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Your new digital beauty bestie is loadingThere’s no shortage of fabulous salons and beauticians across Dubai, but if you prefer some at-home pampering, take note – Europe’s leading Ruuby app is coming to Dubai.Set to launch in October, Ruuby is the luxury beauty concierge app that allows you to discover and book an array of five-star beauty services direct to your door. It’s already the service of choice for beauty lovers across London, Manchester and the South of France, with Dubai set to become its next global location.How it worksOnce you download the app and set up your profile, you’re…
A years-long succession battle within Rupert Murdoch’s conservative media empire has drawn to a close, with his son Lachlan set to control the news group.The deal, which the family announced on Monday, will ensure the ongoing conservative leaning of Fox News, The Wall Street Journal and The New York Post even after 94-year-old Rupert’s death. Under the agreement Lachlan will control a new trust while siblings Prue MacLeod, Elizabeth Murdoch and James Murdoch will cease being beneficiaries of any trust with shares in Fox or News Corp.It follows years of tension between the media mogul and three of his children…
Chief Justice John Roberts on Monday cleared the way for President Donald Trump to fire, at least for now, a Democratic appointee to the Federal Trade Commission. A federal district judge in Washington, D.C., had ordered Trump to reinstate Rebecca Slaughter, who was originally nominated in 2018 by Trump to serve a seven-year term and then nominated to serve a second term by then-President Joe Biden. But Roberts granted the government’s request for an administrative stay – a temporary pause to give the justices time to consider the Trump administration’s plea to block the order by U.S. District Judge Loren…
Home Daily News Jailhouse informants testify they were asked… Criminal Justice Jailhouse informants testify they were asked to lie on behalf of Donna Adelson, woman on trial in law prof’s murder By Debra Cassens Weiss September 2, 2025, 12:55 pm CDT Donna Adelson, who is charged in the 2014 murder for hire of Florida State University law professor Dan Markel, listens to potential jurors answer questions Aug. 19, 2025, in Tallahassee, Florida. (Photo by Alicia Devine/The Tallahassee Democrat via the Associated Press) Updated: Donna Adelson, on trial for the murder of former Florida State University law professor Dan Markel, allegedly…
The MGM megaproject will bring a new dimension to Dubai’s luxury hotel scene in 2028Dubai’s MGM Resort megaproject is one of the UAE’s most exciting developments – and it’s now got a new opening date. In the latest MGM earnings call, MGM CEO Bill Hornbuckle confirmed that the MGM Dubai project would open in the second half of 2028, a year later than originally planned.Set on The Island by Wasl, a manmade island just past Burj Al Arab in Umm Suqueim, this 3.5 million square metre, USD2,5 billion island is set to become a Vegas-style emporium of hotels, entertainment and…
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Reporting Highlights Missed Opportunity: Some Social Security officials said they welcomed DOGE — the agency needs a technological overhaul — only to see DOGE ignore them and prioritize quick (often empty) wins. Internal Revolt: Leland Dudek, the agency’s then acting chief, helped DOGE at first, then tried to resist when he saw what it was doing, Dudek said in 15 hours of candid interviews. DOGE Lives On: Multiple former DOGErs have taken permanent roles at the Social Security…
Natalie ShermanBBC News, Fall River, MassachusettsBBCFrank Teixeira and his daughter Sue Teixeira, co-owners of Fall River-based Accurate ServicesIn a corner of a cavernous 1890s factory in southern Massachusetts, 15 people are bent over sewing machines, churning out specialty, hospital-grade neonatal gear.They are all that remain of what was once a much bigger manufacturing operation, most of which the Teixeira family shut down in 1990, reinventing their business as a largely warehousing and distribution business.Since US President Donald Trump started rolling out sweeping tariffs, the Teixeiras have been fielding more inquiries from companies newly interested in their US-based sewing services.But they…
Home Daily News Former BigLaw partner pleads no contest to… Criminal Justice Former BigLaw partner pleads no contest to alleged domestic abuse of wife who was later found dead in stairwell By Debra Cassens Weiss September 2, 2025, 3:24 pm CDT A former Duane Morris partner pleaded no contest in Berrien County, Michigan, on Friday to charges of domestic abuse against his wife and interfering with her 911 call. (Image from Shutterstock) A former Duane Morris partner pleaded no contest in Berrien County, Michigan, on Friday to charges of domestic abuse against his wife and interfering with her 911 call.…
Winter is coming, sort of…It doesn’t take a meteorologist to tell you that temperatures are starting to climb down from those fiery summer highs. But with the prevailing humidity levels in coastal regions, unbundling the hoodies from their space in the top of the wardrobe, still feels a little while away.We’ve got more on when we can expect things to cool down, a little further on.Why does it get so humid this time of year?The main culprit for why we get these moist nights, evenings and mornings in the UAE around this time of year, is a change of dominant…
European leaders will visit the United States on Monday or Tuesday to discuss ways to end the war in Ukraine, Donald Trump has said.The US president added that he would also speak to Russian President Vladimir Putin “soon”, as well as signalling that his administration was ready to move to a second phase of sanctions on Moscow.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said the sanctions were the “right idea”, and urged European nations to stop buying Russian energy.It comes as Russia launched its largest aerial bombardment on Ukraine of the war so far, killing four and hitting Ukraine’s main government building in…