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Israeli strikes killed at least 48 people in southern and central Gaza overnight, half of them women and children, health officials said on Thursday, as European foreign ministers and UN agencies called for a ceasefire, with alarm rising over the worsening humanitarian crisis and potential starvation in the territory. Tensions were also rising in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, where three Palestinian gunmen on Thursday opened fire on morning traffic at a highway checkpoint, killing one person and wounding five others, Israeli police said. A member of Israel’s War Cabinet said late on Wednesday that new attempts are underway to reach…

Trauma has long been associated with life-altering events — the kind that shake one’s very foundation and leave indelible scars on the mind, body, and soul. Yet, as our understanding of mental health continues to evolve, a quieter realisation is taking root: trauma is not always a singular, seismic event. It can manifest as a series of smaller, seemingly innocuous occurrences that accumulate over time, stealthily eroding our sense of self and well-being. Counselling psychologist, Tanya Dharamshi, The Raymee Grief Centre and community support services lead at the Lighthouse Arabia, Dubai, explains the ways in which every day experiences can…

Sheikh Khaled bin Ahmed Al Qassimi hailed the success of the seventh edition of the Arab Women Sports Tournament in Sharjah. Sheikh Khaled, Chairman of the Higher Steering Committee for AWST, emphasised the importance of empowering women in the field of sports. The prestigious tournament (February 2-12) brought together 15 Arab nations, represented by 63 clubs which competed in eight sports events. “The success of the 7th edition, in terms of competitions, organisation, efforts, and media impact, is attributed to a large team of organisers,” Sheikh Khaled said during an event in Sharjah on Thursday. “We extend our gratitude for…

OnePlus has started the year off strong with the launch of its signature flagship, the OnePlus 12. It packs in the latest Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chip, at least 12GB RAM, a powerful triple-lens camera system, and a gorgeous high-resolution AMOLED display that gets up to 120Hz refresh rates and reaches a whopping 4,500 nits of peak brightness. Plus, it’s an absolutely beautiful phone. The OnePlus 12 really does offer a lot of bang for your buck. It’s a flagship packed with a ton of great features and actually costs less than the competition. But how long will it get…

Very soon, people will no longer be using devices. Instead they will have an earphone that will be control all their devices ranging from their refrigerators to their cars. This will be how the technology-driven future will look like, according to experts at the Tribe 2024 conference on Thursday. “Devices will be embedded into everything around you,” said Giacomo Ziani, senior director of group marketing and communication at G42. “The need to interact with a device that we hold in our hands is disappearing. Phones are going to be gone in a matter of few years. That means everything we…

Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthis will escalate their attacks on ships in the Red Sea and other waters and has introduced “submarine weapons”, in continued solidarity with Palestinians in the Gaza war, the group’s leader said on Thursday. Iran-aligned Houthi militants in Yemen have launched repeated drone and missile strikes in the Red Sea, Bab Al Mandab Strait and Gulf of Aden since November in support of Palestinians, as the Israel-Hamas war continues and the Gaza death toll reaches almost 30,000. “Operations in the Red and Arabian Seas, Bab Al Mandab Strait, and the Gulf of Aden are continuing, escalating, and effective,”…

Google said on Thursday it’s temporarily stopping its Gemini artificial intelligence chatbot from generating images of people a day after apologising for “inaccuracies” in historical depictions that it was creating. Gemini users this week posted screenshots on social media of historically white-dominated scenes with racially diverse characters that they say it generated, leading critics to raise questions about whether the company is over-correcting for the risk of racial bias in its AI model. “We’re already working to address recent issues with Gemini’s image generation feature,” Google said in a post on the social media platform X. “While we do this,…

What is your definition of personal wellness? What does it mean to you? Perhaps it’s your intermittent fasting, or completing 20,000 steps a day, or your daily Pilates class. Recent years have seen us getting more proactive with our personal well-being and self-care practices. With the rapid advancement of technology in our lives, its role in the realm of personal wellness too has expanded. Now, it can not only count the steps, but how far you’ve walked; what your heart rate was while walking; how sound your sleep was; and even how this compares to the same time last week,…

Iga Swiatek, the world’s number-one ranked tennis player, maintained her dominance over China’s Qinwen Zheng winning in straight sets to reach the semifinals of the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships for the second successive year. Swiatek has not lost to Zheng, the losing finalist at this year’s Australia Open, in six encounters and the Polish star won 6-3, 6-2 in emphatic fashion. Swiatek awaits the winner of the Coco Gauff (World No. 3) vs Anna Kalinskaya (qualifier) match, being played later tonight at the Dubai |Duty Free Tennis Stadium.

A man’s mind is filled with glorious, reality-altering visions — images that he feels compelled to bring to life. When he does, the constant thrum of his imagination is quieted, only to be replaced by a new, constant gnaw of guilt. That sounds a lot like the story of Oppenheimer, doesn’t it? Christopher Nolan‘s ambitious, three-hour epic about the life of J. Robert Oppenheimer (Cillian Murphy), the father of the atom bomb, is a fascinating and frequently horrifying dive into the mind of one of history’s most important men. It’s a study of not only the cost of dreams, but…