Dubai / Emirates Business As part of its efforts to build the capabilities of the next generation of Emirati scientists, the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC) announced its call of the Research Grant Program. The program aims to promote research and studies related to space science in the UAE. Those from the UAE community willing to participate in …

  Sharjah / Emirates Business “Horouf,’ the innovative educational imprint of Kalimat Group, a publishing house dedicated to printing and distributing quality children books in Arabic, will hold a winter camp for children. Titled ‘Shitaa Bil Arabi’ (Winter in Arabic), the event, which has been established to offer youngsters fun and educational activities throughout the winter holidays, will take place …

Aleppo / AFP The last residents hoping to leave rebel-held Aleppo waited in the snow on Wednesday as delays hit an evacuation that will leave Syria’s army in full control of the devastated city. An AFP correspondent in the government-held neighbourhood of Ramussa—through which thousands of evacuees have passed in recent days—saw no convoys leaving the last pocket of opposition-controlled …