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UAE delegation participates in the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum
30 May 2018
H.H. Sheikh Hamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Chief of the Abu Dhabi Crown Prince's Court and Managing Director of the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA), participated in the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum 2018 (SPIEF).
UAE’s senior official attended the plenary session of the SPIEF and traditionally took part in the Russian President’s meeting with the representatives of the international investment community. He also met with the Russian government's officials and a number... Read More
Free Dubai taxi rides for people with disabilities
28 May 2018
People with special needs or disabilities are eligible for free taxi rides in Dubai for the remainder of the year.
Dubai Taxi Corporation announced its initiative "Al Khair Ride", meaning the ride of goodwill on Saturday.
To book a taxi, a person with disabilities need only call 042080808. The taxis that will be sent to callers will be equipped with added technologies to lift wheelchair users, and to provide safety and privacy for passengers. They will be driven by drivers... Read More
Coffee husks is now fetching a 480% premium over coffee itself
28 May 2018
Aida Batlle grows coffee on her family’s farm in the hills surrounding El Salvador’s Santa Ana Volcano. Like generations before her, she had little use for the skin that encases the beans, so she’d turn it into cheap fertilizer or, more frequently, trash it. Then one day, walking past some husks drying in the sun, a smell hit her, a good smell: hibiscus and other floral aromas. It dawned on her, she says, that some value might be extracted from what she had long considered refuse. So she... Read More
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
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