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‘Wadeem’ sold out for $1.49bn

This is the highest Abu Dhabi real-estate release to date.

Tesla Q2 sales down 13.5%

Shares rally after the disclosure, better than some forecasts.

TomTom cuts 300 jobs

The firm said it was realigning its organization as it embraces AI.

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.
  • 193 countries adopt first global pact on Artificial Intelligence ethics

    All member nations of UNESCO adopted on Thursday a historical text that defines the common values and principles needed to...

    The Recommendation on Ethics of AI sets the first global normative framework while giving countries the responsibility to apply it at their level.

    Until the pact, there were no universal safeguards against ethnic bias, privacy threats, dangers of mass surveillance: UNESCO.

  • Carbon capture tech finally gaining speed: IEA

    For net-zero, carbon-capture tech cannot spend another decade on the sidelines of climate mitigation efforts, said the IEA.

    Carbon-capture tech and facilities say a stagnation, and even regression, from 2010 to 2017

    However, 2021 has seen many countries and organizations promising to scale up the technology due to their net-zero pledges

  • Crisis a chance to green Lebanon: environment minister

    Lebanon's economic meltdown presents an opportunity to improve the country's environmental policies and tackle its festering waste management crisis, says...

    Lebanon's economy has been in tailspin for two years, leading to a historic currency collapse that has sent poverty rates soaring

    Incompetence and corruption caused a spectacular waste crisis in 2015, when rivers of trash filled the streets and ran into the sea

  • NASA launches spacecraft to kick an asteroid off course

    The goal is to slightly alter the trajectory of Dimorphos, a "moonlet" around 525 feet wide that circles a much...

    The goal is to slightly alter the trajectory of Dimorphos, a "moonlet" around 525 feet wide that circles a much larger asteroid called Didymos

    Impact should take place in the fall of 2022, when the binary asteroid system is 6.8 million miles from Earth, almost the nearest point they ever get

  • RAF claims world first flight using synthetic oil

    Group Captain Peter Hackett completed a short flight in an Ikarus C42 microlight aircraft at an airfield in Gloucestershire, western...

    Britain's ministry of defense said it had the potential to save 80-90 percent of carbon per flight.

    The RAF is planning its first airbase to be net zero by 2025 and be carbon neutral across the service by 2040.

  • Amazon had the highest deforestation record in October 2021

    While Brazil takes international pledge at COP26 to end deforestation by 2030, the destruction of the Amazon rainforest keeps rising...

    Deforestation of 7,880 square kilometers of Amazon's rainforest was been reported in 2021

    Environmentalists blame the country's president for defunding environmental protection organizations

  • Morocco river does not flow into the sea any more

    After years of drought and over-pumping, the Moulouya river in Morocco comes to a halt just short of the sea....

    The Moulouya river is one of the longest rivers in Morocco and a vital lifeline for farmers in the area near the Algerian border

    Its final few paces are now separated from the Mediterranean Sea by a sandbar

  • Deal but no deal: COP26 adds to climate confusion

    Rich countries stand accused of failing at the COP26 summit in Glasgow to deliver much-needed finance to vulnerable states at...

    Rich countries accused of failing to deliver much-needed finance to vulnerable states at risk of drought, rising seas, fire and storms

    The European Commission said the deal has "kept the Paris targets alive".

  • Trillions needed to fight climate threat: UN draft report

    The draft Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change report is scheduled for release early next year.

    Helping vulnerable nations cope with the multiplier effect of climate change will require trillions of dollars, according to a draft UN report

    The failure of rich countries to deliver the promised $100 billion a year for vulnerable nations has become a flashpoint at COP26

  • Elon Musk’s SpaceX launches four astronauts to International Space Station

    After a series of delays, Elon Musk's private company SpaceX launched four astronauts to the International Space Station on Wednesday...

    The station is currently operating with just one NASA astronaut in the US segment to welcome the incoming crew.

    The flight was initially postponed from October 31 first for weather, then a "minor medical issue" affecting one of the crew.

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