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  EMIRATES BUSINESS Palm Lights is a UAE-based brand specializing in eco-friendly candles. Started as a small home business in 2013, it has now grown into a trading establishment. With a vision to offer environmentally sustainable products in UAE, Palm Lights offers an exotic range of natural candles made with vegetable palm wax and essential oils. The crystalline finish on ...

  Emirates Business Pure Storage (NYSE: PSTG), the market’s leading independent solid-state array vendor has retained its position in the Leaders Quadrant of the Magic Quadrant for Solid State Arrays (SSAs) by Gartner, Inc., a leading global research firm. For the third straight year, Pure Storage is positioned furthest along the “Completeness of Vision” axis in the Leaders Quadrant. Since ...

  Buenos Aires / DPA Patients wait in long lines for turns to see physicians, mothers hold their babies close to their bosoms and scores of people walk up and down staircases, some of them carrying the results of medical tests. But none of that seems to bother musicians and singers at the Dr. Cosme Argerich Hospital in Buenos Aires, ...

  Ketapang / AFP Ignoring the shrieks of his rowdy, wrestling classmates, baby orangutan Otan practises swinging alone at his “jungle school” on Borneo island, switching hands and hanging upside down as he builds confidence high above the forest floor. The three-year-old is learning to fend for himself since being found wandering a palm oil plantation, alone and suffering smoke inhalation, ...

  Bloomberg When Deona Duke woke up from a medically-induced coma to begin recovering from burns that covered almost a third of her body, one of her treatments was hurling snowballs at penguins. The 13-year-old was set on fire when a bonfire exploded on her and her friend. To prevent infection, burn victims need their bandages changed and dead skin ...

  Gaza City / DPA From the roof of his house, Said Abu Nasser gazes over the concrete jungle of Gaza. There are no seating areas, no parasols and hardly any plants on the surrounding rooftops. But next to Abu Nasser, green and red pepper, and mint thrive in blue plastic tubs. Six stories below, the 53-year-old has also created ...

  Bloomberg In a giant warehouse near Lake Ziway in central Ethiopia, hundreds of women in aprons work at yellow workbenches under the flags of Dutch soccer clubs PSV Eindhoven and Feyenoord, sorting bunches of multicolored roses. Within two days the stems, shipped in perforated cardboard tubes from Dutch-owned AQ Roses’ flower farm, will be on sale at florists across ...

  Emirates Business Luxury Swiss watchmaker and aviation chronograph specialist, Breitling has announced the arrival of an all-new version of the Chronoliner model. Now ready for take-off in the Middle East market, the Chronoliner Blacksteel teams a high-tech ceramic bezel with a black steel case, along with a matching dial and rubber strap. Providing a technical and elegant uniform for ...

  Emirates Business Honor, the world’s number one smartphone e-brand from Huawei, is officially marking the Middle East and European launch of its highly desirable flagship smartphone, honor 8, at a spectacular event in Paris. The much anticipated device is a significant game-changer from honor as it offers even more value to the end user, as it’s not only packed ...

  DPA The winner gets all the glory — the loser gets a plunge into chilly water. In the summertime, crowds gather by lakes and rivers in southern Germany to watch the traditional sport of Fischerstechen, or fishermen’s jousting. Men of all ages, as well as some ladies in folk dresses, perch precariously at the end of long, narrow planks ...