Dubai plans to build a tower that will stand higher than its Burj Khalifa, currently the world’s tallest skyscraper, property developer Emaar said .The viewing tower will cost around 1 billion dollars (880 million euros) and will be "a notch" taller than Burj Khalifa, Emaar chairman Mohamed Alabbar told reporters as he revealed details of the project.But he said that the final height will be announced upon completion, adding that his company would like to present the tower as a "gift to the city before 2020," the year Dubai hosts the world Expo trading fair.Designed by Swis...
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A paper published this month shows that researchers in Japan have successfully grown fully-functioning mouse skin in a laboratory, from a set of reprogrammed cells.Researchers were able to grow the independent sections of mouse skin tissue thanks to an advance from nearly a decade ago, when the scientific community learned how to take young cells and reprogram them to grow into a different kind of cell. In this case, cells from the gums of mice were redirected to become skin cells.Skin grafts are a big deal in the world of life-saving technology, as functioning skin is slow to create from graf...
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The Maldives government has kicked off a controversial $800-million expansion of the country’s main airport by a Chinese company, a move likely to irritate giant neighbour India.President Abdulla Yameen inaugurated construction work in a ceremony on Wednesday night in the capital Male of the politically troubled country.“The president stated that with the expansion, the airport would become the economic backbone of the Maldives and that this would be the main gateway of modern day development,” a government statement said on Thursday.Chinese company Beijing Urban Construction Group was awarded...
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A spokesman told the AP news agency that discussions were "at a very early stage" and there was no certainty a deal would take place.The Wall Street Journal, where it was first reported, said the Daily Mail and General Trust (DMGT) was in talks with private equity firms about an offer.Yahoo is under pressure from shareholders to turn itself around.The activist hedge fund investor Starboard Value recently called for the replacement of the entire board at the loss-making company.The spokesman for the Daily Mail owner said "it has been in discussions with a number of parties who ar...
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The Edge office building in Amsterdam prides itself on good coffee, lots of natural light - no desk is far from a window - and a gym that allows you not just to get fit but also to contribute to the energy supply of the office.It also flushes its toilets with rainwater, has a robot security guard that will challenge you if you wander around at night and a whole range of clever technology to make the building sustainable.The developers behind it, Dutch firm OVG, liked it so much that they moved in when it was finished.So is the office that has already been dubbed the world’s greenest, really as...
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