funding: is Rice confident the sector is in safe hands under Labour? 'I can't, hand-on-heart, say the Government needs to give the arts more money, because look at what it's facing,' she says. 'Of course, I say that as a theatre maker who has benefited from funding from the minute I went to drama school and, yes, funding is absolutely vital. But you have to make the business case by putting on theatre that people want. It's not medicine.' Theatre may be in her bones, but Rice admits there are some days she thinks about stepping away from it altogether. 'It's an ancient art form, but I don't take it for granted,' she says. 'The more you think about it, theatre is a very weird thing we do.'
Arabian Business
22-02-2025
- General
- Arabian Business
UAE Lottery results: Check winning numbers for $27m grand prize draw on February 22
The draw for the UAE Lottery has taken place and winning numbers for the AED100m ($27m) grand prize have been revealed. The winning numbers for the Saturday, February 22 draw are: 7 1 24 31 5 15 Monthly number 12 The UAE Lottery draw was hosted by presenters Chadi Khalaf and Diala Makki. UAE Lottery results: Saturday, February 22 The new jackpot draw is the first federally licensed lottery in the region and is operated by The Game LLC under licence from the General Commercial Gaming Regulatory Authority (GCGRA). In addition to the grand prize draw the UAE Lottery also offered Lucky Chance winners the chance to claim AED100,000 ($27,200). The winning numbers for the draw were: CH5804358 AI0781388 AN1216953 CP6684547 CT7037888 BX4837392 BU4546039 The UAE Lottery offers residents aged 18 and above multiple ways to win cash prizes. Tickets for the next lottery draw, scheduled for March 8, are available through the lottery's official website and cost AED50 ($13.60) each. To play the UAE lottery, participants must choose numbers from the 'Days' section and 1 number from the 'Months' section of the website. The numbers in the 'Days' section range from 1 to 31, so the 6 numbers you choose represent your lucky days. The numbers in the 'Months' section range from 1 to 12, so the number you choose represents your lucky month. How to win the UAE Lottery Jackpot: If all seven numbers (6+1) match with the draw result, the winning ticket holder(s) will win the Jackpot. In the event that there are more than one Jackpot winning ticket holders, the Jackpot prize will be split evenly among all the eligible winning ticket holders. 2nd Prize: If all six numbers from the 'Days' section (6+0) match with the draw result, the winning ticket holder(s) will win the second prize. 3rd Prize: If five numbers from the 'Days' section and 1 number from the 'Months' (5+1) match with the draw result, the winning ticket holder(s) will win the third prize. 4th Prize: If five numbers from the 'Days' section (5+0) OR 4 numbers from the 'Days' section and 1 number from the 'Months' section (4+1) match with the draw result, the winning ticket holder(s) will win the fourth prize. 5th Prize: If three numbers from the 'Days' section and 1 number from the 'Months' section (3+1), OR 2 numbers from the 'Days' section and 1 number from the 'Months' section (2+1), OR 1 number from the 'Days' section and 1 number from the 'Months' section (1+1), OR 1 number from the 'Months' section (0+1) match with the draw result, the winning ticket holder(s) will win the fifth prize. How much can you win in UAE Lottery Jackpot: AED100,000,000 ($27.2m) 2nd Prize: AED1,000,000 ($272,000) 3rd Prize: AED100,000 ($27,200) 4th Prize: AED1,000 ($272) 5th Prize: AED100 ($27) Odds of winning the UAE Lottery Jackpot: 1 in 8,835,372 2nd Prize: 1 in 803,216 3rd Prize: 1 in 58,902 4th Prize: 1 in 1,437 5th Prize: 1 in 12.1
