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ALC launches ‘Scan and Learn Arabic’ smartphone app

Abu Dhabi / WAM The Abu Dhabi Arabic Language Centre (ALC), part of the Department of Culture and Tourism – Abu Dhabi (DCT Abu Dhabi), has helped develop an innovative new app that encourages adoption and mastery of the Arabic language. The ‘Scan and Learn Arabic’ app, launched in collaboration with Abu Dhabi’s Department of Community Development (DCD) and Department ...

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London City airport dials back plans for 40% hike in capacity

  Bloomberg London City airport dialed back proposals for more early-morning and Saturday flights in a bid to make its plans to lift capacity by almost 40% more palatable to planning officials and local people. The terminal, favoured by business travellers for its proximity to London’s financial districts, is sticking with an application to raise its annual passenger cap to ...

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Rolls-Royce engine key to zero-carbon shift ready for trials

  Bloomberg Rolls-Royce said a new aircraft engine designed to slash carbon production over coming decades is ready to be fired up in ground-based tests. The demonstrator turbine for the so-called UltraFan program has completed assembly and been transported to Rolls’s purpose-built Testbed 80 in Derby, England, where it has been mounted in preparation for activation early next year, the ...

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