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Among them, Sheikha Lubna Al Qasimi, the UAE's Minister of Foreign Trade and the first woman to hold a ministerial post. We profile the trailblazing women reshaping government, business and public life.
On one side stands the defence: the Bersagliere, a 113-metre Italian Navy frigate crewed by 188 men. Its arsenal is formidable, from a 25-tonne main cannon to two dozen missiles and an array of heavy guns.
On a 2009 visit to the Van Abbe Museum in Eindhoven, Ramallah-based artist and curator Khaled Hourani had a wild idea. Hearing of the museum's global loans, he resolved that Palestine, too, should benefit.
Little remains impossible in the world of the automobile. Speeds that would once have torn cars apart are now routine, alongside satellite navigation, night vision, lane-departure warnings, adaptive cruise control and self-parking.
Laraki was a Moroccan maker of high-performance sports cars that first appeared in 2002. Founder Abdeslam Laraki, a graduate of two respected Swiss design schools, won his big break in 1996 at just twenty-five.
A trip to America's most populous city may thrill, but finding the perfect hotel in vibrant New York is no easy task. Fortunately, Bespoke discovers a serene new sanctuary, the Langham Place, that proves worth every cent.
A prosperous trading port by the tenth century, Murano had its own coins, police and aristocracy. In 1291 Venice ordered its glassmakers to relocate there, and they soon became the island's leading citizens.
Kingdom Holding, led by Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, has signed a 1.23 billion dollar deal with the Saudi Binladin Group to raise a tower beyond 1,000 metres, the centrepiece of the vast Kingdom City development.
A college dropout at twenty-one, Steve Jobs co-founded Apple in 1976 with friend Steve Wozniak, selling his Volkswagen to fund it. We trace the visionary without whom the company simply would not exist.
The chairman behind Isabella's Islay, the world's most expensive whisky, explains how Ruwa was conceived as a non-alcoholic drink without equal or parallel, a luxury Halal beverage in a class entirely its own.
“Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.” -The Queen, ‘Alice in Wonderland’ Alice laughed: “There’s no use trying,” she said; “one can’t believe impossible things.” The dissonance of a Queen is a comparatively small ordeal to ov…
Earlier this year the markets were a happy place: earnings strong, equities rising, the economy seemingly recovering. Then came August. We examine the debt-ceiling drama, the S&P downgrade and the global re-pricing of risk that followed.