Frankfurt / DPA With the help of a CT scan, Monica Solorzano Kraemer has discovered an ancient fly encased in a piece of amber from France. “Some ambers are too cloudy for a microscope,” says the scientist from Germany’s Senckenberg Society for Natural History. “With a CT scan I can look right through the stone.” A 3D computer programme ...

  DUBAI / EMIRATES BUSINESS Emirates NBD, the UAE’s largest lender, delivered a solid set of financial results with net profit up 8% to AED 5.4 billion for the first nine months of 2016. The operating performance was helped by higher recoveries and a modest increase in total income, driven by higher core fee income and asset growth which offset ...

  ABU DHABI / WAM Mohammed Thani Murshid Al Rumaithi, Chairman of the Federation of the UAE Chambers of Commerce and Industry and Chairman of Abu Dhabi Chamber, has with Alexander Efimov, Ambassador of the Russian Federation to the UAE, and discussed boosting cooperation between the Emirate of Abu Dhabi and Russia. Al Rumaithi said that in order to improve ...