Dubai Ruler Sheikh Mohammed has announced the launch of Marsa Al Arab, Dubai Holding’s latest tourist destination development in the emirate. The $1.7 billion (AED 6.3bn) mega-project, spread across 4 million sq. ft, will be developed on new two islands on both sides of Burj Al Arab Jumeirah. Marsa (Arabic for marina) Al Arab is expected to be completed by 2020. One island will be dedicated to […]
German stocks hit a new high on Monday morning, as higher commodity prices boost stocks across Europe. The Dax climbed as much as 0.48 per cent to 12831, with energy group RWE the biggest gainer despite reporting an 18 per cent drop in first quarter profits. German stocks have been some of the biggest beneficiaries of renewed investor desire for European assets, after Emmanuel Macron’s victory in […]
Oil prices jumped after the energy ministers from Saudi Arabia and Russia said they backed extending an Opec-led agreement to cut output until March 2018. Saudi energy minister Khalid al-Falih and his Russian counterpart Alexander Novak met on Monday in Beijing and discussed oil output policy. Russia is the world’s biggest oil producer, while Saudi Arabia is the biggest exporter. The two ministers said in a joint […]
Oil jumped after the energy ministers from Saudi Arabia and Russia said that an OPEC-led agreement to cut output should be extended until March 2018. Saudi energy minister Khalid Al Falih and his Russian counterpart Alexander Novak discussed oil output policy in Beijing after which they made a joint statement. Mr Falih said the next round of cuts will be on the same terms as the first […]
ABU DHABI // A team of doctors from hospitals in Abu Dhabi operated on 110 patients in six days during a visit to a remote part of south Yemen. On his fourth trip to the country last month, Dr Amin El Gohary, paediatric surgeon at Burjeel hospital Abu Dhabi, carried out the vital operations with two other doctors in the remote Al Mukalla region. A strong believer […]
Singapore, one of the most urbanised nations on earth, is making land available for agriculture for the first time in decades for farmers to come up with high-tech ways of improving the city-state’s food security. About 60 hectares of land will be released for farming from August, in a move authorities describe as providing a “buffer” against disruption in the supply chain. Singapore is the third most […]
The cyber attacks that swept the globe on Friday likely aren’t over just yet: current data show more than 1.3m computer systems are still vulnerable to infection to the debilitating WannaCry infection. So far, 200,000 computers across 150 countries are known to have been infected in the first wave of the WannaCry cyber attack, Europol said on Sunday. “The recent attack is at an unprecedented level and […]
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) recently confirmed that the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion Spacecraft will have an unmanned maiden flight despite earlier plans for a crewed mission. According to the NASA, it is already too late into the mission planning schedule to accommodate changes from its original plan for the Exploration Mission 1 (EM-1), which was designed to have an unmanned first flight […]
Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives won a surprise victory on Sunday in regional elections in Germany’s most populous state, giving Europe’s most powerful leader a big boost in the run-up to national elections in September. The Christian Democrats took control of North Rhine-Westphalia from their Social Democrat rivals, dealing a heavy blow to SPD leader Martin Schulz as he bids to unseat Ms Merkel in Berlin. Meanwhile, the […]
Ransomware: Everything you ever wanted to know Hospitals across England and Scotland are being forced to postpone appointments and divert patients elsewhere because systems have been taken offline by a ransomware attack in an event NHS England has declared as a ‘major incident’. In a statement, NHS Digital, which runs IT systems for the health service, has confirmed that systems across the country have been brought down […]
Emmanuel Macron’s election as president of France received few more rapturous welcomes than that given by Sylvie Goulard, a liberal French politician in the European Parliament and ally of the 39-year-old new head of state. “Finally! Finally, Europe and France reconciled!” Ms Goulard enthused. “What a symbol — a young president, focused on the future, entering the Louvre of the kings of France to the sound of […]
Back when I owned a Nokia Lumia 950 XL, I wanted to purchase a cool Mozo cover that replaced the default cover, but stock was extremely limited. Mozo sent along three black accessories for me to test out; the Surface Pro 3/4 Folio, iPhone 7 Plus back cover case, and 13 inch sneaker sleeve. Surface Pro 3/4 Folio The Surface Pro 3 and 4 are excellent, portable […]
The US dollar came under pressure on Friday morning, with investors eyeing a duo of disappointing reports on the American economy. The buck was recently down by 0.44 per cent against the euro at $1.0909, while it was flat against sterling at $1.2878, having earlier traded as strong as $1.2845. Meanwhile, the greenback declined 0.34 per cent against the Japanese yen to ¥113.48. Friday’s performance came after […]
By Ayesha Rascoe and Michael Martina | WASHINGTON/BEIJING WASHINGTON/BEIJING The United States and China have agreed to take action by mid-July to increase access for U.S. financial firms and expand trade in beef and chicken among other steps as part of Washington’s drive to cut its trade deficit with Beijing. The deals are the first results of 100 days of trade talks that began last month, when […]
North Korea’s conducted its latest weapons test on Sunday, presenting South Korea’s Moon Jae-in with his first foreign policy challenge and raising fears that Pyongyang may have developed a new kind of missile. Japan’s defence minister said the missile had reached an altitude of 2,000km on its 700km journey, potentially indicating a new type of rocket. David Wright, a physicist and missile expert, wrote on the All […]
Samsung Galaxy S8 review: The good, the bad, the beautiful Samsung sent me a Galaxy S8 to review a month ago, and my personal T-Mobile orchid gray model arrived just a day after my review went live. I’ve been using that device as my daily driver ever since. The Samsung Galaxy S8 is an evolution of the S7 Edge and Note 7, but since the Note 7 […]
Emmanuel Macron will formally become French president on Sunday and will immediately be put to the test by challenges from choosing a prime minister to pressing Germany to back a tougher EU stance on trade and investment. Mr Macron, a 39-year-old Europhile pro-business centrist, is taking over a country on edge after an unpopular Socialist presidency and a rollercoaster campaign marked by the qualification of the far-right […]
BP is suing one of its former US oil trading analysts for allegedly stealing company secrets, in a case that shines a light on the importance of proprietary data to the world’s largest oil traders. In a filing in the United States Northern District of Illinois, BP’s trading division alleges that Joseph Giljum, a crude oil analyst at its Chicago office until last month, uploaded “large volumes” […]
It is not often that you can halt a global hacking attack for a tenner. But when you do, you spend your money fast. Although Friday’s attack infected computers in almost 100 countries, it did not go on to spread further, thanks to an eagle-eyed UK security researcher who spotted a “kill switch” in the malware code and used it to stop the virus and collect data […]
Bonds issued by commodity trader Noble Group have fallen, mirroring a sharp decline in its share price, amid growing concerns about the company’s ability to manage its debt load and secure liquidity from banks. Noble’s recently issued 8.75 per cent 2022 notes have fallen from 97 cents on the dollar this week to just 53 cents, pushing the yield up to about 27 per cent, according to […]
Microsoft’s just-unveiled Surface Laptop is its own approach to take down Chromebooks, but that much remains to be seen. Like Chromebooks, the Surface Laptop features a lightweight operating system. Windows calls it Windows 10 S, similar in aesthetics to the standard Windows 10, but significantly less able. For one, it can’t run desktop apps: only those downloaded from the Windows Store will work, in addition to apps ported […]
An exterior view shows the main entrance of St Bartholomew’s Hospital, in London, one of the hospitals whose computer systems were affected by a cyberattack, Friday, May 12, 2017. A large cyberattack crippled computer systems at hospitals across England on Friday, with appointments canceled, phone lines down and patients turned away. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham) Teams of technicians worked “round the clock” Saturday to restore hospital computer systems […]
Ransomware: Everything you ever wanted to know The ransomware attacks that forced hospitals across the UK to turn away patients are apparently part of a larger wave of ransomware infections worldwide. Prime Minister Theresa May said: “This is not targeted at the NHS, it’s an international attack and a number of countries and organisations have been affected,” according to the BBC. As well as the UK, where […]
Donald Trump said on Saturday that he could announce a new director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation within a week as the administration considers a shortlist of at least four candidates. At the weekend attorney-general Jeff Sessions and his deputy Rod Rosenstein were due to interview candidates to replace James Comey, who was ousted by Mr Trump in a move critics said was meant to frustrate an […]
