Gen Dan Caine, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, holds a press conference at the Pentagon after the US military struck three sites in Iran. AP
A handout satellite image made available by Maxar Technologies shows craters and ash on a ridge at the Fordow underground uranium enrichment following US air strikes. EPA
Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men look in shock at a building ruined in an Iranian missile strike in Haifa, Israel. Getty Images
Cars damaged in Haifa. Getty Images
Debris in Tel Aviv. Israel was hit by a wave of aerial attacks from Iran after the US entered the war overnight and bombed several Iranian nuclear sites. Getty Images
Emergency workers search for survivors in the Ramat Aviv neighbourhood of Tel Aviv, after it was bombed. Getty Images
Residential buildings destroyed at the site of an Iranian air strike in Ramat Aviv. Getty Images
Missiles launched from Iran are intercepted over Tel Aviv. Reuters
Israeli emergency teams at the site of an Iranian missile strike on a residential complex in Tel Aviv. EPA
People look at a site bombed in Haifa. Reuters
Israeli emergency personnel at a building hit by an Iranian missile strike, in Haifa. Reuters
Israeli emergency personnel at a building hit by an Iranian missile strike, in Haifa. AFP
A car hit by a missile launched from Iran, in Haifa. AFP
Israeli emergency personnel at a building hit by an Iranian missile strike, in Haifa. AFP
Israeli emergency personnel at a building hit by an Iranian missile strike, in Haifa. AFP
Israeli emergency personnel at a building hit by an Iranian missile strike, in Haifa. AFP
Israeli emergency personnel at a building hit by an Iranian missile strike, in Haifa. AFP
People gather outside a damaged building in Haifa. Reuters
Israeli ambassador to the UN in Geneva addresses and emergency session. AFP
Israelis flee an Iranian missile strike in the port city of Haifa. AP Photo
An injured man is helped after an Iranian missile strike in Haifa. AP Photo
A protester holds up a portrait of Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei at a demonstration against Israeli attacks on Iran, in Beirut, Lebanon. AP Photo
People take shelter as air raid sirens warn of incoming Iranian strikes in Tel Aviv. AP Photo
Smokes rises from Soroka Medical Centre, in Beersheba, southern Israel, after it was hit by an Iranian missile. AP
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt takes questions from reporters. She said President Donald Trump would decide whether the US would join Israel’s war on Iran 'in the next two weeks'. AFP
Iran's Arak heavy water reactor, in central Iran, after Israeli air strikes. Reuters
People march in Times Square, New York, to call on President Trump not to go to war with Iran. AFP
Israel's Iron Dome air defence system intercepts missiles fired from Iran over Tel Aviv. EPA
Israelis shelter in an underground train station in Ramat Gan after a missile warning. Getty Images
Israeli special forces check the remains of a suspected Iranian ballistic missile in northern Israel. Reuters
Smoke rises after an Israeli attack in the Iranian capital, Tehran. Reuters
A picture released by Iran's armed forces claims to show an Israeli drone shot down outside the central city of Isfahan. AP
People take cover inside a cable car tunnel in Haifa after an Iranian missile attack. Reuters
Israeli air defence systems fire at Iranian missiles over Tel Aviv. AFP
Missiles are intercepted above Ashkelon, Israel. Reuters
Smoke rises in Tehran. Reuters
A building burns after strikes on the Israeli city of Herzliya, near Tel Aviv. AFP
An Iranian missile causes an explosion in Tel Aviv. AP
Rescuers sift through the remains of a damaged building in Tel Aviv after a barrage of Iranian rockets. AFP
A wounded man is treated after an explosion in Tehran. AP
Fraudsters send an unsolicited email that appears to be from a financial institution or online retailer. The hoax email requests that you provide sensitive information, often by clicking on to a link leading to a fake website.
2) Smishing
The SMS equivalent of phishing. Fraudsters falsify the telephone number through “text spoofing,” so that it appears to be a genuine text from the bank.
3) Vishing
The telephone equivalent of phishing and smishing. Fraudsters may pose as bank staff, police or government officials. They may persuade the consumer to transfer money or divulge personal information.
4) SIM swap
Fraudsters duplicate the SIM of your mobile number without your knowledge or authorisation, allowing them to conduct financial transactions with your bank.
5) Identity theft
Someone illegally obtains your confidential information, through various ways, such as theft of your wallet, bank and utility bill statements, computer intrusion and social networks.
6) Prize scams
Fraudsters claiming to be authorised representatives from well-known organisations (such as Etisalat, du, Dubai Shopping Festival, Expo2020, Lulu Hypermarket etc) contact victims to tell them they have won a cash prize and request them to share confidential banking details to transfer the prize money.
Cecelia Crocker was on board Northwest Airlines Flight 255 in 1987 when it crashed in Detroit, killing 154 people, including her parents and brother. The plane had hit a light pole on take off
George Lamson Jr, from Minnesota, was on a Galaxy Airlines flight that crashed in Reno in 1985, killing 68 people. His entire seat was launched out of the plane
Bahia Bakari, then 12, survived when a Yemenia Airways flight crashed near the Comoros in 2009, killing 152. She was found clinging to wreckage after floating in the ocean for 13 hours.
Jim Polehinke was the co-pilot and sole survivor of a 2006 Comair flight that crashed in Lexington, Kentucky, killing 49.
Employees leaving an organisation are entitled to an end-of-service gratuity after completing at least one year of service.
The tenure is calculated on the number of days worked and does not include lengthy leave periods, such as a sabbatical. If you have worked for a company between one and five years, you are paid 21 days of pay based on your final basic salary. After five years, however, you are entitled to 30 days of pay. The total lump sum you receive is based on the duration of your employment.
1. For those who have worked between one and five years, on a basic salary of Dh10,000 (calculation based on 30 days):
a. Dh10,000 ÷ 30 = Dh333.33. Your daily wage is Dh333.33
b. Dh333.33 x 21 = Dh7,000. So 21 days salary equates to Dh7,000 in gratuity entitlement for each year of service. Multiply this figure for every year of service up to five years.
2. For those who have worked more than five years
c. 333.33 x 30 = Dh10,000. So 30 days’ salary is Dh10,000 in gratuity entitlement for each year of service.
Note: The maximum figure cannot exceed two years total salary figure.
Countdown to Zero exhibition will show how disease can be beaten
Countdown to Zero: Defeating Disease, an international multimedia exhibition created by the American Museum of National History in collaboration with The Carter Center, will open in Abu Dhabi a month before Reaching the Last Mile.
Opening on October 15 and running until November 15, the free exhibition opens at The Galleria mall on Al Maryah Island, and has already been seen at the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum in Atlanta, the American Museum of Natural History in New York, and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
