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  RTA steps up road safety drive

  Roads and Transport Authority has stepped up its road safety campaign for schoolchildren

Dubai's school transport revolution

13 new overbridges planned in Dubai

Work on internal road projects to begin soon

• Holiday travel: Missions brace for visa rush

• Maid held for aborting baby in sponsor's house

• UAEU to confer degrees on male graduates

• Ataya raises funds for Lebanon cancer centre

• Qualified tutors in short supply

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  Bahrain violence stoked by Iran: new minister

  Bahraini minister Samira Rajab is under no illusion on who is to be blamed for violence in the kingdom

Minority woman selected deputy chairwoman

Bahrain probes bombing that injured seven

New message to Iran likely at GCC summit

Bahrain police stations to be fitted with camera

Bahraini women criticise favouritism

• Prosecutor refutes torture death report

• Gulf union summit to be held before December

• Bahrain police hunt for 20 bombing suspects

• Bahrain slams Iran's interference in its affairs

• Gulf union summit to be held before December

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• More caught trying to enter Oman illegally

  More than 200 people caught trying to enter Oman illegally, say Royal Oman Police

• Four held for gruesome murder in Oman

• Police crack down on drug crime in Oman

• Boy, 12, drowns off Saham beach in Oman

• 'Suspend mid-day work during summer' in Oman

• Bodies of three missing children found in Oman

• More from Oman

• Qatar urges its citizens to leave Lebanon

  Qatar on Saturday urged its citizens to avoid travelling to Lebanon, citing unstable conditions

• Qatar to host Cirque du Soleil extravaganza

• Qatar fund awards $140m for research

• Dinner raises $6.5m for Qatar religious scholars

• Qatar scraps plan for metered parking areas

• Qatar to liberalise Haj services

• More from Qatar

• Al Qaida chief urges Saudis to topple Al Sauds

  Al Qaida chief urged Saudis to rise up against the kingdom's ruling Al Saud family

• Saudi beheads man for Bangladeshi's murder

• Saudi Arabia bans using Gregorian dates

• Enthusiasm for Gulf union remains strong

• Saudi Arabia moves to scrap sponsor system

• 'violence casts doubt on Annan's Syria plan'

• More from Saudi Arabia

• Kuwait busts visa-trafficking racket

  Kuwait has arrested a Gulf national and an Arab, for their alleged involvement in visa trafficking

• Hunt for driver who dared police to catch him

• Kuwait blogger 'blasphemy' trial set for May 21

• Kuwait warns against campaigning for candidates

• Campaign: Kuwait warns drivers, impounds cars

• Kuwait warns against backing Egypt's candidates

• More from Kuwait

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  Generals to alter Egypt president's powers

  They may reduce sweeping authority constitution bestows on head of state

• 'No one had ever asked us what we think'

• Moderate leads in Egyptian votes in UAE

• Seven killed in bombings across Mogadishu

• UAE urges citizens to stay away from Lebanon

• Deadly blast hits biggest eastern Syrian city

• More from Region

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  Facebook's Zuckerberg changes status, weds Chan

  Zuckerberg posts wedding picture with his bride, on his Facebook page

Q&A on blockbuster Facebook IPO

Tale of the tape: Google versus Facebook

Market pop fades for Facebook

Facebook IPO delivers reality shock

World's richest people lose combined $33b

• 16 killed as bus rams into truck in India

• Italians in Kerala shooting case denied bail

• School dropout's magazine a big hit with pupils

• Student killed, seven others hurt in blast

• Surveillance programme could expose privacy

• More from World

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  Novel approach at Cannes festival

  It is a bookworm's Cannes: Many of this year's entrants borrowing from literature

Cannes Diary - 1

Haiti attracts attention courtesy of sean penn

Impressive reality at Cannes

• Rowdy Rathore bunch: Private moments

• Rowdy Rathore team getting frank to readers

• Sunny Leone is a shy girl, says Mahesh Bhatt

• Slumdog Millionaire to get a musical make-over

• Parineeti Chopra reveals her IIFA plan

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  Fitness focus: Intensati

  Just when you thought you'd tried every exercise class under the sun...

Dance-inspired fitness DVDs tested

We try out Xtend Barre classes

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