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Family biking on Oakland Slow Street at 42nd and Shafter. Courtesy City of Oakland

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How Sony's Playstation 5 faring against Microsoft's Xbox in the next generation console wars? / AFP / CHARLY TRIBALLEAU

Is the Xbox Series X beating the PlayStation 5 in the console wars?

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Jumairy, AlHamra Sacred Tree Activated, 2019 By Maryam Al Hamra

Art and technology forging the future

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Maya Allison, executive director of NYUAD Art Gallery and chief curator of NYUAD. Courtesy NYUAD Art Gallery

Rediscovering art in Abu Dhabi

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Performance at the NYUAD Arts Centre

How Covid-19 is disrupting art

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AGD7 promo photo from NYUAD Arts Centre

Rethinking performance art

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Kiss bassist Gene Simmons will perform in Dubai this New Year's Eve. AFP

'It's expensive to do what we do': Gene Simmons on why there'll never be another Kiss

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Afra Al Dhaheri working on her installation 'Tasreeha, 2020', from Abu Dhabi Art's Beyond: Emerging Artists show at Manarat Al Saadiyat

Meet the three female artists from Abu Dhabi Art’s commissions programme

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World Diabetes Day: Close to your heart for T2 diabetes

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Xbox Series XIS - Microsoft's next generation gaming consoles are seen in this handout image dated September 2020. Microsoft/Handout via REUTERS THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. MANDATORY CREDIT. NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES

Xbox Series X v PlayStation 5 - should you pick Sony or Microsoft in the next-generation console war?

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Cybersecurity firms in the UAE have reacted to a major leak of patient information held by pharmaceutical giant Pfizer. EPA

Employees are the biggest threat to cybersecurity

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This undated handout photo obtained September 16, 2020 shows a view of the edge of the Alathar ancient lake deposit and surrounding landscape. The humans may have hunted the big mammals but they did not stay long, using the watering hole as a waypoint on a longer journey. This detailed scene was reconstructed by researchers in a new study published in Science Advances on September 16, 2020, following the discovery of ancient human and animal footprints in the Nefud Desert that shed new light on the routes our ancient ancestors took as they spread out of Africa. - RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO /BADAR ZAHRANI/HANDOUT " - NO MARKETING - NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS / AFP / Badar ZAHRANI / Badar ZAHRANI / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO /BADAR ZAHRANI/HANDOUT " - NO MARKETING - NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS

120,000-year-old footprints discovered in Saudi Arabia reveal how the first people lived

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View at the 'Exposition Universelle' across the River Seine towards the Eiffel Tower, and the 'Globe Celeste'. The Eiffel Tower, built to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the French Revolution, was the central focus of both the 1889 and the 1900 Paris Exhibition site. (Photo by London Stereoscopic Company/Getty Images)

Dubai's Expo follows a legacy that includes the Eiffel Tower and Disney's Small World

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Jyoti Sharma, 13, from Abu Dhabi, won the Cobis art competition with her drawing 'We are all One'. Khushnum Bhandari for The National

Abu Dhabi pupil scoops top prize in international art competition

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The UAE moved from 16th to 15th place on the Henley Passport Index over the past few months, and up 50 spots in a decade. Unsplash

The world's most and least powerful passports in 2021: UAE moves up list

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Dr Yasmin Razak speaks to patients who have received a Covid-19 shot at London Central Mosque, where she is running a pop-up vaccination clinic. Mark Chilvers for The National

London’s Central Mosque breaks down Covid vaccine barriers in Ramadan

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Narges's mother Soraya was killed in the maternity ward attack in Kabul on May 12, 2020. Stefanie Glinski for The National

'Why have you abandoned us?': the Afghan families left to grieve alone after horror attacks

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Explosion at Iran plant gives Biden time

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Mohamed Alabbar, founder of Emaar Properties and noon.com will be the chairman of Zand. Satish Kumar / The National

Sheikh Khalifa pardons, Dubai restaurants, UAE's first digital bank, 1,810 new cases - The Daily Update

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Dubai, United Arab Emirates - Reporter: N/A. Stock. General view of Downtown, Dubai and Business Bay. Friday, April 9th, 2021. Dubai. Chris Whiteoak / The National

Dubai rent freeze, UAE passports, 2,022 new cases - The Daily Update

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Emirates has announced it will extend its booking policy by an extra one year. Courtesy Emirates Airlines

UAE Ramadan hours, Emirates charity flight, first woman astronaut, 1,931 new cases - The Daily Update

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FILE PHOTO: A vial of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine is seen at a vaccination center, amid the coronavirus disease outbreak, in Ronquieres, Belgium April 6, 2021. REUTERS/Yves Herman/File Photo

Beyond the Headlines: Is the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine safe?

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