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A New World Record For Dubai
Dubai Aquarium and Discovery Center has clinched the Guinness World Record for the World’s Largest Acrylic Panel, measuring 32.88 meters wide x 8.3 meters high x 750 mm thick, and weighing 245, 614 kg!...
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Queen Elizabeth 2 Has Arrived In Dubai
QE2 retires from active service. She makes her final journey from the UK, arriving in Dubai at 6 pm today, where she is warmly welcomed by a glittering display of fireworks (although not quite as...
View ArticleMissed Calls From Pakistan
Yesterday afternoon, at around three, I received a missed call in my cellphone. I checked the number: +923234984129. It’s from Pakistan. I really don’t pay much attention to missed calls, so I...
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DSS Smileys All Over Shaikh Zayed Road
Notice that huge blue smile over the Business Bay Crossing sign? These 'smileys' are all over the Sheikh Zayed Road, in an attempt to remind you (over and over again) that the Dubai Summer Surprises...
View ArticleMisconception, Ignorance or Something Else?
So a certain hotel heiress has landed in Dubai to shoot the third season of a certain show. The local papers said (because the news was on front page and hence, hard to miss) that she was given a very...
View ArticleYoutube.com vs. YouTubeISLAM.com
“GOOGLE.COM, is the owner of YOUTUBE.COM and has an attorney firm on some type of financial arrangement trying to scare people into giving them their website domain names if they contain anything with...
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UAE Celebrates 38th National Day
I had so many plans for today, but ended up staying in bed with a horrible headache, the kind that makes you want to rush to the hospital to have an MRI taken and insist on intravenous analgesics...
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The World's Largest Aquarium Leaks, and Stats Go Up
By the time you are reading this post, you must already have heard or read that the world’s largest aquarium had cracked and leaked. This Dubai Mall aquarium is home to 33 thousand sea creatures...
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Dubai International Peace Convention 2010
Themed ‘Islam: the religion of peace and understanding’, the Dubai International Peace Convention 2010 is a three-day event and was inaugurated on Thursday by Shaikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al...
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Accident at Ooty Road
On our way down from Ooty, we saw this badly burnt vehicle. We heard the blaring sirens of ambulance and fire trucks from a distance, but upon reaching the place where the accident happened – after...
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