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Leila Al-Khatib earned her undergraduate degree in Communication and Public Media. Her articles on financial culture have appeared in ICN.live since 2023. Her reporting style emphasizes clarity and accessibility, making complex changes in global finance understandable to broad audiences.
Ronaldo and Georgina wedding
  • Cristiano Ronaldo

The Ronaldo and Georgina wedding finally happened, and it looked nothing like the spectacle fans expected. Cristiano Ronaldo and Georgina Rodriguez married in a private civil ceremony in Cascais, a coastal town west of Lisbon, on Tuesday, 11 August. Ronaldo’s management team confirmed the news. The couple kept it small. Only their five children were there.

They told the world in one image. Both posted a wedding photo on social media showing their rings. No press. No staged reveal. The picture did the talking, and it drew millions of reactions within hours.

A date with meaning

The timing was not random. The wedding fell exactly one year after Georgina announced their engagement. On 11 August 2025, she shared a photo of her engagement ring on Instagram and confirmed that Ronaldo had proposed. Twelve months later, they made it official. Fans had waited a long time for this. For years, people wondered whether the couple would marry at all.

Their story started in Madrid in 2016. Georgina was working at a Gucci store when the two met. The relationship went public the following year, and they have built a family since. Georgina became a public figure in her own right during those years, known to a wide audience beyond football. The Cristiano Ronaldo and Georgina Rodriguez wedding closes a chapter fans have followed for almost a decade.

The venue mix-up

The Ronaldo-Georgina civil ceremony stayed short and personal. Their two daughters, Alana Martina, born in 2017, and Bella Esmeralda, born in 2022, were present. Ronaldo is also father to Cristiano Jr. and twins Eva and Mateo. All five children stood with the couple.

The family has known loss too. In April 2022, while Georgina was expecting twins, the couple lost their baby son. Bella, his twin sister, survived. That history sits behind the quiet tone of the day.

The Ronaldo and Georgina wedding had fed speculation across Portugal for weeks. Days before the real event, hundreds of people gathered outside Funchal Cathedral in Madeira. Rumours had spread that the pair would marry there. The ceremony at the cathedral belonged to a different Portuguese couple. If you followed the chatter, you were probably watching Madeira. The couple were somewhere else.

Cascais gave them the privacy they wanted. The Ronaldo wedding in Cascais, Portugal, stayed secret until the photo appeared. The town sits about 20 miles from Lisbon and draws visitors for its beaches and quiet streets. It suited a couple who kept the guest list to their own children.

Where Ronaldo stands now

Ronaldo, 41, plays for Saudi Arabian club Al-Nassr. He joined after leaving Manchester United at the end of 2022. He has won the Ballon d’Or five times and has worn the shirts of Sporting CP, Manchester United, Real Madrid and Juventus.

Now Cristiano Ronaldo is married to Georgina, and the two begin their next stage as husband and wife. The Ronaldo and Georgina wedding stayed their own, quiet and close, in a life lived mostly in public.

  • 3 min read
DEWA record profit
  • DEWA

DEWA’s record profit for the first half of 2026 reached AED3.33 billion, a rise of 15.02 percent from the same period last year. Behind that single figure sits a simple story. More people and businesses in Dubai are using power, water and cooling, and the utility is selling more of all three.

The DEWA record profit was one of four results to hit a first-half high. Revenue reached AED14.86 billion. EBITDA, a measure of core earnings before interest, tax and accounting charges, came in at AED7.32 billion. Operating profit landed at AED4.07 billion. The DEWA net profit line, up 15.02 percent, drew most of the coverage.

Where the growth came from

Demand did much of the work. Dubai Electricity and Water Authority added 18,220 customer accounts in the second quarter alone. Over the year to 30 June 2026, the account base grew by 72,718, or 5.63 percent. When a customer list expands at that pace, revenue tends to follow.

Supply kept up. The company generated 15.78 TWh of electricity in the second quarter. It also produced 40.25 billion imperial gallons of desalinated water, the drinking supply a desert city leans on.

How DEWA’s record profit links to clean energy

DEWA clean energy is a growing part of the picture. In the second quarter, clean sources supplied 3.14 TWh, or 19.9 percent of all power generated. By the close of the first half, installed capacity stood at 17,979 MW, with 3,860 MW from clean sources. That share works out to 21.5 percent of the energy mix.

Water infrastructure grew too. DEWA switched on Block A of the Hassyan Sea Water Reverse Osmosis plant, adding 60 MIGD of capacity. Reverse osmosis, which pushes seawater through fine membranes, now covers 23 percent of the utility’s desalination. Another 120 MIGD of that technology is planned this year.

The 2030 targets are on track. The plan stretches well past this report. By the end of 2030, the company aims for more than 23 GW of installed power capacity and 735 MIGD of water production. Around 8.3 GW of the power, or 36.1 percent, would come from renewable sources. For water, 308 MIGD would use reverse osmosis run on renewable energy.

What it means for shareholders

Here is the part investors watch. DEWA dividend payments follow a set policy. The company plans a minimum of AED6.2 billion a year across its first five years as a listed firm, split into two payments each April and October.

In April 2026, the utility paid AED3.1 billion for the second half of 2025. A further AED3.1 billion for the first half of 2026 is expected in late October, subject to approvals. Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer, Vice Chairman and MD & CEO, confirmed the plan alongside the DEWA H1 2026 results.

Strip away the detail, and DEWA’s record profit rests on one trend. A growing city needs more power and water, and the firm that supplies both is turning that demand into steady earnings and regular payouts.

  • 3 min read
Superintelligence for everyone
  • META

Superintelligence for everyone is the bet Mark Zuckerberg placed this week. On August 10, the Meta chief published an essay titled The Future is for Everyone, and his argument runs simple. The most advanced AI should sit in your hands, not inside a handful of labs. What matters most, he wrote, is not who builds the strongest system first. It is who gets to use it.

The three ideas behind the plan

Zuckerberg built his case on three ideas. People, not big institutions, create prosperity. AI’s real value lies in helping you invent things rather than replacing your job. And safety comes from spreading power widely, so no single company or government can dominate. He calls his preferred version personal superintelligence, and he wants Meta to lead in building it.

Think of it this way. If one person owned a superintelligent lawyer, they could win in court even when they were wrong. Give everyone that same lawyer, Zuckerberg argues, and the system gets fairer. That thought experiment sits at the center of the Mark Zuckerberg AI vision laid out in the essay.

What Meta says it will build

Superintelligence for everyone starts, in Meta’s telling, with a personal assistant. Meta wants to put personal AI agents in front of billions of people. Zuckerberg described an assistant that works around the clock on your behalf, helping with your health, career, finances, relationships, and home. He said it would run with strong privacy, modeled on the encryption Meta uses in WhatsApp, so your information stays yours.

Cost sits at the heart of the pitch. Meta plans free versions for billions of users, plus a paid tier for people who want more computing power. Zuckerberg also said Meta superintelligence work now runs through Meta Superintelligence Labs, and the company will resume releasing some open-source AI models soon. No firm dates appear for when these tools reach users.

“Everyone will have an exceptionally capable personal agent that understands you, your goals, and everything you care about. Your agent will work 24/7 on your behalf to improve your relationships, health, career, finances, home management, hobbies, and more. It will free up time for the things you enjoy, and help you accomplish more than you could otherwise.”, Mark said.

Why the finance crowd is watching

Zuckerberg frames invention, not automation, as the real prize. He predicts new kinds of work, from one-person studios making custom products to small teams running sizable companies with a capable agent. That prediction rests on people gaining skills as fast as machines gain them. Whether that holds is uncertain, and he admits the transition could be hard for many workers.

The essay also answers a common worry about who benefits. Meta points to Richland Parish, Louisiana, where it is building a large data center. Teachers there received a 50,000 dollar bonus this year from the added tax revenue, the company said. Local promises like these form what Meta calls a community compact, backed by a fund for the towns it builds in.

Superintelligence for everyone, or a Meta pitch?

The essay reads as philosophy more than product news. It names no launch dates and no specific models. Superintelligence for everyone is the frame, yet the plan still runs on Meta’s platforms, Meta’s compute, and Meta’s terms. For readers weighing the promise, that tension is worth watching. The idea of superintelligence for everyone sounds open by design. Delivery, for now, sits with one company.

  • 3 min read
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