Adhan, the call summoning the faithful to prayer, delivered by a muezzin, has rang out from atop the minarets of mosques around the world for the last 15 centuries, ever …
Cricket World Cup: Fatherhood changes Faf Du Plessis into a ‘Mr Cool’
London: South African skipper Faf Du Plessis is trying to be a ‘Mr Cool’, aka his Chennai Super Kings teammate Mahendra Singh Dhoni. Though the former India captain has earned …
Attacks on Gulf oil facilities must be met with ‘strength and firmness’: Saudi foreign minister
Jeddah: Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister said on Wednesday that attacks on Gulf oil facilities must be addressed with “strength and firmness” and that more efforts were needed to combat the …
Taron Egerton’s ‘Rocketman’ to premiere at Dubai Opera
‘Rocketman’, the Elton John biopic starring Taron Egerton, will have a red carpet premiere at Dubai Opera on June 11, ahead of its general theatrical release in the region on …
Sharjah Police rescue motorist after cruise-control jams at 125km/h
Sharjah: Traffic police in Sharjah saved the life of a driver whose vehicle’s cruise control failed at 125km/h on Emirates Road. ### The man was driving from Ajman towards Dubai …
Cricket World Cup: Reporter’s Diary
The Oval, London: It’s going to be my seventh World Cup as a journalist, but the level of excitement is still no less as I walked into the media centre …
2019 Cricket World Cup: England can literally cash-in on their home advantage
Dubai: It is a well-known fact that sport is tailor-made for wagering, the act where an individual puts his money where his mouth is, to guess the result of a …
How to keep suicide from teen minds
“I should just go and kill myself.” These words from a teenager are petrifying, especially for parents. For, suicide is the second common cause of death among youngsters. Most often …
Syrian gets five years for embezzling Dh18.2m in Dubai
Dubai: A bakery manager was sentenced to five years in prison for forging stamps of government departments and falsifying bank receipts to embezzle Dh18.2 million, a Dubai Court heard on …
‘Game of Thrones’ star Kit Harington getting treatment
‘Game of Thrones’ actor Kit Harington is undergoing treatment after the end of the HBO television series in which he starred as the heartthrob Jon Snow, his representative said on …