Tagged with DUBAI

Lamborghini and Ferrari make Dubai cops fastest in the world

  Dubai police have a thing for Italian speed: They’re making preparations to have a nearly $250,000 Ferrari join an even pricier Lamborghini as the flagship flash of its fleet. Photos carried Wednesday by the Emirates 24/7 online newspaper show the car getting the green-and-white colors of Dubai’s police force. Earlier this week, Dubai’s police … Continue reading »

Dubai Youth smoking ants to get high

More than a third of children and some as young as 13 have smoked the native samsum ant as a substitute for illegal substances such as marijuana, a senior UAE health official has warned. Smoking the red ant gives a similar sensation to smoking marijuana and sniffing glue because of the high concentration of formic … Continue reading »

UN asks for control over the Internet

By AL ARABIYA WITH AFP Telecom companies across the world may be given the opportunity to dig through data passed across the Internet more easily following a move to allow the United Nations new authority to regulate the Web. At a conference in Dubai this week, Members of the United Nation’s International Telecommunications Union (ITU) … Continue reading »

Gulf: Clampdown on sorcerers and witchcraft

LOL/(ANSAmed) – DUBAI, JUNE 11 – In the shadow of the enormous skyscrapers in Dubai, symbols of modernity and innovation, old superstitions and black magic are still popular in the Emirate’s intricate multicultural social web. At least according to the amount of ”material for witchcraft” impounded by the border police: 92 cases in one year. … Continue reading »

Saudi youth stand up for a choice

Interesting, translated over, not in western Media, as usual… DUBAI (AFP) – A group of young “Muslims” in Saudi Arabia through the Website its refusal to “trust” that authority exercised by the clergy and the community, condemning the “bullying power and influence to oust the other.” A statement includes the names of more than 2,100 … Continue reading »