As night fell on June 15, volunteers at the Birstall Wellbeing Centre in West Yorkshire were preparing for their usual Wednesday group session. The centre offers Reiki healing, palm readings and holistic massage. Rebecca Walker, who opened the centre eight years ago, is haunted by that night in June. At about 6.30pm, a man in his 50s walked through the door. He was thin, on the short […]
Jay Sean has come a long way in the past decade and a half – from emerging with saccharine pop and R&B tracks, such as 2004’s Stolen and Got My Eyes On You, to collaborating with some of the biggest names in the music business, including Sean Paul and Lil Wayne, on fast-paced dance tracks and chart-toppers. The British-born singer, who comes from a Punjabi background, makes […]
Donald Trump is showing no signs of ditching the unpredictable, pugilistic style that marked his campaign, by clashing with media chiefs, unsettling the US’s closest ally and intervening in the legal fate of his election rival during a 24-hour blizzard of activity. Most of the president-elect’s freewheeling decisions were broadcast over social media on Tuesday, a day after he broke with convention to announce a policy agenda for the […]
SYDNEY Asian stocks crept to one-week highs on Wednesday as investors tried to share in the exuberance of Wall Street, where the three main indices seized record peaks for a second straight session. Australia’s main index led the early action with a rise of 0.5 percent to a one-month top, helped by strength in bulk commodity prices. Japan’s Nikkei .N225 was closed for a holiday after enjoying […]
This kind of manipulation of the law is unfolding at a keen moment of weakness for the press, which has already been buffeted by falling revenue and mounting public disaffection. Only 40 percent of the public — the lowest rate since at least the 1990s — trusts the media “to report the news fully, accurately and fairly,” according to a Gallup survey conducted in September 2015. This […]
November 22, 2016 by: Pilita Clark, Environment Correspondent Scientists are struggling to understand why a burst of “scary” warming at the North Pole has pushed Arctic temperatures nearly 20C higher than normal for this time of year. Experts in the US and Europe say they have been shocked by the soaring temperatures recorded in November, when much of the region is plunged into freezing winter darkness. Temperatures […]
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 […]
Underground goes overground Last Wednesday, we ran an interview with author Colson Whitehead about his brilliant novel The Underground Railroad – and that night he was up for America’s National Book Award for Fiction. When we spoke to him, he said he was excited to be nominated but noted that the NBA does not quite have the clout of the Booker Prize. Nonetheless, he won, so it […]
What does Europe’s top judge think of a full-blooded British tabloid headline casting justices as “Enemies of the People”? With a nod to propriety, Koen Lenaerts insists that he “cannot speak about ” that Daily Mail front page or the specifics of a landmark British ruling on parliamentary approval for Brexit. But the European Court of Justice president is unable to resist making a broader point. “I can say […]
Torture and other forms of ill-treatment persist in Bahrain despite reforms introduced by the Gulf Arab kingdom to address alleged human rights abuses after a 2011 uprising, Amnesty International said on Monday. An Amnesty report assessing the work of oversight bodies set up to deal with grievances or guard against further abuses said it had found “serious shortcomings” in the work of two British-supported institutions whose work […]
The UK’s Autumn Statement arrives laden with investors waiting to see whether the British government will make good on recent heavy-handed hints about fiscal expansion. Past Treasury updates have tended to be a damp squib in global financial markets — political posturing and fiddling with tobacco taxes rarely able to catch the interest of international money. This year however the chancellor, Philip Hammond, has an opportunity to […]
Ending all speculations, NASA has presented its paper on the new rocket propulsion concept known as EmDrive, which has caught the imagination of all space enthusiasts despite defying the core laws of physics and workability. The long-awaited EmDrive paper of NASA has now been peer-reviewed and published with the title, “Measurement of Impulsive Thrust from a Closed Radio-Frequency Cavity in Vacuum.” Published online on Nov. 17 in the […]
How did they do it? How can it be that two decades after the fabled 1990s “big beat” boom – arguably the moment electronic music truly crossed over to the British public at large – The Chemical Brothers are the tallest tree from the era still standing? Their contemporaries might have sold more records, but today Fatboy Slim is a touring party DJ producing very little new […]
The stars will to be out in full force for Abu Dhabi’s Grand Prix, not least because this year’s race is a championship decider. Which celebrities can we expect to see painting the town Ferrari-red this weekend? newslide Paris Hilton – and Nicole Richie? Not only is Richie’s dad Lionel Richie singing at Yas Arena on Saturday night, but her old ‘bestie’ Paris Hilton is DJing in […]
Sweden’s Henrik Stenson has won European Tour’s Order Of Merit for the second time after none of his challengers could replace him at the top of the money list on the final day of the DP World Tour Championship in Dubai on Sunday. Matthew Fitzpatrick holed a nerve-shredding four-foot putt at the 18th to win the season-ending tournament at Jumeirah Golf Estates, Dubai. The 22 year trailed […]
Race weekend is almost here. Whether you will be in the stands at the track or watching the Grand Prix on a big-screen TV in downtown Abu Dhabi, you need to eat. Here are our picks for the best spots to refuel. newslide Dine in the middle of the action If you have your Formula One tickets or a room booked at the Yas Viceroy, you will […]
FRANKFURT Deutsche Bank has cleared its chairman of accusations by shareholders that he was partly to blame for the bank’s poor cooperation with authorities over alleged rate-rigging, daily Sueddeutsche Zeitung has cited financial sources as saying. Last year, Deutsche Bank agreed to settle a case over the alleged manipulation of interbank rates such as Libor for a record $2.5 billion with U.S. and British authorities, which had […]
England’s Matthew Fitzpatrick sank a knee-knocking birdie putt from four feet on the final hole to seal the DP World Tour Championship on Sunday in a dramatic conclusion. The $1.33 million first prize for the season-ending tournament in Dubai meant the 22-year-old from Sheffield, who carded a five-under-par 67 to finish the tournament 17-under, roughly doubled the amount he had won combined from his other 25 events […]
newslide Man convicted of fraud over Kung Fu Panda drawings A Massachusetts man has been found guilty of backdating drawings he relied on as evidence in his lawsuit against DreamWorks Animation. It was claimed he had invented the title character in the 2008 film Kung Fu Panda and a jury in Boston convicted 51-year-old Jayme Gordon on four counts of wire fraud and three counts of perjury. […]
A protest rally in Malaysia against the government of Najib Razak — who is fighting allegations of grand corruption linked to a troubled state investment fund — brought thousands onto the streets of Kuala Lumpur but also spurred a widening official crackdown. Although Saturday’s rally passed off peacefully, 15 activists and opposition politicians have been arrested on charges which human rights campaigners described as “manufactured”. The charges […]
newslide Dap-Kings singer Sharon Jones dies Sharon Jones, the powerhouse who shepherded a soul revival despite not finding stardom until middle age, has died at the age of 60. Jones’ representative, Judy Miller Silverman, said that Jones died in hospital after battling pancreatic cancer. Loved ones and members of her retro-soul band, the Dap-Kings, were among those surrounding her, Silverman added. The story of Jones’ battle with […]
Sunday’s Grand Prix race in Abu Dhabi will decide who wins the F1 championship – and Sean Paul is just as revved up for his upcoming performance on the Corniche. The Jamaican dance-hall king will headline on Friday, day two of the free Beats on the Beach festival – followed by a show at Mad nightclub on Yas Island the same night – and says he is […]
The pace of global debt sales this year is running at a record level, surpassing $6tn this week, as companies from Pfizer to MasterCard rush to lock in borrowing costs on fears that a Donald Trump stimulus package will send interest rates even higher. A flurry of new sales this week caps a tumultuous period for bond investors, who are counting more than $1.5tn of losses, as […]
Heba bin Redha has an advantage over many other Dubai tour guides – generations of family knowledge of the city and its history . She doesn’t have to rely on dusty books or second-hand accounts for research before taking groups on walking tours of the narrow alleys of Old Dubai. Instead, the 27-year old Emirati – who recently launched her business, Kashta With Heba (Journey With Heba) […]
