ABU DHABI: The Department of Community Development (DCD) in Abu Dhabi, in collaboration with Abu Dhabi Sports Council (ADSC) along with the municipalities of Abu Dhabi city, Al Ain city, and Al Dhafrah region, and Community Management Department – Al Dhafrah Region Affairs, will launch ‘Active Parks’, a brand-new community fitness programme designed to encourage […]
DUBAI: Careem, releases its 2021 customer and business trends from across its Rides, Intercity Travel, Careem Bike, Food and Grocery Delivery, Careem Express, and Careem Pay services. The economic recovery boosted the growth of Careem services in the Middle East, North Africa and Pakistan in 2021. Mobility of People transactions grew by 2.6x compared to […]
DUBAI: The birds of prey will again soar high and fast as the new season of Fazza Championship for Falconry — Telwah, organised by the Hamdan Bin Mohammed Heritage Centre (HHC), will kick off on December 28 in Al Ruwayyah, Dubai. Over the years, the Fazza Championship for Falconry — Telwah (lure in Arabic) has […]
DUBAI: A series of fun and creative puppet-making workshops, using recycled materials to raise awareness about the global challenge of waste generation and its direct environmental impact, are being hosted at the Spain Pavilion, Expo 2020 Dubai until December 27. Decorated with weird and wonderful puppets made from a variety of materials to spark creative […]
A company in Sweden has created a microchip implant that can be inserted under the skin to store information on someone’s vaccination status. Epicentre, a startup based in Stockholm, made headlines earlier this year when more than 100 employees got access passes to their office implanted into their arms. Now it’s unveiled a gadget consisting […]
Before the dawn of the smartphone era, manufacturers tried out a variety of different phone styles and designs to see what would stick. From candy bar phones with their clicking dial pads to more advanced flip phones and sliders to phones with full QWERTY keyboards. But in those days, it was the flip phone that […]
MANCHESTER: Two New Hampshire brothers have gotten their holiday regifting skills down to an art — they’ve been passing the same hard candy back and forth for over 30 years. It started in 1987, when Ryan Wasson gave a 10-roll Frankford “Santa’s Candy Book” with assorted fruit flavours to his brother, Eric Wasson, as a […]
Not long after Diana “Didi” Rojas began working at a ceramics studio in New York, she noticed her sneakers had become encrusted in clay. Her shoes were dirty — filthy even — and they almost looked to be made of ceramics themselves. So Rojas decided, largely because she found it to be funny and resourceful, […]
DUBAI: Expo 2020 Dubai is launching a landmark musical spectacle, directed by world-renowned filmmaker Shekhar Kapur, with music by Academy and Grammy award-winning musical composer A.R. Rahman, that will premiere at Al Wasl Plaza in January 2022. Why? The Musical will follow the story of a curious young girl and a wise old man in a dynamic spectacle […]
The holiday season can be overwhelming and overstimulating. With our regular routines not in place, our children out of school, our healthy diets put on hold, while we are dealing with the hecticness of traveling or tourists, holiday parties, and family gatherings, it is easy for things to start to feel emotionally flooded. And for […]
The human story — where we come from and how we evolved — got a new chapter in 2021. Thanks to new fossil finds and analysis of ancient DNA preserved in teeth, bones, and cave dirt, scientists have unearthed startling revelations about our Homo sapien forebears, and other humans that existed before — and in […]
