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List announced for best-ever Booker Prize

28 May 2018

Britain’s Hilary Mantel, Canada’s Michael Ondaatje and American author George Saunders are among five contenders for the title of greatest-ever winner of the prestigious Man Booker Prize for fiction. This special one-off award for the Man Booker Prize’s 50th anniversary celebrations will crown the best work of fiction from the last five decades of the prize.

All 51 previous winners were considered by a panel of five specially appointed judges, each of whom was asked to read the... Read More

Real Madrid Beats Liverpool in Champions League Final on a Wonder and Two Blunders

27 May 2018

In years to come, this Real Madrid team will not remember the details of how it moved from mere greatness to genuine legend, of how it etched its name in history alongside the very best club teams soccer has ever produced. They will not matter.

Like the Ajax of Johan Cruyff, the Bayern Munich of Franz Beckenbauer and the Real Madrid of Alfredo di Stefano, this is now a team that has won the European Cup three times in a row. In 2016, it saw off Atlético Madrid on penalties, in 2017,... Read More

Dubai rated the most expensive place to buy a summer dress and surf the internet

27 May 2018

Dubai is the most expensive place in the world to buy a summer dress and surf the internet, a new global ranking says.

Deutsche Bank’s annual Mapping the World’s Prices report outlines the prices of a range of goods and services to rank the cost of living in 50 cities relevant to global financial markets.

According to the 2018 survey, it costs $85 (Dh312) to pay for 8Mbps speed internet a month in Dubai – a slight decline from the cost last year. The cheapest place is Russia,... Read More

RDIF, Mubadala Petroleum and Gazprom Neft announce a joint venture to develop Siberian oil fields

27 May 2018

The Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), the sovereign wealth fund of Russia) and Mubadala Petroleum, the UAE-based leading oil and gas exploration and production company, announce the creation of a joint venture with PJSC Gazprom Neft to develop several oil fields in the Tomsk and Omsk regions. RDIF and Mubadala Petroleum will acquire a 49 percent equity stake in LLC Gazpromneft-Vostok, the operator of the fields. Mubadala Petroleum will hold a 44 percent interest and RDIF will hold the... Read More

Fifty guests fall ill during stay at Sharjah hotel

24 May 2018

A hotel in Sharjah says it is working with the authorities to investigate why more than 50 of its guests became suddenly ill.

The men, women and children staying at the Sheraton Sharjah Beach Resort and Spa were admitted to hospitals across the emirate after suffering bouts of vomiting and diarrhoea.

They have complained to authorities of suffering from food poisoning symptoms but that the cause of their sickness has yet to be determined.

A hotel representative told The... Read More

Advanced VPNFilter malware menacing routers worldwide

24 May 2018

A newly-disclosed malware infection has compromised more than 500,000 home and small office routers and NAS boxes.

Researchers with Cisco Talos say the malware, dubbed VPNFilter, has been spreading around the globe, but appears to primarily be largely targeting machines in the Ukraine."Both the scale and the capability of this operation are concerning," Talos writes in its alert.

"Working with our partners, we estimate the number of infected devices to be at least 500,000 in at... Read More

Jumeirah reveals opening date for Saadiyat Island resort

24 May 2018

Jumeirah at Saadiyat Island Resort will open its doors on November 11 on the shores of Abu Dhabi, the Dubai-based hospitality giant announced on Wednesday.

Surrounded by natural beauty, the contemporary beachfront resort occupies a stunning location on Saadiyat Island, overlooking 400 metres of protected sand dunes. The resort's prime location on the island results in an experience where world class art and culture seamlessly cohabit with mangroves, dolphins and turtles - the original... Read More

Almost a quarter of people in the world will be obese by 2045

24 May 2018

New research from various cities in the world presented at this year's European Congress on Obesity in Vienna, Austria (23-26 May) demonstrate that if current trends continue, almost a quarter (22%) of the people in the world will be obese by 2045 (up from 14% in 2017), and one in eight (12%) will have type 2 diabetes (up from 9% in 2017).

The study presented by Dr Alan Moses of Novo Nordisk Research and Development, Søborg, Denmark and Niels Lund of Novo Nordisk Health Advocacy,... Read More

Dubai Zen Tower blaze: Initial investigation into cause of fire revealed

23 May 2018

A fire that forced more than 100 residents to flee a Dubai Marina tower and left the building badly damaged began in the kitchen of a business on the ground floor, investigators believe.

Fire and rescue chief Brigadier Rashid Khalifa Buflasa said an unspecified flammable substance caught alight and quickly spread to the rest of Zen Tower.

The first five floors appeared to suffer the most damage, though the flames reached the upper floors on the morning of May 13.

There... Read More

Louis Moinet celebrates the Apollo-Soyuz mission that changed the face of the world (Video)

23 May 2018

“The space age may well be a technological saga, but above all it’s the story of individuals achieving the impossible, and in doing so accomplishing giant leaps for humankind as a whole. Skylink is our celebration of that spirit, championed of old by watchmaker and astronomer Louis Moinet himself.”

Following on from SpaceWalker, the satellite tourbillon dedicated to Alexey Leonov’s 1965 space mission, Louis Moinet is now unveiling a second creation commemorating the great Russian... Read More