A photograph of construction in Dubai. The image is part of Ronald Dupont's exhibition The Ultimate City. Courtesy Ikonhouse
A photograph of construction in Dubai. The image is part of Ronald Dupont's exhibition The Ultimate City. Courtesy Ikonhouse
A photograph of construction in Dubai. The image is part of Ronald Dupont's exhibition The Ultimate City. Courtesy Ikonhouse
A photograph of construction in Dubai. The image is part of Ronald Dupont's exhibition The Ultimate City. Courtesy Ikonhouse

5 things to do today: check out the exhibition The Ultimate City or take advantage of the Party Season Package at The Cure


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Check out the exhibition The Ultimate City. The artist Ronald Dupont presents a snapshot of Dubai in 2014 through oil paintings that have a photographic quality in their representation of the building of an iconic city and the people behind it. From 9.30am to 7pm, ikonhouse, Palladium Building, Sheikh Zayed Road near KIA Motors and Dubai Garden Centre, 04 388 1848, dubai@ikonhouse.com

Take advantage of the Party Season Package at The Cure. Throughout this month, pay for eyelash extensions and get a full-body tan for free at the Dubai Media City Branch, or buy a keratin treatment and get a free haircut and eyebrow shaping at the Green Community branch. From Dh500 for the eyelash package, Dubai Media City, 04 391 6485; from Dh700 for the keratin package, Green Community, 04 883 0818, www.thecure.ae

See a screening of Everybody Street, the award-winning photo documentary film by Cheryl Dunn, as part of Gulf Photo Plus's Street Photography Series. Tonight, 7.30pm, free, Gulf Photo Plus, Alserkal Avenue, Al Quoz, Dubai, 04 380 8545, registration required at www.gulfphotoplus.com

Watch the documentary L'escale by Kaveh Bakhtiari during the Month of Documentary, as the Alliance Française presents French films about illegal immigrants and environmental issues. The films are subtitled in English. Tonight, 7pm, free, Alliance Francaise Dubai, Oud Metha, Street 18, Dubai, 04 335 8712, www.afdubai.org

Attend an Art & Coffee Morning. Based on the works presented in the exhibition Hueman, four artists from France, Syria and Iran discuss spreading awareness of events happening in our world today, during the Art & Coffee Morning. Today, 11am to 1pm, Dh50, Art Couture at Al Badia Golf Club by InterContinental, Dubai Festival City, Dubai, www.artcoutureuae.com, 04 601 010

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told the German parliament that. Russia had erected a new wall across Europe. 

"It's not a Berlin Wall -- it is a Wall in central Europe between freedom and bondage and this Wall is growing bigger with every bomb" dropped on Ukraine, Zelenskyy told MPs.

Mr Zelenskyy was applauded by MPs in the Bundestag as he addressed Chancellor Olaf Scholz directly.

"Dear Mr Scholz, tear down this Wall," he said, evoking US President Ronald Reagan's 1987 appeal to Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev at Berlin's Brandenburg Gate.

BULKWHIZ PROFILE

Date started: February 2017

Founders: Amira Rashad (CEO), Yusuf Saber (CTO), Mahmoud Sayedahmed (adviser), Reda Bouraoui (adviser)

Based: Dubai, UAE

Sector: E-commerce 

Size: 50 employees

Funding: approximately $6m

Investors: Beco Capital, Enabling Future and Wain in the UAE; China's MSA Capital; 500 Startups; Faith Capital and Savour Ventures in Kuwait

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Price, base: Dh914,000

Engine: 3.8-litre twin-turbo V8

Transmission: Seven-speed automatic

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Torque: 620Nm @ 5,500rpm

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