It’s in facials, on cappuccinos and most recently on the award-winning Burg Khalifa. But what is gold leaf like to work with when it comes to more permanent projects? We speak to a variety of artists about this tricky material. newslide Gold-leaf gilder All that glitters is gold at Emirates Palace. Most of the ceiling and many of its walls, totalling a one-kilometre surface, are covered in […]
SEOUL South Korea said on Monday North Korea’s latest rocket-engine test showed “meaningful” advancement in engine function. “Through this test, it is found that engine function has made meaningful progress but further analysis is needed for exact thrust and possible uses,” Lee Jin-woo, deputy spokesman for the South Korean defence ministry, told a regular briefing. North Korea had conducted a test of a new high-thrust engine at […]
Authored by ‘Vaniam’ via The Burning Platform blog, This is an Arizona patriot’s unique view on John Sydney McCain As of late, we the people of Arizona are very shocked to see what he has become. He is a caricature of a man who, around here, is about as popular as the ping-pong president. How could the people of Arizona, the state that brought you the O.K. […]
IPOH, March 20 — Pulau Sembilan, a cluster of nine islands off Perak, has been declared off-limits because of public apathy and environment degradation. Tourism and culture committee chairman Datuk Nolee Ashilin Mohd Radzi told Malay Mail the state government decided to impose the ban on tourists flocking to the islands as overcrowding had brought negative effects to environment sustainability. “Pulau Sembilan will be officially closed for […]
19 March 2017 Dubai Land Department (DLD), the strategic partner of the Dubai Property Show – Shanghai, hosted a preparatory meeting for Dubai property developers who will be exhibiting at the show from 24th to 26th March 2017. At the meeting, DLD discussed the various methods for ensuring the ongoing success of the show, including the promotional plan shared with exhibitors at the Real Estate Investment Management […]
LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan Three U.S. troops were wounded on Sunday after an Afghan soldier opened fire on them at a base in the southern province of Helmand, the NATO-led Resolute Support mission said. The soldiers are receiving medical care, the NATO-led training and assistance mission said on Twitter. A spokesman for the Afghan military in the south of the country said the Afghan special forces soldier was […]
DUBAI // The world desperately needs to adopt a new approach to achieve human happiness, the Vice President and Ruler of Dubai has said. Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid said the approach must be based on cooperation and searching for ponits of agreement, speaking to mark the creation of what was described as the first World Happiness Council. The announcement came ahead of International Happiness Day, which falls […]
Submissions have opened for the next two programmes of Arab Film Studio, the documentary and script writing strands of the long-running free training programme based out of Abu Dhabi. The winner of the documentary programme receives an internship with Image Nation’s documentary department, previously responsible for internationally acclaimed docs including He Named Me Malala and Anwar Roma (Lights of Rome). Documentaries from previous students, meanwhile, have covered […]
By Michelle Martin | SAARBRUECKEN, Germany SAARBRUECKEN, Germany When voters head to the polls in the German state of Saarland later this month, they are likely to deliver an upset to Chancellor Angela Merkel that could be a foretaste of September’s national election. One of Germany’s smallest states, Saarland is – like federal Germany – currently governed by a ‘grand coalition’ of Merkel’s conservatives and the Social […]
Hamad International Airport (HIA) has been ranked sixth best airport in the world by the 2017 Skytrax World Airport Awards, moving up four places from last year. At a ceremony that took place during the Passenger Terminal Expo in Amsterdam, HIA was also named “Best Airport in the Middle East” for the third consecutive year and was awarded “Best Staff Service in the Middle East” for the […]
By Emily Stephenson and Caren Bohan | WASHINGTON WASHINGTON U.S. lawmakers from both parties said on Sunday they had seen no proof to support the claim by Republican President Donald Trump that his predecessor Barack Obama had wiretapped him last year, adding pressure on Trump to explain or back off his repeated assertion. Several Republicans last week urged Trump to apologize for the allegations he made in […]
WASHINGTON A detailed version of President Donald Trump’s budget to be released in May will lay out plans to eventually erase U.S. deficits, White House budget director Mick Mulvaney said on Sunday. “We’re getting into that now. By May, I think it’s mid-May we’re shooting for right now, we’ll have that larger budget…” Mulvaney said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” program. Mulvaney acknowledged that the budget would […]
By Bill Berkrot | WASHINGTON WASHINGTON A newer class of type 2 diabetes drugs significantly cut the risk of death and hospitalization for heart failure compared with other medicines for the disease, according to data released on Sunday from a so-called real world study sponsored by AstraZeneca. The drugs, known as SGLT-2 inhibitors, work by removing blood sugar via the urine and include Astra’s Farxiga, Jardiance from […]
Microsoft’s Surface Book wowed many with its sleek and unique design. However, it may have found its competition in the ultra-stylish laptop department with Porsche Design’s 2-in-1 Book One laptop. Unveiled at the Mobile World Congress last February, Porsche Design’s Windows-powered laptop grabbed many people’s attention with its ultra-stylish design that’s reminiscent of the Surface Book. It does, however, have its own unique style that may just […]
Tim Byrnes is an unlikely symbol of China’s bid to become the world’s high-tech superpower. For a start he is Australian. Yet the 39-year-old quantum physicist’s decision to swap a research post in New York for Shanghai goes some way to explaining the lengths to which Beijing is going in its efforts to upend the world order. “Quantum physics is very strong in China,” says Mr Byrnes. […]
That concern gives weight to arguments for greater reliance on special operators as the Trump administration for now eschews larger deployments of conventional troops and proposes deep cuts in foreign aid and State Department budgets. Continue reading the main story The global reach of special operators is widening. During the peak of the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, nearly 13,000 Special Operations forces were deployed on missions […]
19 March 2017 Bell Helicopter, industry leader in the production of commercial and military vertical-lift aircraft, have confirmed their participation in the upcoming BIDEC 2017, (Bahrain International Defence Exhibition & Conference) one of the region’s leading international defence exhibitions. Scheduled to be held between 16-18 October 2017, this is Bahrain’s first tri-service defence exhibition, covering land, sea and air. The event which will be hosted under the […]
It has been almost five years to the day since Mahmood Hashim Al Kooheji took over as head of Bahrain’s sovereign wealth fund, Mumtalakat, restructuring several investment interests and making other changes to whip the fund into shape after years of losses. It followed a term at Gulf Air in which he managed the national carrier’s controversial restructure that saw 15 percent of its staff, around 600 […]
By Abdiqani Hassan | BOSASSO BOSASSO Somali officials whose forces freed a hijacked oil tanker and its eight Sri Lankan crew said on Sunday that NATO ships must do more to prevent the illegal fishing that locals say sparked the latest attack. Monday’s hijacking was the first time that Somali pirates had successfully hijacked a commercial ship since 2012. Unlike previous hijackings, the ship was freed swiftly […]
By Susan Cornwell and Valerie Volcovici | WASHINGTON WASHINGTON U.S. House Republicans are working on changes to their healthcare overhaul bill to provide more generous tax credits for older Americans and to add a work requirement for the Medicaid program for the poor, U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan said on Sunday. Ryan said Republican leaders still plan to bring the healthcare bill to a vote on the […]
By Michelle Martin | BERLIN BERLIN Germany’s Social Democrats (SPD) on Sunday formally endorsed former European Parliament President Martin Schulz as their leader and challenger to Chancellor Angela Merkel in what is set to be a tightly contested national election in September. The SPD has undergone a revival since nominating Schulz in late January, gaining around 10 points in opinion polls and signing up thousands of new […]
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – Biniam Alemeneh’s father was a construction worker, but the 16-year-old Ethiopian student dreamed of becoming an engineer, inspired by his country’s booming economy and the tall glass buildings mushrooming around his home city of Addis Ababa. -Reuters
The Trump administration’s budget blueprint, released this morning, proposes to eliminate funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which funds NPR and PBS, as well as many public radio and television stations across the United States. In a section on page 11 labeled “major agency budget highlights,” the budget summary lists the Corporation for Public Broadcasting as among the independent agencies that will be defunded, along with […]
Employer-funded healthcare in the US is an accidental system. It came into being during the second world war, when wage freezes and 1.9 per cent unemployment forced the government to allow companies to offer fringe benefits like healthcare in an attempt to attract workers. In 1943, the Internal Revenue Service ruled that employer-based healthcare should be tax free — and we were off to the races. The […]
