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Astronomy teaches you much more than what you can see. When you study other solar systems, constellations and nebulas, you realise the scale of the universe and how small you are in comparison to life.

The UAE delegation to the World Summit on Sustainable Develop-ment yesterday shored up their support of the summit's aims and agenda by offering $1 million to any pioneering work that emerges from the 10-day global meet under way in South Africa.

At the age of 22, his severe asthma nearly robbed him of his life. In the nick of time, yoga came to his rescue - in fact, it completely cured him.

What is it like to come face to face with death? Celebrated NASA astronaut Capt. Jerry Linenger, who was in Dubai recently, experienced this moment aboard the failing space station, Mir. It was a life-changing moment and he decided he needed to leave something behind for his son in case he never met him again.

Golf courses today are among the most sought-after infrastructure in the world. Their ability to boost an economy, a culture - and even a community's health - has given them importance beyond their boundaries.

If every home had enough sweetness in it to be spread around, what an ideal place this planet would be!

In what could be the first documented sighting of orcas or 'killer whales' inside the Arabian Gulf, three Dubai-based boat captains on a fishing trip filmed a pod of six mammals surfacing about 20 miles off the Jebel Ali coast.

I remember grabbing my mother's abaya, she was turning to leave me in the hospital and I must have been three or four years old at the time.

The UAE sees at least 300 days of sunlight if not more, every year, making it one of the best places in the world to use non-polluting solar power. But only a fraction of that potential has been tapped.

I lived my life a bit upside down. I was earning a living when I was 13, I was the breadwinner for my family in my teens, and then I was in the corporate world in my 20s.

Self-restraint is the key to happiness in today's societies of abundance, whether it is in the East or the West, according to Swami Dharmananda, the New Delhi-based yoga and meditation expert who treated Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee.

One of the children brings me a cup of herbal tea at half past six. I'm not a morning person, my husband is - he does the breakfasts and lunch boxes and things like that.