Category: UAE News

Three laureates of the UNESCO-Hamdan Prize for Teacher Development are being announced today, 5 October, at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris during the World Teachers’ Day celebrations. The Hamdan Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Foundation for Medical and Educational Sciences named 10 shortlisted projects for the ninth edition of the prize (2025–2026), with the winners to be […]

UAE fans heading to the Gulf Cup final will not have to fight for seats. The UAE Football Association (UAEFA) has provided 12 chartered aircraft to transport supporters to Jeddah for Tuesday’s final against Saudi Arabia, according to the WAM report carried by Virgin Radio Dubai. The association first laid on six planes. After heavy […]

The working week starts humid, bright and a touch cooler. The National Centre of Meteorology (NCM) forecasts fair to partly cloudy conditions, with convective clouds building over eastern areas in the afternoon and a chance of scattered rain, while humidity climbs overnight and raises the likelihood of fog or mist into the morning, according to […]

Two national student-sport seasons are under way this month. The third season of the UAE University Games begins today, 5 October, and the fifth UAE School Games launch on 20 October with 15 individual and team sports. Both are organised by the UAE School and University Sports Federation (UAESUSF) under the patronage of the Ministry […]

One player is Dh5 million richer after the UAE Lottery’s Lucky Day Draw on Saturday, October 3. The winner matched all six main numbers in Draw No. 261003 to claim the second prize, while the Dh30 million jackpot rolled over again, according to UAE Moments’ report of the results. Gulf News also reported that the […]

The UAE has unveiled the probe for the Emirates Mission to the Asteroid Belt, its second interplanetary mission. Developed, assembled and tested in the UAE, the probe reached flight readiness in less than two years. Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai and Chairman of the Supreme Space Council, witnessed […]

Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum has set out seven rules for life in Dubai, arguing that the emirate’s success should be measured not only by what it builds, but by the society it creates. “We have built a beautiful city, a harmonious society and a model experience for the world,” he wrote, describing Dubai […]

Retail Congress MENA 2026 opens today in Dubai, bringing the region’s retail, shopping-centre and real-estate leaders together on October 5–6 at The Ritz-Carlton, DIFC. The two-day congress is organised by the Middle East Council of Shopping Centres & Retailers (MECSR) under the theme “Level Up: Empowering Tomorrow’s Leaders Today,” according to UAE News 24/7. The […]

Dubai World Trade Centre will host 18 flagship exhibitions and conferences in October, spread across its Sheikh Zayed Road campus and the Dubai Exhibition Centre (DEC) at Expo City Dubai. The line-up spans aviation, beauty, real estate, energy, education, agriculture, artificial intelligence and satellite technology, making it one of the busiest months in DWTC’s 2026 […]

The first commercial satellite built in the UAE is now in orbit. Altair-1, designed, assembled, integrated and tested in Abu Dhabi by Orbitworks, lifted off on 2 October aboard SpaceX’s Transporter-18 rideshare mission from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. The satellite deployed successfully, acquired a signal and has entered commissioning, with its status described […]