Limiting children’s recreational screen use has been linked with improved cognition. Children aged eight to 11 who used screens for fun for less than two hours a day performed better in tests of mental ability, a study found. Combining this with nine to 11 hours of sleep a night was …
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Rescue workers in Indonesia continued a desperate search for survivors Sunday, two days after a powerful earthquake hit the island of Sulawesi and triggered a tsunami, killing more than 400 people. After the 7.5-magnitude earthquake hit Friday, water smashed into buildings and swept away homes in the coastal city of …
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Dubai Court of Appeal upheld a three-month jail term for a shop owner who harassed a female employee and tried to forcefully get her to obey him in return to giving her permission to leave for her child’s birthday. According to investigations by the Public Prosecution, the defendant asked the …
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The UAE Cabinet today issued a resolution appointing Noura bint Mohammed Al Kaabi, Minister of Culture and Knowledge Development, as President of Zayed University; Nasser bin Thani Al Hamli, Minister of Human Resources and Emiratisation, as President of the Higher Colleges of Technology; and Saeed Ahmed Ghobash as Chancellor of …
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The Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre, MBRSC, held a meeting today to discuss preparations for the launch of KhalifaSat, the first satellite to be developed 100 percent by Emirati engineers in the UAE, into orbit aboard the liquid-fuelled H-IIA rocket on 29th October 2018. Hamad Obaid Al Mansouri, Board Chairman …
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Dubai’s Roads and Transport Authority, RTA, has signed an agreement with the Emirates Desert Group to construct two truck stops at Dubai Industrial City (near Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Road) and Dubailand (near Emirates Road) under the Public Private Partnership, PPP, model. The agreement, which is the first of its …
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Dubai Public Prosecution referred two Asian suspects to Criminal Court for illegally obtaining Dh35,000 from a victim after forging a property document of apartments for rent. Case details reveal that the victim was browsing an online website when he saw an announcement about apartments for rent in a new residential …
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A powerful earthquake rocked the Indonesian island of Sulawesi on Friday, triggering a 10-foot-tall tsunami that an official said swept away houses in at least two cities. Disaster agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho said the tsunami hit Palu, the capital of central Sulawesi province, as well as the smaller city …
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His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, today visited the 16th International Hunting and Equestrian Exhibition, ADIHEX, 2018, which is being held at the Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre, ADNEC, from 25th to 29th September …
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UAE ranks 1st in the Arab world, 9th globally on the list of “Safest Places to Live” in InterNation’s 2018 Expat Insider Survey report. InterNations, the leading network & guide for expats in 420 cities worldwide revealed the results of a survey where expats are asked about the safest places …
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