Kuwait-based company Al-Nukhba has won a $35m contract to build a hotel at Basra International Airport in Iraq, Aswat al-Iraq news agency reports. "The hotel will be established according to the international Holiday Inn standards. It will include four restaurants, swimming pools, meeting halls, a movie theatre and a business centre," the commission's head, Haydar Ali said. The project, the first of its kind in Iraq, is scheduled for completion in eight months, he added.