Six months, 2,000 buyers: Dubai first-time scheme sparks AED3.25bn in sales | World News

In six months, Dubai’s first-time buyer programme helped 2,000 residents purchase homes worth AED3.25 billion/Image: WAM For thousands of Dubai residents, owning a home is no longer a distant ambition.…

Who is Jigar Thakkar? The Indian-origin engineer now leading Amazon Quick Suite | World News

A long-time enterprise software executive, Indian-origin technologist Jigar Thakkar has now been appointed Vice President of Amazon Quick Suite, taking charge of Amazon’s agentic AI workspace under Amazon Web Services.…

Fact check: Was IShowSpeed assaulted and robbed in Nigeria during his African tour?

Viral posts claimed IShowSpeed was assaulted and robbed in Lagos during his Africa tour. A fact check found no evidence supporting the claim. Full livestream footage shows no attack, while…

One man, 1,000 dependents: How a dead man’s identity fueled Kuwait’s biggest citizenship scam | World News

A single citizenship file was used to falsely register nearly 1,000 dependents, triggering Kuwait’s largest fraud case/Representative Image A routine nationality review has opened the door to one of the…

Saudi Arabia rolls out Nitaqat 2.0, targeting 340,000 private sector jobs over three years | World News

Saudi Arabia launched Nitaqat 2.0, targeting 340,000 private sector jobs for citizens over three years/Image: File After the success of its first phase, the Saudi Ministry of Human Resources and…

The world’s largest and deepest gravity hole sits in the Indian Ocean

The Indian Ocean holds the lowest gravity anomaly on Earth, a vast and subtle depression in the planet’s gravitational field located south of Sri Lanka. Known as the Indian Ocean…

Waiting over: Saudi Arabia opens property ownership applications to non-Saudis, here’s how to apply | World News

Saudi Arabia begins accepting property ownership applications from non-Saudis/Representative Image The waiting is over. Saudi Arabia’s Real Estate General Authority has officially announced that the law allowing non-Saudis to own…

Board of Peace: Donald Trump calls Putin’s idea of using frozen Russian assets ‘very interesting’

File photo: US President Donald Trump with Russian President Vladimir Putin (Picture credit: AP) US President Donald Trump has reacted cautiously but positively to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s suggestion that…

UAE sees cloudy weather, possible rain in northern regions today | World News

UAE faces a stretch of unsettled winter weather with rising humidity, cloud cover / AI Generated Image After weeks of clear, dry skies, the UAE is bracing for a change…

‘Massive US military fleet moving towards Iran’: Donald Trump after Tehran says it has ‘finger on trigger’

AI image (Picture credit: Google Gemini) US President Donald Trump has said that the United States has an “armada” headed toward Iran, renewing warnings to Tehran over the killing of…