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Find out about WAM, the UAE's official news agency, from its deputy general manager

Director of the arts section in the Abu Dhabi Cultural Foundation, Abdulla Al Ameri is responsible for the exhibitions and cultural activities in the capital's premier cultural institution. His affable and friendly nature makes this UAE national a favourite with the embassies, the artists and the media who interact with him.

Dr Ajit Nagpal is a well-known figure, being the principal advisor on hospital affairs in the UAE Ministry of Health for the past nine years. Primarily involved in setting up medical care infrastructure in the country, he has assisted in the planning of 18 new hospitals in Abu Dhabi and the Northern Emirates.

A woman taking part in a controversial human cloning programme for infertile couples is now eight weeks pregnant, revealed Dr Severino Antinori, the well known Italian doctor involved in the cloning project banned in his home country and the USA.

Health survey of students planned

As families in the UAE are increasingly becoming open to the idea of their girls joining college and the growing opportunities for them in the workplace, the ADWC students too seem to be in step with the changing times and brimming with enthusiasm.

The Abu Dhabi Women's College (ADWC) has registered a remarkable growth in student enrolment from 62 students in 1988 to 2,300 this year. Consider another statistics: the number of students who graduated this year has almost doubled - from 292 last year to 460 this year.

My Kind of Day: 'I dream of growing'

The bird population multiplies around March and each year at the Abu Dhabi Indian School campus, photography enthusiast Karan Singh Raghwa specially looks out for the tiny and frisky purple sun bird, keen to capture it on camera.

Wild passion

He's reassuringly funny. The Peter Pan of the Indian entertainment industry, the lovable boy who never grew up. Truly, he can say anything and get away with it. The Raja of Rubbish, one magazine called him, a title he ostensibly loved.

Getting children to plant a tree in their name at school and starting a nursery is one way to introduce them to environmental issues, according to an environmentalist.