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AUD students design lever handles for Expo 2020 mobility pavilion

Abu Dhabi / Emirates Business American University in Dubai and Dormakaba came together to provide students with an opportunity to design lever handles so as to propose the best one for the mobility pavilion of Expo 2020. The spark to create this idea came from one of the AUD students Tania Mary George who collaborated with Simon Beckers of dormakaba ...

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Top Mideast ports shun Qatar as Saudi tightens isolation

Bloomberg The Middle East’s largest ports banned entry to all vessels sailing to and from Qatar, deepening the economic isolation of the gas-rich Gulf state from its largest Arab neighbours. Maritime authorities in Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain all said they had closed their berths to ships traveling in and out of Qatari ports. The impact was ...

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Dark clouds hang over nuclear town torpedoed by green energy

Bloomberg In an eerily quiet nuclear reactor hall in southern Sweden, new copper and steel machinery stretching 50 meters and weighing hundreds of tons is just sitting idle. Bought from France and Germany as part of a $450 million upgrade at the now defunct Oskarshamn-2 facility, the turbines, steam pipes and feed-water pumps were supposed to help supply cheap electricity ...

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