A major remittance app used by thousands of expats here in the UAE has gone offline — with no clear timeline for when it’ll return. TapTap Send says it’s undergoing a system upgrade, but users say they were given no warning. We hear your thoughts including what other tools you use to send money to your home countries. We also speak with finance coach Jay Adrian Tolentino about how it’s affecting families who rely on that remittance back home.
Big changes are on the way when it comes to the city’s rubbish collections as Dubai Municipality has just launched a bold new strategy called Circle Dubai, aiming to send zero waste to landfill by 2041. Engineer Mohammed Alrayees, Director of Waste Strategy and Projects Department at Dubai Municipality joins Katie.
Emirates is investing in new weather-monitoring tech and flight data tools to predict and avoid the worst of it. It's all about improving safety and comfort as flying conditions become more unpredictable. Aviation commentator and pilot Alastair Rosenschein gives us his take.
And nearly 90 years after Amelia Earhart vanished over the Pacific, a new search team says they’re focusing on a spot other missions have overlooked, right near where she was supposed to land.
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