Dubai / Emirates Business Dental tourism in the Middle East and Africa is being dubbed the backbone of the region’s ballooning medical tourism industry, with the value of the dental consumables market projected to climb to USD 1.44 billion by the end of 2020. Much of this growth, according to experts, can be laid at the doorstep of technological advances ...

  Dubai / Emirates Business Emirates NBD, a leading bank in the region, was honoured by Efma and Accenture with a ‘Bronze Digital Distribution’ award at the 2016 Global Distribution & Marketing Innovation Awards for its innovative mobile-based ‘Fitness Account’. Launched in November 2015, the Fitness Account is a mobile only savings account that allows customers to earn higher interest ...

  Moscow/AFP Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said on Tuesday that jets from the Admiral Kuznetsov aircraft carrier deployed in the eastern Mediterranean had launched their first strikes on Syria. “For the first time in our naval history, the aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov started taking part in combat,” Shoigu said at a meeting with President Vladimir Putin in the Black ...