The non-oil tourism sector is one of the key cornerstones of the UAE’s economic diversification plan. And the country is giving the much-needed impetus to the segment. The Dubai Opera, Guggenheim and Louvre Museums in Abu Dhabi, Warner Bros. theme park in Yas Island and Dubai’s Mohammed bin Rashid City District One are the latest projects in the list ...

Shortly after British voters defied the leaders of both major political parties by deciding in June to leave the European Union, it was tempting to write the political obituary of Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn. His party’s polling was at a three-decade low. Most of his shadow cabinet resigned, furious that he was a no-show during the Brexit campaign. Labour ...

  There is a certain tragic irony in the fact that a crackdown on U.S. colleges with low graduation rates was announced during the very week when the Times Higher Education Supplement published its annual list of the world’s best universities. The coincidence provokes the thought that there is too much of this going on. By “this” I mean the ...