Muscat: It’s almost exam time for thousands of school pupils across the country, but while students buckle down to their studies educators say parents are the ones stressing out. More frantic parents than worried students are calling a counselling hotline set up to ease the pressure of exam time.

DUBAI: Schools face a struggle to survive as operating costs rise, profits drop and global competition for the best teachers becomes even more intense, education experts say. Another 175,000 school places are expected to be open by 2020, 90 per cent of them in the private sector, exacerbating the p

Sharjah has been named as one of the top 10 cities in the world for connectivity, coming in ahead of several cities including Frankfurt, Manchester, Miami, and Dubai. Ranking in at number six on the 'Top Ten Global Cities of the Future Survey', Sharjah's high rank is attributed to its world-class

Gold held near 3-month highs on Thursday as political risks from elections in Europe and worries over US President Donald Trump's policies buoyed safe haven demand for the bullion. Spot gold dipped 0.1 percent to $1,240 per ounce at 0708 GMT. On Wednesday, the metal touched its highest since Nov

Mattar Al Tayer, Director General and Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors of the Roads and Transport Authority (RTA), said that RTA had moved forward in implementing Dubai Smart Driverless Mobility Strategy launched by Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister

Muscat: M91 fuel should be fixed at 150 baisa per litre, according to a Majlis Al Shura special committee set up to address rising fuel costs. The council also stated today that M95 fuel should cost no more than 160 baisa per litre and diesel 180 baisa. These prices were announced during a reg

FOOTBALL: Qatar is set to spend $262 billion on the 2022 World Cup, the country's finance minister has revealed. Ali Shareef Al-Emadi said yesterday the Middle Eastern nation was spending $655 million every week on major infrastructure projects for football's biggest tournament. He said that s

The Trump administration is poised to move quickly to approve major weapons packages for Saudi Arabia and Bahrain that President Obama blocked during his final months in office over human rights concerns in both nations, U.S. officials and congressional sources say. While the White House declined

Late in November, Apple announced it had determined that a “very small number” of iPhone 6S units were unexpectedly shutting down and the company would repair the batteries of affected devices free of charge. According to United Arab Emirates publication Khaleej Times, Apple now could lose as much a

Iran and Oman have agreed to alter the route of an underwater gas pipeline planned to ship Iranian gas to Oman in order to avoid territorial waters of the UAE, Iranian oil minister Bijan Namdar Zanganeh said on Tuesday, adding that the re-route would not have economic impact on the gas export projec

Dubai: Kuwait has denied a media report which said it had imposed a travel ban on citizens from several Muslim-majority countries, a story which US President Donald Trump praised on Facebook. “Smart!” a post on Trump’s official Facebook page said on Thursday, linking to a report on Jordanian news

Dubai: Dubai Police will deploy 30 smart patrols on the roads and will have more smart cameras to tackle stolen cars, an official said on Sunday. People driving stolen vehicles or those driving recklessly will be tracked in a flash with next-generation smart cameras called ‘Rasd’. Dubai Police

Saudi Arabia has celebrated its own Women’s Day, a first for the ultra-conservative Islamic kingdom. A three-day gathering was held at the King Fahd Cultural Centre in the capital of Riyadh. It featured speakers who argued for women’s rights to drive and called for an end to the country's male

A bomb exploded on a main street near the Bahraini capital on Sunday, causing no casualties in what the government described as a “terrorist” act. “Terrorist bombing on Budaya Street damages multiple cars without casualties,” read a tweet by the interior ministry. No further details were availabl

DOHA: Qatar Airways launched the world's longest scheduled commercial service with its inaugural flight from Doha to Auckland taking off eight minutes early today, a company spokeswoman said. Flight QR920 left the Qatari capital at 05:02 (local time) and is set to land in New Zealand at 07:30 (lo

Muscat: Some northern parts of Oman witnessed snowfall as temperatures drastically dipped in the country following winter rains in the last three days. Oman’s northern Musandam region has been pounded by hail and snow for three consecutive days, an official at the Meteorology department said.

Islamabad [Pakistan]: The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has deported 160 Pakistanis who were living illegally in the country. As per details, these people have been sent to Pakistan’s Benazir Bhutto International Airport on a special plane- SV-3724, reports Dunya News. The immigration authorities of

ABU DHABI: The UAE condemned in the strongest possible terms the heinous terrorist crime in which a French soldier was stabbed by a terrorist at the entrance of the Louvre Museum at downtown Paris. The soldier was injured during the attack. ''While strongly condemning this hideous crime, the U