NEW YORK — Saudi Arabia has underscored the importance of strengthening international efforts to protect older persons, particularly those with disabilities, and ensuring their rights, dignity and full participation in society. The call was made by Saudi Arabia’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ambassador Abdulaziz Al-Wasel, speaking on behalf of the Group of Friends of Ageing and Sustainable Development during a side event held on the sidelines of the 19th session of the Conference of States Parties to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in New York. Al-Wasel said the mistreatment of older persons is a…
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IT provider Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has entered into a collaboration with Anthropic to accelerate enterprise AI adoption. The partnership will focus on highly regulated sectors where accuracy, auditability and governance requirements have historically slowed deployments. As a Global Premier Partner in the Claude Partner Network, TCS will establish a dedicated business unit focused on delivering industry services and AI expertise built on Anthropic’s Claude family of models, with early access to new releases. It will also provide Anthropic’s Claude AI assistant to more than 50,000 employees across engineering, finance, legal, marketing, and sales. The two companies will jointly go…
In a world dictated by unlimited scrolling and screen-time, spending 20 weeks painstakingly preparing for a 40-minute showcase on stage feels almost rebellious. Yet, that is exactly what is happening in Al Quoz this month. The Hive Theatre Festival, Dubai’s largest free theatre festival for children, is back for another blockbuster edition at @play. Bringing together hundreds of young performers across multiple weekends, the festival is a massive logistical feat powered by a dedicated team of 20 full-time employees and 40 teen volunteers and freelancers. Together, they mount more than 60 plays where every costume is hand-sewn, every set piece…
BEIJING, 11th June, 2026 (WAM) — New Energy Vehicles (NEV) accounted for a record 62.9 percent of China’s passenger vehicle sales in May, marking another milestone in the country’s transition toward electrification. According to data from the China Passenger Car Association, retail passenger car deliveries in May stood at 1.51 million units, down 22.1 percent from the same period last year. Of them, NEVs stood at 950,000 units, down 7.5 percent year-on-year, but they accounted for 62.9 percent of total passenger car sales. According to China Daily, BEVs were the mainstay, with their wholesale deliveries reaching 886,000 units in May,…
DUBAI, 12th June, 2026 (WAM) — flydubai received three awards at the annual Aviation Achievement Awards. During last night’s ceremony, the carrier was named “Airline of the Year” and also received the “Trailblazer Award for Outstanding New Service Launch” and the “Best Airline Talent Development & Workforce Strategy” award. Receiving the awards on the carrier’s behalf were Francois Oberholzer, Chief Financial Officer at flydubai; Ramesh Anantharaman, Divisional Senior Vice President of Revenue Management & Business Effectiveness at flydubai; Mohamed Hassan, Senior Vice President of Airport Services & Cargo at flydubai; and Munawur Alhaj, Senior Manager of Talent Acquisition at flydubai.…
All public parking will be free of charge on Monday, 15th June 2026, except for multi-storey parking facilities as part of the Hijri New year public holiday, Dubai’s Roads and Transport Authority announced on Saturday. Standard parking tariffs will resume on Tuesday, 16th June 2026. Source: Khaleej Times
BANGKOK—Princess Bajrakitiyabha Narendira Debyavati, the eldest child of Thailand’s King Maha Vajiralongkorn and a potential successor to the throne, has died at the age of 47, the royal palace said on Friday, after multiple health problems and nearly four years in a coma. The princess had been on life support since December 2022, when she collapsed in a park in Nakhon Ratchasima while running with her dogs during a visit to northeastern Thailand. She was flown by helicopter to the capital Bangkok for treatment. In May, the palace announced that she had an infection in her abdomen that caused low…
LOS ANGELES — Celebrated British American painter David Hockney, whose vibrant portraits and sun-drenched depictions of the everyday made him one of contemporary art’s most beloved figures, has died at 88. The English artist, whose deftly designed and suavely colored paintings turned trans-Atlantic attention to figurative and narrative art beginning in the late 1950s and early 1960s, died “peacefully at home” on Thursday, one month short of his 89th birthday, according to a statement by his longtime publicist Erica Bolton. Over a seven-decade career, Hockney explored and reimagined classical portraiture, landscape painting and pop art, working in painting, collage, photography…
Stuart Hubbard, Global Senior Director, AI and Advanced Development, Zebra Technologies, discusses the intelligence supercycle, ACI and multimodal AI in this exclusive Q&A. The concept of an “Intelligence Supercycle” suggests a rapid shift in how decisions and work are done—what are the most immediate, tangible changes manufacturers should expect on the factory floor in the next 2–3 years? There have been several supercycles or industrial leaps, each marked by specific technologies that transformed and shaped work and society long term. Steam power, electricity, computing and digitalisation brought about new ways of working, new jobs, and whole new industries with possibilities…
When Wadha Al Marri rushed her infant son to an emergency department in Abu Dhabi in 2019, his temperature had climbed to 40°C. She feared the worst. Instead of being taken straight for treatment, she says she was stopped at reception and asked for documents her foster son did not yet have. “I offered my own ID. I offered my bank card. I said, ‘Please, just treat him,’” Al Marri recalled. “He was burning with fever, and I was standing there crying.” The child was eventually treated after medical staff intervened, but the experience remains one of several incidents that…