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In November 2023, a ray of hope shone on Noorhan Jameel Abed’s life. Noorhan was one of 1,000 cancer patients flown out to the UAE from Gaza for treatment. Diagnosed with leukemia for two and a half years, her treatment in Gaza had been precarious and constantly threatened by the escalating crisis. Noorhan was among the first group of Palestinian cancer patients who arrived in the country for treatment, in implementation of the directives of His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of the UAE, to provide medical treatment for 1,000 wounded children and 1,000 cancer patients from…
Home is where the haunt is, although we can’t remember the last time that anyone had a haunted swimming pool like the one in Night Swim. The new horror thriller by writer and director Bryce McGuire stars Wyatt Russell and Kerry Condon as Ray and Eve Waller, with Amélie Hoeferle and Gavin Warren as their children, Izzy and Elliot Waller. Apparently, the Waller’s new home is a real fixer-upper, at least in the supernatural department. But they may want to stay out of the water if their pool really does have a ghost in it. While there aren’t a lot…
If you were down by Kite Beach on Saturday morning, you may have heard a group chanting: “Make karak Dh1 again!”. Adam Eddine, a 19-year-old Dubai resident, did not expect to go viral when he took to Instagram to announce a 24km run to advocate for a drop in the price of the beloved beverage, which typically sells for Dh1.5 or Dh2 in the UAE. But a WhatsApp group formed for the cause quickly garnered over 300 members. Even the original video gained over 348,000 views along with thousands of likes and comments. Watch it here: What started off as…
Rafael Nadal has concerns over his surgically repaired left hip just three matches into his comeback from a year-long injury layoff, and just over a week before the Australian Open. The 22-time major winner needed a medical timeout in the third set of his Brisbane International quarterfinal loss to Jordan Thompson on Friday after failing to convert three match points in the second. He miscued an overhead backhand on his first match point in the 10th game of the second set, about two hours into the contest. He then missed consecutive forehands from 6-4 in the tiebreaker before No. 55-ranked…
It was mid-December, and I’d just finished my final assignment of 2023. A hectic year full of exciting games capped off with yet another monumental achievement for the medium, the Meta Quest exclusive Asgard’s Wrath 2. No longer locked into playing a never-ending stream of zeitgeist games that I had to keep up with for work, I was finally free to play whatever I wanted. There was only one problem: The thought of playing a game made me sick. It turns out that playing well over 100 new releases in any given year is a straight path to burnout. Who…
Tonnes of life-saving aid are being sent to Gaza but are not getting to the intended recipients. Khaleej Times recently spotted thousands of humanitarian relief trucks – with the Pakistani, Indonesian and Egyptian flags – from Al Arish up to the Rafah border. Trucks from UNICEF, Red Cross and World Health Organisation are stranded at the border. Rafah remains the sole crossing point to Palestine. Speaking to Khaleej Times, MKR, an Egyptian resident in Rafah City, said: “The UAE’s warehouse, alongside UNRWA’s (United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East), are the only ones in Rafah.…
Christian Oliver, best known for his roles in films including ‘Speed Racer’ and ‘Valkyrie’, died on Thursday along with his two young daughters when his small plane crashed into the water off the coast of a Caribbean island, Deadline reported. Oliver was 51. Robert Sachs, the plane’s owner and pilot, died in the crash as well. Authorities said the single-engine aircraft crashed on its way to neighbouring St Lucia on Thursday afternoon after taking off from J.F. Mitchell Airport in Bequia, a small island in the Caribbean nation of St. Vincent and the Grenadines. Oliver’s daughters, Madita, 12, and Annik,…
Mario Zagallo, who won four football World Cups for Brazil as either player or coach, including the 1970 side considered by many to be the best ever, has died, according to a post on his official Instagram account on Saturday. He was 92. A tough and talented left winger, Zagallo played on the team that won Brazil’s first World Cup in 1958 and he kept his place in the side that retained the title four years later. In 1970, he coached a Brazil squad that featured all-time greats like Pele, Jairzinho, Rivellino and Tostao – one that many consider to…
If you have a Gmail account, you’ve probably checked it from your phone before. With our emails containing countless personal emails about our health, financial status, and hobbies, it’s good practice to log out sometimes, especially if you frequently let others borrow your phone. Unfortunately, if you’ve accessed your Gmail account on your iPhone, you may have discovered something odd. It isn’t easy to log out. That’s frustrating, but we’ve got solutions. Here’s how to log out of a Gmail account on your iPhone. Removing your Gmail account from your iPhoneYes, you read that right. The only way to successfully…
The weather in the UAE will be fair to partly cloudy, according to the National Centre of Meteorology (NCM). Low clouds will appear over the coasts, especially eastward. It will be humid by night and Sunday morning over some internal areas. Both Abu Dhabi and Dubai will see a maximum temperature of 25°C. The emirates will see lows of 19°C and 18°C respectively. Light to moderate winds will cause blowing dust. The sea will be moderate to rough in the Arabian Gulf and slight to moderate in the Oman Sea.