Video: You can now hot air balloon with falcons in Dubai
hink a hot air balloon ride is thrilling? Try one while the world’s fastest animal swoops to and from your basket… Dubai loves a world first, and we have another one: you can now take a morning hot...
Sonnedix Completes EUR 197 million refinance in Italy
Independent solar power producers Sonnedix have announced a non-recourse refinancing worth EUR 197.1 million, for its 66 MW portfolio of pv plants in Italy. The move will increase the Sonnedix’s...
Lebanon Weather Forecast
Today’s weather in Lebanon is partly cloudy with drizzles and snow over 800 meters in the morning, with no change in temperature, according to the Meteorology Department at Beirut Rafic Hariri...
Smoking chimp from Iraq finds refuge in Kenya
Separated from his mother shortly after birth, Manno the chimpanzee was smuggled to Iraq and spent his days smoking cigarettes handed to him by amused zoo visitors and posing for pictures. The...
Beijing issues red alert for air pollution
BEIJING has issued its first red alert for air pollution this year, as a new bout of heavy smog is forecast to hit the city Friday, local environmental protection authorities said Thursday. Approved...
Greenpeace: Thai fishing boats sail far to avoid regulations
The six men lay in red body bags, lined up on a concrete dock. The first died almost three weeks before his ship reached Thailand; the last almost made it alive but died the day before the ship...
Thrills and spills as vintage biplanes complete Africa odyssey
Like an aviator from another century, Lita Oppegard, 68, climbs out of her biplane on a grass airstrip near Johannesburg — one more stage safely completed in an epic journey down the length of...
Miss Universe criticised for whale shark swim in Philippines
Environmentalists have hit out at organisers of the Miss Universe beauty pageant in the Philippines, calling them “irresponsible” for letting contestants swim with endangered whale...
