DUBAI, March 8,2017 : The UAE has cracked the top 20 list of countries with the most billionaires for the first time. The Emirates is home to 21 ultra-rich individuals, giving it a ranking of 19, according to the China-based Hurun Global Rich List 2017. "The world today has 5,000 dollar billio

SG| Mar 2, 2017 JEDDAH — Picking up passengers from airports using private cars or ride-hailing services such as Uber and Careem is considered a traffic violation that is punishable by law, according to the General Directorate of Traffic. Saudis using private vehicles are also banned from pickin

RIYADH: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has lent all support to the warring factions in Yemen if they are willing to reconcile and reach a political solution to the bloody conflict within the framework of the UN resolutions and GCC-brokered initiative. Guterres also strongly backed the efforts

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has arrived in Bahrain on Sunday as part of a three-day official tour to the Gulf region that will also take him to Saudi Arabia on Monday and Qatar a day after. His meetings with the heads of these countries are expected to focus on regional and political i

Hundreds of drivers with ride-hailing service Uber in Qatar went on strike on Monday for the second time in a year to protest against fare cuts. The U.S.-based company, which started operations in Doha in 2014, has in recent months cut fares by 15-20% for passengers amid growing competition from lo

Muscat: It’s almost exam time for thousands of school pupils across the country, but while students buckle down to their studies educators say parents are the ones stressing out. More frantic parents than worried students are calling a counselling hotline set up to ease the pressure of exam time.

DUBAI: Schools face a struggle to survive as operating costs rise, profits drop and global competition for the best teachers becomes even more intense, education experts say. Another 175,000 school places are expected to be open by 2020, 90 per cent of them in the private sector, exacerbating the p

Sharjah has been named as one of the top 10 cities in the world for connectivity, coming in ahead of several cities including Frankfurt, Manchester, Miami, and Dubai. Ranking in at number six on the 'Top Ten Global Cities of the Future Survey', Sharjah's high rank is attributed to its world-class

Gold held near 3-month highs on Thursday as political risks from elections in Europe and worries over US President Donald Trump's policies buoyed safe haven demand for the bullion. Spot gold dipped 0.1 percent to $1,240 per ounce at 0708 GMT. On Wednesday, the metal touched its highest since Nov

Mattar Al Tayer, Director General and Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors of the Roads and Transport Authority (RTA), said that RTA had moved forward in implementing Dubai Smart Driverless Mobility Strategy launched by Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister

Muscat: M91 fuel should be fixed at 150 baisa per litre, according to a Majlis Al Shura special committee set up to address rising fuel costs. The council also stated today that M95 fuel should cost no more than 160 baisa per litre and diesel 180 baisa. These prices were announced during a reg

FOOTBALL: Qatar is set to spend $262 billion on the 2022 World Cup, the country's finance minister has revealed. Ali Shareef Al-Emadi said yesterday the Middle Eastern nation was spending $655 million every week on major infrastructure projects for football's biggest tournament. He said that s

The Trump administration is poised to move quickly to approve major weapons packages for Saudi Arabia and Bahrain that President Obama blocked during his final months in office over human rights concerns in both nations, U.S. officials and congressional sources say. While the White House declined

Late in November, Apple announced it had determined that a “very small number” of iPhone 6S units were unexpectedly shutting down and the company would repair the batteries of affected devices free of charge. According to United Arab Emirates publication Khaleej Times, Apple now could lose as much a

Iran and Oman have agreed to alter the route of an underwater gas pipeline planned to ship Iranian gas to Oman in order to avoid territorial waters of the UAE, Iranian oil minister Bijan Namdar Zanganeh said on Tuesday, adding that the re-route would not have economic impact on the gas export projec

Dubai: Kuwait has denied a media report which said it had imposed a travel ban on citizens from several Muslim-majority countries, a story which US President Donald Trump praised on Facebook. “Smart!” a post on Trump’s official Facebook page said on Thursday, linking to a report on Jordanian news

Dubai: Dubai Police will deploy 30 smart patrols on the roads and will have more smart cameras to tackle stolen cars, an official said on Sunday. People driving stolen vehicles or those driving recklessly will be tracked in a flash with next-generation smart cameras called ‘Rasd’. Dubai Police

Saudi Arabia has celebrated its own Women’s Day, a first for the ultra-conservative Islamic kingdom. A three-day gathering was held at the King Fahd Cultural Centre in the capital of Riyadh. It featured speakers who argued for women’s rights to drive and called for an end to the country's male