HSBC backs Emirates’ new A350 fleet through innovative JOLCO financing

HSBC has been mandated to finance six Airbus A350-900 aircraft for Emirates Group (Emirates) and has successfully completed the financing of five through a Japanese Operating Lease with Call...

Cameron Crowe recalls Bowie’s silence on old memories

A few years back, Cameron Crowe had an idea. It’d be a movie. Something funny and romantic. There’d be some music. He told his son William about it, presenting...

Freedom of jailed Ocalan seen crucial for peace

Militants of the Turkish Kurdish Workers Party (PKK) have begun to withdraw from Turkey to the Kurdish autonomous provinces in northern Iraq following a May agreement to end their...

Shocking update

It is deeply shocking and distressing to learn that a large number of students in Indonesia have fallen ill after consuming free school meals (“Indonesia investigates as 700 more...

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Death becomes a growing business in ageing, lonely South Korea

Rows of coffins line a university classroom in the South Korean port city of Busan, ready for use in training the funeral directors of the future in a rapidly...

Philippine, Canada sign defence pact to boost drills and deter China's aggression

Canada and the Philippines, both staunch critics of China’s increasingly coercive actions in the disputed South China Sea, signed a key defense agreement on Sunday to boost combat drills...

Sheikh Maktoum reviews progress of FTA's development projects

Sheikh Maktoum Bin Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, First Deputy Ruler of Dubai, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance of the UAE, and Chairman of the Board of...

Children among 23 killed in Mexico supermarket explosion

A supermarket explosion killed at least 23 people in northern Mexico on Saturday, according to local officials, with investigators saying the blast was an accident possibly caused by a...

AI-designed complex launched in Sharjah

Al Marwan Developments has launched its pioneering project, “District 11”, the UAE’s first smart work resort designed using artificial intelligence, setting a new benchmark for urban innovation and economic...