LOS ANGELES / AP Like prom for movie stars, the Academy Awards is Hollywood’s most glamorous night. It’s also the most photographed celebrity event of the year, its starry images beamed instantly around the world and endlessly reproduced in fashion magazines. That’s why it takes about a month and a team of specialists to get an A-list actress red-carpet …

  Edinburgh/Munich / DPA Dolly is looking a bit bemused at the visitors arriving these days at the Royal Museum in Edinburgh. It was 20 years ago – February 23, 1997 – that reports surfaced about the birth of an extremely exceptional lamb. Dolly – named after the country and western singer Dolly Parton – is now a stuffed specimen, …

  ABU DHABI / WAM The UAE’s initiatives in Yemen are making a difference in the country’s development and reconstruction, and have enabled fast-paced improvement in the humanitarian situation in areas liberated from the rebels, said Fahad Saeed Al Menhali, Yemeni Ambassador to the UAE. “By all measures, the response of the Emirates Red Crescent (ERC) to the humanitarian situation …