Installation of high barbed fences between carriageways will stop people from taking an easy but risky shortcut to reach opposite side of the street

Two men will be executed for premeditatedly stabbing a sex worker 23 times and killing her and stealing her mobile phone in February 2010

Abu Dhabi hosts delegation of experts

As children in the city are enjoying their summer holidays, the central operations room of the police are having to tackle an unlikely problem — bored children who intentionally dial 999. Dhabi: The Abu Dhabi Police emergency hotline number 999 received as many as 137 prank calls from children in two days, over a span [...]

Abu Dhabi police social support centre’s director Brigadier Najm Abdullah Al Hosani told Gulf News: “All the 139 people have been provided with hotel accommodation and food by the government.” Dhabi: About 139 people from 29 families were left homeless after Saturday’s fire that gutted an eight-storey building on Airport Road, a Fire Department spokesman [...]

Initial probe indicates fire warning in the cockpit 28 minutes from takeoff Dubai: An investigation led by the UAE General Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) into why the United Parcel Services (UPS) Boeing 747-400 cargo plane crashed in Dubai has revealed that smoke in the cockpit led to a fire warning about 28 minutes after takeoff. [...]

An overloaded truck tipped over on Shaikh Zayed Road towards Abu Dhabi causing huge tailback on the highway. Dubai: An overloaded truck tipped over on Shaikh Zayed Road towards Abu Dhabi causing huge tailback on the highway. Police sources said overloading was the cause of the accident. The accident took place in front of Al [...]