The Dubai Department of Economy and Tourism (DET) has recognised 237 hotels in the third cycle of the Dubai Sustainable Tourism (DST) Stamp for their outstanding commitment to sustainability and responsible hospitality practices. Marking a 55% increase on the 153 hotels honoured in the second cycle and more than triple the 70 hotels recognised when […]

Samsung Gulf Electronics has taken the launch of the new Galaxy Z Fold8 to new heights, collaborating with Skydive Dubai on an aerial stunt that saw a team of professional skydivers recreate the device’s all-new shape thousands of feet above Dubai’s skyline. In a striking celebration of Samsung’s latest foldable innovation, 20 professional skydivers jumped from […]

There is a sentence that would have sounded like wishful thinking just a decade ago and reads today as plain fact: satellites are now being manufactured in the UAE. Not assembled from foreign components in a symbolic gesture. Not built in partnership with a larger nation that retains the real intellectual property and the real […]

Rankings are everywhere, and most of them are easy to skim past. But every once in a while a number lands with enough weight that it is worth pausing on, sitting with, and actually thinking about. The UAE’s 23rd place ranking in the 2026 Best Countries Index for quality of life is one of those […]

There is a list that aviation data firm OAG – the UK-based company that tracks every published airline schedule on Earth – releases each month, ranking the world’s airports by international seat capacity. It tells you, in the clearest possible terms, which city the world is flying to and from more than any other. For […]