(Image Credit: Wikipedia) The car was down at Al Futtaim, going through the process of leaching several thousand dirhams from my b...

As we are exposed to the raw feeds of information in our interconnected world, we are increasingly forced to a much greater degree of ed...

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...

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

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 ...

So Twitter was all a-twitter on Monday night with chat about a video posted to YouTube. The clip, taken from a car adjacent to the incid...

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

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(Photo credit: Masako 川o'-')♪ ) I'll admit it, I'm confused. For years now, Gulf News has gone on about how won...

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

(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...

The UK's Press Gazette gleefully reproduced yesterday the screenshot of the year. The Daily Mail, the right wing conservative UK new...

Image via Wikipedia There are growing mentions in media linking my old pal* Piers Morgan to the phone hacking imbroglio that has so excited ...

What have News Corp and BP got in common? The UK's newspapers all carried advertisements from media mogul Rupert Murdoch's News ...

Image via Wikipedia Sorry, but I started following this story and I can't seem to tear my eyes away from the wreckage even as I try. To...

The Gay Girl in Damascus affair has been a fascinating, if slightly irritating, sideshow to the appalling events in Syria as the country...