28 February 2017 Dubai, UAE – Gulfood 2017, the 22nd edition of the world’s largest food and beverage trade platform, has rubberstamped its standing as a true industry weathervane and innovation laboratory. Right across the 1,000,000 square foot show, which runs until Thursday 2 March at Dubai World Trade Centre (DWTC), up to 90,000 food professionals from 150 countries are absorbing tens of thousands of products being […]
“Since I was a child I wanted to be a part of the world of glamour, not at the forefront but behind the scenes. I wanted to create glamour, make people feel beautiful.” This was the career goal of Pakistani designer Maheen Karim, who has successfully carved out a name for herself in the field of formal wear, traditional and non-traditional. The Karachi designer trained at Central […]
Kim Smith was not given terms and conditions when her employer offered her a fitness tracker last year. The 27-year-old, who holds a junior position in a big media company, entered data such as how much water she drank and her weight on the GPS-enabled device. The number of steps she — and her colleagues who joined the programme — took each day were recorded on a […]
February in Romania has brought 27 consecutive days of protests against the current government, at a scale unmatched since the Revolution in 1989. In a record day, more than 600,000 people gathered in the capital’s Victory Square and around the country to overturn a decision by the current ruling party to decriminalize some acts of corruption and abuse of office. This decision was especially self-serving given the […]
Shortly after breaking the Panama Papers, an international exclusive that shed light on illegal offshore banking around the globe, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists should have been riding high. Instead, the scrappy cross-border investigative team was facing the dreary prospect of laying staffers off due to a financial squeeze at its parent organization, the Center for Public Integrity. “I did feel a little deflated,” said Gerard […]
Thousands of ants converge to follow the most direct path from their colony to their food and back. A swarm of inexpensive, unmanned drones quickly map an offshore oil spill. What could these events have in common? Each extremely complex task is accomplished by individuals following very simple rules. But to make the drones do it, a bit of nature’s magic must be captured in a […]
Gadgets This year’s smartest smartphones are being unveiled in Barcelona. The Mobile World Congress officially kicks off on Monday, with the latest models on show. But there are also some throwbacks, such as the Nokia 3310, making a return with a redesign. (Source: Al Jazeera English YouTube channel) Source link
SHANGHAI An undisclosed buyer has placed the largest overseas order for China’s home-developed military drones, the Xinhua news agency has reported, in a boost for the Chinese arms industry’s efforts to increase export volumes. The order for the Wing Loong II was placed before the next-generation unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) successfully completed its maiden flight, Xinhua said late on Monday, citing the system’s developer Chengdu Aircraft Design […]
Light introduced through an optical fiber can determine whether a patient’s blood is coagulating by measuring the vibration of red blood cells. Credit: Andrii Pshenychnyi A University of Central Florida professor has invented a way to use light to continuously monitor a surgical patient’s blood, for the first time providing a real-time status during life-and-death operations. The technology developed by UCF scientist Aristide Dogariu uses an optical […]
By Afp Published: 17:17 EST, 27 February 2017 | Updated: 17:17 EST, 27 February 2017 The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists gained notoriety last year by publishing leaked documents from Panama that linked some of the world’s most powerful leaders to unreported offshore companies The investigative reporting alliance known for uncovering the massive Panama Papers scandal has become an independent entity, a move that may help it […]
The UAE is one of the world’s leading food and beverage markets, worth Dh52.4 billion in 2015, according to global market research group Euromonitor. Dubai alone has about 7,500 places to eat, from street cafes and fast-food outlets to fine-dining and high-end restaurants established by big-name chefs. Many will showcase their best dishes during Dubai Restaurant Week, which ends on Saturday. Click here for our guide. Jean-Luc […]
FRANKFURT Daimler (DAIGn.DE) will pick a new head for its truck operations in the coming days, sources close to the matter said, as the manufacturer aims to avoid a lengthy search for a successor to departed chief Wolfgang Bernhard. Bernhard, once seen as a candidate to succeed Daimler Chief Executive Diete Zetsche, stepped down a year before his contract was due to expire, the carmaker said this […]
When Turkey’s children returned to school in September, there was something new on the curriculum: a week-by-week syllabus, mandated by the minister of education, celebrating what many call Turkey’s “second revolution”. Course materials included two slickly produced patriotic videos laced with references to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s success in putting down the attempted coup on July 15. The first opens with an image of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, […]
The Center for Public Integrity officially announced the spinoff of The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) today. “We’re intensely proud of the success of the consortium and also proud to have birthed it, nurtured it and sustained it for nearly two decades,” said John Dunbar, chief executive officer of the Center for Public Integrity. “We wish them nothing but continued success.” The ICIJ has tremendous momentum and […]
It was less than a year ago that the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and more than 100 other media partners began publishing the largest investigation in journalism history: The Panama Papers. Even here at ICIJ – where we’ve grown accustomed to our work sparking major impacts – we were surprised by the reaction. Citizens hit the streets in protest. Governments and corporations around the world opened […]
27 February 2017 Dubai, UAE: The global food industry needs to make fundamental shifts in its operations to advance food safety worldwide, the Global Halal Industry Platform held in Dubai today has heard. The Platform, organised by the Emirates Authority for Standardisation and Meteorogy (ESMA) and part of the educational programme of Gulfood, the world’s largest annual food event running at Dubai World Trade Centre (DWTC) until […]
For many of the Iranian director’s fans, the award was a source of pride: Iran mostly makes the news outside their country for missile tests or for orchestrated anti-Western rallies, they point out. Continue reading the main story At the heart of Mr. Farhadi’s films are the social struggles that many urban Iranians face daily: divorce, migration, domestic violence and the small but destructive lies that are […]
LG finally took the wraps off its much-awaited LG G6 on Feb. 26 and the new smartphone packs in some impressive features. The successor of the LG G5 brings in its folds several new features such as a Square camera and FullVision display, but are these sufficient to encourage consumers to upgrade from the older model to the newer LG G6? Here’s a look at the specs […]
Amazon Web Services is currently dominating the cloud services market that even Google and Microsoft have decided to branch out and build their own public cloud storage services for consumers. Even with two established tech companies treading into its territory, however, Amazon is not backing down and has, instead, launched productivity services that both Microsoft and Google have offered. AWS’s first strike happened in 2015 when it launched WorkMail, […]
By Trevor Hunnicutt and Jonathan Stempel | NEW YORK NEW YORK Billionaire Warren Buffett, whose stock picks over several decades have enriched generations of Berkshire Hathaway Inc (BRKa.N) shareholders, delivered a black eye to the investment industry on Saturday, urging ordinary investors to buy plain-vanilla index funds. “When trillions of dollars are managed by Wall Streeters charging high fees, it will usually be the managers who reap […]
Singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran continues to top the streaming song charts on Spotify both globally and here in the United States. Sheeran’s “Shape of You” is the no. 1 song on both charts by a comfortable margin. Ed Sheeran Rules Spotify Streaming Charts It’s been around six weeks since Ed Sheeran dropped two new songs and broke the Spotify record for most streams in a 24-hour period. On Jan. 13, […]
BEIRUT The Syrian army and its allies made a sudden advance on Saturday and Sunday into areas held by Islamic State in northwest Syria, a war monitor said, as the jihadist group retreated after losing the city of al-Bab to Turkey-backed rebels on Thursday. The eastwards advance in an area south of al-Bab has extended Syrian army control across 14 villages and brought it within 25km (15 […]
QInvest, the Qatar-based Islamic investment bank, has announced its exit from the St Edmund’s Terrace LP Fund which invested £50 million in a new luxury residential project in London. The fund, which was jointly owned by QInvest and a range of GCC institutional and retail investors, was created to allow investors to invest in London’s prime residential market. QInvest said in a statement that the fund generated […]
BISHKEK Kyrgyzstan’s state security service said it detained opposition politician Omurbek Tekebayev on Sunday on charges of corruption and fraud, a move that may eliminate him as a contender for presidency in the upcoming election. Tekebayev, 58, leads the Ata Meken (Fatherland) party’s parliamentary faction and is one of the most outspoken critics of President Almazbek Atambayev, whose term ends this year. The ex-Soviet Central Asian nation […]
