Sharjah: Cut paper into interesting characters, glue on clothes, paint on some features. Now give them a few dialogues, put a string through them and watch your story come to life in your very own box-shaped theatre! At the 41st Sharjah International Book Fair, children, aged 7 and above, are learning how to tell delightful […]
A French mayor wants Mount Blanc climbers to put down a £12,600 (AED55,872) deposit to cover the cost of their rescue and funeral before climbing. It is the highest peak in Europe with a 15,771ft summit, and he proposed introducing the charge as he claims inexperienced climbers are playing with their own lives. Jean-Marc Peillex, the mayor […]
DUBAI: A 48-year-old Indian expat diagnosed with multi-organ complications has undergone a six-hour-long life-saving procedure at a private hospital. The multi-disciplinary team of doctors who performed the complex procedure on the patient diagnosed him with a leaking infectious aneurysm in his thoracic aorta, a tear in his esophagus, and thrombosis in his right lower limb. The […]
So much of our life has changed in the last few years. The world as we know it is no longer the same—what is important to us, who we spend time with, how we travel, how we plan, how and where we work, as well the days we work and spend time with our family […]
A woman is the one who nurtures, cares and loves everyone usually at the expense of her own health. The “Humare pas time hi kahan hai (I hardly get the time)” statement is used by our homemakers the world more often than not consider themselves last in priority order. A woman faces lot of changes […]
In today’s fast paced world everyone has become image conscious, diet conscious, health conscious and conscious for others too. Do you know the reason? Answer is virtual world and social media presence. Social media has given us a platform where one can become a celebrity in one night and a loser in another. Don’t you […]
The Washington State Department of Agriculture is desperately looking to track down a nest of giant Asian hornets before they go into what scientists call “the slaughter phase.” Six giant Asian hornets have been caught, trapped or reported since Sept. 21 in Washington state, according to agriculture officials. Sven-Erik Spichiger, an entomologist with the agriculture department, […]
