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Come on in, Nairobi. voco hotels, IHG Hotels & Resorts’ fastest-growing premium brand, has arrived in East Africa with the opening of voco Nairobi Airport Suites, its first hotel in Kenya and the wider East African region.

Located just off Mombasa [...] 

The Nobel Assembly of Sweden’s Karolinska Institute announced that American Karl Deisseroth and Germans Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel had won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine on Monday ​for developing optogenetics, [...] 

Vienna House by Wyndham Frankfurt South has opened in Frankfurt’s Sachsenhausen district, bringing the brand’s distinctive [...] 

Cities are integrating artificial intelligence into public services and operations with no shared framework for measuring or comparing how prepared they are to do so safely, effectively or accountably.

Existing global indices compare countries on legislation, [...] 

The Dubai real estate market recorded 37,429 sales transactions worth AED92.9 billion in Q3 2026, as primary sales from developers continued to outpace resales, and the rental sector remained on track to set an all-time record.

A market analysis from [...] 

Few subjects generate more confident misinformation in UAE expat groups than gambling. Some of it was true once. Some of it was never true. Since June 2026 there has been a licensed platform, Play971, [...] 

The Peninsula London, in collaboration with CART Department, presents ‘A World Within’ a new project bringing together two of the Peninsula brand’s defining pillars: contemporary art and automotive excellence, in the hotel’s first-ever [...] 

Renault Group (RENA.PA), ​will invest more than €10 billion ($11 billion) in ‌France over the next five years in electric vehicles and more affordable cars, Chief Executive François Provost said on Saturday, Reuters reported.

“Over [...] 

Millions of refugee children could lose access to education as a deepening funding crisis threatens school programmes, the UN refugee agency warned on Friday.

Some 5.8 million refugee children and young people did not attend school last [...] 

For travellers increasingly choosing destinations around what they can see, hear and discover once there, culture is becoming more than just an addition to their itinerary. A major exhibition can inspire an entire journey, a music festival can give [...] 

Artificial intelligence is becoming a new kind of “digital teaching assistant” for students studying traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) in China, offering help beyond the classroom.

Led by Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, [...] 

Future Hospitality Summit – FHS World 2026 honoured Sir Tim Clark, President of Emirates Airline, in recognition of his exceptional decades-long career and outstanding contributions to the development of the aviation and hospitality sectors.

H.H. [...]