I was an expat working in Dubai for 4 years. The culture of splurging on luxuries made saving harder than I expected.
Victoria Blinova left Dubai in 2021 after four years of working in the emirate. This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation and emails with Victoria Blinova, 30, about living in Dubai and moving to London. The below has been edited for length and clarity. I grew up in Cyprus and moved to the UAE…
Margot Robbie described slapping Leonardo DiCaprio in an audition that supercharged her career
Margot Robbie as Naomi Lapaglia in “The Wolf of Wall Street.” Margot Robbie said she slapped Leonardo DiCaprio in her audition for “The Wolf of Wall Street,” and worried she’d be arrested. Robbie played Naomi Lapaglia, the fictionalized wife of Jordan Belfort, the financial criminal portrayed by DiCaprio. But she took a risk in her…
A cut internet cable on Russia’s doorstep raises the prospect of more sabotage
A fibre optic cable connecting Finland and Sweden has been cut in two separate places. The severance of two overland fibreoptic cables that carry internet data between Sweden and Finland has raised fears of sabotage. The damage caused widespread outages in Finland, affecting thousands of households. Finnish Minister of Transport and Communications, Lulu Ranne, said…
Elon Musk says the latest rejection of his mega Tesla payday is ‘totally crazy’
Elon Musk is CEO of Tesla. Elon Musk hit out at a Delaware judge’s latest rejection of his mega pay package. In posts on X, his social media platform, the world’s richest person said the ruling by Court of Chancery Judge Kathleen St. J. McCormick was “totally crazy” and “absolute corruption.” Musk also described her…
A Vietnamese tycoon is scrambling to raise $9B to avoid execution
Truong My Lan saw her bid to appeal a death sentence rejected by a court in Vietnam. A Vietnamese real estate tycoon is desperately trying to raise $9 billion to avoid the death penalty after her bid to appeal the sentence was rejected on Tuesday. Truong My Lan, the chairwoman of real estate developer Van…
A KLM Boeing 777 turned around over the Atlantic, leaving passengers on a 4-hour flight to nowhere
The flight involved a KLM Boeing 777 (not pictured.) A KLM plane U-turned over the Atlantic Ocean, leaving passengers with a four-hour flight to nowhere. The Boeing 777 left Amsterdam for Paramaribo, the capital of the small South American nation of Suriname on Sunday. Data from Flightradar24 shows the flight departed on time. But two…
I moved from Toronto to NYC and have no plans to return to Canada. I prefer life in the US.
Jeremy Berke moved from Canada to the US and prefers life in the States. While I’m grateful to call Toronto my hometown, New York is where I’ve built my career and adult life, and I don’t see that changing anytime soon. Toronto, despite being Canada’s financial hub and home to over 6 million people, is…
Larry Ellison is investing up to $165 million to turn University of Oxford science research into products
Larry Ellison, the cofounder of Oracle. Larry Ellison is betting big on research and development in the UK by investing at least $127 million through his technology institute to help turn scientific discoveries at the University of Oxford into products. The Ellison Institute of Technology, set up by the Oracle cofounder in 2015, plans to…
China hits back at Biden’s chip restrictions by banning shipments of key materials to the US
Donald Trump has previously called China the “main threat” to the US AI industry. China has retaliated against the Biden administration’s semiconductor export controls by banning shipments of key materials to the US, ramping up the global chip war ahead of Donald Trump’s second term. China’s Ministry of Commerce said on Tuesday it would halt…
