Huge fire in Sharjah guts 11 shops; still smouldering
A total of 11 shops were gutted in the early morning fire at an industrial area in Sharjah this morning. The fire started at about 4am at the Al Ahli tire shop located near the Tabliq Masjid at...
View ArticleUnidentified man run-over in RAK
An unidentified person was run over in an accident on Rashid Street, near Safeer Mall, in Ras Al Khaimah. Colonel Ali Saeed Alalkim, Director, Traffic and Patrol Police, Ras Al Khaimah, said the...
View ArticleAsian gets death for adultery in Abu Dhabi
An Abu Dhabi criminal court sentenced an Asian housemaid to stoning to death after she was found guilty of committing adultery while married. The maid had been rushed to hospital following abdominal...
View ArticleFloyd 'Money' Mayweather Jr vs Marcos Maidana: Mayweather is undisputed...
Pound-for-pound king Floyd Mayweather ran his perfect record to 46-0 with a 12-round majority decision over Marcos Maidana in a welterweight world title unification bout Saturday night. The 37-year-old...
View ArticleFind out which new communities will be linked to Dubai Metro
Dubai has a plan. In 16 years from now, 30 per cent of the population should be using public transportation. Last year, the public transportation community made up 13 per cent of the total population,...
View ArticleBoxer Amir Khan to pregnant wife: Don't watch fight with Collazo
Boxing champion Amir Khan is in the throes of growing up from a pin-up boy for the hardest game into a family man. Khan’s wife Faryal will give birth to their first child and he is taking seriously the...
View ArticleLover ties pregnant girlfriend to gas tank and blows it up [video]
A horrific report of a Chinese man kidnapping his pregnant 21-year-old girlfriend and then blowing her up has emerged on YouTube. GRAPHIC CONTENT WARNING The report alleged that the man, identified as...
View ArticleAbu Dhabi court fines UAE woman Dh600 million
An appeals court in Abu Dhabi sentenced an Emirati woman to three years in prison and fined her Dh600 million after she was convicted of embezzling public funds and forging documents while working for...
View ArticleWorld's 30 Most Beautiful Women: How Lupita N'yong'o compares
'12 Years a Slave' star Lupita N'yong'o has been named People's Most Beautiful woman. Look: World's 100 Sexiest Women The 31-year-old actress is thrilled to have taken the coveted title and hopes her...
View ArticleTaxi driver rapes mentally retarded girl
A Pakistani taxi driver allegedly raped a mentally retarded woman by pushing her into a room he had leased from a friend, the Dubai Criminal Court heard. According to the records, on November 7, the...
View ArticleSchool driver molests colleague's daughter
A school-bus driver in Ajman left his 8-year-old daughter in the bus and went to call the other school children at the end of the day. Just as he was about to drive away, his daughter shouted at him to...
View ArticleBoxer Amir Khan to pregnant wife: Don't watch fight with Collazo
Boxing champion Amir Khan is in the throes of growing up from a pin-up boy for the hardest game into a family man. Khan’s wife Faryal will give birth to their first child and he is taking seriously the...
View Article60 children travelling on Emirates A380 to London treated after falling sick
According to reports in UK media, paramedics at Heathrow Airport attended to 60 children after a group of schoolchildren on a London-bound Emirates A380 flight complained of diarrhoea and vomiting....
View ArticleMissing MH370 latest: New search equipment two months away
LATEST UPDATE: Officials said on Monday it could be up to two months before new, more sophisticated equipment will be in the water to help in the search for flight MH370 across what will be largely...
View ArticleWhy is Katrina Kaif worried about Hrithik Roshan rumours?
Bollywood actor Hrithik Roshan and Katrina Kaif's growing bond of friendship has been the talk of the town for quite some time now. Reports surfaced that this bond is beyond friendship and news coming...
View ArticleKardashians: Khloe in Montana wedding ban?
Celeb blogger perezhilton.com has dropped another classic. According to a report on the site Khloe Kardashian is reportedly desperate to bring her rapper boyfriend to Kim Kardashian and Kanye West's...
View ArticleDubai says no hike in minimum salary for UAE family visa
The news in some English language newspapers claiming an increase in the minimum salary requirement for sponsoring family members, has been denied by Major General Mohammed Ahmad Al Marri, the Director...
View ArticleMan sees wife with lover on YouTube
An Egyptian man who is a strong fan of YouTube films got the shock of his life when he discovered that one of the films included his wife with her lover. The man, who works in Saudi Arabia, said his...
View ArticleDubai's first butterfly park to open
The first butterfly park in Dubai will open in two weeks, housing nearly 35,000 butterflies, Emirates 24|7 can reveal. Built at the cost of Dh35 million in Miracle Garden, Dubailand, the park has nine...
View ArticleDubai's aviation game plan: 300,000 jobs, Dh110bn by 2020
Dubai Airports CEO Paul Griffiths maintains 50,000 new jobs will be supported by the aviation sector by the year 2020, with the sector’s contribution rising another $8 billion (Dh29.4bn) from last...
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