Dubai / Emirates Business With over a third of the world’s population projected to own a smartphone by next year — an estimated 2.6 billion smartphone users in the world — it is likely that almost all Middle East-based consumers own — or will own — at least one smartphone. So it’s great news that GITEX Shopper 2016, the ...

  Dubai / Emirates Business Azizi Developments, a leading UAE-based real estate developer with global reach into international markets, completed the official handover to owners of its Dubai-based property development — Azizi Feirouz Residence — a residential G+11 building with 99 one to three-bedroom units located in the new urban development of Al Furjan. Since then, tenants have begun to ...

  PARIS / AP Rihanna and Natalie Portman dressed to the nines. Jennifer Lawrence opted for jeans. And most of the stars passed unnoticed amid the sea of celebrities awash inside Paris’ Rodin Museum on Friday. The great equalizer for them all was a chance to glimpse one of the year’s biggest fashion spectacles: the hugely-awaited debut from Christian Dior’s ...

  Paris / AFP If the idea of an “It girl influencer” sitting in a “frow” watching a “gender fluid” collection available in “see now, buy now” has you scratching your head, then you need our essential guide to fashion jargon. Here are a few basic terms to help you understand what is going on at Paris fashion week: FASHION ...

  Relaxnews Lacoste creative director Felipe Oliveira Baptista gave Jean-Paul Goude free rein to rework the iconic crocodile logo that has adorned the brand’s polo shirts and ready-to-wear pieces for several decades. The new logo, capturing a kind of crocodile courting dance, will be used on garments in the brand’s “Holiday Collector” line, due out from November. Best remembered for ...

  Paris / AFP They wear the world’s most beautiful and expensive clothes yet their faces are the picture of blank boredom. Why do fashion models always look so miserable? “You don’t smile. It is just not done,” said model Ty Ogunkoya as catwalk stars criss-crossed Paris for fashion week. In his decade as a top model, the 26-year-old Nigerian-born ...

  ABU DHABI / WAM His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, was re-assured on the condition of the students who were injured on Thursday following a traffic accident in Mussafah. Sheikh Mohamed wished the students speedy recovery to return to their schools. Earlier, a ...

  BELGRADE / WAM Juma Rashid Saif Al Dhaheri, UAE Ambassador to the Republic of Serbia, on Thursday attended the 6th Business Conference “South East Europe Tourism – SEET2016”. The event is being taking place under the patronage of Ministry of Trade, Tourism and Telecommunications of Republic of Serbia from September 28 in Sava Centre, Belgrade. The event aims to ...

  The question about the TPP — the Trans-Pacific Partnership, President Obama’s signature trade agreement — is whether it’s already gone to the political morgue or whether it’s still in intensive care. Both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump oppose the agreement, while the president has urged ratification. With Obama’s term ending and his already-modest influence eroding by the day, TPP ...

  Paul Romer, chief economist at the World Bank, has offered a controversial explanation for why the shocking experience of the 2008 financial crisis has had so little effect on academic macroeconomics. The field, he asserts, has devolved into a sort of cult in which loyalty to certain figures of authority matters more than the pursuit of the truth. Could ...