Saudi Aramco reported a 26% year-on-year jump in first-quarter profits on Sunday, beating analyst forecasts, as a key pipeline allowing it to circumvent the choked-off Strait of Hormuz reached full capacity. Adjusted net income for Q1 2026 stood at $33.6 billion, compared with $26.6 billion in the same period last year, the Saudi Arabian energy […]
Iran has sent its response to a U.S. proposal to begin peace talks to end the war, Iranian state media reported on Sunday, as two carriers were allowed to pass through the blockaded Strait of Hormuz. The response, sent to mediator Pakistan, focused on ending the war on all fronts, especially Lebanon, and on the […]
On World Lupus Day, NMC Royal Hospital Sharjah shares a story told through the lens of a doctor who suffers from lupus and her treating specialist, two very personal perspectives that bring this complex condition into clearer focus. For Dr Enas Mustafa, a resident doctor at NMC Royal Hospital Sharjah, life in medicine has always […]
Six-year-old UAE technology and manufacturing company strengthens its position as an emerging regional player in AI-driven industrial innovation and enterprise technologies The Black Box, a UAE-based technology and manufacturing company, announced an estimated project pipeline exceeding USD 10 million following its first participation at Make it in the Emirates 2026, one of the country’s leading […]
If you want to tell the tale of a young James Bond, you first need to pick which James Bond he’s going to grow into. This was the task handed to Hitman developer IO Interactive, the studio taking digital custody of the spy in 007 First Light, Bond’s first video game in almost 15 years. So […]
Move over TACO trade. Traders now have a new acronym for a market increasingly skeptical that the Strait of Hormuz crisis will end anytime soon: NACHO. The shorthand “Not A Chance Hormuz Opens” has emerged on trading desks and among market commentators to describe growing skepticism that repeated remarks by U.S. President Donald Trump about […]
Here is a look at conjoined twins. Conjoined twins are physically connected to one another at some point on their bodies. Conjoined twins occur once in every 50,000 to 60,000 births, according to the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. About 70% of conjoined twins are female. Conjoined twins are identical – they are the same sex. According […]
Around 1,500 ships and their crews are trapped in the Gulf due to the Iranian blockade in the Strait of Hormuz, the UN’s International Maritime Organization (IMO) chief said in Panama Thursday. The war in the Middle East, unleashed February 28 by Israel and the United States against Iran, provoked reprisals from Tehran across the […]
With West Asia already on edge following a US strike on an Iranian oil tanker and President Trump’s ultimatum to Tehran to accept a peace framework or face fresh military action, May 8th brought a new wave of escalation. Fresh blasts were reported near strategic locations close to the Strait of Hormuz, Iranian state media […]
It used to be thought that the lungs couldn’t regenerate,” says Dr Charlotte Dean, head of the lung development and disease group at Imperial College London. “But we know now that’s not the case. Broadly speaking, they can repair when you quit smoking.” Smoking is in effect damaging your lungs, Dean says, and the lungs have a substantial capacity […]
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