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December 12, 2010

A red flag serving as a warning of shark sightings flutters over tourists enjoying a day on the beach in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh on December 8, 2010
07:59 GMT
Shortly after a German tourist was killed by a shark at Egypt's Red Sea resort of Sharm Al Shaikh, all sorts of conspiracy theories were floated...

December 10, 2010

Dialogue in the Middle East: sincere but cyclical?
20:37 GMT
Today, given the state Arab communities find themselves in, an observer cannot deduct or foresee the result of any inter-Arab dialogue, or that which may be conducted between communities.

December 9, 2010

Home-grown food projects like rooftop gardens, and raising rabbits and chickens on the roof help combat the severe poverty of Gaza's 80 percent food-aid dependent population
14:33 GMT
On the flat, square, cement roof of another Beit Hanoun home, Ahed Shabat, 42, looks after the plants and vegetables growing in tubs and cement planters amidst hung laundry and water tanks.
Geert Wilders has repeatedly encouraged Israel to confiscate more Palestinian land
10:10 GMT
A leader of the third leading political party in the Netherlands, the Party for Freedom, Geert Wilders is a proponent of ethnic cleansing of the Arab population of Israel.
The one-year-old female baboon was brought to the farm by an Iranian who found her in a crippled condition at a farm in Al Ruwaiya
06:40 GMT
A disabled baboon and a chicken strike an unlikely friendship at a petting farm that doubles as a sanctuary for abandoned pets in the UAE

December 8, 2010

13:19 GMT
It has been estimated that 32 per cent of the Emirati and expatriate adult population (20 to 79 years of age) in the UAE may contract diabetes or pre-diabetes over the next decade.
Yemen: the opportunity of a lifetime for two Somali students
10:56 GMT
Abdurahman Fareh and Khadra Abdulla have a few things in common: They both fled war-torn Somalia as children, they’ve both lived in refugee camps and both have received scholarships to study in Aden.
According to a report by Scott Shane, Mark Mazzetti and Dexter Filkins of the New York Times, WikiLeaks exposes how, "From hundreds of diplomatic cables, Afghanistan emerges as a looking-glass land where bribery, extortion and embezzlement are the norm and the honest man is a distinct outlier."
07:29 GMT
That Afghanistan is corrupt is not news. Just how corrupt is news.

December 7, 2010

A Qatari girl celebrates in Doha after the tiny Gulf state was chosen to host the 2022 World Cup on December 2, 2010
12:44 GMT
Qatari girl who was born when Qatar was selected to stage the 2022 World Cup was named Fifa, after the world football governing body that chose the country for the quadrennial tournament.
Trafalgar Square, London
09:32 GMT
There's a funny side to everything it seems, even the catastrophic diagnosis of advanced cancer which sent me scuttling from sunny Bahrain to wintry London two months ago.
It is not know whether the squirrel and the parrot survived the incident.
08:53 GMT
The passenger, whose identity and destination were not revealed, was transiting through Abu Dhabi airport on his way home from Jakarta.

December 6, 2010

Elderly Yemeni tribesmen sit holding their weapons during a tribal ceremony in Khamer city, Amran governorate, 75 km north of the Yemeni capital Sanaa on January 22, 2008
12:32 GMT
President Ali Abdullah Saleh lied about American bombings in Yemen, revealed classified US embassy cables from around the world.
Bilal was speaking at a two-day workshop on the problems of the Arabic language in websites
11:10 GMT
Information Minister Mohsen Bilal stressed on Sunday the importance of empowering the Arabic language to convey its message of supporting the just Arab cause
Iranian sodiers march passed President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (not seen) during the army day military parade in Tehran, 18 April 2007
08:26 GMT
Turkey's foreign affairs minister has said that his country is opposed to nuclear proliferation in the Middle East and Gulf region.

December 5, 2010

A handout picture released the Saudi Press Agency on November 19, 2010 shows Saudi King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz al-Saud sitting in a wheelchair as he arrives at his palace in Riyadh
12:49 GMT
Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz was 81 when he rose to the Saudi throne in 2005, but moved like a reformer decades younger to unleash his kingdom from oil dependency and hardline Islamic clerics