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Your daily guide to community and cultural activities across the Emirates for February 19, 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 Art exhibition Catch […]

By John Whitesides | WASHINGTON WASHINGTON After a tumultuous opening month in the White House, President Donald Trump is heading to a friendlier, familiar and potentially rejuvenating place: the campaign trail. Beset by vicious fights over his Cabinet, legal setbacks over his immigration orders, the resignation of his national security adviser and an investigation into possible links between his campaign and Russian intelligence, Trump is turning to […]

The borders between tradition and trend locked hands in a merry dance at the opening night of Abu Dhabi’s Barzakh Festival – much like the “two seas that meet but do not mix”, which the event’s name recalls. Over two evenings, The Arts Centre at NYU Abu Dhabi will welcome five acts from three continents, an all-star line-up likely to make any fan of “world music” swoon. […]

Strata Manufacturing, the advanced composite aero-structures manufacturing company owned by Mubadala Development Company, has signed an agreement which will look at using 3D printing technology to create aircraft parts. The deal inked with India’s Reliance Defence Limited is part of plans to collaborate on advanced aerospace manufacturing capabilities between India and the UAE. The agreement continues to deepen the bilateral ties developed between the UAE and India […]

FIFA President Gianni Infantino said on Thursday he intends to encourage co-hosting for the 2026 soccer World Cup that could divide the tournament up between as many as four countries. “We will encourage co-hosting for the World Cup because we need FIFA to show we are reasonable and we have to think about sustainability long-term,” Infantino said. “(We could) …maybe bring together two, three, four countries who […]

We are in an era of “Hyperscale companies” such as Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Apple with limited opportunities for startups warns Sam Altman, head of Y Combinator, Silicon Valley’s influential investment group and educator. In his 2017 YC Annual Letter Altman wrote: “We’re now in the era of hyperscale technology companies…Companies like Amazon, Facebook, Google, Apple, and Microsoft have powerful advantages “ “I expect that they […]

Image: Relax VR The early promise of virtual reality (VR) was vast: We would be transported to new worlds and live in alternate realities. While scientists and programmers have been investigating the possibilities of VR since the 1960s, it’s only in the last few years that the technology started to gain mainstream traction, with VR applications spanning from education to real estate. Australian startup Relax VR is […]

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Ten years ago Vladimir Putin angrily declared that the post-cold war order was a sham. Standing before the western military and diplomatic establishment at the Munich Security Conference, the Russian president accused the US of plunging the world into chaos by warmongering, meddling in other countries’ affairs and disregarding international law. For many, it marked the moment that Mr Putin became an adversary. Now, as foreign policy […]

The number of American companies tapping Europe’s bond markets has fallen this year with rising relative borrowing costs on the continent weakening the case for cross-border debt. An extended rally in European credit has enticed US companies to borrow over €100bn of so-called “reverse Yankee” bonds over the past two years with corporate bond purchases from the European Central Bank driving down yields. But appetite is fading […]

Containers are great, having to re-invent persistence to use them, not so much. But that is changing. You’re not the only one concerned about container persistence: 82 percent of respondents in a recent survey said they’d deploy containers within two years if storage challenges could be resolved. That is a legitimate concern, as containers can offer great versatility and efficiency compared to virtualization, but being forced to […]

ABU DHABI // UAE scientists have uncovered previously unknown genetic mutations that are responsible for rare diseases in Arab children. The discovery will help with the early detection and treatment of some of the world’s most serious and rare diseases, doctors said. Dr Mahmoud Taleb Al Ali, director of the Centre for Arab Genomic Studies (CAGS), which is affiliated with the Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid Al Maktoum […]

The likes of France and the Netherlands have long been staple destinations for cycling enthusiasts, but the growth of riding a bike for sport has seen cycling-holidays spring up all over the world. And there are some new destinations that are going to special lengths to burst onto the scene Yorkshire, England Yorkshire has thrown itself into road cycling with almost unnerving gusto. Since hosting the opening […]

ACP Sum (left) and Ipoh deputy OCPD Supt Abdul Rani Alias​ showing the seized items at a press conference on Thursday. IPOH: The police have arrested four men after they robbed a  24-hour convenience store in Taman Gemilang Timur on Feb 12, said Ipoh OCPD Assistant Commissioner Sum Chang Keong. “After escaping in a Proton Iswara, they were nabbed after police raided a house located a few […]

Mixing Gnawa grooves, desert blues, Cambodian psych-rock, Ukrainian folk-punk and Brooklyn bhangra-jazz, New York University Abu Dhabi’s free two-day Barzakh Festival is the widest celebration of global sounds in the UAE since Womad Abu Dhabi shut shop in 2010. Each act will play for about an hour. Here is the lowdown on what to expect. Thursday (from 7.30pm) Noura Mint Seymali Noura Mint Seymali, the Republic of […]

Joo Kim Tiah, the son of one of Malaysia’s wealthiest tycoons, sat on stage in the summer of 2013 as his new business partner announced their plans for a C$360m luxury condominium-hotel project on Vancouver’s most prestigious downtown thoroughfare. With characteristic salesmanship, Donald Trump bragged that the 63-storey glass tower on West Georgia Street would be “one of the great buildings, not only in Canada and the […]

By Ayat Basma | NORTH OF MOSUL, Iraq NORTH OF MOSUL, Iraq Islamic State will put up a tough fight in the western side Mosul that remains under its control despite the losses the group suffered so far in the battle for the Iraqi, a U.S. commander said on Wednesday. “It is hard and hard every day here,” Colonel Patrick Work, commander of the 2nd Brigade, 82nd […]

Fences Director: Denzel Washington Stars: Denzel Washington, Viola Davis, Stephen Henderson Three stars Denzel Washington stars in and directs this adaptation of August Wilson’s award-winning play, the sixth in his acclaimed 10-part Pittsburgh Cycle, each of which deals with a different decade of the 20th century from the black American perspective. Fences takes place in the 1950s. Washington starred as 50-something binman Troy in a 2010 New […]

National Real Estate Company (NREC), a Kuwait-based developer with projects exceeding $1 billion in Egypt and the UAE, has signed an agreement for a $101.5 million loan. The developer of Abu Dhabi’s upcoming Reem Mall said in a statement that it has signed the five year convertible loan with Agility Investment Holding Limited, a subsidiary of Kuwait-based logistics firm Agility. The loan facility has the option of […]

By Gayatri Suroyo and Fransiska Nangoy | JAKARTA JAKARTA Indonesians cast ballots on Wednesday in a bitterly fought election to govern the capital, Jakarta, that has inflamed religious tensions in the Muslim-majority nation and been tied to power struggles ahead of presidential elections in 2019. The job of governor can be a springboard to the presidency and weeks of campaigning have been overshadowed by mudslinging, political intrigue […]

Your daily guide to community and cultural activities across the Emirates for February 15, 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 Film screening Sign […]

After a day of chaotic communication, a stock sell-off and a $6.3bn writedown that may destroy one of Japan’s greatest industrial names, the Toshiba president’s bow of apology finally came. Satoshi Tsunakawa’s head nodded for just one perfunctory second on Tuesday. Most assume there will be much deeper, longer bows to come as Toshiba leads investors, customers, employees and Japan as a whole through the country’s first […]

Polls open in heated vote for Indonesian capital’s governor Niniek Karmini and Stephen Wright, Associated Press February 14, 2017 Updated: February 14, 2017 6:26pm Photo: Achmad Ibrahim, AP An Indonesian Muslim woman holds a voting paper at a polling station during an election for Jakarta governor in Jakarta, Indonesia, Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2017. Voting began in the election for governor of the Indonesian capital after a months-long […]

Ambitious plans to boost the UAE’s space programme by encouraging future generations of Emiratis to take up space and scientific research were announced on Tuesday. Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces, said the objective of the Mars 2117 Project is to develop the skills and capacities of nationals. “The Mars 2117 Project is a long-term project, […]

A few days before the retreat, I met up with the man who, perhaps more than any other figure in the conservative movement, had maneuvered the party toward complete and unbending opposition to Obamacare: Michael Needham of the Heritage Foundation. Needham, 35, is the chief executive of Heritage Action for America, a feral cur of a lobbying organization established by the venerable conservative think tank in 2010 […]

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