UN's Ukraine ambassador tells Russian diplomats to call NHS for support
UN's Ukraine ambassador tells Russian diplomats to call NHS for support

Sergiy Kyslytsya, Ukraine's representative at the UN, read out a tweet from the Russian embassy in London and then quipped that they should contact the NHS for mental health support

March 11, 2022
Christmas tree lights up in Nazareth
Watch the Nazareth Christmas tree light up

Hundreds of people gathered in the main square of Nazareth to watch the tree-lighting ceremony

December 02, 2021
Watch as Sheikh Hamdan meets school children in Dubai
Watch as Sheikh Hamdan meets school children in Dubai

Sheikh Hamdan visited Dubai Schools, a pioneering affordable education initiative, delighting children as he met and took pictures with them.

September 26, 2021
Last Osama bin Laden interviewer remembers FBI friend killed in 9/11
Last Osama bin Laden interviewer remembers FBI friend killed in 9/11

John Miller was the last western journalist to interview Osama bin Laden, in 1998. He tells how he lost his good friend John O'Neill, a man who had spent years investigating bin Laden for the FBI, in the 9/11 attacks.

September 09, 2021
���This is my second flight under the flag of the [Islamic] Emirate,��� said Bakhtar Airlines captain Abdul Qader Alozay, sitting in the cockpit with his first officer minutes after touchdown. Stefanie Glinski for The National
Inside Kabul airport as first commercial flights land

Kabul airport has reopened to commercial flights after Afghanistan was taken over by the Taliban.

September 05, 2021
Scottish family with seven-day old baby gets left behind in Kabul
Scottish family with seven-day old baby gets left behind in Kabul

A Scottish citizen and his family, including a seven-day old baby, has been left behind in Kabul, Afghanistan as the UK completes its evacuation.

August 29, 2021
Moment Blue Origin rocket achieves zero gravity
Moment Blue Origin rocket achieves zero gravity

The rocket - carrying billionaire Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, his brother, aviation pioneer Wally Funk and Dutch student Oliver Daemen - crossed the internationally recognised space boundary and experienced four minutes of zero gravity.

July 21, 2021
ABU DHABI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES - JULY 16: In this handout image provided by UFC, (R-L) Calvin Kattar punches Dan Ige in their featherweight fight during the UFC Fight Night event inside Flash Forum on UFC Fight Island on July 16, 2020 in Yas Island, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. (Photo by Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images)
UFC Fight Island 1: Kattar, Lazzez and Elliot winners in Abu Dhabi

Four days after the hugely successful UFC 251, the first of three Fight Night shows takes place at Yas Island

July 16, 2020
Video grab for day in life of AD doctor during the pandemic. The National
A day in the life of an Abu Dhabi ER doctor during the pandemic

Follow Dr Malcolm Borg, head of ER at Sheikh Khalifa Medical City, through his day

May 14, 2020
 Hazza Al Mansouri and the rest of the astronauts at the ISS. NASA
Hazza Al Mansouri's first day in space

The Emirati made history as he arrived at the International Space Station early on Thursday morning

September 26, 2019
Backup crew member UAE astronaut Sultan Al Neyadi smiles as the Soyuz booster rocket FG with Soyuz MS-15 spacecraft is installed on the launchpad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, September 23, 2019. Maxim Shipenkov/Pool via REUTERS
First glimpse of the rocket that will take Emirati astronaut Hazza to space

In a remote Russian-run space base in Kazakhstan, the Soyuz carrier is unveiled to the world

September 24, 2019
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates - Photo opportunity at the Darkness into Light walk, Emirates Palace. Khushnum Bhandari for The National
Thousands gather for Darkness into Light walk

Participants congregate at four venues across the UAE to back an initiative which aims to offer vital aid to those affected by suicide, depression and anxiety

May 11, 2019
The National's Jason Von Berg. 
WATCH: What it's like to run the Abu Dhabi Marathon

The National's Jason Von Berg completed his fourth marathon on Friday in the UAE capital

December 07, 2018