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A visiting Italian parliamentarian has accused the U.S. of triggering an international crisis to protect its own primacy in the world, not just in the military sector but also in economics and technology, to stave off the increasing competition from Europe.

It's simple really. You need to be a happy person and in a happy frame of mind to cook good food.

Well-known in the Arab world for being an avant garde documentary maker, Amiralay is in the UAE to head the four-member jury panel judging the film entries at the EFC.

It exists but it cannot be conclusively proven. There are no statistics to back it up but psychologists and counsellors constantly deal with men who seem to be in its grip - mid-life crisis (MLC) is a condition that deserves attention but doesn't get it.

He fumbles for words to express his paintings. "They are about happiness," he says, "a celebration and a song about all the nice things in the world." But, even as he sets out to elaborate on these feelings, he stops himself to add, "I paint for myself and I have my own interpretations.

A six-year labour of love by a French photographer is the subject in focus at the exhibition which has opened in the lobby of the Hotel Inter-Continental in Abu Dhabi for an entire month.