Olivia Olarte-Ulherr Have you ever found yourself lost inside a large shopping mall or campus premises without an idea as to where you are and no one to guide you? Worry no more. Finding your way around unfamiliar establishments would in future be as easy as clicking images, as discovered by an Emirati student at the Khalifa University. Buti Mohammad Al Delail, 21, a recent graduate of Computer Engineering ...

After decades of repression under Muammar Gaddafi, Libyans are realising their long-held dream of voting for an elected government. In Libya and six other countries, voting for an elected 200-member General National Congress to replace the National Transitional Council is taking place this week. Voting in the UAE, as well as Canada, Germany, Jordan, the UK and the USA, is open for five days, having started ...

Last month, Iran announced [3] its intent to build nuclear-powered submarines. While some may worry that this is yet another Iranian bid for destabilizing power, there is no need to panic. Tehran will be wasting money it does not have on a tool it does not need. Iranian nuclear submarines are not a realistic threat to American security. They may even be a bluff—Tehran has announced plans for a stealth-fight ...

  In today’s date suicide bombing is a curse familiar to all and is being used to terrorize people psychologically. Suicide bombing first originated as a political tool in the 1980s,in 1982, radical elements of the Shiite resistance in southern Lebanon joined together in the Bekka Valley to form Hezbollah. After that the trend picked up popularity among many terrorist groups as a way to achieve their m ...

Eschmall Sardar, Pakistan and the US looked close to a breakthrough as the meeting of Defence Committee of Cabinet came to on the heels of overnight talks between top Pakistan and US officials to narrow down their differences. It was the second time in less than a week that the ISAF Commander, John Allen, landed in Pakistan to help break the impasse on restoration of NATO supplies. He, along with US deputy ...

Zaheerul Hassan US coming elections are influencing Khaleeji politics and also pressurized to European allies to put embargo on Iranian oil shipment to the other countries. In this connection, European Union restriction on Iranian oil imports came into effect on First day of July 2012. In this response, the Iranian parliament drafted a bill to block oil shipments to countries cooperating in punitive sanctio ...

Zaheerul Hassan International students hoping to come to the United States to pursue a degree are being lured by “sham schools” in the U.S., said Janice Jacobs, assistant secretary for consular affairs at the U.S. Department of State, in a presentation Thursday.   Jacobs discussed student visa issues to begin the second day of the State Department’s three-day EducationUSA Forum, which brought together natio ...

By Reporter It really pity on so called socieity to listen that teacher involved in sex scandal keep on rooming in the same  schools.  Los Angeles schools chief John Deasy blasted state lawmakers Thursday for not passing a bill to speed up the teacher-dismissal process, which he and others pushed following the sex-abuse scandal at Miramonte Elementary School.  The bill fell one vote short of clearing an Ass ...