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Duty Free Shops at Dubai Airport _ view from Emirates Business Class Lounge in Dubai
(photo: Creative Commons / Patrik Nemes)
How tech can help with the Black Friday rush
The Guardian
As consumers and retailers look to take advantage of the sales, what tech is on hand to help improve the Black Friday experience? | Sponsored by: | xAd | managing director at OgilvyOne | Black Friday is almost upon us and with 20% of consumers supposedly planning to phone in sick to take advantage o...
Britain's Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg delivers his speech prior to a student questions and answers session at the Oxford Brookes University in Oxford, England, Wednesday April 28, 2010. Britain goes to the polls in a general election on May 6, 2010.
(photo: AP / Lefteris Pitarakis)
British universities' 'business incubator' rated world's best
BBC News
British scientists are famously creative. But are they commercial? | For years people have complained that great British ideas only make money when they are exploited by foreign firms, often American or Chinese. | Now a group of British universities has been rated the best in the world at helping sc...
India mobile subscriber base to top 500 mn by 2015-end: Report
Yahoo Daily News
New Delhi, Nov 26 (IANS) India is set to have more than half a billion (500 million) unique mobile subscribers, or actual individual subscribers, by 2015-end, thanks to affordable devices, easy tariff and digital literacy drives, a study by GSM telec...
Rajasthan's women farmers beat climate change, global warming
The Times Of India
HYDERABAD: As France gears up to welcome over 40,000 delegates, including world leaders like US President Barack Obama, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping for the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference ― twe...
How tech can help with the Black Friday rush
The Guardian
As consumers and retailers look to take advantage of the sales, what tech is on hand to help improve the Black Friday experience? | Sponsored by: | xAd | managing director at OgilvyOne | Black Friday is almost upon us and with 20% of consumers suppos...
Mobile subscribers in India to cross 500 million by year end: Report
The Times Of India
NEW DELHI: India is set to have more than half a billion (500 million) unique mobile subscribers by the end of the year, thanks to affordable devices, easy tariff and digital literacy drives, a study by GSMA said on Thursday. | The report, "The Mobil...
Letters to the Editor, November 27, 2015
South China Morning Post
Emissions tests in line with best practice | We would like to clarify some misunderstandings in Alex Lo’s column on our vehicle emission control programme (“Emissions testing regime a major fail”, November 16). | To reduce roadside air pollutio...
The Mystery Of Alaska's Sea Otter Deaths Continue To Baffle Scientists
Huffington Post
An unusually high number of sick or dying sea otters has washed onto the shores of Alaska’s southern coast this year. But despite the efforts of many baffled scientists to find an answer, the exact cause of the die-off remains unknown. | More t...
British universities' 'business incubator' rated world's best
BBC News
British scientists are famously creative. But are they commercial? | For years people have complained that great British ideas only make money when they are exploited by foreign firms, often American or Chinese. | Now a group of British universities ...
Microsoft launches new cyber defense operations centre
The Malta Independent
"When it comes to security, Microsoft's approach reflects today's realities of our mobile-first, cloud-first world. This includes bringing teams and technologies together to evolve our security posture, for example, in the new Cyber Defense Operation...
Sandals Whitehouse pushes fire safety message with training session
Jamaica Observer
SANDALS Whitehouse joined forces with members of the Savanna-La-Mar Fire Department to bring the message of fire safety and prevention to farmers within the Western Region as well as some 20 youngsters recently enrolled in the Forest Keepers' Group s...
A heavy rain that flooded their houses in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip.
WN / Ahmed Deeb
Society 'set for climate change woe'
BBC News
Human societies will soon start to experience adverse effects from manmade climate change, a prominent economist has warned. | Prof Richard Tol predicts the downsides of warming wi...
File - One of the Expedition 36 crew members aboard the International Space Station on July 4, 2013, used a 50mm lens to record this image of a large mass of storm clouds over the Atlantic Ocean near Brazil and the Equator.
NASA
Nasa to study how plants and oceans absorb carbon
The Times Of India
NEW YORK: Nasa is interested in studying how oceans and plant ecosystem take up carbon, and if the warming climate will prevent them from doing so in the future. | Growing carbon e...
Will Anthony Bourdain’s Market Be Sweet or Sour?
The Daily Beast
Move over, Eataly—the globetrotting chef is betting that New York City foodies will traipse far west for his new mega-market. | From Midtown’s Michelin-starred cathedrals of fine dining to the multicultural ethnic food scene in Queens, New York C...
Is Internet TV next wave after smartphones?
Xinhua
BEIJING, Nov. 26 (Xinhuanet) -- Internet TV that works like a smartphone in mega-size may be the next big thing and there is no shortage of manufacturing and software firms trying to capture those eyeballs in China. | At stake is a hardware market th...
Go cashless and cardless with mobile payment technology Ultracash
Your Story
Merchant payments in India is still considered a cash-driven space. However, one can start reverse counting to see the world going cashless and cardless with the next generation of mobile payments. What if you discover that you forgot to carry your w...
Environment
File - A cave in Glacier Grey in Torres del Paine National Park, seen during NASA's Airborne Synthetic Aperture Radar (AirSAR) 2004 campaign in Chile.
(photo: NASA / Jim Ross)
Climate change makes past five-year period the warmest on record: WMO
The Guardian
UN weather body says man-made global warming and El Niño oceanic phenomenon made 2011-2015 the warmest five-year period on record | Climate change made 2011-2015 the warmest five-year period on record, according to the World Meteorological Organisation’s (WMO) state of the global climate report. | This year is set to be the single hottest ...
Weather
File - A cave in Glacier Grey in Torres del Paine National Park, seen during NASA's Airborne Synthetic Aperture Radar (AirSAR) 2004 campaign in Chile.
(photo: NASA / Jim Ross)
Climate change makes past five-year period the warmest on record: WMO
The Guardian
UN weather body says man-made global warming and El Niño oceanic phenomenon made 2011-2015 the warmest five-year period on record | Climate change made 2011-2015 the warmest five-year period on record, according to the World Meteorological Organisation’s (WMO) state of the global climate report. | This year is set to be the single hottest ...



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