Dubai Basketball maintain perfect run with 11th straight ABA League win Creative Encounters on the Silk Road Harvest of 2025: Cultural Pathways Ras Al Khaimah breaks Guinness World Record during New Year celebrations China launches new satellite for mapping, land surveys UAE marks historic year of global, continental sporting achievements World Sports Summit expands speaker roster with global icons Chinese researchers develop advanced air quality model for pollution simulation
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Friday

Creative Encounters on the Silk Road

At six o’clock on Friday evening, January 9, 2026, a new virtual session will convene as part of the Creative Encounters on the Silk Road series, opening the new year with an open dialogue on children’s and young adult literature—one of the literary fields most deeply connected to shaping awareness and nurturing imagination.

Egyptologists find 225 'exceptional' figurines in pharaoh's tomb

A French team of excavators found hundreds of funerary figurines in a pharaoh's tomb in Tanis, Egypt, in early October, uncovering a long-standing mystery of who was buried in the sarcophagus. A treasure trove of 225 funerary figurines has been discovered inside a tomb in the ancient Egyptian capital of Tanis in the Nile Delta, a rare

China debuts new AI model for high-standard farmland protection

China launched its first large artificial intelligence (AI) model dedicated to monitoring and protecting arable land, and it will serve as a new digital tool for the national strategy of storing grain in the land and in technology. Released on Friday by the Institute of Agricultural Resources and Regional Planning under the Chinese Academy

Emirates Arabian Horse Breeders Championship concludes with strong performances and notable wins

The Emirates Arabian Horse Breeders Championship concluded on Friday evening after four days of competition, with titles distributed across several studs. Organised by the Emirates Arabian Horse Society (EAHS), the event was held in the main hall of the Butheeb Equestrian Academy and featured 421 horses representing 216 owners. The

Emirates Arabian Horse Breeders Championship concludes on high note

The Emirates Arabian Horse Breeders Championship concluded on Friday evening after four days of competition, with titles distributed across several studs. Organised by the Emirates Arabian Horse Society (EAHS), the event was held in the main hall of the Butheeb Equestrian Academy and featured 421 horses representing 216 owners. The