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23 stories for“term dates”
UAE schools reopen on 31 August. The families who find September easy are not the organised ones, they are the ones who started moving bedtimes while it was still August.
Aug 16, 2026
The UAE school calendar for 2026-27 is published. Everyone with children will book inside the same four windows, and the pricing follows a pattern you can plan against if you look now.
Aug 16, 2026
Introductory rates on Anthropic's mid-tier model run out at the end of August, lifting the per-token bill by half. Teams that budgeted during the promotion have four weeks to rework the maths.
Aug 3, 2026
The grinder matters more than the brewer, freshness matters more than origin, and the ratio matters more than technique. Three fixes that cost less than one machine and change more.
Aug 12, 2026
Energy prices have eased from their sharpest fears, but the Fed, Bank of England and Bank of Japan still face inflation signals pulling against softer growth.
Jul 28, 2026
All meat, no plants, and a wave of enthusiastic testimonials online. The actual research base behind the claims is nine small studies with no control group at all.
Apr 5, 2026
A July meeting between the new ESCWA and Arab League leadership renewed attention on Arab Vision 2045, a regional roadmap built around security, equity, innovation and prosperity.
Aug 3, 2026
The entry window has been cut from three months to thirty days, registration on Nusuk is mandatory with no exemptions, and a new visa lets you come back for a year. Three changes that reward planning.
Aug 16, 2026
Points are getting devalued faster and fares are climbing. Here is how frugal travelers are still booking business class and cheap trips in 2026.
May 19, 2026
AlUla’s strongest idea is not construction in the desert, but a model where archaeology, local skills, conservation and hospitality grow together.
Jul 28, 2026
Scatec's proposed two-year investment program spans batteries, desalination, wind, solar and green data centers, revealing how Egypt wants clean power to support industry.
Aug 3, 2026
Dubai and Riyadh are hosting barista championships and single-origin tastings as third-wave coffee culture reshapes a region long defined by cardamom-spiced brews.
May 5, 2025
Shipping disruption is pushing up the cost of imported produce and packaging, and Gulf restaurateurs are running out of room to absorb it quietly.
Apr 9, 2024
NOAA's seventh West Coast ocean-acidification survey is tracking chemistry and marine life during unusual Pacific conditions. The findings matter to reefs, fisheries and divers.
Aug 1, 2026
Shoulder season is cheaper, emptier and usually better weather than the peak it sits beside. It also has failure modes, and knowing which ones apply is the difference between a bargain and a wasted trip.
Aug 8, 2026
For ten weeks the Gulf empties. In the last fortnight of August it refills, all at once, and the version of the city you got used to disappears in about four days.
Aug 16, 2026
Twenty announced transactions are waiting for permission to happen. The delay is not bureaucratic sloth, it is three separate review regimes that did not exist in this form a decade ago.
Aug 15, 2026
The first orbital data centre nodes launched in January and multiple operators ran production workloads by February. The physics is genuinely favourable. The economics depend entirely on launch costs.
Aug 15, 2026
Riyadh opens at the end of August, Abu Dhabi takes November, Dubai takes the rest. Four shows account for most of the region's commercial calendar between now and the new year.
Aug 14, 2026
Firms spend heavily on stands and almost nothing on follow-up, then conclude that exhibitions do not work. The floor is the cheap part of the exercise and the least important.
Aug 14, 2026
Six months in, institutional Bitcoin holdings are near record highs even as ETF assets slip, and Wall Street forecasts for the rest of the year could not be more split.
Jun 18, 2026
AI eyewear is becoming more capable and less conspicuous, but a celebrity revolt and fresh privacy fixes show that bystanders still get a vote on adoption.
Jul 22, 2026
Technical diving instructor Adam Jacoub died on 18 July 2026 following a dive in Hurghada, Egypt. The circumstances remain under investigation.
Jul 20, 2026
