(Photo credit: Wikipedia ) There's an awful lot of talk about fake news online, a background rumbling that occasionally erupts ...

Gulf News is breathlessly presenting the World Cup match winner choices of 'Shaheen', a camel apparently blessed with octopus-li...

(Photo credit: Wikipedia ) It's been one of those weeks. First we had the tremor from the Qeshm earthquake and then Google...

(Photo credit: Wikipedia ) The local partner of the New York Times, which reprints the newspaper for a small and discerning audie...

(Photo credit: 401(K) 2013 ) A report in today's Gulf News quotes Omar Bu Shahab, CEO of the Commercial Compliance and Consumer P...

It's amazing what you can find living in water tanks.  Actually this is a lie as this is a fish in Sharjah Aquarium.  Which is...

(Photo credit: Wikipedia ) The Abu Dhabi Quality and Conformity Council has launched a new portal called ' Manaa ' wh...

Image via CrunchBase Yes, the headline on this post does indeed come to you courtesy The Ministry Of Polite Headlines. The Emirates...

Omani weekly tabloid newspaper The Week appears to be in a great deal of hot water indeed. The paper ran a piece last week on what it w...

(Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Whenever the role of journalism in the social age is questioned, you get the snap answer that breaking news ...

(Photo credit: saraab™ ) It's in all the papers today, Gulf News in particular devoting an extraordinary amount of extent to its co...

Teapot (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) They're all sitting back after consuming their Dhs45 ($1,400) a head Chinese meal and chattin...

Gulf News (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Gulf News' inside front cover story today (flagged on the front cover) will be familiar to a...

This is in no way a gratuitous plug for the 'book of the blog,' you understand. This blog, as readers of Fake Plastic Souks...

(Photo credit: Wikipedia ) The DysonGate scandal threatens to drive a massive wedge in our local media community. Heads will roll. Wo...

(Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Sharjah police have an unusual case on their hands at the moment - someone's going around shooting...

English: Close-up image of TN panel display, Dell Mini 9, Magnification - 300 (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Back in October last year, I...

gavel (Photo credit: SalFalko ) Covering the UAE's law courts must be the most coveted job at all the local papers. It's not ...

(Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Many, many years ago I was on a business trip to Austria when some loon or another decided to dump a dho...

Gulf News (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) I noticed a story in Gulf News today about Google's cancelled Nexus 7 launch event, which ...