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Nvidia, a company known for its graphics cards and processors, has taken another step into the self-driving car industry. The company has received approval from California’s Department of Motor Vehicles to test its self-driving technology in public roads, and it seems that Nvidia did not waste any time after being granted permission. Nvidia Receives California DMV Permit For Self-Driving Car Testing On the Testing of Autonomous Vehicles […]

Photo: Bullit Marquez, AP FILE – In this Dec. 2, 2016, file photo, protesters burn a mock American flag during a protest against the planned joint US-Philippines military exercise in central Philippines in front of the U.S. Embassy in Manila, Philippines. The Philippines has again thumbed its nose at the U.S., its longtime defense ally, saying it won’t be used as a springboard for U.S. ships and […]

By Engen Tham and Adam Jourdan | SHANGHAI SHANGHAI Ma Yiqing, 24, is typical of China’s younger generation – he uses his credit card frequently and borrows from online platforms to fund his shopping habits. In a pinch, he is happy to fall back on a lender closer to home – his mum and dad. Interviews with Ma, a single-child, his mother and grandmother, show how rapidly […]

11 December 2016 Dubai-UAE – National Bonds Corporation (National Bonds), the leading sharia-compliant savings and investments company in the UAE, has launched its Prestige wealth management program for the benefit of high net-worth customers that total more than 11,000 of the company’s 817,000 client base. National Bonds announced the program at a special gala dinner at the Ritz Carlton in Dubai International Financial Center (DIFC). Attended by guest […]

Boeing officials, already dismayed by Mr. Trump’s attack last week over the costs of a new Air Force One, acknowledged that the Iran jet deal still faced contingencies — a polite way of saying they were deeply worried about whether Mr. Trump and the Republican-led Congress would support it. Continue reading the main story Beyond that deal, Boeing and other companies that export jet engines, high-tech products […]

First it was the Fed, then the ECB (which last week tapered when it reduced the monthly amount of bond purchases under its QE program). Now attention shifts to the Bank of Japan, because as the WSJ writes, one of central banking’s most aggressive easers – Kuroda’s Bank of Japan – may soon have to think about tightening for the first time since 2007. While it has […]

Even in today’s increasingly globalised, genre-melding world of music, many fans remain remarkably territorial – none more so than the stereotypically snobby classical connoisseurs. Yet different genres more in common that you might think, and a series of concerts, hosted as part of the Abu Dhabi Classics, aims to explore and expose the relationship between classical and pop music, with the help of a man who has […]

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The first global crude supply pact in 15 years has underlined the growing energy alliance between Saudi Arabia and Russia, as the depth of the two-year oil slump forces co-operation between once unlikely partners. Russia led the main oil producers from outside the Opec cartel, including Mexico and Kazakhstan, in a deal signed this weekend to reduce supply by 568,000 barrels a day — with Moscow, the […]

For the first time in the world, a research team has designed and fabricated single-component organic molecules that are conductive like metal under normal pressure, despite the fact that the molecules contain neither multiple molecules nor metal elements. Because the molecules are completely pure, they are more durable and stable compared to conventional chemically doped organic conductive materials. The new molecules may be applied to solar cell […]

ANKARA Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan convened a security meeting of government ministers and senior bureaucrats on Sunday, presidential sources said, a day after a twin bombing in Istanbul killed more than 30 people. The bombing, which the government says was likely to be the work of the outlawed militant Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), left 38 people dead and 155 wounded, Erdogan said earlier. (Reporting by Murad Sezer […]

By Laila Bassam and Suleiman Al-Khalidi | ALEPPO, Syria/AMMAN ALEPPO, Syria/AMMAN The Syrian army and its allies made new gains in Aleppo on Sunday, forcing rebels back into an ever shrinking pocket crammed with civilians, but lost control of the desert city of Palmyra to a swift Islamic State attack. Final victory in Aleppo, Syria’s biggest city before the civil war, would constitute the biggest triumph yet […]

Mobile computing in 2016 was quite literally explosive, but when you look beyond the schadenfreude of watching Samsung mishandle its defining crisis of the year, the past 12 months have hardly set the world alight. The best example of the current state of affairs is the Google Pixel XL. Technically, this is the best Android phone on the market at the moment. Its 5.5-inch AMOLED screen is […]

MILAN Italy’s biggest bank by assets UniCredit (CRDI.MI) has reached a deal to sell its asset manager Pioneer to France’s Amundi for more than 4 billion euros ($4.2 billion), a source with knowledge of the matter said on Sunday. The deal, which the source said involves a special dividend of about 500 million euros to be paid to UniCredit, is one of various disposals being pursued by […]

By Caren Bohan | WASHINGTON WASHINGTON U.S. President-elect Donald Trump questioned whether the United States had to be bound by its long-standing position that Taiwan is part of “one China” and brushed aside Beijing’s concerns about his decision to accept a phone call from Taiwan’s president. “I fully understand the ‘one China’ policy, but I don’t know why we have to be bound by a ‘one China’ […]

11 December 2016 Dubai: Dubai SME, the agency of the Department of Economic Development mandated to develop the Emirate’s small and medium enterprise (SME) sector, and Al Tamimi & Company, the largest law firm in the Middle East which specialises in patents and innovations, have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to support entrepreneurial innovations and patents. The MoU reflects both parties’ commitment to achieving the UAE’s vision […]

During the gradual rapprochement between the US and Muammer Gaddafi’s Libya in February 2007, Rex Tillerson visited the country and met its leader in his traditional tent. As chief executive of ExxonMobil, the world’s largest listed oil company, Mr Tillerson had an interest in opening up access to Libya’s vast reserves, but his visit was also a milestone in the progress towards normal relations with the US.  […]

BISHKEK Kyrgyzstan has voted in favour of constitutional changes boosting the power of its government, the Central Election Commission said on Sunday, citing preliminary results of a national referendum. The commission said that with most ballots counted in the Central Asian nation of six million, about 80 percent of voters had supported the package of constitutional amendments proposed by allies of President Almazbek Atambayev. Voter turnout was […]

BEIRUT The United States and Russia on Sunday tabled a proposal to rebels in Aleppo that would offer safe passage from the city for fighters, their families and other civilians, three opposition officials with Aleppo rebel groups told Reuters. The rebel groups in Aleppo have yet to respond to the proposal, the officials said. The proposal promised rebel fighters a “secure” and “honourable” withdrawal from the city, […]

By Tife Owolabi | UYO, Nigeria UYO, Nigeria At least 100 people were killed by the collapse of a church in southeastern Nigeria, a resident and photojournalist who visited a morgue said on Sunday, but officials put the death toll at just 27. “At Uyo teaching hospital where I am now I could see over a hundred corpses, many are heaped on top off each other on […]

Photo Mayor Nir Barkat of Jerusalem says he is optimistic that when Donald J. Trump is president, he will move the United States Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, whose status is contested by Israel and the Palestinians. Credit Associated Press/Tsafrir Abayov The mayor of Jerusalem says that he is optimistic that once Donald J. Trump becomes president, the United States will quickly move its embassy in […]

DUBAI // Dubai has invested Dh120m in 19 projects in the first stage of the emirate’s Future Accelerators Programme, which ended on Sunday. The investments are in projects in education, health, infrastructure, transport, technology, energy, and security. Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid, Vice President and Ruler of Dubai, is “leading a government system that encourages unconventional thinking to achieve unprecedented results”, said Mohammed Al Gergawi, managing director of […]

By Ahmed Mohammed Hassan and Ali Abdelaty | CAIRO CAIRO A bombing at Cairo’s largest Coptic cathedral killed at least 25 people and wounded 49, many of them women and children attending Sunday mass, in the deadliest attack on Egypt’s Christian minority in years. The attack comes as President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi fights battles on several fronts. His economic reforms have angered the poor, a bloody crackdown […]

Luke Hemsworth has just played a prominent part in one of the TV events of the year – Westworld, HBO’s TV adaptation of Michael Crichton’s 1973 ­techno-noir thriller movie. The sci-fi drama is about an amusement park populated by lifelike robots who start to develop consciousness and become self aware. The show takes the basic idea behind Crichton’s film – robots run amok at a theme park […]

President-elect Donald Trump on Sunday rejected as “ridiculous” a CIA report that Russia had intervened in the presidential election in order to help him win.  Mr Trump called the intelligence assessment, which rocked Washington this weekend, “just another excuse” for Hillary Clinton’s surprise loss. “I don’t believe it,” he told Fox News.  The interview aired shortly after a bipartisan Senate quartet called for a congressional investigation of […]

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