DUBAI / WAM As travel rebounds from the impact of the pandemic, Emirates airline is preparing for its busiest period yet, with over 550,000 customers expected to fly out from the UAE between June and July on over 2,400 weekly network-wide departures. The airline continues to add flights and frequencies where possible as it ramps up its summer schedule, ...

  Abu Dhabi / WAM Khalifa Fund for Enterprise Development has announced that the first episode of its much-awaited “ENT-preneur” podcast series now available to listen and download, to put the spotlight on the UAE’s entrepreneurial success stories in a bid to elevate existing businesses and educate established and aspiring entrepreneurs. ENT-preneur will feature one-on-one interviews, insightful discussion and business ...

  Abu Dhabi / WAM Imperial College London Diabetes Centre (ICLDC), part of the Mubadala Health network, has entered a partnership agreement with Moorfields Eye Hospital Abu Dhabi, to provide ophthalmology services for ICLDC patients in Abu Dhabi. Moorfields Eye Hospital Abu Dhabi, also a Mubadala Health Partner, is a result of a partnership with Moorfields London, a leader in ...

Deliver us from evil. The line is among the most familiar, in one of the oldest Christian prayers. Most of us are wary about using the E-word, because grown-up people know that few issues, or indeed people, can rightfully be characterised as either wholly good or the other thing, but instead exist somewhere between. Yet it seems hard to consider ...

It has been an exasperating week for computer scientists. They’ve been falling over each other to publicly denounce claims from Google engineer Blake Lemoine, chronicled in a Washington Post report, that his employer’s language-predicting system was sentient and deserved all of the rights associated with consciousness. To be clear, current artificial intelligence systems are decades away from being able to ...

  Has the UK property market moved beyond cycles of boom and bust? London house prices soared in the aftermath of the financial crisis but have since largely flatlined. Now real estate throughout the UK is facing stiff headwinds, and the red flags are popping up. Interest rates are rising and economists expect more increases. Buyer inquiries fell in May ...

  Russian President Vladimir Putin has catapulted a European debate long relegated to footnotes right into the headlines. Does “Europe” need its own nuclear arsenal to deter a potential Russian strike, now or in future? During most of the Cold War and the years since, that question seemed settled. The European Nato members are meant to shelter under America’s nuclear ...

Bloomberg The airline industry will return to profit next year as pent-up demand for travel sustains bookings even as the global economy tightens, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) trade group predicted. Losses this year are likely to total $9.7 billion as air travel begins its recovery from the coronavirus crisis, IATA said in an update at its annual meeting, ...

Bloomberg Airbus SE and Qantas Airways Ltd will make a joint investment aimed at kick-starting Australia’s sustainable aviation fuel industry. The planemaker and airline plan to invest as much as $200 million to accelerate the adoption of SAF in the country, they said. “The use of SAF is increasing globally as governments and industry work together to find ways to ...

  Bloomberg Berjaya Food Bhd, which operates Starbucks and chicken-based restaurant chain Kenny Rogers Roasters outlets across Malaysia, is looking to curb costs internally rather than pass on rising production costs to consumers. “For us, the last thing we want to do is increase prices. Consumers feel it if you pass the cost” to them, Group Chief Executive Officer Sydney ...