Abu Dhabi / Emirates Business The Emirates Diplomatic Academy (EDA), the UAE’s international relations and diplomacy academic, training, best-practice and research institution, on Wednesday marked UAE Innovation Week with a designated innovation programme focused on the future of 21st Century diplomacy. Students heard and explored how diplomacy of the future will be shaped by everything from robotics to artificial …

  Dubai / Emirates Business Frank de Winne, the Belgian astronaut, led a university roadshow in the UAE this week as part of Next Gen Space Initiative and the UAE’s first Belgian Week. The Next Gen initiative, designed to educate and inspire youth on space, is supporting the build-up campaign towards the Global Space Congress, which will be held in …

  Bloomberg Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond said the UK economy will grow more slowly than previously forecast in 2017 and the government will need to borrow more over the next five years, as he laid out the framework for a post-Brexit Britain. Outlining his first Autumn Statement to Parliament on Wednesday, five months to the day after Britain …