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DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES. 10 FEBRUARY 2021. Press conference held after UAE Hope Probe reached Mars on Wednesday. Photo: Reem Mohammed / The National Reporter:

Mars mission and Covid-19 response sees UAE climb to 17th in global power list
The UAE's diplomatic adviser to the president, Anwar Gargash, is seen during meeting in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, May 29, 2019. REUTERS

Anwar Gargash: Biden administration is right in prioritising diplomacy with Iran

The Americas
A Johnson & Johnson worker prepares a syringe during the Phase 3 ENSEMBLE trial of its Janssen coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine candidate in an undated photograph. Johnson & Johnson/Handout via REUTERS. ATTENTION EDITORS - NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES. THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY.

Bahrain authorises Johnson & Johnson vaccine for emergency use

World
epa09035514 Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan (C) greets people while walking with his supporters on the streets in downtown of Yerevan, Armenia, 25 February 2021. Pashinyan called on his followers to rally in central Yerevan to support him after he denounced a military coup against him following the army's demanding of his resignation. Pashinyan faced protests with calls to resign after the handling of a six-week conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenian forces over the region of Nagorno-Karabakh in 2020. EPA/HAYK BAGHDASARYAN/PHOTOLURE MANDATORY CREDIT

Armenian military staging ‘coup’, says prime minister

World
EDITOR'S PICKS
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg uses outsourcing firms to employ content moderators. Niall Carson/PA Images via Getty Images

Inside the lucrative but troubled world of Facebook moderation

World
Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces (2nd R), tours the International Defence Exhibition and Conference, at Adnec. Mohamed Al Hammadi / Ministry of Presidential Affairs

Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed visits Idex on final day of exhibition

UAE Government
Deepa Kumar, an accountant, was among 17 passengers who died in a bus accident in June 2019 in Dubai. He is pictured with his wife Athira and their daughter Amulya, both survived the crash but are struggling to cope. Courtesy Kumar famliy

Survivors of Dubai bus crash tell of strain 2 years after fatal accident

Transport
Al Mankhool Road, which stretches from 2nd December Street up to Dubai Creek, was renamed Sheikh Sabah Al Ahmad Al Jaber Al Sabah Street in celebration of Kuwait's 60th National Day. Courtesy: Dubai Media Office

Dubai Ruler renames street in honour of late Kuwaiti emir

Transport

Iran's brinksmanship before nuclear talks risks alienating Europe

Con Coughlin
A visitor tries out a semi-automatic 9mm. ZEV Technologies custom GLOCK at Idex 2021 that wraps on February 25. Victor Besa / The National. 

Idex: UAE Armed Forces take total value of contracts to $5.7bn
The new promenade at Al Gurm Corniche. Courtesy: Abu Dhabi Media Office

Abu Dhabi reopens Al Gurm Corniche
The villa is located on the water in Emirates Hills. Courtesy The Urban Nest

Property of the week: Dh49 million Dubai mansion built for entertaining
Shorthand teaser. Getty Images

Lessons in lockdown: Resilience, routines and self-recognition
The new overnight lodges at the Bear Grylls Explorers Camp in Ras Al Khaimah. Courtesy Bear Grylls Explorers Camp

You can now stay overnight at Ras Al Khaimah's Bear Grylls Explorers Camp
People scramble to board a bus amidst the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Mumbai, India, February 25, 2021. REUTERS/Francis Mascarenhas TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

Eight of the best photos from around the world today
Odyssey of Terror ride at Trident Tower. Reem Mohammed / The National 

Aquaventure waterpark to unveil record-breaking slides and attractions
Professional photographer Zohaib Anjum, who waited seven years to get the perfect shot of lightning striking the Buj Khalifa, said he hit another career aim in cataloguing the arrival of the gloomy early morning weather. Courtesy Zohaib Anjum

Photographer shares stunning time-lapse video of fog in Abu Dhabi
Coronavirus
Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum, Emirates’ chairman and CEO, and  Awadh Al Ketbi, director general of Dubai Health Authority sign an agreement  to implement digital verification of traveller medical records related to Covid-19 testing and vaccination. Courtesy Emirates.   

Emirates and Dubai Health Authority to digitally verify travellers' Covid-19 medical records

Aviation

Blood donation possible within two weeks of Covid-19 vaccine

UAE

Oman orders third batch of vaccine doses as Covid cases climb

Gulf

Coronavirus live blog: Bahrain authorises Johnson & Johnson vaccine for emergency use

World
Abu Dhabi's Idex 2021
Faisal Al Bannai, CEO of EDGE at Idex 2021. Saher Mousa / EDGE

Idex 2021: UAE's Edge eyes 15% revenue growth in 2021 and new export markets, CEO says

Aviation

Top three trends at Idex 2021: local, autonomous and electric

UAE

Idex 2021: UAE defence company Nimr to partner with Singapore's ST Engineering to build hybrid EVs

Technology

Sheikh Hamdan tours Idex 2021 as organisers declare event a success

UAE
UAE
A salesman waits for customers in a jewelry shop in the Gold Souk in the Deira district of Dubai, United Arab Emirates, on Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2021. While the metal’s jump to an eight-year high on Monday benefited many long-standing bulls on Wall Street, shop owners thousands of miles away in Dubai’s Gold Souk were far less euphoric. Photographer: Christopher Pike/Bloomberg

UAE reports 3,025 new Covid-19 cases and 18 deaths

Health
The Oman-registered bus was travelling along Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Road, carrying 31 passengers, when it crashed into a signboard at Al Rashidiya exit.

Dubai bus crash: Omani driver’s jail sentence reduced to one year

Courts
Carrefour is encouraging customers to bring their own recyclable bags by providing dedicated checkout counters and bonus Share points as incentives. Courtesy Majid Al Futtaim

Carrefour will no longer be offering plastic bags at these Dubai stores

Lifestyle
Students of FS 1 and FS 2 playing in the indoor play area at the Aquila school in Dubailand in Dubai. Pawan Singh / The National 

Children must be 3 years old to start school across the UAE, says ministry

Education
World
A Chinese warship taking part in exercises in the Arabian Sea near Pakistan. AP

Global military spending grows as US dominance is ‘being challenged’ by China

Europe

Diamond tycoon Nirav Modi loses extradition fight

World

India and Pakistan agree to ceasefire on Kashmir border

Asia

UN proposes meeting to revive Cyprus reunification talks

World
Business
A visitor tries out a semi-automatic 9mm. ZEV Technologies custom GLOCK at Idex 2021 that wraps on February 25. Victor Besa / The National. 

Idex: UAE Armed Forces take total value of contracts to $5.7bn

Aviation

Emirates and Dubai Health Authority to digitally verify travellers' Covid-19 medical records

Aviation

Idex 2021: UAE's Edge eyes 15% revenue growth in 2021 and new export markets, CEO says

Aviation

Agthia Group sees 100% uptick in e-commerce use amid Covid-19

Business
US NEWS
William Burns, director of the Central Intelligence Agency nominee for US President Joe Biden, speaks during a Senate Intelligence Committee confirmation hearing in Washington on Wednesday, February 24, 2021. Bloomberg

Biden’s CIA nominee: Important US does 'everything' to prevent Iran acquiring nuclear weapon

The Americas
James Risch, a senator from Idaho and top Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, on Capitol Hill, February 13, 2021. Pool via AP

James Risch urges Biden to counter Iran in Middle East

The Americas
US Vice President Kamala Harris seen in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington on February, 24 2021. EPA

US Vice President Kamala Harris urges black Americans: 'Let's not let Covid get us'

The Americas
Ariane Tabatabai . Courtesy The Washington Institute for Near East Policy

Biden appointees of Arab and Muslim heritage face bigoted comments and attacks

The Americas
Gulf
Bahrain is planning a 109km rail network, similar to the high-speed driverless Metro system that launched in Dubai in 2009. Chris Whiteoak / The National 

Bahrain seeks bidders for multi-billion dollar rail network

Gulf

Former UK prime minister Sir John Major congratulates Kuwait on National Day

World

Watch: Saudi Crown Prince leaves hospital after successful surgery

Saudi Arabia

Houthis anger world by ‘shifting goalposts’ on tanker salvage mission, says UN

World
MENA
Satellite photo from Planet Labs Inc. shows construction near the Shimon Peres Negev Nuclear Research Center near the city of Dimona, Israel. A long-secretive Israeli nuclear facility that gave birth to its undeclared atomic weapons program is undergoing what appears to be its biggest construction project in decades, according to satellite photos analyzed by The Associated Press. (Planet Labs Inc. via AP)

Israel's secretive nuclear facility gets a revamp

MENA

Iran arrested French tourist nine months ago, says lawyer

MENA

Egypt supports Sudan's international arbitration proposal in dam dispute

MENA

Carlos Ghosn escape: four-year jail terms for Turkish pilots and airline official

MENA
Exclusives
Lt Gen Sir John Lorimer has warned that US President Joe Biden faces his first significant foreign policy test on negotiating the nuclear deal with Iran. PA 

Iran’s 'increasing menace' to test Biden's review of Middle East options

Europe
Huda Alkhamis-Kanoo is the founder of Admaf and artistic director of the Abu Dhabi Festival. Courtesy Abu Dhabi Festival

Huda Alkhamis-Kanoo on how the arts will prevail in spite of the pandemic

Art
Some of the West's most striking architecture is in Central Europe. EPA

Central Europe aspires to being a centre of civilisation

Comment
The head of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Hossein Salami, right, watched a launch of missiles during a military drill in central Iran. AFP

Iran on its way to ‘solving nuclear missile puzzle’

MENA
Opinion
Memorial during a candlelight vigil at Mel Lastman Square in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on January 09, 2020 for the victims of the Ukrainian International Airlines flight PS752 plane crash. Getty

Zarif's leaked recording showed who's boss in Tehran

Iran's brinksmanship before nuclear talks risks alienating Europe

The fragile future of jobs in the Middle East

Don't leave Syrian refugees behind in the vaccination drive

One day, we won't need Facebook to read the news
Lifestyle
Lf25 feb globes dresses googled

These are the most-searched stars on the Golden Globes red carpet

Carrefour will no longer be offering plastic bags at these Dubai stores

End of an era: US postal service unveils new design for delivery vehicles

Make-up brand Becca announces 'heartbreaking' decision to close in September

Property of the week: Dh49 million Dubai mansion built for entertaining
Arts & Culture
Palestinian singer Lina Makoul goes back to her roots with her new album, '#YOM'. Courtesy Maana Music

How Lina Makoul's debut album tells the stories of Palestinian youth

US non-profit to build 'world's first 3D-printed school' in Madagascar

Here's when 'Spider-Man 3', 'Loki' and 'No Time to Die' will be released

Hend Sabry to reprise her role as Ola in new Egyptian Netflix series

Paul McCartney to release 900-page memoir, woven with 154 songs
Podcasts
A pupil raises his hand at the Manar Al Iman Charity Private School. Victor Besa for The National ID

UAE anti-money laundering, missing Dubai resident, 3,102 new cases - The Daily Update

Abu Dhabi travel list, Idex 2021 deals, 3,005 UAE cases - The Daily Update

Expo 2020 Dubai, Trump tax returns, 2,105 new cases - The Daily Update

Everything you need to know about moving from the UAE to Britain

UAE-US ties in focus at Abu Dhabi's Idex 2021
Sport
Denmark's Jonas Vingegaard celebrates as he crosses the finish line to win the fifth stage of the UAE tour cycling race, from Fujairah Intl Marine Club to Jebel Jais, in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Thursday, Feb. 25, 2021. (Fabio Ferrari/LaPresse via AP)

Vingegaard tastes success as UAE Team Emirates' Pogacar extends lead

Sport

Patel and Ashwin wrap up two-day win for India in Ahmedabad Test

Cricket

Liverpool 'deeply saddened' by death of Alisson's father

Football

Messi is La Liga's top scorer as Barcelona find form - in pictures

Football

Bayern's Jamal Musiala picks German national team instead of England

Football
MONEY
Doran Davies, chief executive of Bounce, says he has never been concerned about chasing pay cheques. Instead, what he values more is to have a cushion for his family. Photo: Antonie Robertson / The National

Money & Me: ‘I do not measure my success by the money I have in the bank’

10 tips for beginners to start investing in stocks

Homefront: ‘Should I hire a company to manage my UAE property or do it myself remotely?’

Covid-19 prompts people globally to reassess spending habits and focus on financial planning

Laws continue to limit women’s economic opportunities, World Bank says
Travel
Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum, Emirates’ chairman and CEO, and  Awadh Al Ketbi, director general of Dubai Health Authority sign an agreement  to implement digital verification of traveller medical records related to Covid-19 testing and vaccination. Courtesy Emirates.   

Emirates and Dubai Health Authority to digitally verify travellers' Covid-19 medical records

You can now stay overnight at Ras Al Khaimah's Bear Grylls Explorers Camp

Qantas to restart international flights to 22 destinations in October

Hotel Indigo Dubai Downtown: a review of Dubai's first certified-boutique hotel

How Covid-19 is reshaping global air travel in 2021
Technology
A power-generating wind turbine is reflected in solar panels. Masdar and Kazakhstan’s sovereign wealth fund Samruk-Kazyna will explore renewable energy opportunities in the Central Asian country. Reuters

Masdar and Uzbekistan's sovereign wealth fund to explore joint investments

Inside the lucrative but troubled world of Facebook moderation

Facebook moderators across Europe sue for damages over viewing of extreme content

Adnoc wins award for innovative use of technology

Idex 2021: UAE defence company Nimr to partner with Singapore's ST Engineering to build hybrid EVs
Motoring
The new design of the United States Postal Service mail vehicles, which are expected to come into use in 2022. 

End of an era: US postal service unveils new design for delivery vehicles

Mercedes reveals new 4-cylinder C-Class range

Cherokee chief urges Jeep to stop using tribe's name: 'It does not honour us'

Get into the Groove: Chevrolet announces new mini SUV in the UAE

Dubai's first solar-powered motor rally kicks off
LONG READS
A scientist loads Cas9 protein and PCSK9 sgRNA molecules into a fine glass pipette at a laboratory in Shenzhen, China. Researchers in the US are studying how Crispr molecular scissors could be used to fight cancer. AP

From crude surgery to gene editing: how cancer treatments evolved over the years

Health
(FILES) This file photo taken on July 20, 2020, shows a screen broadcasting the launch of the "Hope" Mars probe at the Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre in Dubai. The first Arab interplanetary mission is expected to reach Mars' orbit on February 9, 2021, in what is considered the most critical part of the journey to unravel the secrets of weather on the Red Planet. The unmanned probe -- named "Al-Amal" -- Arabic for "Hope" -- blasted off from Japan last year, marking the next step in the United Arab Emirates' ambitious space programme. / AFP / Giuseppe CACACE

What happened to the Middle East’s space programmes?

MENA
The all-electric Rimac C-Two hypercar that can go from 0 to 97 kmh in under two seconds. Dubai is the first city in the world where people can test drive a model of what will be the fastest electric car on the roads. Courtesy: Rimac Autmobili

Is Dubai on the cusp of an electric car revolution?

Transport
Timo Keersmaekers and Messi. Courtesy Timo Keersmaekers

The remarkable story of Messi: how Arabian horse found his feet amid pandemic

Luxury
A visitor tries out a semi-automatic 9mm. ZEV Technologies custom GLOCK at Idex 2021 that wraps on February 25. Victor Besa / The National. 

Idex: UAE Armed Forces take total value of contracts to $5.7bn
The new promenade at Al Gurm Corniche. Courtesy: Abu Dhabi Media Office

Abu Dhabi reopens Al Gurm Corniche
The villa is located on the water in Emirates Hills. Courtesy The Urban Nest

Property of the week: Dh49 million Dubai mansion built for entertaining
Shorthand teaser. Getty Images

Lessons in lockdown: Resilience, routines and self-recognition
The new overnight lodges at the Bear Grylls Explorers Camp in Ras Al Khaimah. Courtesy Bear Grylls Explorers Camp

You can now stay overnight at Ras Al Khaimah's Bear Grylls Explorers Camp
People scramble to board a bus amidst the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Mumbai, India, February 25, 2021. REUTERS/Francis Mascarenhas TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

Eight of the best photos from around the world today
Odyssey of Terror ride at Trident Tower. Reem Mohammed / The National 

Aquaventure waterpark to unveil record-breaking slides and attractions
Professional photographer Zohaib Anjum, who waited seven years to get the perfect shot of lightning striking the Buj Khalifa, said he hit another career aim in cataloguing the arrival of the gloomy early morning weather. Courtesy Zohaib Anjum

Photographer shares stunning time-lapse video of fog in Abu Dhabi