Towering wall of dust rolls through Phoenix (@tdelaneyaz) A massive wall of dust known as a haboob swept through Phoenix, Arizona, on Monday, disrupting flights, cutting power to thousands, and raising questions about the nature and risks of such storms. The phenomenon, though not new to the American Southwest, caught widespread attention due to its […]
Kotak Mahindra becomes the first Indian entity to obtain a UAE SCA license/Image: File Kotak Mahindra Bank, one of India’s leading banking and financial groups, has taken a major step in its global expansion by receiving a license from the UAE Securities & Commodities Authority (SCA). This makes Kotak Mahindra (International) Ltd. the first Indian […]
Donald Trump (File photo) The White House announced on Monday its decision to exclude Wall Street Journal reporters from the presidential press pool for US President Donald Trump‘s upcoming Scotland visit, continuing its criticism of the publication’s coverage regarding the president’s connections to Jeffrey Epstein, a convicted sex offender, reported the New York Times.The Journal’s […]
US President Donald Trump has filed a $10 billion lawsuit against media mogul Rupert Murdoch, accusing him of defamation after the Wall Street Journal published a story linking Trump to a dicey birthday letter allegedly sent to Jeffrey Epstein in 2003.Soon after the lawsuit was announced, CNN aired several old clips of Trump openly praising […]
Media giant Rupert Murdoch, the man behind some of the world’s biggest news outlets, is back in the spotlight after US President Donald Trump filed a lawsuit against his company on Firday. The case stems from a recent Wall Street Journal report involving Jeffrey Epstein and a birthday letter allegedly written by Trump in 2003. […]
Representative image (Picture credit: AP) Israel attacked an onshore refinery at Phase 14 of Iran’s giant South Pars gas field in the Persian Gulf on Saturday, as it expanded its assault on the Islamic Republic to targeting its critical energy sector. The hit on the onshore Phase 14 processing plant forced the shutdown of a […]
LuLu’s delivery trucks and vans run on biodiesel refined from used cooking oil collected across its UAE stores/ Image courtesy: Gulf News LuLu Group, one of the UAE’s largest retail chains, has begun powering its delivery fleet with biodiesel made from used cooking oil collected across its stores. This move is part of the company’s […]
Spain denies power grid ‘experiment’ caused giant blackout (Photo: AP) Spain’s government on Wednesday denied a press report that an “experiment” on the national power grid caused a huge blackout that crippled the Iberian Peninsula one month ago.Authorities have been scrambling to find answers after the April 28 outage cut telecommunications, halted transport and plunged […]
FRANKFURT: Thyssenkrupp said Monday it planned a major overhaul that will split the vast conglomerate into several standalone businesses, fuelling fears about further job losses and a looming break-up of the historic German industrial titan. Once a symbol of German manufacturing might, Thyssenkrupp has fallen into crisis in recent years as high costs at home, […]
A fisherman died on Sunday after being swept off rocks near Sydney, pushing the Easter weekend drowning toll in Australia to six, with two more still missing as massive swells continued to batter the country’s eastern coast.Emergency services were called to Wattamolla Beach, south of Sydney, where two people had been dragged into the surf […]
