Articles from the author

Curry, some researcher found recently, is actually an invention of the Japanese. Another found that the Scots did not invent golf. Don't these researchers have anything better to research?

More than 15,000 oil and gas professionals worldwide have signed up for Air France's Petroleum Club, which offers incentives and discounts to anyone involved in the industry.

Every troubadour's nightmare came true for rock band leader Steve Steinman as he waited for his luggage to come off the carousel at Dubai International Airport yesterday.

One of the most alarming pieces of news to surface recently was that in Taiwan there are now more connected mobile phones than there are people. The percentage of phones to people there is 100.7 per cent, according to a study.

Imagine waking up in your hotel room in Rio de Janeiro and finding a printed copy of the same morning's Gulf News hanging outside on the doorknob. The concept may not be too far away, if a major worldwide hotel chain's plans come to fruition.

What lies Beneath In this mind games thriller, director Robert Zemeckis is following the well-trodden path of a protagonist in the am-I-going-mad? predicament

The Perfect Storm - Film review

U-571 - Film Review

X-Men At first it would seem like a rare treat to encounter two Shakespearean actors of great stature doing battle with each other on the big screen

Is there any limit to the lengths the advertising folk will go to part us from our daily dirham?

Now you see it, now you don't… the curse of the Digital Age. When all our information - what our eyes see and our ears hear - is supplied purely by a string of numbers, all you need to do is remove or add a digit or two in order to alter the whole meaning.

The great thing about democracy is that the public not only gets the government it wants; by implication it also gets the government it deserves.