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Your daily guide to community and cultural activities across the Emirates for April 2, 2017, including performances, festivals, art exhibitions, film screenings, health and fitness events, talks, classes, workshops and family fun. Ellen Fortini rounds up 10 things to do today in the UAE. Want to see your event listed here? Email us with the details and contact information at [email protected] newslide Abu Dhabi #YearofGiving Donate pre-loved […]

Photo Iraqis bathed in a sulfur pond not far from the southern outskirts of Mosul on Saturday. Iraqi forces are pushing to take western Mosul from the Islamic State. Credit Ahmad Gharabli/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images WASHINGTON — Facing mounting pressure over civilian casualties in American airstrikes, the United States-led coalition fighting the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria said on Saturday that it was likely that […]

Once upon a time Washington was simple: on one hand you had Republican interests, on the other: Democrats, and inbetween them perhaps, the occasional independent or “green.” Now… it’s less simple. At last check, DC currently boasts at least nine different parties, groups, factions or ideologies. Which is why keeping track of who wants what, and how the various groups allign, in US politics has become quite […]

I headed out to New York City for the Samsung Galaxy Unpacked event last week and describe my day on MobileTechRoundup show #394. Kevin and I had plenty of other mobile tech to discuss too. Image: ZDNet Recapping the Samsung Galaxy S8 event Gear 360 and Samsung DeX look interesting Kevin bought a Moto G5 Plus and is impressed Huawei P10 hands on Garmin’s new Forerunner 935 […]

Posted April 02, 2017 05:06:27 Photo: The landslide hit 23 houses as well as farmers harvesting ginger on a hillside. (AP: Firdaus) Related Story: Bali landslide leaves 12 people dead Related Story: Death toll from Indonesia floods, landslides rises to 47 Rescuers have searched for more than two dozen people missing after a rain-triggered landslide struck a village on Indonesia’s main island of Java. One body was […]

April Fools’ Day is the only “fake news” day that’s almost welcome. Almost. And one of the longstanding masters of the tech prank, Google, is at it again with a fresh batch of trickery.  This year, the jokes are more obviously fake this time around in what appears to be an effort to avoid anyone actually thinking these products actually exist.   Nevertheless, some of these products […]

Abu Dhabi Music & Arts Foundation (ADMAF) has signed a letter of cooperation with Southbank Centre, the world’s largest festival site, home to the Royal festival Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Purcell Room and Hayward Gallery, and four world-class orchestras. The agreement covers common principles, goals and areas of common interest for joint collaboration in culture and education, a statement said. It added that the letter was signed […]

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The Middle East Film and Comic Con, which takes place at Dubai World Trade Centre from April 6 to 8, has made a few big-name late additions to its line up of celebrity guests. Appearing in person will be Anthony Mackie, an actor best known to genre fans for his role as superhero Sam Wilson, aka Falcon, in Marvels Avengers and Captain America movies. He also appeared […]

Saudi Arabia’s gross domestic product, adjusted for inflation, grew 1.2 percent from a year earlier in the fourth quarter of 2016, official data has showed. The rate of growth increased compared with 0.9 percent in the third quarter, which was the slowest rate in over three years, according to preliminary data from the country’s Central Department of Statistics showed. They also showed that the Q4 GDP growth […]

Image: Garmin Serving as a successor to 2016’s Garmin 735XT, the Forerunner 935 is focused on athletes focused on performance and results. Running is a major focus while the recently announced Fenix 5 series is focused on adventure and style, in addition to multi-sport fitness. The Garmin Forerunner 935 has similar functionality to the Fenix 5 series, but has a lighter design with more plastic and less […]

It would not be a Saturday morning if President Trump did not take to Twitter to vent about his latest grievance. This time he took aim at NBC News and in particular Chuck Todd… When will Sleepy Eyes Chuck Todd and @NBCNews start talking about the Obama SURVEILLANCE SCANDAL and stop with the Fake Trump/Russia story? — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 1, 2017 It is the […]

Event will gather together CEOs, CMOs, Presidents and VPs from across the region and beyond Riyadh KSA, April 1 2017: For the first time, Saudi Arabia will host the ‘Top CEO Conference and Awards’ – an event which will see CEOs, CMOs, Presidents and VPs from across the Arabian Gulf region and beyond gather together on 10th and 11th April 2017 at Bay La Sun Hotel & […]

For many self-employed, freelance and remote workers, their home is their office. Design and turnkey fit-out company Oxiba Interiors in Dubai helps clients to create professional sanctuaries and non-disruptive spaces in apartments and villas. “There are many things to consider, but the most important is to invest in an ergonomic chair,” says Oxiba’s chief executive, Rami Fakhouri. “They can go from around Dh400 up to Dh4,000, and […]

Abu Dhabi’s advanced composite aerostructures manufacturing company has unveiled plans for a second facility at Nibras Al Ain Aerospace Park. Strata Manufacturing, owned by Mubadala Development Company, said the Strata 2.0 facility will more than double its capacity and will add about 60,000 sq m. The company said in a statement that construction on the Strata facility is expected to start in 2018, and will become fully […]

Chat is nothing new in business (or even new to Microsoft), but it’s heading out of the technical department and the personal chat clients, and into the wider workforce. Microsoft Teams has some obvious similarities to Slack and HipChat and the other business chat services, but it has a different focus. This is chat for teams of people in your business who already use Office 365 tools […]

I remember the halcyon days when April Fools’ Day was a bit of harmless fun. We’d read fake stories from the newspaper over our cornflakes and have a good chuckle. Fake news was just something that happened once a year. But, those days are gone. We are now living in the age of fake news; where mistruths are presented as truths, and believed at face value. Fake […]

DUBAI // Three men were sentences to life for possessing almost four million illegal amphetamine tablets. On July 12 of last year, a 43-year-old from Saudi Arabia and two Syrians were arrested by Dubai Police’s anti-narcotics department in a sting operation after the authorities were tipped off that the men possessed a large quantity of drugs. “We received information that the Saudi man was part of a […]

Damac Properties has announced that its in-house mortgage department has so far facilitated home financing worth AED600 million ($163 million) for hundreds of units across the UAE.  Damac Properties said in a statement that it is the only luxury developer in the Middle East that has a dedicated one-stop-shop to provide direct support for existing and new customers. The developer said this is done by evaluating customers’ […]

Earlier this month I was given a genuine introduction to Fado in the Lisbon neighbourhood near where Mariza was raised and the music genre is said to have been born. In a dimly lit intimate nook in Alfama — the oldest district of Lisbon whose name is derived from either the Arabic Al hamma, meaning hot fountains or baths, or Alfamm, meaning the mouth — which barely […]

Those risks have been amplified by President Trump, whose administration has said it is “putting Iran on notice.” The tough talk from Washington has given early movers like Total pause, raising concerns as to whether long-awaited opportunities will materialize, or if the Trump administration will take a harder line and tighten already-complex rules on doing business with Tehran. Continue reading the main story Some major global companies […]

01 April 2017 Kuwait: Kuwait Finance House (KFH) has introduced a foreign currencies ATM machine at the airport branch in collaboration with K-Net in efforts to meet customers’ aspirations by offering them the best banking services and the most convenient banking experience as per highest standards of quality. “This ATM enables KFH and non-KFH customers to withdraw up to 4 different currencies; Dollar, Euro, Dirham and Riyal […]

More than three million counterfeit products of more than 30 renowned brands were confiscated in Dubai after four warehouses were raided in the emirate. One of the warehouses had a stock of over one million pieces of counterfeit products, including phone accessories, ladies’ handbags, clothes, leather goods, ink, printers, cosmetics, watches and contact lenses, state news agency WAM reported. It said around 928,000 items, including duplicate phones […]

Default Twitter profiles over the years… Image credit: Twitter Twitter users were shocked today when thousands of eggs disappeared, but cosmetic changes are unlikely to fix the service’s main problem, which is retaining new users. It’s what’s known in the marketing world as a “leaky bucket“. New Twitter profile image Twitter has been giving new users an egg-like profile picture since 2010, with the idea that they’d […]

Facebook and other platform companies publishing news are forces for bad journalism not good, despite some well-intended efforts lately to help media companies. That’s the conclusion of a massive, 25,000-word report, “The Platform Press,” published Wednesday by Emily Bell of the Columbia School of Journalism’s Tow Center and co-author Taylor Owen. The rapid shift to news reading directly on platforms is as big a transformation as digital […]

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