Dubai: When Carlo Bacalla laced up his running shoes at the start line of the ADNOC Abu Dhabi Marathon in December, it marked far more than another race finish. For the 63-year-old Filipino retiree living in the UAE, it was his first full marathon since beginning hemodialysis treatment and a powerf»»»

Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky said progress had been made to end the Ukraine war during Florida talks but the US president admitted the problem of territory remained "unresolved". While both the US and Ukrainian presidents described the talks as "great", Trump said "one or two very thorny iss»»»

Deep fear has long pervaded the arid savannah plains and highlands of north-western Nigeria - even before the US air strikes on the Islamist militants who have made this area their base on Christmas night. The heavily armed jihadists, who dress in camouflage and wear vibrant turbans, have lived in »»»

The much-anticipated talks lasted two-and-a-half hours, and that's an achievement in itself. Presidents Trump and Zelensky had never before spent this long in one room, negotiating. Afterwards, optimism was much on display at Mar-a-Lago. It was a "terrific meeting", according to Donald Trump. Volod»»»

Dubai: Travel patterns are shifting again as UAE residents plan holidays for 2026, guided in part by insights gathered through Bloomberg Pursuits’ Two-Night Minimum city-guide series. Sign up for our daily business newsletter, Cheques & Balances.Industry data shows travellers are prioritising immer»»»

The Albanian nationalist Vetevendosje party has won a landslide victory in Kosovo's parliamentary elections, according to preliminary results. With 90% of the votes counted, the party, whose name means "self determination", was on 50.8%, meaning a third term in power for its leader, Albin Kurti. Th»»»

With rising rents, a tough job market and pay cheques stretched to the limit, some young Britons are choosing to build their futures overseas. According to the Office for National Statistics (ONS), 195,000 people under the age of 35 moved abroad in the year to June. So where are they going, what ar»»»

"Want the royal charm of Jaipur? Don't come here, just buy a postcard," a local taxi driver quipped during my recent visit to the north-western Indian city. I had asked him why Rajasthan's amber-hued capital - thriving with tourists drawn to its opulent palaces and majestic forts - looked so ramsha»»»

Concern was expressed about the image of "superiority" that would be conveyed by the royal yacht arriving into Irish harbours as part of a mooted visit in the summer of 1996. A possible three-day trip to Ireland by the then Prince of Wales, now King Charles III, was discussed by British and Irish o»»»

Silva Gu's eyes dart back and forth across miles of tall grassland, scouring it for signs of life in the darkness. He speaks in less than a whisper as we try to find a spot to hide in the fields. Behind us, the vast metropolis of Beijing has yet to wake. As we wait, we hear only our own breath. And»»»

Emergency crews successfully evacuated an elderly Thessaloniki couple after a fire broke out in their second-floor apartment Sunday. The woman was taken to hospital with respiratory problems, authorities said. Firefighters also rescued a woman and her three children living on the floor above. The f»»»

Tribune News Network Doha On a dramatic day of twists and turns, Grandmaster Magnus Carlsen captured his sixth world rapid championship title on Sunday winning the Qatar 2025 FIDE World Rapid Chess Championship a full point ahead of the field with 10.5/13 . It’s the Norwegian’s 19th world champions»»»

QNA Beijing China’s core artificial intelligence (AI) industry exceeded one trillion yuan ($142 billion) in 2025, reflecting the country’s rapid advancements in emerging technologies and its growing global influence in AI development, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) annou»»»

Tribune News Network Doha Ooredoo, Qatar’s leading ICT provider, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Gulf Organisation for Research & Development (GORD) to collaborate on research and assessments aimed at enhancing Ooredoo’s sustainability performance and identifying actionable »»»

Tribune News Network Doha The Qatar Red Crescent Society (QRCS) representation office in Yemen has announced that more than 77,000 refugees and local residents in Sanaa have received a wide range of comprehensive healthcare services under a healthcare project for refugees, funded by a grant of $904»»»

Tribune News Network Doha Qatar Career Development Center (QCDC), founded by Qatar Foundation (QF), in collaboration with the Ministry of Labour (MoL), and the Ministry of Education and Higher Education (MoEHE), launched the Winter Edition of its job-shadowing programme ‘My Career – My Future,’ at »»»

Tribune News Network Doha The Language Institute of Qatar Armed Forces, represented by Brigadier Khalid Hamad Al-Kaabi, acting commander of the Language Institute, signed an agreement to extend the partnership and cooperation with the French Institute in Doha, represented by Margaux Girard, deputy »»»

Tribune News Network Doha The University of Doha for Science and Technology (UDST) has received full accreditation from the Canadian Information Processing Society (CIPS) for its Diploma in Information Technology (Dip. IT) and Diploma in Information Systems (Dip. IS), offered through the College of»»»

Trump spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday ahead of meeting with the Ukrainian president. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, pictured during a meeting at the White House with U.S. President Donald Trump in August, arrived at Mar-a-Lago on Sunday morning to work on a proposed 2»»»

One person has died and another suffered critical injuries after two helicopters collided mid-air on Sunday above a city in New Jersey, local police said. The Hammonton Police Department reported that one of the helicopters was engulfed in flames by the time it crash landed on the ground, and emerg»»»

US President Donald Trump said Sunday he believed the leaders of Ukraine and Russia were serious about peace as he spoke with them both in what he called the final stages of his efforts to end the war. Trump, who had promised to finish the war on day one of his presidency, said he had no deadline b»»»

Tunis, Dec 28 (TAP) - The governorate of Jendouba, notably the towns of Aïn Draham and Tabarka, is preparing to welcome over 15,000 tourists on December 21-31, 2025, a period characterised by heightened demand around the New Year’s Eve...»»»

Starting January 1, New Yorkers will no longer be able to buy or reload MetroCards to pay fare on the city's subways and buses as the MTA moves fully to a tap-and-pay system called OMNY over the next six months. File Photo by John Angelillo/UPI | License Photo Dec. 28 (UPI) -- More than 30 years af»»»

Suriname: A knife attack outside Suriname’s capital, Paramaribo, killed at least nine people, including five children, police said Sunday. Officials confirmed that the victims included four of the attacker’s children and neighbours who came to their aid. A neighbour’s child was also among those kil»»»

Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke with his US counterpart, Donald Trump, for over an hour by phone, shortly before Trump's scheduled meeting on Sunday with Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky in Miami. Zelensky, who faces another corruption scandal implicating lawmakers that erupted over the weekend, »»»

Dubai: Saudi Arabia has denied claims suggesting a renewed threat from Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus, saying that recent online interpretations of an international health report were misleading and not supported by scientific evidence. Dr. Abdullah Asiri, the deputy minister of healt»»»

The EU withdrew a record quantity of gas from underground storage facilities on Christmas Day, Gazprom has reported, warning that low reserves mean supplies could prematurely run out. As of December 25, Europe had 66.3 billion cubic meters (bcm) of gas in storage, down 9.9 bcm year-on-year, the com»»»

Jawad Developments has announced a partnership with Eltizam Egypt, a provider of integrated asset and facilities management services, to manage and operate the Val Plaza project in 6th of October City, west Cairo, ahead of the mall’s opening in the first half of next year. Commenting on the agreeme»»»

Doha, Qatar: The Qatar Meteorology Department reported that rain was observed over some northern and central parts of Qatar on Sunday, with thundery conditions possible at times. In a Post on X, the department said there are fresh to strong winds affecting several areas of the country, with weather»»»

The three-part elections in Myanmar, which roughly half the country is expected to participate in, have been seen as an effort by Commander-in-Chief of Myanmar's armed forces, Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, to legitimize the military junta that has been running the country since its 2021 coup. Poo»»»

From New York to Russia, Europe to Srinagar, and even the mountains of Saudi Arabia, recent snowfall has turned landscapes into breathtaking winter wonderlands. Experience the magic of snow-covered cities, forests, and mountains across the Americas, Europe, and Asia. Countries including Saudi Arabi»»»

A row over the disappearance of a famous river surfing wave in Munich escalated on Sunday as authorities removed a beam inserted over Christmas to recreate the attraction. The Eisbach wave on a side branch of the Isar River had been a landmark in the Bavarian city since the 1980s but it vanished in»»»

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - US President Donald Trump said that he had held a good and productive phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday. "I just had a good and very productive telephone call with President Putin of Russia prior to my meeting, at 1:00 P.M. [18:00 GMT] today, with Pre»»»

The phone conversation between Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump was held at the initiative of the US side and took place ahead of Trump’s planned in-person meeting with Vladimir Zelensky, Russian presidential aide Yuri Ushakov said. It lasted 1 hour 15 minutes.Key take»»»

Milan: Christopher Nkunku fired AC milan top of Serie A with a brace in Sunday's 3-0 win over Verona at the San Siro, the France forward's first goals in Italy's top flight. Nkunku doubled milan's lead two minutes after half-time with a penalty he had earned, ending a league drought stretching back»»»

Kuwait: The Arab Investment & Export Credit Guarantee Corporation (Dhaman) revealed that the Arab region’s food and beverage sector attracted 516 foreign direct investment (FDI) projects with Capex of $22 billion and 93000 jobs between January 2003 and December 2024. In its third sectoral report fo»»»

When the MetroCard replaced the New York City subway token in 1994, the swipeable plastic card infused much-needed modernity into one of the world’s oldest and largest transit systems. Now, more than three decades later, the gold-hued fare card and its notoriously finicky magnetic strip are followi»»»

Brazil's former president Jair Bolsonaro has received a medical procedure to treat his chronic hiccups, his medical team has said. Saturday's treatment "went well", according to one of his doctors. Another, Claudio Birolini, added that the procedure - which he stressed was not a surgery - lasted fo»»»

The Israeli military said on Sunday it had ended its operation in a town in the occupied West Bank that it had sealed off after a Palestinian from the area killed two Israelis. Around 50 residents of Qabatiya were briefly detained during the two-day operation, the official Palestinian news agency W»»»

Alcohol use is contributing to around 800,000 deaths in Europe every year, accounting for one in every eleven deaths, according to a report by the World Health Organization. In a new fact sheet published this week, the agency said the continent has “the highest alcohol consumption levels globally,”»»»

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Playing “shop” at home is among the most effective ways for parents to help young children understand the currency change Bulgaria will make on January 1, 2026. Setting up a small store using euros allows children to become familiar with the new coins and banknotes and to practise simple calculatio»»»

A 20-year-old man died in a powerful explosion while riding his motorcycle near Ramnagar village on the Ichhawar-Ashta road, around 55 km from Bhopal, in Madhya Pradesh, on Sunday morning. The victim, identified as Sukhram Barela, from Jamli village, was travelling from Ichhawar towards Ramnagar wh»»»

Dubai: Dubai International Airport (DXB) is gearing up for its busiest travel day of the festive season, with December 28 forecast to be the peak, as passenger numbers surge past 300,000 travellers a day during the final stretch of the year. Dubai Airports said traffic begins to build in the first »»»

A 35-year-old Bengaluru resident, accused of abetting his wife’s suicide in a dowry harassment case, died by suicide in a hotel in the Indian city of Nagpur early Saturday, while his 60-year-old mother also attempted suicide but survived, police said. The incident has left both families devastated.»»»

President of Madagascar Michael Randrianirina said his country views Saudi Arabia as its “main partner” in the phase of “refoundation” and in building a new development model, revealing to Asharq Al-Awsat a three-pillar economic plan aimed at restoring political and institutional stability, activat»»»

DOHA: Qatar Postal Services Company (Qatar Post) has issued a commemorative postage stamp to mark the seventy-fifth anniversary of the establishment of Qatar Post. The stamp documents Qatar Post's journey since 1950 and reflects its national role in supporting the services of the State of Qatar and»»»

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