News of The World CEO James Murdoch has been embroiled in a bitter war of words with two of his former senior executives after he denied being warned of the phone hacking scandal within the organisation as long ago as 2008.
The Olympic committee of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Friday said it will not enter a bid for the 2020 Olympic Games, but decided the country's bid would be better timed for 2024.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon has called United Arab Emirates (UAE)
minister of foreign affairs, Sheikh Abdullah Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, to
inform him on the humanitarian crisis in Somalia.
A hotelier on Wednesday paid Rs.eight crore (3.43 million Dirhams) to a representative of a Pakistan-based family, whose sole bread winner was murdered in Sharjah in January 2009 by 17 Indian expatriates, including 16 from Punjab and one from Haryana.
Dubai International Airport recorded the busiest six months in its
50-year history as 24.6 million passengers passed through it, making it
the world's fourth busiest airport.