After renting in Dubai for 15 years, is buying now finally cheaper? The five numbers every tenant should calculate

After renting in Dubai for 15 years, is buying now finally cheaper? The five numbers every tenant should calculate

Downtown Dubai, United Arab Emirates (Associated Press file photo) Owning a home in Dubai is a dream for many residents. With rents continuing to rise and long-term residency becoming more common, many long-term tenants in Dubai are considering buying a home. As more residents weigh the cost of renting against home ownership, property experts say…

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Warren Buffett stops yearly donation to Gates Foundation over Epstein link: 'Of course, morality is unpredicted but my remaining shares will be...'

Warren Buffett stops yearly donation to Gates Foundation over Epstein link: ‘Of course, morality is unpredicted but my remaining shares will be…’

Warren Buffett omits the Gates Foundation from his yearly donation over Epstein link. Warren Buffett, in a major decision, stopped giving donations to the Gates Foundation over Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates’ links to dead sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Buffett was a founding trustee of the Gates Foundation and he started “The Giving Pledge” with Bill…

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Mindaugas Sinkevicius becomes Lithuania PM after parliament approves manifesto

Mindaugas Sinkevicius becomes Lithuania PM after parliament approves manifesto

Lithuania Prime Minister Mindaugas Sinkevicius (Image/AP) Social Democrat leader Mindaugas Sinkevicius became Lithuania’s new prime minister on Tuesday after parliament approved his government’s programme, paving the way for his cabinet to take office.Lithuania, a member of both Nato and the European Union, shares borders with Russia and Belarus. The Baltic nation is Nato’s highest defence…

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Britain hunted beavers to extinction around 400 years ago, but they are now returning to England's wetlands to rebuild rivers and restore disappearing ecosystems

Britain hunted beavers to extinction around 400 years ago, but they are now returning to England’s wetlands to rebuild rivers and restore disappearing ecosystems | World News

For generations, the sound of a beaver working along an English waterway was something found only in history books. The animals that once shaped rivers and wetlands across Britain disappeared after centuries of hunting, leaving behind only traces of their former presence. Now, a new chapter has begun in Dorset, where wild beavers have been…

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Meet Carol Ruckdeschel: 84-year-old 'wildest woman in America' who has been living on an island for the 53 years in order to preserve nature for the future

Meet Carol Ruckdeschel: 84-year-old ‘wildest woman in America’ who has been living on an island for the 53 years in order to preserve nature for the future

What would you do for the love of nature? Apparently, live on a remote island with no roads for 53 years, preserving it for the world. Every year, 84-year-old Carol Ruckdeschel walks along the beach on Cumberland Island, Georgia. Donning her white boots, hair in pigtail braids, she takes notes of her home in a…

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Quote of the day by Augustus Caesar: "Have I played my part well in the comedy of life? If so, clap your hands and dismiss me from…" - why the Roman emperor's final words still resonate today

Quote of the day by Augustus Caesar: “Have I played my part well in the comedy of life? If so, clap your hands and dismiss me from…” – why the Roman emperor’s final words still resonate today | World News

Augustus Caesar (Image: Wikipedia) Rome’s first emperor spent decades holding more power than almost anyone in the ancient world, and on his deathbed, he did not ask to be remembered as a conqueror. Augustus asked his assembled friends whether he had played his part well in the comedy of life, then recited a closing line…

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Mauritius spent more than 40 years removing invasive rats, cats and goats from its offshore islands, helping endangered seabirds return after decades

Mauritius spent more than 40 years removing invasive rats, cats and goats from its offshore islands, helping endangered seabirds return after decades | World News

Off the coast of Mauritius sit a string of small, mostly uninhabited islands that once told a very different story than they do today. For decades, animals brought there by ships, rats, cats, goats and rabbits among them, quietly wiped out native plants and drove seabird colonies to near collapse. Then, starting in the late…

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