Scientists succeed in synthesising promising anti-cancer fungal compound 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
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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.

World Sports Summit expands speaker roster with global icons

The organising committee of the World Sports Summit has announced a new group of sports stars and football legends joining the speaker line-up, taking the total number of speakers to about 70. The World Sports Summit will be held on 29th and 30th December at Madinat Jumeirah in Dubai, under the theme “Uniting the World Through

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

Alexandra Ochirova Receives Silk Road Person of the Year Distinction at Moscow Ceremony

International Press Breakfast in Moscow Explores the Role of Journalism in a Changing World “Journalist in a Changing World: How the Media Shape the Future” 19 November 2025 · Moscow · Assembly Hall of the World Peoples’ Assembly: The World Peoples’ Assembly hosted an International Press Breakfast

UAE Media Council organises workshop on AI role in future of media

The UAE Media Council, in cooperation with the General Secretariat of the Gulf Cooperation Council, organised on 17th and 18th November a specialised workshop titled "Engineering the New Media Era with Artificial Intelligence", in collaboration with the New Media Academy at Creators HQ in Emirates Towers. The workshop witnessed