Dubai: With Christmas just days away, shoppers across the UAE are making their final preparations, driving a steady rise in footfall at supermarkets and neighbourhood markets. Sign up for our daily business newsletter, Cheques & Balances.Demand is strongest for festive food, bakery items and home d»»»

Dubai: Football superstar Cristiano Ronaldo and his partner Georgina Rodríguez have purchased two luxury villas at Nujuma, a Ritz-Carlton Reserve within the Red Sea International development, according to media reports. Also Read: A peek into Cristiano Ronaldo’s earnings, luxury lifestyle and spend»»»

Washington: US immigration authorities say they are tightening oversight of H-1B visas and other legal immigration programmes, citing fraud investigations, new regulatory limits, and a broader enforcement push outlined in a year-end review released. Also Read: US makes H1-B visa tougher, Indian fir»»»

A Mainbiz Association graphic lists key factors affecting overall business management in 2025. Graphic by Asia Today and translated by UPI Dec. 22 (Asia Today) -- About seven in 10 South Korean small and medium-sized enterprises said they faced shrinking domestic demand and intensifying cost pressu»»»

Secretary of State Marco Rubio, President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth attend a Cabinet Meeting at the White House in Washington, D.C., on October 9. On Monday, Trump announced plans for the U.S. Navy to build two large battleships to "revive the American shipbuilding industry an»»»

US President Donald Trump on Monday said he convinced French President Emmanuel Macron to accept his demands on drug prices as he pushes for lower costs for Americans. Speaking from his Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida, the 79-year-old Republican told the story he had previously shared at a rally Fr»»»

WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump has announced a bold plan for the Navy to build a new, large warship that he is calling a “battleship” as part of a larger vision to create a "Golden Fleet." “They’ll be the fastest, the biggest, and by far 100 times more powerful than any battleship ever built,” »»»

Dubai authorities are warning residents against shortcuts to wealth after a case highlighted by the Dubai Public Prosecution’s “Crime and Lesson” campaign served as a stark reminder that quick-money schemes can carry severe consequences. The Public Prosecution shared the story across its official s»»»

A top Amazon executive has said the US technology giant has blocked more than 1,800 job applications from suspected North Korean agents. North Koreans tried to apply for remote working IT jobs using stolen or fake identities, Amazon's chief security officer Stephen Schmidt said in a LinkedIn post. »»»

Myanmar's junta is set to preside over voting starting Sunday, touting heavily restricted polls as a return to democracy five years after it ousted the last elected government, triggering civil war. Former civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi remains jailed and her hugely popular party dissolved after »»»

Dubai: The National Centre of Meteorology (NCM) has forecast a spell of unsettled winter weather across the UAE from today, Tuesday, through December 27, bringing humid mornings, shifting cloud cover, variable winds and the chance of light, intermittent rain in parts of the country. Also Read: Is C»»»

Washington: US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the American naval dominance is a central pillar of global peace and stability, and argued that the US Navy's strength underpins freedom of navigation, deters conflict, and sustains the international order. At a Mar-a-Lago news conference alongside»»»

A self-described foodie, social butterfly and New Yorker for 20 years, Lina Axmacher has long loved exploring the city's famed restaurant culture. Then she started Ozempic. She lost her appetite -- "my desire for cocktails and desserts and anything sweet" -- and also more than 20 pounds (9.1 kilogr»»»

When the X platform unveiled its new transparency feature in November 2025, few anticipated the scale of disruption it would unleash. What initially appeared as a routine technical update quickly revealed itself to be a rare glimpse into the hidden architecture of global digital manipulation. This »»»

WASHINGTON: The Federal Communications Commission on Monday said it would ban new foreign-made drones, a move that will keep new Chinese-made drones such as those from DJI and Autel out of the U.S. market. The announcement came a year after Congress passed a defense bill that raised national securi»»»

A small Mexican Navy plane transporting a 1-year-old medical patient along with seven others, crashed Monday near Galveston, killing at least two people, officials said. Emergency officials rescued four people and were searching for two that were inside the aircraft, Mexico’s Navy said in a stateme»»»

Danish pharmaceutical giant Novo Nordisk announced Monday the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had approved its popular GLP-1 anti-obesity drug Wegovy to be administered in pill form for weight loss. Also Read: Wegovy reduced COVID deaths in obese patients, study shows"With today's approval of»»»

Kilmar Abrego Garcia delivers remarks during a rally before his check in at the ICE Baltimore Field Office in Baltimore Maryland, on August 25. On Monday, a federal judge allowed the Salvadoran native to remain free through Christmas, after he was released earlier this month, as he awaits trial on »»»

US President Donald Trump said Monday it would be "smart" for Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro to step down, as US naval forces pressed a blockade on the South American country's oil wealth. Venezuela's key ally Moscow, however, expressed its "full support" for Maduro's government, as Washington»»»

A senior Russian general was killed in southern Moscow on Monday after an explosive device placed under his car went off, investigators said in a statement. Russia's Investigative Committee, which examines major crimes, said it had opened a probe into the "murder" of Lieutenant General Fanil Sarvar»»»

Dubai: Calling all Christopher Nolan fans. The first official trailer for the cinematic genius' The Odyssey is out now, and our immediate question? Is the world actually ready for his new sweeping saga? Hot on the heels of Oppenheimer, Nolan’s Oscar-sweeping historical epic, the filmmaker is going »»»

Dubai: Gold’s historic rally in 2025 delivered record prices and strong returns, but its most lasting impact may be how it fundamentally changed the way consumers buy the metal. Across the UAE, higher prices have not pushed buyers out of the market. Instead, they have made them more deliberate, mor»»»

President Donald Trump has announced that the US will commission a new series of heavily armed Navy "battleships" named after himself, as part of a revamped "Golden Fleet". Construction on the Trump Class USS Defiant ships, which will be equipped to carry an array of weapons, is expected begin soon»»»

The US Food and Drug Administration has approved a pill version of the weight-loss drug Wegovy, according to maker Novo Nordisk. It marks a first in this new era of weight-loss medications with Wegovy being the only so far to gain approval for the pill version of their GLP-1 drug, which has only be»»»