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Ramadan Fasting and Metabolic Health: What Research Shows

Studies from recent Ramadan seasons tie dawn-to-dusk fasting to real metabolic gains, but the benefits depend heavily on what happens after iftar each night.

Apr 20, 2025

Sabudana Khichdi Is Fasting Food, Which Is Why It Is Made of Almost Nothing but Starch

Tapioca pearls, peanuts, potato and cumin. The dish exists because Hindu fasting rules exclude grains and most spices, and the constraint produced something people now eat on days they are not fasting at all.

Sep 4, 2026

The Conversation About Fasting With Diabetes Should Happen Two Months Before Ramadan, Not During It

The IDF and Diabetes and Ramadan International Alliance stratify patients into low, moderate and high risk, and updated the calculator for 2026. The assessment is meant to happen six to eight weeks ahead, which is when almost nobody books it.

Aug 3, 2026

Intermittent Fasting Works About as Well as Eating Less, Because in the Trials That Is What It Turned Out to Be

Three randomised trials put time-restricted eating against ordinary calorie control or against nothing. The eating window on its own did little. Combined with eating less, it did what eating less does. What that means for anyone considering it.

Sep 6, 2026

Kuwait's 5G-Advanced Roadmap Looks Beyond Faster Phone Downloads

Kuwait's telecom regulator is linking 5G-Advanced, AI, cloud services and local skills in a new digital transformation framework.

Jul 29, 2026

Adults Over Forty Thought Twelve Per Cent Faster After a Month With an Air Purifier

A randomised crossover trial with a sham unit found the effect only in participants aged 40 and over. It is also a secondary outcome analysis, it ran for a month, and it had fewer than ten people over 60 in it.

Aug 31, 2026

Crypto

A Tokenized Stock Is Only as Good as the Rights Behind the Token

Tokenized securities promise faster settlement and wider access, but custody, redemption, voting rights and bankruptcy treatment determine what an investor actually owns.

Aug 2, 2026

GPT-5 Is Here. Here's What Actually Changed for Users

OpenAI's long-awaited GPT-5 merges fast chat with deep reasoning into one system, and the rollout has already been messier than the launch-day pitch.

Aug 12, 2025

Fifteen Million Garments a Week Arrive in Ghana, and Forty Per Cent of the Country's Clothing Imports Become Waste

The donation bin is the end of the story for the person using it and the beginning of a long one for everybody else. What happens next is a functioning trade, a genuine livelihood, and a waste problem nobody exports a solution for.

Aug 20, 2026

Crypto

Stablecoins Are Becoming Payment Infrastructure With Bank-Like Questions

Stablecoins promise faster settlement and programmable money, but reserves, redemption, governance and operational resilience now matter more than hype.

Jul 28, 2026

Nobody Counts What They Drink, Which Is Where Most of the Sugar Is

Liquid sugar arrives faster than any solid food, does almost nothing to make you feel full, and is invisible in the mental accounting people do about their diet. Four cups of sweet karak is a dessert nobody counted.

Aug 17, 2026

Somebody Actually Measured What Five Varieties of Dates Do to Blood Sugar, in the UAE, in People With Diabetes

Dates are sweet, so the assumption is that people with diabetes should avoid them. A study of Fara'd, Lulu, Bo ma'an, Dabbas and Khalas found low glycaemic indices and no significant glucose excursions in the diabetic group.

Aug 12, 2026

The AI Cloud Is Splitting Into Specialized Machines

Microsoft's new AMD systems and Google's surging cloud backlog show why AI infrastructure is moving beyond a one-chip, one-workload model.

Jul 31, 2026

Three Soft Data Prints in One Week Cut the Odds of a September Rate Hike From Fifty to Thirty One

Note the direction. Markets are not arguing about how fast the Federal Reserve cuts. They are pricing the probability that it raises, and gold has just had its best month since January.

Aug 21, 2026

Manakish: The Za'atar Flatbread That Starts the Day

Dough pressed flat with the fingertips, spread with za'atar loosened in olive oil, baked hot and fast. The Levantine breakfast that a whole region eats standing up.

Aug 13, 2026

iOS 27 Is Out With the New Siri, Which Is a Beta, in English Only, Not in the EU, and Only on an iPhone 15 Pro or Newer

Apple shipped all six of its operating systems on Monday. The assistant that reads your messages, mail and photos to answer a question is the headline, and it comes with more conditions than any feature Apple has released. What everyone else gets.

Sep 15, 2026

Crypto

Stablecoins Are Quietly Becoming a Bond-Market Variable

IMF research finds stablecoin demand shocks can lower short-term Treasury yields and spill into currencies, crypto and equities. Digital dollars now matter beyond crypto trading.

Aug 2, 2026

Prediabetes Is Not a Disease. It Is a Warning With Unusually Good Evidence Behind It

The label is contested, the thresholds differ between guidelines, and most people who have it never progress. It is also the one point in this whole condition where a trial showed you can change the outcome by more than half.

Jul 10, 2026

Latest Trends

Four Months After Its Founder Died, Nizam al-Tayyibat Is Bigger. That Is the Part Worth Studying.

Diaa al-Awady died on 19 April. Egypt banned his content on 3 May. The system spread faster afterwards. What that reveals about religious vocabulary, distrust of doctors and the cost of a health panic is more useful than another round of the argument.

Aug 22, 2026

Continuous Glucose Monitors Without Diabetes: Useful Data or Noise?

Over-the-counter glucose monitors reached healthy consumers in 2024, but research suggests their readings may not mean what wearers assume.

Jul 22, 2025

Travel

A Catamaran Ferry Left Kyrenia at Half Past Twelve and Began Taking On Water Almost Immediately

The FILOJET was carrying 259 passengers and eight crew to Tasucu. Eight people died, 18 are still missing and 241 were brought ashore. The captain and all seven of his crew have been detained and remanded while an investigation begins.

Aug 31, 2026

Global Road Deaths Fell 21%, but the Map Is Unequal

WHO’s new figures show real progress despite a billion more vehicles, while poorer countries and vulnerable road users remain on the wrong side of the decline.

Jul 22, 2026

Berberine and the 'Nature's Ozempic' Claim: What Evidence Shows

Berberine lowers cholesterol and blood sugar in small trials, but comparing it to semaglutide misreads both the data and the biology.

Feb 14, 2024

Claude Opus 5 Arrives With a Clear Pitch: Frontier-Level Work at a Usable Price

Anthropic's new Opus model targets long-running coding and professional workflows with a 1-million-token context window, adaptive effort and the same API price as Opus 4.8.

Jul 24, 2026

Decompression Sickness: What Happens in the Body, and Treatment

Divers call it the bends. Doctors call it decompression sickness. Here is what nitrogen bubbles actually do to tissue, and how hyperbaric treatment reverses it.

Feb 14, 2024

Design

Designers Went From Trying AI to Using It Every Week

Weekly use jumped from just over half of designers to nine in ten in a single year. The number that has not moved is the one everyone expected to: almost nobody is hiring fewer designers.

Aug 16, 2026

Fifty Nine Per Cent of What the World Wears Is Polyester, and Eighty Eight Per Cent of That Is Fossil Fuel

Global fibre production hit 132 million tonnes in 2024. Recycled fibres remain under eight per cent of it, and the recycled polyester share actually fell. The wardrobe is a petrochemical product and the labels rarely say so.

Aug 20, 2026

Sports

Bednarek Did the Sprint Double, Dos Santos Ran 45.98, and the First Ultimate Championship Ended With a US Sweep

Three nights in Budapest, no heats, prize money only. Melissa Jefferson-Wooden won the 100 and closed the meet with a world-leading 21.47, Kenny Bednarek beat Oblique Seville and won the 200, Duplantis cleared 6.20. Every winner, and what the format proved.

Sep 15, 2026

Food Allergy Treatment Exists Now. It Is Not a Cure.

Oral immunotherapy raises the dose a patient can tolerate before a reaction starts. That protects against accidents, which is not the same as being able to eat the food.

Jul 29, 2026

The Nutella Problem: Where the Tayyibat Rules Contradict Themselves

A system built on separating pure food from corrupted food permitted a chocolate spread, banned fish, and allowed potatoes but not fruit. The inconsistencies are the tell.

Jun 18, 2026

A Gluten-Free Sourdough Loaf That Is Actually Bread

Wild fermentation does something for gluten-free bread that yeast cannot: flavour, a softer crumb, and a loaf that keeps. It takes five days to start and about twenty minutes of work a day after that.

Aug 11, 2026

The Safety Stop: What Those Three Minutes Are Actually Doing

Three minutes at five metres is drilled into every diver and explained to almost none of them. It is not decompression, it is not required, and skipping it is not the emergency people assume.

Aug 9, 2026

Sports

New Rules Turned Formula One Upside Down: Antonelli Leads, Verstappen Is Sixth, and Two Gulf Races Are Gone

Twelve rounds into the most significant regulation change in a decade, the four time champion is more than a hundred points adrift and a driver in his second season leads by fifty. The war removed two races from the calendar as well.

Aug 24, 2026

What Nizam al-Tayyibat Gets Right, Taken Seriously

Millions of people did not follow this system because they are foolish. Three things about it genuinely work, and understanding them explains the reach better than mockery does.

May 29, 2026

The Diabetes Drug That Turned Out to Be a Kidney Drug

SGLT2 inhibitors were developed to lower blood sugar by making you urinate it out. The glucose effect turned out to be the least interesting thing about them, and the kidney trials changed how this complication is treated.

Jul 25, 2026

Surviving a Gulf August: What Actually Works Against Extreme Heat

Heat illness is one of the most preventable medical emergencies there is, and most of the popular advice about it is either useless or actively wrong. The humidity is what changes the arithmetic.

Aug 8, 2026

The Gluten-Free Flour Guide: What Each One Does and What It Cannot Do

Rice flour is not a replacement for wheat, and no single flour is. Here is what each alternative actually contributes, which combinations work, and why psyllium and xanthan are not interchangeable.

Aug 11, 2026

A Diver Died at a Malta Tuna Farm. Investigators Suspect a 60kg Fish

Redeemer Grima, 41, was working 30 metres down at a fish farm off St Paul's Islands when he drowned. His equipment was later found lodged in the mouth of a dead bluefin tuna.

Aug 12, 2026

High Blood Sugar Damages You Over Decades. Low Blood Sugar Can Do It Before Lunch

Diabetes care is organised around bringing numbers down, which makes it easy to forget that the acute danger points the other way. The ADA defines three levels of hypoglycaemia, and the third one requires another person.

Aug 6, 2026

Breath-Hold Training on Land: What Evidence Actually Supports

CO2 tables build genuine breath hold tolerance over weeks. Hyperventilating beforehand does the opposite of what beginners think it does, and it has killed trained divers.

Sep 2, 2025

Added Sugar Versus Intrinsic Sugar: What the Guidance Actually Says

WHO guidance targets free sugars, not all sugar. The distinction changes how a bowl of cereal or a smoothie should be judged.

Sep 10, 2024

There Are Not Two Kinds of Diabetes, and Being Put in the Wrong Box Changes the Treatment

Type 1 and type 2 are the two everyone knows. LADA is regularly mistaken for type 2 in adults, and MODY is a single-gene condition that can sometimes be treated with a tablet instead of insulin. The label decides the therapy.

Jul 7, 2026

WHO’s New Drowning Plan Moves Safety Beyond Swim Lessons

The PROTECT package treats drowning as a systems failure involving childcare, transport, infrastructure, rescue and climate preparation, not a single bad choice.

Jul 23, 2026

How to Read a Nutrition Label Without Falling for the Front of the Pack

Front-of-pack claims like 'low fat' or 'natural' are not lies, but they are not the whole story. Here is what to check instead.

Feb 14, 2024

Why the Gulf Economy Held When the Region Didn't

A war that closed the Strait of Hormuz and hit every GCC state should have broken the region's economics. Reserves and diversification kept it standing.

Jul 16, 2026

What Freediving Actually Is: Every Discipline Explained

CWT, CNF, FIM, STA, DYN: a plain guide to how competitive freediving is actually judged, discipline by discipline, and why the letters matter more than the depth alone.

Feb 14, 2024

Psyllium Husk Is the Dullest Thing in the Supplement Aisle and Almost the Only One That Works

It has an authorised FDA health claim, which almost no supplement does, and meta-analyses behind it for cholesterol, blood glucose and constipation. One gel-forming property explains all three, and so does the way it goes wrong.

Aug 20, 2026

The Maqluba Spice Mix, and Why Turmeric Is Doing Two Jobs

Allspice, cinnamon, turmeric, cumin and black pepper. A warm, sweet-leaning blend that has to season rice, meat and fried aubergine at once, and colour the whole thing while it is at it.

Aug 15, 2026

The Gulf Lost Up to a Quarter of Its Luxury Shoppers. The Brands Responded by Moving Further Upmarket

Bain puts the shrinkage in the Gulf's luxury customer base at 15 to 25 per cent in early 2026 while the Americas surged. The industry's answer to losing aspirational buyers has been to stop trying to keep them.

Aug 18, 2026

How the Red Sea Crisis Is Reshaping Gulf Supply Chains

Houthi attacks on shipping have rerouted global trade around Africa, and Gulf importers are absorbing the fallout in freight rates and delivery times.

Feb 5, 2024

Ebola Travel Guidance Returns to the Departure Checklist

Updated traveler attention around Ebola-affected areas underscores a basic rule: monitor official advice, know the symptoms and seek help without stigmatizing whole countries.

Jul 24, 2026

The Grades Went Up and the Knowledge Went Down. A Study of 3.2 Million Problems Caught Both at Once

A ten-year panel of maths learning data found students spending 27 per cent less time on the problems AI can do, scoring better on unsupervised work, and 25 per cent worse when someone was watching.

Aug 18, 2026

Scandi Denim Is Going Global Without Losing Its Restraint

Jeanerica's international growth shows why Scandinavian denim is resonating: familiar fits, controlled branding and clothes designed to repeat.

Jul 28, 2026

Shish Tawook: The Authentic Lebanese Chicken Skewer Recipe

Shish tawook is Lebanese grilled chicken marinated in yogurt, lemon and garlic. The yogurt is what makes it tender, the marinade time is what most people get wrong, and there is a hard upper limit.

Nov 20, 2024

Latest Trends

Arab Vision 2045 Is Back on the Agenda. Here Is What Would Make It Real

A July meeting between the new ESCWA and Arab League leadership renewed attention on Arab Vision 2045, a regional roadmap built around security, equity, innovation and prosperity.

Aug 3, 2026

The UK-GCC Trade Deal Is Moving From Headline to Business Checklist

The concluded UK-GCC free-trade agreement could reshape services, procurement and investment, but companies should focus on implementation details rather than celebratory totals.

Aug 3, 2026

Design

Qatar's 14-School Project Puts PPPs and 3D Printing Into One Big Test

A QAR 4.5 billion project for 14 schools is 80 percent complete, combining long-term private operation, local materials and printed components.

Jul 30, 2026

Travel

Dubai's Visitor Rewards Bet Turns Residents Into Tourism Ambassadors

A new incentive campaign asks Dubai residents to bring friends and family to the city, revealing how destinations compete when regional uncertainty weighs on travel.

Jul 24, 2026