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Set to begin operations in 2032, Al Maktoum International will have a 14-station underground multi-track train. Here’s what a journey could look likeDubai’s airport of the future is being designed around a simple idea: passengers should not spend their journey standing in queues.At Al Maktoum International Airport, bags could be dropped off before travellers reach the terminal, check-in could be completed during the journey, and passengers could move through the airport without the usual repeated stops for formalities. Inside, automated people movers will link terminals and concourses, advanced baggage systems will process tens of thousands of bags an hour, and…
Abu Dhabi tenants are expected to stay longer in their homes and renew existing contracts after the emirate temporarily froze rental increasesThe Abu Dhabi Real Estate Centre announced earlier this week that the annual rental increase percentage has been cut from 5 per cent to 0 per cent across residential, commercial and industrial properties. The decision took effect immediately and will remain in place until further notice.Under the new rule, all lease renewals and new agreements on previously rented units will be based on the value recorded in the most recent registered Tawtheeq contract.Industry professionals say the decision directly addresses…
Getty ImagesLawyers for the defendant accused of gunning down UnitedHealthcare Chief Executive Brian Thompson will no longer argue a psychiatric defence at his state murder trial.Luigi Mangione’s attorneys reversed course a day after telling Judge Gregory Carro that they would try to show he was suffering from “extreme emotional disturbance at the time of the occurrence”.Mangione, 28, has pleaded not guilty in both the federal and state cases against him for the fatal shooting of Thompson in midtown Manhattan at the end of 2024.The BBC has contacted Mangione’s attorneys. The Manhattan district attorney’s office declined to comment.The reversal came ahead…
LIVEQatar down to nine men as Canada hit four but lose Kone to serious-looking injuryListen to BBC Radio 5 Live commentary and follow text updates as Canada take on Qatar in Group B of the 2026 FIFA World Cup.
Linkin Park tell the BBC they’re big fans of up-and-coming rapper Morgan Da SavageAn up-and-coming UK rapper’s thanked Linkin Park’s Mike Shinoda for “changing my life” after he praised one of her freestyles.Morgan Da Savage’s rap went viral after she performed on DJ and producer Toddla T’s independent music platform Steeze Factory.Shinoda mentioned her name when asked by BBC News at Download Festival who he’d want to collaborate with on a 2026 version of Collision Course, their 2004 mash-up album with Jay-Z.Da Savage says it feels “surreal” as she listened to Linkin Park growing up and all the attention means…
LIVEVoting closes in local election that could pave way for UK leadership challengeIn Makerfield, Labour’s Andy Burnham is hoping to return to Westminster. Meanwhile, two other by-elections are taking place in Scotland.
Watch: “New York is alive again” – Knicks parade through Manhattan after NBA winNew Yorkers celebrated the Knicks’ championship on nearly every available surface along the parade route in Lower Manhattan. Climbing on delivery trucks, hanging off lampposts, standing on the roofs of newsstands, clinging to the concrete pillars of City Hall, and filling up courtyards and sidewalks, thousands of exuberant fans packed streets to party. The parade on Thursday was the culmination of weeks of electric energy across the city that grew during the Knicks NBA Finals run – the excitement finally bubbling over when the team won the…
Slobodan Maricic/BBC SerbianThe boy’s mother Miljana Kecmanović has been given a jail term of two years and 11 months for neglectThe parents of a boy who shot dead nine children and a security guard at a Serbian elementary school have been given jail terms in a retrial in Belgrade.The boy was 13 when he shot dead seven girls, a boy and a school guard at Vladislav Ribnikar school in Belgrade in 2023. Another girl died later in hospital.The shooter was under the age of criminal responsibility and was placed in a psychiatric institution, but his parents Vladimir and Miljana Kecmanović…
BBCThe zoo houses crocodiles at its site near HuntingdonA man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after a three-year-old boy was left with critical injuries after ending up in a zoo’s crocodile enclosure.Cambridgeshire Police said it was called to Johnson’s of Old Hurst, near Huntingdon, at 13:24 BST. The boy was taken to Addenbrooke’s Hospital with serious injuries and is in a critical but stable condition, the force said.A 30-year-old man from Norfolk has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder and officers added that they do not believe the man and child were known to each other.A…
Anadolu via Getty ImagesShipping in the Strait of Hormuz on WednesdayFor Iran, the deal with the US offers something just as important as a ceasefire: a way to claim that it has not just survived the war without surrendering but has emerged from it stronger.From the start, Tehran’s core objective was not necessarily to defeat the US and Israel in conventional military terms. It was to come out of the conflict with the Islamic Republic intact, its leadership still functioning and its negotiating position not completely broken.The Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) – as the deal is known – allows Iran…