The 13th edition of the Sharjah International Film Festival for Children and Youth, organised by FANN – Media Discovery Platform, hosted the Middle East premiere of the Thai film 'Gohan', which opened the festival's Green Carpet screenings at VOX Cinemas in City Centre Al Zahia. The screening attracted a large audience, with all tickets sold out.
The Al Jalila Foundation building has been awarded LEED Gold certification by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) under the LEED EBOM (Existing Buildings: Operations & Maintenance) rating system, one of the most widely recognized green building standards in the world. The certification evaluates building performance across a range of criteria, including energy efficiency, water consumption, indoor air quality, waste management, transportation impact, and occupant health, comfort, and satisfaction.
“On World Sustainability Day, the UAE’s journey towards Net Zero 2050 requires us to focus not only on how energy is produced, but also on how efficiently it is consumed. In a region where cooling is essential to daily life and economic growth, district cooling plays an important role in reducing energy demand and carbon emissions.
Ahead of the 2026 UN Water Conference, co-hosted by the UAE and Senegal in Abu Dhabi this December, Abdulla Balalaa, Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs for Energy and Sustainability, called for water resilience to become a central priority in economic and investment planning, emphasising the need to connect water, energy, technology, and finance to drive sustainable growth and strengthen economic competitiveness.
Sustainability in any system is mostly a matter of design. A building that needs constant air conditioning to be habitable is badly designed; one that stays cool because of its orientation and materials is well designed, and needs less willpower from the people in it. The same logic applies to a gaming market. Most countries built theirs first and added protections afterwards, which is why those protections lean so heavily on individual self-control. The UAE built the regulator before the first product, and the result is a market where several of the safeguards are structural. Here are five of them, what each does, and how they compare with open markets, using Play971, the country's licensed online sportsbook and casino, as the working example.
Rosatom State Corporation became a partner of the 28th Water, Energy, Technology and Environment Exhibition (WETEX 2026), held in Dubai, UAE, from 20 to 22 October. As part of the exhibition's business programme, Rosatom representatives contributed to expert discussions on energy security, decarbonisation and sustainable infrastructure development, while showcasing Russian technological solutions to address global energy and environmental challenges.
