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Dubai: Dubai’s Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) will open the final bridge of the World Trade Centre Roundabout Development Project on Friday, 30 October 2026, improving traffic flow at one of Dubai’s key intersections. The new 1,000-metre bridge consists of two lanes and has a capacity of approximately 3,000 vehicles per hour. It will serve traffic travelling from Al Majlis Street towards 2nd December Street. The bridge is expected to cut journey time from Al Majlis Street to 2nd December Street from six minutes to one minute. The World Trade Centre Roundabout Development Project comprises five bridges with a combined…

Flydubai has welcomed the US Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) certification of the Boeing 737-10 and said the aircraft “remains an option for consideration” in its long-term fleet development strategy.Boeing’s 737-10, the largest MAX variant, finally won FAA certification last week, after years of delays since its 2017 launch.Stay up to date with the latest news. Follow KT on WhatsApp Channels.“We welcome the Federal Aviation Administration’s certification of the Boeing 737-10 aircraft, which remains an option for consideration as part of our long-term fleet development strategy. We continuously evaluate opportunities to diversify our fleet to support our future network development plans…

India’s film industry, where scenes featuring intimacy often rely on improvisation and mutual trust, is gradually welcoming professionals tasked with choreographing them to protect actors and ensure consent.Once unheard-of in Bollywood, intimacy coordinators are becoming an increasingly familiar presence on sets as filmmakers embrace stricter standards after the #MeToo movement put a spotlight on sexual exploitation in entertainment industries around the world.The shift comes as streaming platforms have pushed storytelling into a more nuanced territory, creating greater demand for realistic portrayals.”Just like a stunt director handles a fight scene… for scenes of intimacy, we map out exactly where the hand…

Rain chances continue across northern and eastern areas, with fog or mist possible overnight and winds reaching 50 km/h in the coming days The UAE will see fair to partly cloudy weather on Sunday, October 25, with a probability of convective cloud formation over northern and eastern areas, associated with rainfall, according to the National Centre of Meteorology (NCM). Source: Emirates 24|7

Dubai: Dubai Gold District has announced plans to open Dubai’s first gold walkway before the end of this year, describing it as the first of its kind and the longest in the world. The walkway will be made of 24-karat gold.The announcement comes as Dubai celebrates two Guinness World Records for the heaviest pair of gold earrings and the largest pair of earrings in the world, achieved with a handcrafted traditional design known as “Jhumkas”.Rashid Al Harmoudi, Senior Director of the Commercial Sector at Dubai Gold District, revealed plans to open the gold walkway before the end of this year,…

Haider Aziz, General Manager – Middle East, Turkey and Africa at VAST Data. Haider Aziz of VAST Data discusses how modular infrastructure could address power and capacity constraints, support local data control and bring AI inference closer to users. Power, cooling and data centre capacity are becoming critical constraints on AI deployment, prompting infrastructure providers to rethink where and how organisations run inference. VAST Data and UAE-based Hyperfusion have announced plans to integrate the VAST AI Operating System into Hyperfusion’s Sentinel modular AI infrastructure as its preferred data platform, with the aim of bringing sovereign, production AI inference online in…

Dubai will host leading steel executives next month as the Middle East cements its position as one of the world’s fastest-growing steel markets, supported by massive infrastructure spending, expanding industrial activity and increasing demand for lower-carbon steel.According to analysis by Fastmarkets, the regional steel market is expected to grow from $44 billion in 2026 to $60 billion by 2031, driven by nearly $2 trillion worth of infrastructure and industrial projects across the Middle East. The outlook comes as steelmakers globally grapple with shifting trade patterns, carbon-related regulations and market uncertainty.Industry leaders are set to discuss these trends at the Middle…

TOKYO, 23rd October, 2026 (WAM) — The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Extraordinary Congress 2026 has approved a series of important amendments to the AFC Statutes in Tokyo, Japan. In response to the exceptional circumstances created by FIFA’s upcoming changes to its international calendar and following consultation with football’s world governing body, the amendments include transitional governance provisions aimed at ensuring the continuing alignment of the AFC’s electoral and competition cycles. The evolving international sporting calendar will see the staging of the AFC Asian Cup™ move from an odd-year cycle to an even-year cycle, starting from the 2032 edition, and the…

NEW YORK, 24th October, 2026 (WAM) — Wall Street’s major indices closed lower on Friday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average falling 658.82 points, or 1.23 percent, to 52,215.16. The S&P 500 declined 39.75 points, or 0.52 percent, to 7,623.86, while the Nasdaq Composite dropped 53.52 points, or 0.21 percent, to 25,955.34. For the week, the S&P 500 fell 0.5 percent and the Nasdaq declined 0.7 percent, while the Dow Jones rose 0.4 percent, marking its third consecutive week of gains. Source: Emirates News Agency

Fady Younes, Managing Director, Cybersecurity, Cisco Middle East, Türkiye, Africa, Caucasus and Central Asia (METAC) at Cisco. UAE organisations are adopting AI-powered security at pace and seeing clear improvements in how quickly they detect and respond to threats, according to new research from Cisco. However, the findings show that organisational factors, including how teams coordinate and how easily they can access security data, remain the main constraint on further progress, as they are globally. The UAE findings from Cisco’s Relentless Defence Report assess organisations on three areas: how completely they can protect their environment, how quickly they can detect, respond…