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The Abu Dhabi F1 party got started on Thursday on the Abu Dhabi Corniche. The free music festival, Beats on The Beach, kicked off with over 20,000 people in attendance to see a varied programme featuring the likes of Filipino pop sensation Yeng Constantino, Emirati singer Shamma Hamdan and UK rap duo Krept and Konan. With all the artists blessed with their own dedicated fan base, the […]

Doha, 24 November 2016 Muntajat, Qatar Chemical and Petrochemical Marketing and Distribution Company, will be part of ArabPlast 2017 as a sponsor. The Qatari company aims at promoting Qatar’s chemicals, polymers and fertilisers during the most important international petrochemicals, plastics and rubber forum in Middle East region, which will take place from 8th to 10th of January 2017 at the Dubai Exhibition and convention Centre. The event […]

Not only was the long-rumored Boba Fett Star Wars Anthology movie a going concern, but a teaser reel was prepped to be shown at Star Wars Celebration 2015 alongside an official announcement, before being axed “at the last minute” following a split between Disney and mooted director Josh Trank. This comes courtesy of Entertainment Weekly sources, who say that the project has now been backburnered. Trank seemingly left […]

This illustration shows a glowing stream of material from a star, disrupted as it was being devoured by a supermassive black hole. The feeding black hole is surrounded by a ring of dust. This dust was previously illuminated by flares of high-energy radiation from the feeding black hole, and is now shown re-radiating some of that energy. Source link

Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund, the Public Investment Fund (PIF), has hired HSBC to advise it on a potential purchase of a stake in ACWA Power, a developer and operator of power and water plants, sources close to the matter said. Riyadh-based ACWA Power has chosen JP Morgan to advise it on the process, the sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity as the information is not […]

For yet another year, Black Friday has started off with a (deadly) bang, and as CBS reports, police are investigating a shooting outside of a South Jersey mall on Black Friday. It happened early this morning in South Jersey outside of the Macys department store at the Hamilton Mall, near Atlantic City. CBS 3’s Trang Do reports one person has died in the shooting. “It’s sad,” said […]

UAE and French forces have concluded a joint military exercise in the UAE. Wam ‘Gulf 2016’ is part of a series of joint exercises and is carried out every four years as part of a co-operation agreement signed in 1995. Wam For several days, the armed forces from both countries were engaged in training to enhance their skills in joint operations and to upgrade inter-troop co-ordination and […]

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Luxury watch brand IWC Schaffhausen has launched an Arabic-inspired limited-edition Portugieser Chronograph with retail partner Ahmed Seddiqi & Sons in Dubai. The watch, which is limited to 200 pieces, is the brand’s first-ever to be manufactured with Eastern Arabic numerals. A part of its sales proceeds will go to Al Jalila Foundation which focuses on improving lives through medical education and research in the UAE. The Portugieser […]

In the same way that Pitbull has been parachuted into dozens of pop hits to spout a fleeting guest verse, the Miami rapper’s appearance at this year’s Abu Dhabi Grand Prix carried equal swiftness and surprise. Thursday’s performance at Du Arena – an opening night slot traditionally saved for an Arabic all-star bill – was announced, out-of-the-blue, just two weeks earlier. The advertising hoardings on Dubai’s Sheikh […]

The viewership for Season 7 of AMC’s post-apocalyptic series The Walking Dead is considerably lower than it has been in recent seasons. As of this week’s episode, The Walking Dead’s ratings have dropped from 17 million at the Season 7 premiere down to 11 million for Episode 5, making for a 35 percent decline. Check out the graph from Wikipedia below (via EW) for an overview of […]

NASA’s IceBridge, an airborne survey of polar ice, flew over the Helheim/Kangerdlugssuaq region of Greenland on Sept. 11, 2016. This photograph from the flight captures Greenland’s Steenstrup Glacier, with the midmorning sun glinting off of the Denmark Strait in the background. Source link

Sunil John, the founder and CEO of ASDA’A Burson-Marsteller, was presented with the Chairman’s Award at the Middle East PR Awards 2016. Now in its eighth year, the Middle East PR Awards recognises agencies, corporates, teams and individuals who have shown exceptional return on investment, creativity and strategic impact. The Chairman’s Award, one of the top prizes at the industry’s biggest event, is given to an individual […]

A humbling defeat at the hands of a nation a small fraction of your size. A manager briskly fired, hastily replaced on a messy temporary basis by pretty much the only guy anyone could think of at the time. Question marks that linger not just about whether the team is good enough, but whether the players themselves care enough about representing their country. These are difficult days […]

By Henning Gloystein | SINGAPORE SINGAPORE Oil prices fell over 1 percent on Friday, dragged by a strong dollar, rising Saudi supplies to Asian clients, and a fall in Chinese imports. Brent crude futures were trading at $48.42 at 0753 GMT, down 58 cents, or 1.2 percent, from their last close, although overall activity was thin after the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday and ahead of the weekend. U.S. […]

Sheikh Hazza bin Zayed, Deputy Chairman of Abu Dhabi Executive Council, attended a mass wedding for the Al Zaab tribe on Wednesday at Majlis Al Zaab. Wam Sheikh Nahyan bin Mubarak, Minister of Culture and Knowledge Development, centre, Ahmed Juma Al Za’abi, Deputy Minister of Presidential Affairs, left, and Jaber Al Suwaidi, Director-General of the Crown Prince Court – Abu Dhabi, right, attended the group wedding. Boris […]

Dear Zindagi Directed by: Gauri Shinde Starring: Shah Rukh Khan, Alia Bhatt Four stars Maybe this is the year Shah Rukh Khan starts to reinvent himself. Maybe he’ll do fewer masala films and take on projects such as Dear Zindagi instead, because he absolutely shines in the role of soft-spoken therapist Jehangir “Jug” Khan in this gentle drama by Gauri Shinde. The movie opens with Kaira, a […]

20th Century Fox just dropped the official poster and release date for its next entry in the Alien franchise, Alien: Covenant. The poster, which features a threatening close-up of a Xenomorph, simply says ‘run’. At the bottom the May 19th release date is revealed. via 20th Century Fox. Though a sequel to the somewhat divisive Prometheus, the poster suggests Covenant may be going back to Alien’s old-school […]

Craig Timberg from Washington Post must be bored this Thanksgiving, spending his time concocting a rich and imaginative tale of fake news websites swaying the billion dollar Clinton campaign from no brainer win to a horrible loss. Here we are, once again, with the faux claims out of Washpo — spreading their own ironic fake news of Russian hacking conspiracies and a furious — and all of a […]

Amazon.com Inc is reportedly in talks to acquire Dubai-based online retailer Souq.com for about $1 billion, it was reported on Thursday. Bloomberg reported that the deal will give the US-based e-commerce giant a footprint in the high-growth Middle East market, citing people familiar with the matter. It said Amazon is considering a bid for all of the site, which had initially planned to sell a stake of […]

Initially the threat posed by the Legion was primarily seen as a problem for law enforcement officials. But as the threat worsened last year, and the F.B.I. stepped up the monitoring of terrorism suspects around the country, the bureau pressed the military to focus on the group, according to current and former American officials. Continue reading the main story While American and British forces conducted a series […]

ABU DHABI // All eyes were turned to the capital’s skies on Thursday afternoon as the Red Arrows performed over Abu Dhabi’s Corniche. Hundreds gathered on the beachfront to watch the Royal Air Force’s world-famous aerobatic team twist and turn their bright red jets through a series of stunts, prompting spectators to “ooh” and “aah” in amazement. Chloe Steele, from the UK, attended the event with her […]

It has been sixteen years since the battle for Grozny in Chechnya ended. In this episode, John Dennehy speaks to Brian Glyn Williams, a professor of Islamic history at the University of Massachusetts, about the lessons from that brutal conflict and what we can expect in Syria today. To read Brian’s story click here To subscribe to Crossroads on iTunes click here Source link

Motoring presenters Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, and James May’s return to the small screen has been a long while coming but, with the debut episode of The Grand Tour, Amazon has certainly wasted no time showing us where vast sums of the reported USD$250 million it spent on its most expensive TV experiment to date have gone. The Grand Tour picks up in the only logical place […]

The six Expedition 50 crew members celebrate Thanksgiving in space, Nov. 24, 2016, with rehydrated turkey, stuffing, potatoes and vegetables. Source link

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