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December 12, 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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
07:29 GMT
That Afghanistan is corrupt is not news. Just how corrupt is news.
December 7, 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.
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.
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
12:32 GMT
President Ali Abdullah Saleh lied about American bombings in Yemen, revealed classified US embassy cables from around the world.
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
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
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




