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Study on UAE dolomite formation could pave way for future greener industries
Something unusual is happening on the UAE's coastal saltflats. A mineral known as dolomite - a crystalline rock containing calcium, magnesium and carbon - is slowly being formed. Not so odd, you might think - rocks are laid down all the time, albeit over many millions of years and under the right conditions. But dolomite is different. Until recently it was thought that it formed only ...
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Doctors urge action on the UAEs No 1 killer
DUBAI //Doctors have called for a centralised, long-term programme to tackle heart disease, the nation's biggest single killer. Heart disease is the cause of 25 per cent of deaths in the UAE, and the average age of contracting the disease is 15 years younger than in the western world. A national board should be set up under the federal government with a clear timetable for cutting the ...
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UAE graduates expectations must change experts urge
DUBAI // Be realistic when looking for your first job and seek out a workplace where you have opportunities to grow. This is the advice being given to thousands of graduates who will join the job market this month. Youth unemployment in the Middle East is the highest in the world, more than 25 per cent, and the UAE is not immune. To create the 100 million jobs required in the region by 2020, ...
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Singapore seeks to strengthen UAE ties
ABU DHABI // The arrival of Singapore's foreign minister, K Shanmugam, to the UAE tonight heralds a new era of political, diplomatic and economic ties between the two states, according to the country's ambassador. Mr Shanmugam, who is also the law minister, will visit the leadership during his two-day official visit and his counterparts, Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed, the Minister of ...
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Stigma about epilepsy is putting lives at risk warn UAE doctors
Social stigma about epilepsy and the mistaken belief that seizures are caused by djinn are putting the lives of sufferers and non-sufferers at risk, doctors warn. Such misconceptions mean cases often go undiagnosed, preventing patients from receiving the appropriate medical treatment and contributing to an underreporting of the condition. Doctors also say a lack of regulation on epileptics ...
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UAE doctors call for stricter laws to keep epileptic drivers off the roads
Doctors are calling for tougher legislation to govern the issuing of driving licences to epileptics. Sufferers of the condition are already banned from certain professions - such as aviation, driving public transport and operating heavy machinery - but doctors' advice to epileptic drivers of private vehicles is not legally binding, as it is in some western countries. "Someone with ...
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Wife beat husband with high heels Dubai court told
DUBAI // A woman beat her husband over the head with her high heels after he stopped her assaulting their maid, a court heard. The maid had stayed late on June 5 last year at their house in Al Barsha at the husband's request but this annoyed his wife, T M, 44, an Emirati, who started beating the woman. When the husband intervened, the wife assaulted him with her high heels and her ...
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Video CVs help UAE job-seekers get ahead
DUBAI // Like hundreds of young people before him, Abdulla Abbas struggled on the job hunt. After nine months of fruitless knocking on employers' doors, he created a video CV last month on the newly launched non-profit InternsME portal. "After it was uploaded, I was amazed at how quickly I got a call - within two days," said Mr Abbas, 25, who will graduate soon from the Canadian ...
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UAE patients speak out about coping with the stigma of epilepsy
Aiysha Nasser, an epilepsy patient, at a doctor's office in the neurology department at the Sheikh Khalifa Medical Center in Abu Dhabi. Silvia Razgova / The ...
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Dubai designer becomes first Saudi woman to conquer Everest
DUBAI // A 25-year-old graphic designer in Dubai yesterday became the first Saudi woman to climb Mount Everest. Raha Moharrak, originally from Jeddah, began the climb in early April in a fund-raising campaign for education in Nepal. She reached the 8,850-metre summit yesterday morning. She is part of the Arabs with Altitude group that includes Sheikh Mohammed Al Thani, a member of the Qatar ...
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‘My parents thought they’d lost their child’ recounts UAE epileptic patient
When Mariam started fainting at the age of 12 her parents did not take her to a doctor. She was taken instead to a mosque near their home in Ajman, where the religious cleric read the Quran over her.It was not until three years later after she suffered a severe seizure in class that her school advised her parents to seek medical help."I just remember sitting at my desk in maths class and ...
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Work on cables means slow connection for Du users
Du broadband subscribers may experience slow internet Sunday and Monday due to maintenance on two subsea communication cables. The Europe India Gateway cable system will undergo maintenance on Monday from 4.30am until 4.30pm. The Falcon system will undergo maintenance from 9am until 9am on Monday. "We have made sufficient provisions to re-route broadband traffic through alternative cable ...
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Emirati photographer part of exhibition that explores Arab identity in political funny and unforeseen forms
An image from the Emirati photographer Lamia Gargash's series Through The Looking Glass, which is a collection of portraits showing people with and without prosthetics. Courtesy Lamia Gargash / Third Line ...
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Ras Al Khaimah feels tremors from Iran earthquake
ABU DHABI // Ras Al Khaimah felt the effects of a 5.5-magnitude earthquake at 2pm today. The epicentre was 230km northeast of Ras Al Khaimah in southeast Iran, the UAE National Centre of Meteorology and Seismology reported. The tremor had "no effect" on the UAE and would not have been felt by most residents, the centre reported. The earthquake registered as a three on the Mercalli ...
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Lucy Orta brings her message to Abu Dhabi’s TEDxWWF One Planet Living
was installed in St Pancras International station in London and a series of river nymphs were unveiled in and around the French city of Marseille. Although they are quite different, Orta describes them as branches from the same trunk; an exploration into the subject of water through contemporary art that she and her husband Jorge have been working on for many years. This week, Orta is in Abu ...
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