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The UAE's leading environment agency will team up with India's premier national environment institute, the Ahmedabad-based Centre for Environment Education (CEE), to set up an environment education centre in the capital by next year.

For Sophie Wroblewski, the last four years have been lively, exciting and unforgettable. It is a sad time for the outgoing director of Alliance Francaise - the French language and cultural centre in Abu Dhabi.

At the beginning of this year, the UAE's premier environment body, Environmental Research and Wildlife Development Agency (ERWDA), initiated talks with the Ahmedabad (India)-based Centre for Environment Education (CEE) to open a similar centre in Abu Dhabi.

Imagine, watching Steven Spielberg's latest sci-fi thriller Minority Report in the comfort of your own home, just weeks after it's released in theatres?

It's not as if the people who stayed back in the Emirates for the summer did nothing. And sweltered under the intense heat.

My Kind of Day: Positively balanced

Going Places: Fabric for all

A long-cherished dream will come true for an Abu Dhabi-based poet, when his words dedicated to the President, His Highness Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, are read out at an international poetry convention in the U.S.

I belong to a new breed of young, national small-scale entrepreneurs hoping to make a difference in the business arena. I returned to the UAE and set up a business after completing my degree in the USA.

At first glance, you would never dream this extremely unassuming bespectacled accountant from a private company in Abu Dhabi is a prolific fiction writer.

The National Strategy for the Development of Women should shortly be adopted by the UAE Cabinet.

Being an abstract artist for the past 27 years, I prefer people to interpret my art in the manner they want to. Personally, I don't like to dissect and explain my paintings to the viewer.