|By Arabian Post Staff| Gold plunged after trading volume hit 1.8 million ounces in just one minute and gold traders were shaken by the plunge, Bloomberg reported. Gold traders shaken awake by Monday’s rapid price plunge said the move probably won’t mean an end to the sleepy pace that’s characterized the market in recent months. Bullion sank at 9 a.m. in London on Monday after a huge spike […]
|By Arabian Post Staff| Xanadu Real Estate Development, a Dubai-based property developer, announced the delivery of nearly 200 luxury villas and townhouses with a development value exceeding Dh750 million, part of the Dh8 billion worth of projects it helped deliver with its partners over the last six years. These include 130 Townhouses at Jumeirah Village Circle, worth Dh300 million and 68 luxury villas at Jumeirah Golf Estates, […]
A view of Earth from 36,000 nautical miles away as photographed from the Apollo 10 spacecraft during its trans-lunar journey toward the moon. While the Yucatan Peninsula is obscured by clouds, nearly all of Mexico north of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec can be clearly delineated. Source link
Interested in precious metals investing or storage? Contact us HERE Posted with permission and written by John Rubino CLICK HERE FOR ORIGINAL) By now everyone with an Internet connection is aware of the “ransomware” attack that shut down hundreds of thousands of computers over the weekend. The fact that the onslaught is just beginning — as the military-grade hacking tools developed by […]
Tuesday’s court filing argues that UnitedHealth repeatedly ignored findings from its own auditors that risk scores were often inflated, as well as warnings by officials from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) that the firm was responsible for ensuring the billings it submitted were accurate. UnitedHealth argued that it had done nothing wrong, and said it would aggressively contest the case. “We are confident our company […]
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates: Donald Trump Jr. traveled to Dubai and met a billionaire business partner in the city-state, discussing “new ideas” as the Emirati’s real estate firm still lists possible plans for future joint projects while Trump’s father is in the White House.The Trump Organization has said it won’t make new foreign deals while Donald Trump serves as America’s 45th president. That didn’t affect the Trump […]
Leisure Near the island of Sir Bu Nair, dhows participate in a training session on the eve of al-Gaffal traditional long-distance dhow sailing race to Dubai. Over a hundred traditional dhow racing boats will take part in al-Gaffal race from Sir Bu Nayer Island to Dubai. (Source: CEO Middle East YouTube channel) Source link
Orangutans prove to be exceptionally awesome moms. One proof: they nurse longer than any other mammal, sometimes into the ninth year of life. New study findings showed that previous estimates of wild orangutan mothers nursing their offspring for up to seven years may be low. The pattern could actually last up to eight or nine years, particularly when young orangutans would supplement their diet with breast milk during […]
In the race to produce a quantum computer, a number of projects are seeking a way to create quantum bits — or qubits — that are stable, meaning they are not much affected by changes in their environment. This normally needs highly nonlinear non-dissipative elements capable of functioning at very low temperatures. (via WSJ)
BEIRUT Islamic State attacked a village near the main road between Aleppo and Homs on Thursday, killing many residents, Syrian state media and a war monitor said. The jihadist group said in a social media feed it had captured the village of Aqarib al-Safi, but the government-run SANA news agency reported that the attack had been repulsed. SANA said Islamic State fighters had killed 20 people in […]
Climate change continues to negatively impact our planet and a new study suggests that several salmon and trout species could vanish from California in the next 100 years. In the report published on Tuesday, May 16, researchers claimed that 23 out of the 31 salmon species found in the Californian waters would likely go extinct within the next century. What Is Causing The Decline In Salmon And Trout […]
DUBAI // A jobless Emirati who was sentenced to five years in jail for giving his girlfriend the drugs that killed her has lost his appeal. The man, 33, only confessed to possessing drugs for personal use and denied charges of facilitating drugs and consuming drugs at Dubai Criminal Court but he was found guilty of all charges. On August 12, 2015 police received a report of […]
Transporting methane from gas wellheads to market provides multiple opportunities for this greenhouse gas to leak into the atmosphere. Now, an international team of researchers has taken the first step in converting methane directly to electricity using bacteria, in a way that could be done near the drilling sites. (via WSJ)
18 May 2017 Colombo: To further boost its sourcing operations and to bring in high quality products for its large chain of hypermarkets, Middle East based retail giant LULU group today inaugurated it world-class sourcing, food processing & export unit in Sri Lanka. Y.A.S. Lanka was inaugurated by Sagala Ratanayaka, Chief of Staff to the PM & Minister for Law & Order and Southern Development in the […]
Here is a selection of five charts that FT Markets believes are worth watching. A fresh chart will be added on a regular basis. 1. Wall Street hit by biggest slide since November US stocks suffered their worst trading day in eight months on Wednesday after political turmoil in Washington shook investors, with some fearing President Donald Trump’s ability to push through his pro-growth policies has been […]
The vast majority of measles cases occurring in the United States can be put down to Americans who have traveled abroad without being immunized against the disease. Although measles has been officially eradicated in the United States since 2000, sporadic outbreaks continue to happen because unvaccinated people visiting foreign countries contract the disease elsewhere and bring back the virus upon returning home. This puts their families and entire […]
In a small West Village theater last week, an audience cheered on the Wu-Tang Clan and Bill Murray as they stole a one-of-a-kind rap album from a capitalist caricature. They were watching the new musical about drug-price gouger, apparent twerp and accused fraud Martin Shkreli. The show is silly, fun and maybe went a little too long, which wasn’t too inconvenient because of its talented cast. (Who […]
By Shinichi Saoshiro | TOKYO TOKYO Asian stocks fell on Thursday and the dollar was stuck near six-month lows against a basket of currencies as uncertainty mounted over U.S. President Donald Trump’s future following reports that he tried to interfere with a federal investigation. MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan dropped 0.4 percent. Japan’s Nikkei shed 1.5 percent, Australian shares lost 1.2 percent and South […]
Scientists have for the first time fabricated a nanomaterial made from nanoparticles of a titanium oxide compound (Ti4O7) that is characterized by an extremely large surface area, and tested it as a cathode material in lithium-sulphur batteries. The highly porous nanomaterial possesses high storage capacity that remains nearly constant over many charging cycles. (via WSJ)
Google chief executive Sundar Pichai delivers the keynote address at the 2017 Google I/O Conference, where he stressed the importance of artificial intelligence Google announced Wednesday it was bringing its digital assistant to Apple iPhones as part of its effort to win the battle with tech rivals on artificial intelligence. At its annual developers conference at an outdoor concert-venue near its main campus in Mountain View, California, […]
China has agreed to increase its import quota for Cambodian rice to 300,000 tonnes by next year, Prime Minister Hun Sen announced yesterday following his return from Beijing where he attended the Belt and Road initiative summit. In a post to his official facebook page, Hun Sen detailed a conversation he had with Chinese president Xi Jinping, who said China would increase its imports of Cambodian rice […]
Call it the Trump fade? The so-called Trump trade captivated Wall Street after the surprise election of Donald Trump last November. After years of stagnant economic growth in the wake of the financial crisis, the prospect of Mr Trump’s pro-business agenda, combined with Republican control of both executive and legislative branches of the US government, breathed new life into the ageing equity rally, sent the dollar to […]
Photo Supporters of President Hassan Rouhani, who is running for re-election, at a campaign rally in Isfahan, Iran, on Sunday. Credit Vahid Salemi/Associated Press WASHINGTON — The Trump administration signaled on Wednesday that it would not, for now, jettison the Iran nuclear deal, despite the president’s harsh criticisms of the agreement during the campaign. But while acknowledging that the deal would remain in place, the administration imposed […]
UNITED NATIONS U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said on Wednesday she will visit Turkey and Jordan from May 19-25 to see how Syrian refugees “are coping, day in and day out,” to see U.N. humanitarian work and highlight the U.S. aid response. It will be the first overseas trip by Haley, a member of President Donald Trump’s cabinet, and follows a bid by Trump […]
