ABU DHABI // As Steve Jones sat on a camping chair on the edge of the Corniche watching the fifth Red Bull Air Race Championship yesterday, the 38-year-old pilot with Emirates Airline could not help daydreaming of trading places with one of the daredevil aviators. “It’s completely different from what I do,” he said, as planes noisily buzzed overhead. “But if I had the money, I’d love to have a go up there.” Read More

Google plans to put more effort into supporting products in Arabic rather than trying to make money right away through online advertising. Read More

Sir Richard Branson, the founder and chairman of Virgin Group Ltd.,made yet another splashy appearance in Toronto yesterday to continue to "revolutionize" the Canadian cellphone market the same way he did three years ago when he launched Virgin Mobile Canada by trapezing off a building. Reporter David George-Cosh went to Dundas Square to watch: Read More

Consider a couple deep within the throes of passion, their arms and limbs wrestle as the act of lovemaking becomes all but an inevitability. But upon closer inspection, something seems deeply amiss. Read More

Microsoft Corp. set in motion a battle of tech titans yesterday with its US$44.6-billion offer for beleaguered Web icon Yahoo! Inc. The move is an attempt by Microsoft to compete directly with Google Inc., which so dominates the online search world that its name has become a commonly used synonym for searching on the Internet. Read More