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Infrastructure is nearing completion across the fronds as construction gathers paceIf you have been side-eyeing Palm Jebel Ali updates, the newest aerial clip is the clearest sign yet that things are moving from map to real life. Posted on Nakheel’s Instagram account, the developer building the island, the video pans over multiple fronds where villa shells now line the shoreline, cranes dot the horizon, and freshly laid roads run like neat seams down the branches. The caption says infrastructure across the fronds is “nearly complete,” with blockwork and superstructure “moving steadily forward”, and you can see it: rows of homes…

For more than a decade, Silicon Valley venture capitalists have poured enormous sums of money into newfangled technology companies seeking to disrupt, and even supplant, the traditional financial system and sidestep its burdensome regulations. At the same time, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has policed that effort, going after such businesses for deceiving, overcharging or otherwise taking advantage of their customers by enacting rules, filing lawsuits and shutting down the worst offenders.  This cat-and-mouse game has long rankled tech leaders, but it has especially irritated Marc Andreessen, one of America’s most well-known investors and an outsize figure in the so-called…

A driver has rammed his car into pedestrians and cyclists on the holiday island of Oléron, off the west coast of France, injuring five people – including two who are in a critical condition.A local man, 35, deliberately drove into people and then set fire to the vehicle, authorities said. He was immobilised with a stun gun after resisting arrest.The man drove some distance between two villages on the island, mowing down several people, the mayor of Dolus d’Oléron, Thibault Brechkoff, said.He is now being held by police in Saint-Pierre-d’Oléron on suspicion of attempted murder.The incident took place around 08:45…

Japan deployed troops on Wednesday to help contain a surge of bear attacks that have terrorized residents in a mountainous region in the northern prefecture of Akita.Reports of sometimes deadly encounters with brown bears and Asiatic black bears are being reported almost daily ahead of hibernation season as the bears forage for food. They have been seen near schools, train stations, supermarkets and at a hot springs resort.Since April, more than 100 people have been injured and at least 12 killed in bear attacks across Japan, according to Environment Ministry statistics at the end of October.The growing bear population’s encroachment…

When the Supreme Court hears oral arguments on Wednesday in the challenges to the tariffs that President Donald Trump imposed under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act in a series of executive orders earlier this year, they will hear from three different lawyers representing small businesses, a group of 12 states, and – defending the tariffs – the Trump administration. But when they vote on the case, the justices will also have considered 44 “friend of the court” briefs, filed on behalf of members of Congress, trade experts, legal scholars, think tanks founded by former Vice President Mike Pence and presidential adviser…

Home Daily News Furloughed lawyer’s passion is topped with… Personal Lives Furloughed lawyer’s passion is topped with sauerkraut and mustard By Debra Cassens Weiss October 29, 2025, 9:17 am CDT A furloughed IRS lawyer used his ability to parse government regulations to open a hot dog cart that he is operating full time during the government shutdown. The name of Isaac Stein’s Washington, D.C., hot dog stand is Shysters and the slogan is “The Only Honest Ripoff in D.C.” Publications with coverage include Reuters, Business Insider, the New York Post and WUSA 9. The 31-year-old lawyer wears a shirt and…

Big changes are on the way for UAE schools as a brand-new global curriculum gets ready to shake up the classroom for CBSE studentsStarting in April 2026, the new CBSE Global Curriculum will be introduced to give students a more international learning experience while keeping the strong foundation of Indian education. The plan was announced at a major education conference in Dubai, bringing together hundreds of school leaders, teachers, and officials from across the region to discuss how the new system will shape the future of education in the UAE and beyond.Big update for Indian schools in the UAECBSE schools…

Anthony ZurcherNorth America correspondentGetty ImagesZohran Mamdani, the newly elected mayor of New York City, is notable in many ways. He will become the city’s youngest mayor since 1892, its first Muslim mayor and its first mayor born in Africa.He entered the race last year with next to no name recognition, little money and no institutional party support.That alone makes his victory over former Governor Andrew Cuomo and Republican nominee Curtis Silwa remarkable. But more than that, he represents the kind of politician that many in the Democratic Party’s left have been seeking for years.He is young and charismatic, with his…

Belgium’s Brussels and Liege airports were closed on Tuesday evening after drone sightings, diverting many incoming planes and preventing others from taking off.Kurt Verwilligen, a spokesperson for the Belgian air traffic control service, said shortly before 8 p.m. local time that a drone had been seen near Brussels Airport, which was then closed as a security precaution.Belgium’s busiest airport briefly reopened after two hours of disruption, but was closed again after more drone sightings. It was unclear when flights would resume.National carrier Brussels Airlines said 15 outbound flights were unable to take off, while eight incoming flights were diverted to…

Monday’s argument in Hencely v Fluor Corporation revealed a bench broadly skeptical of the idea that military contractors have absolute immunity for negligent mistakes they make when those mistakes occur in an active war zone.  The case involves a suicide bombing carried out by an Afghan employee on the Air Force’s base at Bagram in Afghanistan. Winston Hencely, one of those injured in the blast, sued Fluor based on the military’s conclusion that Fluor’s failure to supervise the bomber caused the incident, but the lower courts said that Fluor was immune from suit under a 1988 Supreme Court case called Boyle v. United Technologies Corp.…