Middle East

Dubai, April 26: His Highness Shaikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, received US Secretary of Navy Ray Mabus and his accompanying delegation at Zabeel Palace on Wednesday. The meeting was attended by Dubai Crown Prince Shaikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum and Dubai Deputy Ruler Shaikh Maktoum bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al

Abu Dhabi, April 25: Abu Dhabi Airports Company (ADAC) announced today that Abu Dhabi International Airport was awarded the Best Airport in the Middle East Award at the prestigious 2012 World Airport Awards, ranking the Capital’s Airport as the third best airport in the world, within the size category of 20 million passengers per year. During the awards held in Vienna, Abu Dhabi International

Sharjah, April 25: A day-old baby had a miraculous escape in Sharjah on Tuesday after being thrown by his mother down a garbage chute from the ninth floor of an apartment building and landing in a garbage container. The baby’s mother, a 26-year-old Filipina maid, threw the baby from her employer’s building in Al Majaz area. The watchman discovered the baby inside a garbage bag in the trash at 5pm

Abu Dhabi, April 25: Abu Dhabi’s second communications satellite was sent successfully into the orbit early morning on Tuesday, from a space station in Kazakhstan. A Mubadala Development Company unit, Al Yah Satellite Communications Company or Yahsat, confirmed that the launch of Y1B took place at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan at 2.18am, Abu Dhabi time. Yahsat’s first satellite Y1A was

Beirut, April 25: Bashar Assad’s international allies must realize the Syrian president is “finished” and persuade him to step down to avoid further bloodshed, Tunisian President Moncef Al-Marzouki said in a newspaper interview published on Tuesday. “The Russians and Chinese, and the Iranians must understand that this man is finished and they cannot defend him. They must persuade him to leave

Sharjah, April 24: The massive fire that gutted Al Baker Tower 4 in the Taawun area of Sharjah earlier this year was caused by a cigarette butt, as was the case with the Kuwait Tower fire a year ago, officials have said. The report from the Sharjah Police forensic laboratory on the causes of the fire has revealed another big risk smokers in residential buildings pose to neighbours. According to

Riyadh, April 24: Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah held wide-ranging talks with Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk in Riyadh yesterday. The talks focused on a range of key regional and international issues with special reference to the efforts required to building essential support for political and business initiatives to be launched by the two countries for strengthening overall

Makkah, April 24: A member of the applied sciences faculty at Umm Al-Qura University has won a gold medal for her innovation at the 40th International Exhibition of Inventions of Geneva, which concluded on Sunday. Maha bint Muhammad Khayyat’s innovation was based on spatial control in silicon nanowire growth. Khayyat, a prominent woman physicist and deputy head of the Institute for Scientific

Dubai, April 23: His Highness Shaikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of UAE and Ruler of Dubai, today announced an integrated strategy to establish the UAE as a global ‘centre of excellence’ for Arabic language. The announcement was made at the opening session of the first Mohammed Bin Rashid Policies Council, a new channel of communications with the community and

Sharjah, April 23: A Dh1.5m civil case against 17 Indians, who had earlier won a reprieve from death sentence, has been adjourned to May 7. The Sharjah Civil Court of First Instance on Sunday adjourned the civil case filed by two Pakistani brothers, who had claimed that they were assaulted by the 17men during a group fight of bootleggers in which another Pakistani expatriate, Misri Nazir Khan, was