Bloomberg Whitbread Plc is betting that its faster-growing Costa Coffee chain will compete more effectively against the likes of Starbucks Corp. once separated from the company’s hotel business. Costa will be spun off from Premier Inn within 24 months, the Dunstable, England-based company said. The planned split follows mounting pressure from activist investors who said the two businesses sit uneasily ...

ABU DHABI / WAM The Committee for Goods and Materials Subject to Import and Export Control started a three-day meeting yesterday with a delegation from the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo), to discuss the means of strengthening their cooperation in regulating the gold trade, according to the best international practices. The meeting was headed by Talal ...

ABU DHABI / WAM UAE’s space programs, including the planned launch of the first Arab probe to Mars by 2021, known as Emirates Mars Mission, are beacons of hope for Arabs to blaze a trail and achieve distinction in this domain, according to Dr Farouk El-Baz, Director of the Centre for Remote Sensing at Boston University, and Member of the ...