INSEAD Day 4 - 728x90

BYD logs record EV sales in 2025

It sold 2.26m EVs vs Tesla's 1.22 by Sept end.

Google to invest $6.4bn

The investment is its biggest-ever in Germany.

Pfizer poised to buy Metsera

The pharma giant improved its offer to $10bn.

Ozempic maker lowers outlook

The company posted tepid Q3 results.

Kimberly-Clark to buy Kenvue

The deal is valued at $48.7 billion.
  • Washington, United States--FBI Director Christopher Wray said Tuesday his agency believes the Covid-19 pandemic was "most likely" caused by an incident...

    The comments come after a report earlier this week said the US Department of Energy said that a leak from a Chinese lab was the most likely cause of the Covid-19 outbreak

    FBI head also accused the Chinese government of trying to stall US efforts to investigate the causes of the pandemic

  • The SpaceX Dragon Crew-6 mission is set to lift off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 1:45 am...

    NASA's Stephen Bowen and Warren Hoburg, Russia's Andrey Fedyaev and Sultan al-Neyadi of the United Arab Emirates are to spend six months on the orbiting space station

    Neyadi, 41, will be the fourth astronaut from an Arab country and the second from the oil-rich UAE to journey to space; his compatriot Hazzaa al-Mansoori flew an eight-day mission

  • NASIRIYAH, IRAQ - Iraq's Tigris and Euphrates rivers have witnessed a sharp decrease in their levels in the south of the...

    In Nasiriyah, capital of the southern province of Dhi Qar, an AFP photographer saw the river bed of the mighty Euphrates dry in patches.

    The water ministry blamed the situation in some southern provinces on "the low quantity of water reaching Iraq from neighboring Turkey".

  • In a few months the space telescope will blast off on history's first mission to search for two of the...

    Aiming to shed light on these dark secrets, the mission will chart a 3D map of the universe encompassing two billion galaxies across more than a third of the sky.

    The third dimension of this map will be time -- because Euclid's gaze will stretch out to 10 billion light years away, it will offer new insight into how the universe evolved.

  • "We utilise all forms of clean energy to cut carbon emissions and mitigate the worst impacts of climate change. The...

    The start of commercial operations for Unit 3 of the Barakah Nuclear Energy Plant marks another accomplishment in generating abundant clean electricity to the national grid

    The plant will also prevent millions of tons of carbon emissions annually, said Mariam bint Mohammed Almheiri, the UAE’s Minister of Climate Change and Environment

  • Rayyana Barnawi will join fellow Saudi male astronaut Ali Al-Qarni on a mission to the International Space Station (ISS) "during...

    The astronauts "will join the crew of the AX-2 space mission" and the space flight will "launch from the USA".

    In 1985, Saudi royal Prince Sultan bin Salman bin Abdulaziz, an airforce pilot, took part in a US-organized space mission, becoming the first Arab Muslim to travel into space.

  • Giant sheets of orange flames erupted from the base of the rocket and clouds of smoke billowed into the air...

    The test of the 33 Raptor engines on the first-stage booster of SpaceX's Starship took place at the private space company's base in Texas

    SpaceX founder Elon Musk said one engine was turned off just before the test began and one stopped itself

  • ABU DHABI,  UAE - The Environment Agency - Abu Dhabi (EAD) has issued a policy on sustaining marine water quality...

    The policy is part of EAD's efforts to maintain and sustain Abu Dhabi's marine waters and limit practices that can cause marine pollution.

    The policy aims to develop relevant legislative and regulatory frameworks and halt discharges that may have adverse impacts on the marine environment

  • DUBAI, UAE - Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) participated in a campaign to clean the beach and plant mangroves...

    DEWA organized virtual environmental lectures in Arabic and English, in cooperation with Dubai Municipality.

    More than 250 DEWA employees and their families participated in the event.

  • The monarch was added last year to the International Union for Conservation of Nature's Red List of threatened species.

    Volunteers counted more than 330,000 "western monarch" butterflies at the end of November, according to the Xerces Society conservation group.

    That number came as a relief compared to the 2,000 butterflies counted at the end of 2020, and an encouraging step up from the 250,000 or so butterflies tallied in 2021.

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