25 November 2018: Talking headlines On the Agenda with Sarakshi Rai, Senior Online Editor at Hotelier Middle East.

Flash Entertainment defends decision to close gates prior to a concert by The Weeknd in Dubai on Friday, citing safety concerns.

The UAE Cabinet approved long-term visa system for investors, entrepreneurs, specialised talents and researchers in the fields of science, knowledge and outstanding students to facilitate business and create an attractive and encouraging investment environment for the growth of business for investors, entrepreneurs and professional talents.

Starting January 1, 2019, all Indians flying to the UAE on employment visa must pre-register with an Indian government recruitment portal, failing which they will be offloaded.

When a hotel has ‘palace’ in its name, you know you’re in for a treat and Emerald Palace Kempinski Dubai, due to open on Thursday November 29, could well be the city’s boldest hotel launch this year.

UAE National Day is on Sunday December 2, and we will be celebrating 47 years since the UAE’s six emirates united. And great news, fireworks fans, the first dazzling displays have been announced to take place at Dubai Festival City Mall. You’ll be able to catch not one, but two fireworks shows at 8pm and 10pm on Sunday December 2 at Festival Bay.

We got our listener Amanda for this week's Takeover Radio and this Sunday, she chose to play Super Trouper by Abba.

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22 November 2018: On this week's Making Tracks, we feature the life and career of Chris May, the General Manager of Dubai Golf, which oversees Emirates Golf Club and the Dubai Creek Golf & Yacht Club.

Graduated from Loughborough University and Nottingham Trent University where he successfully achieved an MSC in Recreation Management and a BSC in Sport Science.

Chris has run both the London and New York marathons, as well as many half marathons and 10km races, and continues to play squash, ski, run and bike in an attempt to keep fit! Chris is married to Clare and has two daughters Gracie and Jodie.

In 2010 Chris became the first person in the Gulf region to successfully pass the CCM examination through CMAE and has since achieved re-certification in 2015.

22 November 2018: Talking headlines On the Agenda with Alison Hill, Global Head of Communications at The Fred Hollows Foundation who have, globally, supported sight-restoring eye operations and treatments for over 1 million people.

21 November 2018: Talking headlines On the Agenda with Andre Gerschel, Director of Operations & Regional Manager at Baker & Spice.

Rugby is too “rough” for girls who should instead take cooking classes to become the “perfect housewife”, a Federal National Council member has said. Speaking at an FNC meeting on Tuesday, Salem Al Shehhi, who represents Ras Al Khaimah, said cooking lessons were disappearing from UAE schools, while learners were instead playing a “dangerous” sport.

Emirati racing driver Amna Al Qubaisi will become the first Arab female driver to test a Formula E car next month in Saudi Arabia.

The race to the top has just gotten tighter, with two rising mega-towers in the Middle East battling to become the world's tallest.

A dead sperm whale that washed ashore in a national park in Indonesia had nearly 6kg (13 lbs) of plastic waste in its stomach, park officials say.

We pour about 1.4 billion cups of coffee a day globally, according to the International Coffee Organization, and the Ivory Coast has been one of the world's largest coffee producers for over half a century.

We got Dubai Eye's Brand Manager Gabby for this week's Takeover Radio and this Wednesday, she chose to play Montell Jordan's This Is How We Do It.

20 November 2018: Talking headlines On the Agenda with Keith Littlewood, Rehabilitation and Performance Coach, Pain Relief-Movement-Energy-Digestion.

Big supermarkets are producing billions of single-use plastic bags each year despite charges that are designed to reduce their use by the public.

Eating Raw Food - are raw food devotees right or at risk?

What exactly is civility, and what does it require? Political theorist Teresa Bejan explains how civility has been used as both the foundation of tolerant societies and as a way for political partisans to silence and dismiss opposing views - she suggests that we should instead try for "mere civility".

Endocrine disrupting chemicals increase vulnerability to non-communicable diseases.

We got Dubai Eye's Brand Manager Gabby for this week's Takeover Radio and this Tuesday, she chose to play Used to Love U by John Legend.

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We got Dubai Eye's Brand Manager Gabby for this week's Takeover Radio and this Monday, she chose to play Wannabe by Spice Girls.

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19 November 2018: Talking headlines On the Agenda with Ms. Manal Ataya, Director-General of the Sharjah Museums Authority, which manages 16 museums in the emirate of Sharjah.

Manal Ataya holds a BA in Studio Art and Communication Studies from Hamilton College, NY and a MA in Museum Studies from Harvard University, MA and currently serves on the board of the College of Fine Arts, University of Sharjah and for ICCROM-ATHAR, the regional centre for cultural heritage preservation in the Arab region.

Sheikh Khalid bin Abdullah bin Sultan Al Qasimi Chairman of Department of Seaports & Customs inaugurated ‘Crossroads: Cultural Exchange between Islamic Civilization, Europe and Beyond' in Sharjah Museum of Islamic Civilization, with the presence of H.E. Manal Ataya, Director-General of Sharjah Museums Authority, Prof. Christina Haak, Deputy Director General of State Museums of Berlin, Prof. Stefan Weber, Director of Museum of Islamic Art in Berlin.

Syrian officials, foreign archeologists and restoration specialists attended the reopening ceremony of the Syria’s National Museum in the heart of Damascus on Sunday, more than six years after the prominent institution was shut down and emptied as the country’s civil war encroached on the capital.

Biodiversity experts say mass extinction of wildlife is as big a danger as climate change. As a UN conference convenes to work out a new deal for protecting the planet’s biodiversity, the focus falls on the nations that are not attending.

Our comfort zones are there to protect us, even if productivity specialists say otherwise.

An artist plans to whitewash the Banksy he bought for £561,000.