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Dubai Airports and Salik sign a 10-year deal to introduce seamless e-wallet parking / AI Image for Illustration Starting your next holiday from Dubai International (DXB) is about to get a lot smoother. In a major move to end the era of paper tickets and long queues at payment machines, Dubai Airports and Salik Company PJSC have officially signed a landmark 10-year agreement. This partnership brings the same “drive-through” convenience you enjoy on the highways directly to the airport parking lots. DXB and Salik unites for smart parkingDubai Airports has teamed up with Salik, Dubai’s road toll operator, in a new 10-year partnership to bring e-wallet parking payments to Dubai International Airport (DXB), one of the world’s busiest airports. The agreement, signed in a ceremony attended by Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum of Dubai Airports and Mattar Al Tayer, Chairman of Salik, marks a significant step towards smarter, more efficient parking management at the airport.Under this deal, dri..

AdvertisementArchaeology and palaeontologyWorldUnited States & CanadaRare duck-billed dinosaur ‘mummies’ reveal a surprise: hoofed feetEdmontosaurus fossils had large areas of preserved external skin surface, providing the most fleshed-out view of a large dinosaur to date
Reading Time:3 minutesWhy you can trust SCMPReutersPublished: 6:36am, 24 Oct 2025Two fossilised “mummies” unearthed by scientists in the badlands of Wyoming of the duck-billed dinosaur Edmontosaurus reveal the external anatomy in exquisite detail, including the surprising presence of hooves on the feet – a first for any dinosaur.
AdvertisementThe two Edmontosaurus individuals, dating to the very end of the dinosaur age 66 million years ago, were a young adult roughly 12.2 metres (40ft) long and a two-year-old juvenile about half that length.
The contours of the external fleshy surface of the two dinosaurs were preserved over the skeleton by a thin clay layer about one-hundredth of an inch (0.025cm) thick that formed a..

AdvertisementEuropean UnionWorldEuropeGermany’s Merz says no ‘immediate’ Ukraine EU membership, floats Kyiv joining meetingsThere is little appetite to fast track Kyiv to full membership in the EU – causing some to pitch possible interim benefits in the meantime
2-MIN READ2-MIN ListenAgence France-PressePublished: 11:48pm, 24 Apr 2026German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Friday there was no prospect of Ukraine’s “immediate accession” to the EU, but suggested Kyiv could join meetings of the bloc’s members without voting rights.
Ukraine is pushing to speed up its bid to join the 27-nation European Union as it fights Russia’s invasion on the battlefield.
Kyiv’s progress has been blocked by Hungary’s nationalist premier Viktor Orban, but his defeat in elections earlier this month raised hopes it can move to the next step.
AdvertisementEU leaders broadly back moving Ukraine forward by opening the first of the so-called negotiating “clusters”.
But there is little appetite to fast track Ky..