Adventurer and entrepreneur Omar Samra and triathlete Omar Nour will begin their epic 5,000 km journey across the Atlantic ocean on nothing but a rowboat tomorrow. We wish them all them best on a feat that has been accomplished fewer times than humans have gone into space.

CFLD’s new capital contract should be clear this week: We should find out this week when China Fortune Land Development Company (CFLD) will sign contracts to develop 14k feddans in phase one of the new administrative capital, government sources said over the weekend. CFLD is planning to spend USD 4 bn developing parts of the new city over the next five years, a figure it plans to increase to USD 13.5 bn over the next ten years. The head of commercial affairs at China's embassy, Han Bing, says that “we are very optimistic about the participation of Chinese companies in the new capital” (watch, runtime 02:17).

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