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Apple is set to finish its credit card partnership with Goldman Sachs, according to a Wall Street Journal report published on Tuesday. People claiming to have knowledge of the matter told the Journal that Apple’s contract with the banking giant will end “in the next roughly 12-15 months,” bringing to an end a troubled tie-up that left Goldman with greater costs than expected. Affected products include the Apple Card, Apple Savings account, and Apple Pay Later. It’s not currently clear if Apple has already arranged for another bank to take Goldman’s place or if it’s still searching for a replacement.…

Pakistan’s caretaker Prime Minister Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar visited the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque in Abu Dhabi on Tuesday. He was accompanied by the Ambassador of Pakistan to the UAE, Faisal Niaz Tirmizi, and the UAE Ambassador to the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, Hamad Obaid Al Zaabi. Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar and the accompanying delegation began his tour by visiting the tomb of the Late Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, who promoted tolerance, coexistence and peace throughout the world, followed by the mosque’s halls and sections, where he was briefed by cultural specialists about its mission to spread the values of coexistence, tolerance…

British airline Virgin Atlantic on Tuesday operates the first transatlantic flight powered entirely by Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF), but environmental groups criticised the event as “greenwashing”. The flight will leave London’s Heathrow airport at 1130 GMT bound for New York’s JFK. It is the first time that SAF will be used “in both engines, by a commercial airline, for long-haul flight”, the airline said in a statement. However, the Boeing 787 plane equipped with Rolls-Royce engines will not carry any paying passengers or cargo. SAFs are produced from renewable biomass and waste resources and can be used in jet fuel…

Not long ago, people everywhere – and especially the young — were in the habit of going around in public wearing horn-like appendages on their heads and around their ears, ostensibly as headphones but actually as fashion statements. This bizarre turn of fashion, where a gadget almost became a garment, was the marketing success of a certain Dr. Dre, the rapper turned electronics entrepreneur, who launched the ‘Beats by Dre’ brand of music devices, mainly headphones. So successful was he at turning a personal music device into a thing to be seen with, and so complete seemed the adoption of…

Ryo Hisatsune was voted as the DP World Tour’s top rookie after a memorable season that saw the 21 year-old Japanese player win the Cazoo Open de France and earn dual membership with the PGA Tour. Hisatsune became the first Japanese golfer to receive the Sir Henry Cotton Rookie of the Year award, beating a list of contenders that included highly rated Swede and Ryder Cupper Ludvig Aberg. Hisatsune had a strong finish to his season after winning in Paris – with a tied 21st in the Commercial Bank Qatar Masters, ninth in the Nedbank Golf Challenge and tied 18th…

Right now, if you type “Israel Kamakawiwoʻole” into Google search, you don’t see one of the singer’s famous album covers, or an image of him performing one of his songs on his iconic ukulele. What you see first is an image of a man sitting on a beach with a smile on his face — but not a photo of the man himself taken with a camera. This is fake photo generated by AI. In fact, when you click on the image, it takes you to the Midjourney subreddit, where the series of images were initially posted. I saw this…

Scrambled eggs, meatballs, cheesecake, chocolate…there was plenty on the menu at the food tasting session at the Dubai Future Forum on Tuesday. Except, every single one of the items was animal free and lab grown. The session, titled Putting the Future of Food to the Taste Test, brought together some revolutionary companies together to give 30 selected visitors a taste of the future. I was lucky enough to be one of them. The first thing I wanted to try out was the cheesecake. Would lab made cheese be able to match up to the real deal? Turns out, it could.…

Mediator Qatar said on Tuesday it would use a two-day extension to a humanitarian pause in Gaza to work towards a “sustainable truce” between Israel and Hamas. “Our main focus right now, and our hope, is to reach a sustainable truce that will lead to further negotiations and eventually to an end… to this war,” foreign ministry spokesman Majed Al Ansari told a Doha news conference. “However, we are working with what we have. And what we have right now is the provision to the agreement that allows us to extend days as long as Hamas is able to guarantee…

Aster DM Healthcare on Tuesday announced the separation of its India and GCC businesses into two distinct and standalone entities. Under the separation plan, Affinity has entered into a definitive agreement with a consortium of investors led by Fajr Capital, a sovereign-owned private equity firm headquartered in the UAE, to invest in Aster’s GCC business. Under the separation plan, a consortium led by Fajr Capital has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire a 65 per cent stake in the ownership of the GCC business, Aster DM Healthcare FZC. The Moopen family will continue to manage and operate the GCC…

If it wasn’t the “Welcome to Hell” signs at the airport, it was the bell boy at the team hotel performing a throat-slitting gesture as the players arrived. Or the deliberately timed phone calls during the night to disrupt sleep, and the mud and flags thrown at the bus to the stadium. Or the riot police bundling players down the steps to the locker room with their shields after the match. Manchester United’s first Champions League match against Galatasaray at the Turkish team’s Ali Sami Yen Stadium has gone down in lore. Thirty years later, United is back in Istanbul…