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  • Damac to deliver Oceanscape apartments four years late Damac to deliver Oceanscape apartments four years late

    Damac Properties has begun handing over apartments in its long-awaited Oceanscape project in Abu Dhabi. Most investors bought apartments off-the-plan in 2006, paying 30% of their purchase price in the first 120 days of reserving their property. After seven years Damac has finally finished the project, one of its first and probably last Abu Dhabi ventures. Despite being four years late ...

  • UAE OIC condemn killing of British soldier

    The United Arab Emirates (UAE) and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) have strongly condemned the killing of a British soldier in Woolwich, London. "This brutal act is rejected by all religions and deserves every condemnation and denunciation," UAE Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan said. Sheikh Abdullah also expressed the UAE's solidarity with Britain in combating ...

  • Oil storage terminal in Fujairah ready for start-up

    Emirates National Oil Company 's Horizon Terminals Limited (HTL) will open the 240,000 cubic metres facility to store products such as fuel oil, naphtha, gasoline, gas oil, jet fuel and liquefied petroleum gas. "The new oil terminal in Fujairah is of strategic importance to the energy sector of the region and in further establishing the emirate as a key regional hub in the oil and gas ...

  • Hackers attack Saudi official websites

    Cyber hackers attacked several official Saudi websites on Saturday, posting an Algerian flag on their homepages that later vanished, local media reported. The website of the information minister was among the hacked sites, according to state news broadcaster Al-Ekhbariya and newspapers. The websites of Al-Ekhbariya itself, along with sports channel Al-Riyadiyah, Channel One and Quran Radio, as ...

  • Hiring freelancers for odd jobs punishable under law Abu Dhabi Police

    The Abu Dhabi Police have warned residents against employing workers for all sorts of odd jobs, including household chores, if those workers are on someone else’s employment visa. Most of these "independent freelancers" seek to earn extra money by offering to do work outside their regular work hours and the police statement warned that this is illegal. The Abu Dhabi Police ...

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The Ghost Writer

The Ghost Writer

The Ghost Writer is Roman Polanskis first non-supernatural thriller in several decades, and it is one of his most engrossing and politically savvy works. The screenplay by Polanski and Robert Harris (taken from Harriss 2007 novel) is taut and suspenseful in interweaving the f ... ...

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  • Indias Mahesh Bhupathi ready to launch tennis IPL... Which team will Dubai buy

    India's 12-time Grand Slam doubles champion Mahesh Bhupathi lifted the lid on his plans for an International Premier Tennis League (IPTL), that is scheduled to stage its inaugural season at the end of 2014 in Paris, on Friday. Branded by world number one Novak Djokovic as potentially "revolutionary", Bhupathi's vision is for an elite competition that would feature the ...

  • Dh100 double or quits Spin the Belt game wins jail-time for 3 Abu Dhabi residents

    The Abu Dhabi Police have arrested three men accused of gambling and a violent attack. All three were involved in a gambling game involving Dh100, but a fight ensued and one of the three a mechanic was beaten up by the other two. The mechanic called the police after he was attacked, but ended up getting arrested himself as investigations revealed he was involved in gambling. The police later ...

  • New firefighting technology for Abu Dhabi

    The General Directorate of Civil Defence in Abu Dhabi has conducted at the Civil Defence Academy campus a trial for new technique to contain fire. The One Seven system is a completely new, highly efficient compressed air foam extinguishing procedure for fires. It is a highly efficient extinguishing agent which only requires a low quantity of water. It can be applied at fires of any kind. ...

  • Dubai SME launches ‘SeedApp’ to promote mobile apps

    Dubai SME , the agency of the Department of Economic Development in Dubai mandated to develop the small and medium enterprise (SME) sector, to set up a sub-fund to ...

  • Female suicide bomber injures 11 cops in Dagestan

    A female suicide bomber injured at least 11 police officers and civilians, including two children, in the southern Russian region of Dagestan on Saturday, police said. Police spokesman Vyacheslav Gasanov said the bomber blew herself up in the central square in the provincial capital, Makhachkala. He did not give details about the injured children. Since 2000, at least two dozen women, most of ...

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