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 …

  Riyadh/ AFP Arab leaders must treat the region’s 100 million young people as an asset, not a liability, the UN’s youth envoy said in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday. “This is a generation that is so willing to contribute,” but is beset by obstacles in the 22-nation region plagued by conflict since a wave of Arab uprisings demanding reform erupted after …