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Beat Breast Cancer – Free Mammogram drive in Dubai

Beat Cancer This year Safe and Sound are giving away free mammograms to low income women in Dubai, women who ordinarily would not be able to afford this life saving scan which normally costs between AED 400 - 750, ...

Horrible plane crash in Mangalore airport – AI Express flight from Dubai

At least 159 passengers are feared dead when an Air India Express Boeing 737-800 flight from Dubai overshot a runway at the Mangalore airport, and burst into flames as it crashed into a wooded valley on Sunday at 6.10. a.m....

As if bed bugs were not enough – mosquitoes in dubai!

For the past few days i have killed nearly 5! I am not writing from jail and certainly I am not wanted by the police! It's mosquitoes that were killed! 5! Is that even a count? I've been in Sharjah, UAE for nearly 6 years and haven't seen any mosquitoes!... ...

There has been rain, hail and snow at the same time in UAE!

We all miss the rains here in UAE. It's because being from the subcontinent, we are used to the rain. Riding on bikes, with no helmet on, crossing puddles of water, surviving open drainage, with buses happily spaying us with a mixture of rain water, sewage, mud, rose petals, jasmine ...

Good food in Dubai – some nice hangouts!

Last night as usual our gang of Sadiq, Thowfiq a guest Ibrahim and me went out for dinner in Dubai. Without a thought we just went straight to our joint. It was the Reef Deira restaurant! You thought i was going to mention some glam restaurant? Most of the time ...