Lebanese pop star Elissa announced that she will be quitting the music industry and compared it to a “mafia” that she could not work within any longer. ### The singer, who has been one of the best-selling Arab female artists over the past two decades, broke the news on Twitter that her next album would…
Abu Dhabi: Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank (ADIB) UK, has provided financing for The Bank of London and the Middle East (BLME) to acquire a Dh120 million (£26.95 million) Grade A office building in Edinburgh, leased to Centrica as their corporate headquarters in Scotland until 2035. ### The award-winning building, which forms part of the Edinburgh…
Bangkok: In the dead of night, Thai firefighter Pinyo Pukpinyo stealthily approaches a python coiled around the rafters of a home in Bangkok, and quickly grabs its head with his bare hands. ### “I need to remain steady and calm,” says the 50-year-old, as he pulls the fat snake, almost five metres (16 ft) long, off…
Dubai: A Dubai-based businessman wants to take on WhatsApp. And SnapChat. And just about any free messaging platform that’s out there. ### Balvinder Singh Sahni, Chairman of RSG Group, has put in Dh400 million for a 10 per cent stake in the business that developed the “Yzer” app, a voice, video and data messaging platform…
Washington: Scientists in Australia have discovered how to save starving koalas whose fussy eating habits make them vulnerable to habitat loss: by feeding them poo. ### A team of researchers used fecal transplants in the form of orally ingested capsules to alter the microbes in the marsupials’ guts, thus allowing them to eat a wider…
New York: The United Arab Emirates has rejected allegations against it over ongoing developoments in Yemen’s southern city of Aden. ### In an address to the United Nations on Tuesday, Saud Al Shamsi, Deputy Permanent Representative and Chargé d’affaires of the United Arab Emirates to the United Nations, underscored the UAE’s extreme concern over armed…
Dubai: The Dubai Court of Appeal has sentenced a driver to three months in prison for threatening to kill a female compatriot if she got him jailed. ### The Court of First Instance earlier sentenced the 39-year-old Ethiopian defendant to six months in jail for sending death threats via WhatsApp to his countrywoman over a…
I first visited Safwan, a dusty town on the Iraq side of the border with Kuwait, in early 2003, a few weeks before the start of the US-led invasion. Coalition forces were deploying a few miles to the south, waiting for the order to smash through the long man-made berm separating the two countries. Laith,…
Il video di OpenCircle con Matteo Della Bordella e David Bacci sulla via Freerider in Yosemite. La via è il sogno di tanti, un banco di prova importante su El Capitan, quasi 1000m fino a 5.12d (7c) liberati nel 1998 dai fratelli Thomas e Alexander Huber e ripetuti da Matteo Della Bordella e David Bacci…
Il report di Stefania Pellizzari e il video dello Scurla Plock, il raduno boulder che si è svolto in Valle di Daone gli scorsi 8 e 9 giugno. E’ con immensa soddisfazione che si chiude l’edizione 2013 di Scurlaplock, il raduno non competitivo di arrampicata su massi della Valle di Daone. Dopo il successo del…