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Aldar nets $953m in sales at Fahid

Aldar said 42 percent of the buyers are under the age of 45.

Qualcomm to Alphawave for $2.4 bn

The deal makes Alphawave the latest tech company to depart London.

Equinor signs $27 bn gas deal

The 10-year contract was signed with Centrica.

ADNOC Drilling secures $1.15bn contract

The contract for two jack-up rigs begins in the second quarter.

Etihad Q1 profit $187 million

This is a 30% YoY increase over Q1 2025.
  • Novel crisis: Iran’s booking shrink as US sanctions bite

    The price of a book in Iran depends on the fluctuation of its currency as the country relies on paper...

    Many publishing houses in Iran have been out of business as the economic crisis deepens

    Iranian publishers slash number of titles published and cut the number of pages which they print by shrinking the font size

  • The annual Sharjah Heritage festival to kick off in March

    Armenia will be the official guest of honor this year due to its rich and diverse cultural stock, while Indonesia...

    The Sharjah Institute for Heritage (SIH) announced that the festival’s slogan will be "The Heritage and the Future"

    A total of 33 countries would participate in the event including Saudi Arabia, Oman, Kuwait and Qatar from GCC

  • Mosul’s fallen monuments to rise again

    The reconstruction of Al-Hadba minaret and Al-Saa’a and Al-Tahera Churches in the city is being carried out by UNESCO in...

    After the city was liberated, UNESCO launched in 2018 an ambitious international initiative to “revive the spirit of Mosul”.

    The UAE was the first partner to join this UNESCO’s initiative for the restoration and reconstruction of the historic landmarks of Mosul – Al-Nouri Mosque and Al-Hadba minaret.

  • Saudi coffee legacy percolates through the generations

    Saudi Aramco, the oil company, will establish a coffee center in Jizan while using "advanced irrigation techniques to improve agricultural...

    An integral part of Saudi culture, red Khawlani coffee beans are so popular that 2022 has been designated the Year of Saudi Coffee

    The government has started a campaign to promote its coffee asking restaurants and cafes to say Saudi coffee instead of Arabic coffee

  • Disney+ shines amid streaming TV competition

    Disney saw streaming subscriptions pick up pace as pandemic restrictions ease, while Netflix saw them slow.

    Disney+ saw its big studio muscle help it reach 129.8 million subscribers worldwide, some 5 million more than predicted

    Netflix ended the year with 221.8 million subscribers, a massive number, but it announced slowing growth

  • Jordan announces program of jurisprudence lessons in the Kingdom’s mosques

    The initiative is about enlightening people on the matters of their religious jurisprudence and compliance with the hadith of the...

    The initiative is about enlightening people on the matters of their religious jurisprudence and compliance with the hadith of the Prophet

    The initiative also aims to introduce scholars, mosque pioneers and students of knowledge to jurisprudence and its meanings in Qur’an and Hadith

  • ‘Hey Jude’ NFT fetches $77k at auction

    Originally entitled "Hey Jules", the Fab Four's hit was written in 1968 by Paul McCartney to comfort a young Julian...

    Originally entitled "Hey Jules", the Fab Four's hit was written in 1968 by Paul McCartney to comfort a young Julian Lennon during father John's separation from his mother

    The NFT version of the notes was presented as an animation in which the words are progressively inscribed on the page and was accompanied by an audio commentary from Lennon junior

  • Lebanon returns 337 artifacts from different eras to Iraq

    The items returned have been characterized as ‘witnesses to the childhood of human history.’

    The artifacts had been on display in a Lebanese museum for several years

    The items are said to have included clay tablets and pieces of pottery

  • On social media demand, Kuwait to ban film starring Israeli actress

    Kuwait will ban a new film adaptation of Agatha Christie's whodunnit "Death on the Nile" with a cast of Hollywood...

    Social media users pointed to Gal Gadot's praise of the Israeli army and her criticism of the Palestinian Islamic movement Hamas during the 2014 war in Gaza.

    Gadot is best known for the lead role in the 2017 Hollywood blockbuster "Wonder Woman" which was banned in some Arab countries.

  • Elizabeth II wants Camilla to be Queen Consort

    Four days of festivities are planned for early June, coinciding with the anniversary of her 1953 coronation.

    There will be ceremonial gun salutes in London's Green Park, close to Buckingham Palace, and at Edinburgh Castle in Scotland as Elizabeth's Platinum Jubilee starts

    Elizabeth ll is the first Monarch in history to reach the historic milestone of 70 years on the throne

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