Dubai / WAM Emirates has announced that its flagship A380 service will be introduced for the first time to Bengaluru from October 30 to serve its customers on the busy route. Emirates became the first airline to operate scheduled passenger services utilising the A380, the world’s largest commercial aircraft in service, at Bengaluru’s Kempegowda International Airport. The aircraft upgrade ...

  SHARJAH / WAM Air Arabia, the Middle East and North Africa’s first and largest low-cost carrier (LCC) operator, has announced the launch of its direct flights from Sharjah to the city of Milan in Italy. The new direct flights will connect Sharjah International Airport with Milan Bergamo Airport with four weekly flights starting from December 7. Adel Al Ali, ...

  Abu Dhabi / Gulf Time Khalifa University of Science and Technology, a consistently top-ranked research-intensive university based in Abu Dhabi, has developed a new method to manufacture customised glasses using 3D printing that could help people with colour blindness. Colour Vision Deficiency (CVD) is an inherited ocular disorder that manifests itself in limiting the retina cones’ ability to transmit ...

  ­­­Bloomberg The German government struck a deal with energy companies to import liquefied natural gas through two new terminals in an effort to alleviate a supply crunch that’s crippling the economy. Economy Minister Robert Habeck signed a memorandum of understanding with Uniper SE and RWE Supply & Trading GmbH, which will operate the floating terminals in Brunsbuettel and Wilhelmshaven, ...

In 2001, Silvio Berlusconi was running for prime minister and produced what became a symbol of an epoch. On prime-time national TV, he signed his political manifesto promising to cut taxes, increase pensions and carry out a massive investment program. He went on to win that election and remained a central figure in Italian politics until the euro crisis forced ...

Singapore’s property market is in the throes of a 2008-type mania, with landlords squeezing tenants for the last possible cent. The previous bout of frenzy ended with the collapse of Lehman Brothers. This time, too, stratospheric apartment rents will return to earth, though the process is unlikely to be as swift as the city-state’s expat community might hope for. Among ...

  Does an industrial-sized dog whistle go off when advocates boast about cryptocurrency’s ability to evade US government sanctions? Back in March, a founder of Tornado Cash — a so-called “mixer” service that masks cryptocurrency transactions by mixing them with others — told Bloomberg it would be “technically impossible” for sanctions to be enforced against decentralised protocols. Surprise: Tornado has ...

  Against all expectation (not a single economist polled by Bloomberg had predicted it), the People’s Bank of China (PBOC) has cut interest rates. The ease was only by 10 basis points, to the bank’s one-year lending rate, but it was still in the exact opposite direction to the monetary route being taken in the west and in the rest ...

Bloomberg British Airways check-in staff approved a pay settlement that their union said amounts to a 13% raise, while Uber Technologies Inc agreed to raise fares in the UK to boost earnings for its drivers. BA employees “overwhelmingly backed” the settlement, the Unite union said, after announcing last month that an agreement had been reached to avert strikes at the ...

  Bloomberg Malaysia Airlines said it will acquire 20 Airbus SE A330neo wide-body planes as it seeks more fuel-efficient jets amid a travel rebound. The Southeast Asian carrier will purchase 10 A330-900 aircraft, with the rest coming from lessor Avolon Holdings Ltd existing order book, it said in a statement. The model is a re-engined version of the original A330 ...