ABU DHABI // Education is essential for the future of young Emirati men and women and the whole nation, Sheikh Nahyan bin Mubarak told the Arab Knowledge Forum in Dubai this week. The UAE Minister of Culture and Knowledge Development said the UAE is moving in the right direction thanks to “wonderful examples of young Emiratis”. “We must provide an education that empowers our youth to embrace […]
When Amna Al Hashemi was contemplating which dishes to add to the menu of her new restaurant, Mitts and Trays in Dubai’s City Walk Phase 2, she sat down, closed her eyes and tried to think of the dishes that evoked her happiest memories. If these dishes stirred up good memories for her, she surmised, then they’d do the same for her customers. Madras chicken curry was […]
Orbiting above eastern North America, a crew member on the International Space Station photographed a dense pattern of eddies in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Caught briefly in the Sun’s “glint point,” reflections off the water surface show an interlinked mass of swirls and eddies in the shallow water north of Prince Edward Island. Source link
Batman: The Telltale Series – Episode 4 Review Nov. 22, 2016 Episode four of Telltale’s Batman series, Guardian of Gotham, does add a small amount of tension to an already very dramatic, multi-faceted series, but doesn’t make much story progress while doing so. Source link
Four suspected al Qaeda members have gone on trial accused of plotting to assassinate the late King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, newspapers in the kingdom reported on Tuesday. The reports provided no details on the alleged assassination plot or when it may have occurred, but said the defendants were also charged with belonging to an extremist group, communicating with an al Qaeda leader and attempting to recruit […]
What makes Arena succeed? “First, he’s smart,” Logan said. “Second, he understands the theater of sport, like Casey Stengel. Third, he knows it’s a game that young people play. He coaches during the week and doesn’t think he’s running the game on Saturday or Sunday.” Photo Arena, far left, the team’s coach, and Landon Donovan, center right, celebrated after the Los Angeles Galaxy won the 2011 M.L.S. […]
Your daily guide to community and cultural activities across the Emirates for November 23, 2016, including performances, festivals, art exhibitions, film screenings, health and fitness events, talks, classes, workshops and family fun. newslide Abu Dhabi Comedy show Attend Comedy at the Greek and have some fun with the Yalla Laughs crew, featuring top local and regional comedians including Marwan Al Hashimi, Jon Boulton, Christian Plouvier, Akshay Ahuja, […]
Saudi Arabian construction firm Abdullah Abdul Mohsin al-Khodari and Sons said on Tuesday that projects worth 362.2 million riyals ($97 million) had been delayed due to factors ranging from clients’ funding shortages to slow visa issuance. The pace of construction in Saudi Arabia has cooled in the past two years as lower oil prices stall project funding and slow government payments, tightening banking liquidity and squeezing contractors. […]
Watch Dogs 2 Official Nvidia GameWorks Trailer (Video Videos) | Video Games, Wikis, Cheats, Walkthroughs, Reviews, News & Videos – IGN Middle East Watch Dogs 2 Official Nvidia GameWorks Trailer Senior producer Dominic Guay discusses PC enhancements for the open-world game. HOME Videos Source link
Spiral galaxy NGC 3274 is a relatively faint galaxy located over 20 million light-years away in the constellation of Leo (The Lion). Source link
Tolerance is a significant issue in modern society. The borders between countries are unseen due to the processes of globalisation. Conflicts and wars around the world have caused a significant rise in the number of refugees who flee to other countries looking for peace and comprehension. In the modern world, people of different ethnicities, political ideologies, religious views and cultural backgrounds live together, and this changes how […]
Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing arm of China’s Alibaba Group, has announced the opening of four new data centres by the end of 2016 in the Dubai, Europe, Australia and Japan. As a major milestone of Alibaba Cloud’s global expansion, the new centres will boost its data centre network to 14 locations, covering key economic centres around the world. The data centre in the Middle East, located […]
The most notable thing about today’s Treasury auction of $34 billion in 5 Year paper is not what happened after the 1pm announcement of its pricing, but what has been taking placed in the last few days, where as the following charts from SMRA, there has been a major surge in shorts, who have in turn sent the underlying paper “super special” in repo, to the tune […]
|By Arabian Post Staff| Etihad airline is in talks to take a stake in Germany’s Air Berlin subsidiary Niki, which is an Austrian-based leisure operator, media reports quoting insiders said. Niki is being spun off and merged with another player, it was stated. Bloomberg said Etihad’s stake holding in Niki will be as a prelude to combining it with TUI AG’s German airline unit. The valuation will […]
Hard Boiled: Tom Hiddleston Up for Frank Miller Comic Book Movie – IGN News (Video Hard Boiled) | Video Games, Wikis, Cheats, Walkthroughs, Reviews, News & Videos – IGN Middle East Hard Boiled: Tom Hiddleston Up for Frank Miller Comic Book Movie – IGN News HOME Turn: Washington’s Spies turn-season-2 Hard Boiled Source link
Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, 22 November 2016 President of the Republic of Benin, H.E. Patrice Talon, paid an official visit to the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) Group headquarters in Jeddah today. He was officially welcomed by IsDB President, Dr. Bandar Hajjar, as well as Vice Presidents and heads of the Bank’s entities. President Talon expressed his country’s willingness to scale up ongoing cooperation with the IsDB […]
Photo A de-mining operation in Kandahar Province, Afghanistan, in February. Credit Javed Tanveer/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Despite a global treaty that bans land mines, casualties from those weapons and other unexploded munitions lurking in current and past war zones rose sharply last year to the highest point in a decade, a monitoring group said Tuesday in its annual report. The group, the International Campaign to Ban […]
OPEC will debate an oil output cut of 4.0-4.5 percent for all of its members except Libya and Nigeria next week but the deal’s success hinges on an agreement from Iraq and Iran, which are far from certain to give their full backing. Three OPEC sources told Reuters a gathering of experts from the oil producer group in Vienna had decided on Tuesday to recommend that a […]
ABU DHABI // The new Dh2.1 billion motorway connecting Abu Dhabi and Dubai will be open by the end of next month, providing an alternative to the congested E11. A 62-kilometre stretch of road between the end of the E311, near Al Ghadeer Village, running to the Abu Dhabi-Sweihan Road is 98 per cent complete, the Abu Dhabi General Services Company (Musanada) announced on Tuesday. It will […]
newslide Exhausted Kanye West hospitalised Rapper Kanye West was reportedly hospitalised in Los Angeles on Monday and is said to be suffering from exhaustion. The news broke just hours after he abruptly cancelled the remainder of his tour following a week of no-shows, curtailed concerts and political rants. A source told People magazine West was “exhausted and currently dealing with sleep deprivation” but was “fine”. Concert promoters […]
This image of galaxy cluster Abell 2744, also called Pandora’s Cluster, was taken by the Spitzer Space Telescope. Source link
Killing Floor 2’s Bosses Are Insane – IGN Plays Live (Video Videos) | Video Games, Wikis, Cheats, Walkthroughs, Reviews, News & Videos – IGN Middle East Killing Floor 2’s Bosses Are Insane – IGN Plays Live Watch as James Duggan takes down Dr. Hans Volter, one of Killing Floor 2’s challenging bosses. HOME Videos Source link
A two-day ceasefire after nearly two years of war in Yemen expired at midday (0900 GMT) on Monday and would not be renewed, a spokesman for a Saudi-led military coalition told al-Arabiya TV, with each side blaming the other for violations. The 48-hour truce, announced unilaterally by the Saudi coalition on Friday, failed to halt fighting across the country between the Iran-aligned Houthis and Saudi-led forces, which […]
