Donald Trump’s estranged niece Mary said the US President was humiliating himself “on an almost daily basis” as he is losing control—over himself and the narrative—and the desperation that goes along with that. Speaking this week after Trump attended the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Mary, a clinical psychologist, said her uncle’s worst fear … Read more
Albert Camus wrote in the opening lines of The Myth of Sisyphus, a must-read for anyone who feels low, or can read English: “There’s only one serious philosophical problem and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy. All the rest—whether or not … Read more
In six months, Dubai’s first-time buyer programme helped 2,000 residents purchase homes worth AED3.25 billion/Image: WAM For thousands of Dubai residents, owning a home is no longer a distant ambition. A government-led initiative launched last year is rapidly changing that reality, turning long-term renters into homeowners and injecting fresh momentum into the emirate’s property market.Dubai’s … Read more
The seabed off southern Japan has long held shapes that look out of place. Divers near Amami Oshima Island began noticing large circular patterns etched into sand in the 1990s, precise enough to seem artificial. Each year, they appeared and then faded, leaving little behind except curiosity. For a long time, no clear explanation followed. … Read more
A long-time enterprise software executive, Indian-origin technologist Jigar Thakkar has now been appointed Vice President of Amazon Quick Suite, taking charge of Amazon’s agentic AI workspace under Amazon Web Services. What Amazon Quick Suite does Amazon Quick Suite, launched in October 2025, is an agentic AI-powered digital workspace designed for business users. It works as … Read more
Imaan Zainab Mazari-Hazir and Hadi Ali Chattha Pakistan’s prominent human rights lawyer Imaan Zainab Mazari-Hazir and her husband, advocate Hadi Ali Chattha, were arrested on Friday while travelling to a court in Islamabad. The incident triggered strong condemnation from legal bodies and rights activists over what they described as unconstitutional move.The lawyer couple was on … Read more
A single citizenship file was used to falsely register nearly 1,000 dependents, triggering Kuwait’s largest fraud case/Representative Image A routine nationality review has opened the door to one of the largest citizenship fraud cases Kuwait has ever recorded. What began as a single investigation file has now led to the withdrawal of nationality from nearly … Read more
When Steve Scherer began driving an Uber in northern Virginia, he was not trying to rediscover immigration as a subject. He had already spent years reporting on it from Europe.Scherer, a former foreign correspondent and bureau chief, published a first-person essay on his Substack this week describing how working as a ride-hail driver in the … Read more
The Indian Ocean holds the lowest gravity anomaly on Earth, a vast and subtle depression in the planet’s gravitational field located south of Sri Lanka. Known as the Indian Ocean geoid low, it causes sea level in the region to sit more than 100 metres lower than the global average, even though the ocean surface … Read more
Saudi Arabia launched Nitaqat 2.0, targeting 340,000 private sector jobs for citizens over three years/Image: File After the success of its first phase, the Saudi Ministry of Human Resources and Social Development has launched the second phase of the Nitaqat Al-Mutawar programme, aiming to create more than 340,000 private sector jobs for citizens over the … Read more