Mortgage costs are heading higher after the UAE raised interest rates for the first time in more than three years. So how much more could you end up paying?

And when the conflict ends, will Middle East aviation be ready for travellers to come flooding back?

The red carpet is also coming back to Dubai. The Dubai International Film Festival will return in 2027, a decade after it disappeared from the city’s cultural calendar.

Meanwhile, hackers are stealing encrypted data today, hoping quantum computers will help them unlock it in the future. So how do we protect our secrets from technology that hasn’t even arrived yet?

Plus, should pop stars keep their politics off the stage? Macklemore has been dropped from Ed Sheeran’s US tour over comments about Palestine, prompting other artists to pull out in solidarity.

We meet the Dubai couple who have rescued more than 6,000 drivers stranded in the desert - completely free of charge.

And would you take a halal-friendly cruise to Antarctica? The first voyage sold out, and now the company behind it is taking the idea to even more remote destinations.