Cairo - H.H. Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, UAE Foreign Minister, headed the UAE delegation at the Arab League Council which started yesterday under the chairmanship of Abdilrahman Abdilshakur Warsame, the Somali Minister of planning and intern

Cairo - The Arab League council threw yesterday its weight behind the UAE's sovereignty over its three islands Greater and Lesser Tunbs and Abu Musa and its peaceful measures and means to restore its occupied islands. In a statement issued at the end

UAE Justice Minister Dr. Hadef Al Dhahiri held talks yesterday with his Jordanian counterpart Dr Ayman Awedh over programmes of boosting joint cooperation and exchange of experts and expertise.
During the talks, the UAE minister gave a presentat

Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister HH Lt. General Sheikh Saif bin Zayed Al Nahyan and Higher Education and Scientific Research Minister and President of Zayed University (ZU), launched yesterday the latest electronic forensic laboratory at Z

National Media Council (NMC) signed yesterday the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Emirates Academy of Abu Dhabi Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ADCCI), Abu Dhabi Media Zone Authority 24-54, and Thomson Reuters Foundation to boost the strateg

His Highness Dr. Sheikh Sultan bin Mohamed Al Qasimi, Member of the Supreme Council and Ruler of Sharjah, was honoured today by the Zayed Book Award as the Cultural Personality of the year 2010 in its fourth edition.
The Award honours prominent

Four young leaders from the UAE have been honoured as Young Global Leaders for 2010, the World Economic Forum announced yesterday.
Reem Al Hashimy, Minister of State of the UAE; Najla Al Awadhi, Deputy Chief Executive Officer, Dubai Me

Under the leadership of H.H. The President Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahayan, there are continual efforts to increase UAE date palm productivity in order to make better use of the date palm industry and to produce an agricultural leap that will cha

The UAE's first water conservation law set to reign in water misuse and group together utility companies across the country is under final review, and environment officials are hopeful it will be passed in 12 months.
The UAE does not currently h

Dubai's inflation slowed to 4 per cent in 2009 from a peak of 10.8 per cent the previous year as price growth in housing and food costs decelerated, according to the latest data released by Dubai Statistics Centre on Wednesday.
The global econom

London: Abu Dhabi's state fund, International Petroleum Investment Co., or Ipic, has agreed a US$2.5 billion (Dh9.18 billion) loan with banks to refinance existing debt, people familiar with the situation said Wednesday.
The three-year term loan

Mobile service charges, including call tariffs, in the UAE are the lowest in the GCC and among the 22 Arab countries as a result of the competitive pricing plans that etisalat and du have started to offer, new research has revealed.
The competit

etisalat Afghanistan's subscriber base expanded to three million in 27 provinces and achieved 24 per cent market share in three years, according to Saeed Al Hamli, CEO of etisalat Afghanistan.
The company's 2009 revenues have grown three

The UAE remained a net capital importer although it pumped more than US$45 billion (Dh165bn) in foreign direct investment (FDI) into global markets over the past few years, official figures showed yesterday.
During 2004-2008, the UAE's cumulativ

Sorouh Real Estate, an ADX-listed property company, may raise debt to the tune of Dh4 billion during the current year.
The company, which has an equity base of Dh6.026bn and a debt of Dh2.073bn, has plans to increase the gearing ratio to close 1

The exhibition of "rare books and manuscripts," which includes books, maps and signatures dating back to seven centuries around the world, is being held at the Abu Dhabi International Book Fair, which started yesterday.
The committee of "Kitab"

Those wandering around the Abu Dhabi International Book Fair 2010 (ADIBF) are sure to find many fascinating things about the literary world, and among them is the world's largest limited edition atlas, Earth.
"We debuted the atlas at l

A three-day wakeboard and music festival will energise the Abu Dhabi Corniche with the world wakeboard champions and superstars from today to Saturday, a Press release said.
The champions include Maximo Park, De La Soul, Carole Samaha, Fady Andr

Cairo - Speaker of the Federal National Council HE Abdul Aziz Abdullah Al Ghurair said here yesterday that the recent assassination of a Palestinian Commander in Dubai is an act of transboundary terrorism that bore the hallmarks of Israel and its int

Cairo - The UAE has the right to prosecute Israel over the state terrorism it committed on its land by assassinating the HAMAS commander Mahmoud Al Mabhouh, Speaker of People's Assembly in Egypt Fathi Surour said yesterday. He said the UAE can do tha