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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…
HTC Vive recently announced a new virtual reality tracker specifically designed for standalone VR headsets like the Vive XR Elite and Vive Focus 3. The VR division of this tech giant also makes base stations and motion-tracking hardware that’s required for most PC VR headsets. In VR, your head motion is detected by sensors in the headset while your hand position is captured by the controllers. What’s missing is body tracking. That means the game or app has no way of knowing for certain where your feet and hips are. That’s why trackers are needed. HTC has been making trackers…
Galadari Brothers group marked the closing of Dubai Fitness Challenge (DFC) with an exciting day of sports events that saw the Food and Beverages division of the company lifting the overall trophy. The heavy equipment division (HED) came second in the closely fought competition. Over a span of one month, the group held several competitions including badminton, cricket, swimming and football. At the closing ceremony on Sunday, final competitions of football and cricket were held in addition to athletics, shotput and tug of war. While handing out the trophies, Ibrahim Galadari, Group Chief Investment Officer, commended the employees for their…
France will ban smoking on all beaches, in public parks, forests and some other public areas as part of a national anti-tobacco plan presented by the health minister on Tuesday. Tobacco products cause 75,000 avoidable deaths a year in France, Minister of Health and Prevention Aurélien Rousseau said on BFM television. The government will introduce legislation at the start of next year to enlarge the scope of places where fines can be levied for smoking, he said. “Beaches, parks, around schools — lots of places had started these experiments and now, it’s true, we’re heading to a general rule to…
Dubai Taxi Company on Tuesday announced an increase in the number of shares offered in the UAE retail offer of its initial public offering in response to significant oversubscription of the UAE retail offer. Following the approval of the Securities and Exchange Authority, the UAE retail offer has been increased to 74,970,000 ordinary shares from 62,475,000 ordinary shares. Based on the previously announced price range of Dh1.80 and Dh1.85 per share, the size of the retail tranche will now be between approximately Dh135 million and Dh139 million, representing a total of 12 per cent of the offer shares, compared to…
Tiger Woods said on Tuesday his right ankle is without pain and he is not concerned about walking 72 holes this week in his return to competition for the first time since April ankle surgery. Woods, a 15-time major winner, spoke ahead of Thursday’s start of the Hero World Challenge, a 20-player event he hosts at Albany Golf Club in the Bahamas. “My game feels rusty. I haven’t played in a while,” Woods said. “I’m excited to compete and play and I’m just as curious as all of you to see what happens because I haven’t done it in a…
Tablets are great everyday tools, whether you want to use them for watching content or as a form of note-taking. They’re also much lighter and easier to take around with you compared to laptops, and while most don’t have similar power, the specifications under the hood are more than enough. So, if you’d like to pick up a new tablet, we’ve collected some of our favorite deals below across different brands and platforms, so be sure to check everything out. Best iPad Deals Apple is one of the best-known tablet makers with its various models of the iPad. Of course,…
A Dubai-based woman has transformed adversity into art after a stroke left her partially paralysed. Overcoming physical handicaps with unwavering determination, Rooma Eejaz, 55, paints daily using only her partially functional right hand. Rooma’s artworks are regularly featured at exhibitions in Dubai, showcasing her fortitude, resilience, and creative spirit. As she is wheeled into her drawing room adorned with a display of her artworks, Rooma Eejaz reflects on her journey. “I was born and raised in Dubai. My first love was writing. Growing up in Dubai, I contributed to local newspapers until the early 90s when my family shifted to…
The host of the 2030 World Expo will be chosen on Tuesday, with Rome in Italy, the Saudi capital Riyadh and South Korea’s Busan contending to welcome the showpiece event held every five years. The World Expo — which traces its history back to the 1851 Great Exhibition in London and the 1889 Exposition Universelle in Paris that saw the construction of the Eiffel Tower — is a months-long mega event attracting millions of visitors that aims to respond to the specific challenges of the current time. The hosting of the Expo is regulated by the Paris-based Bureau International des…
Al Wathba National Insurance Co. (AWNIC) has received an upward revision of its rating outlook by S&P Global Ratings. The outlook has ascended to positive from stable, affirming the company’s ‘BBB-’ long-term issuer credit and insurer financial strength ratings. AWNIC’s strategic financial manoeuvres in 2023 have yielded a substantial reduction in its reliance on external funding, showcasing a commendable fortification of its financial risk profile. This strategic shift, coupled with the company’s unwavering commitment to excellence, has garnered noteworthy recognition from S&P Global Ratings. AWNIC maintains a robust financial stance, boasting exceptional capital adequacy even amid the challenges of a…