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Cooked on pure gold bars: Jeweler serves $450,000 steak

January 18th, 2026 - 09:42 GMT

Sally Shakkour

Cooked on pure gold bars: Jeweler serves $450,000 steak

ALBAWABA - A bizarre and unusual video has gone viral on social media, showing a New York City jeweler cooking a steak on three gold bars. The sight astonished viewers and garnered millions of views within hours. In the video, the jeweler explained that gold is one of the fastest conductors of heat, causing it to heat up very quickly. He asserted that cooking a steak on gold takes three ...

The Syrian crisis had roiled the markets, with Dubai witnessing a decline of 7.9 per cent this month until yesterday’s surge

September 11th, 2013 - 08:50 GMT

Dubai stocks surge most in the world due to waning Syria tensions

Japan’s exports to the UAE stood at $4.06 billion during January-June period of 2013

September 11th, 2013 - 07:39 GMT

UAE-Japan trade relations not doing very well in 2013

The bank will cut nearly 80 jobs at its bancassurance division and about 120 jobs at its credit card business, Reuters quoted one banking source familiar with the plan as saying.

September 10th, 2013 - 01:17 GMT

First Gulf Bank to fire hundreds of employees

Tatham said the Arab Spring and tougher European tax regimes had led to an increase in property investment by expatriates.

September 10th, 2013 - 01:11 GMT

Dubai property prices highest in the world

Apple is going in the right direction with a cheaper version which is suited for markets like China, India, Middle East and Africa.

September 10th, 2013 - 12:07 GMT

iPhone 5s, 5c to make debut today

The centre had introduced two types of bins - green for organic waste and black for recyclable solid waste - for villas in the emirate.

September 10th, 2013 - 06:08 GMT

A revolutionary development? Abu Dhabi to expand its waste recycling options

Gamification is a proven business discipline that combines psychology and technology to engage both customers and employees to all of the organisations’ digital touch points (Photo Credit: Shutterstock).

September 9th, 2013 - 03:26 GMT

Egypt's forgotten side: introducing gamification to entrepreneurship

In addition to the newly approved 5,000 permits, nearly 70,000 Palestinians have permanent work permits for Israel, according to a defense official.

September 9th, 2013 - 03:20 GMT

Israel grants 5,000 West Bank Palestinian work permits

Jeddah has been divided into nine zones for garbage-lifting and the present contract, valued at SR1.8 billion, is substantially less than the SR3 billion contract signed earlier.

September 9th, 2013 - 02:27 GMT

Will this one be Saudized too? Saudi Arabia pays $500 million for garbage clean-up project

The IEA comprises OECD countries that hold strategic inventories which can be released in the event of a supply disruption in oil markets.

September 9th, 2013 - 01:24 GMT

Oil might be getting expensive, but we're all covered- says IEA

US Secretary of State John Kerry said that there is “only a political solution to Syria’s war, not a military one”.

September 9th, 2013 - 01:16 GMT

Jittery GCC markets soothed by Kerry's words

The engineering sector dominated the highest number of jobs occupied by foreign workers with more than 3 million foreign workers compared to 149,000 Saudis in the same field, the source said.

September 9th, 2013 - 12:25 GMT

So much for Saudization: expats holding 86% of private sector jobs