Thousands of layoffs at state-linked companies in Abu Dhabi are a fresh sign the Gulf states are hunkering down for a long period of austerity as low crude prices pressure their economies.
An Emirati court on Monday ordered a self-proclaimed local leader of the Islamic State group jailed for life for plotting a series of attacks, media reported.
Three people suffered spinal fractures after an Etihad Airways flight bound for Jakarta hit severe turbulence, reports said on Thursday.
A Palestinian author has won the International Prize for Arab Fiction for the first time for a novel about the Palestinian exodus in 1948 and the Holocaust.
The United Arab Emirates has allocated $4bn to support Egypt whose economy is struggling, state news agency WAM said on Friday.
An American woman who has been in custody for seven weeks in Abu Dhabi for allegedly insulting the UAE and its leaders appeared in court on Monday, local media reported.
Abu Dhabi's Aldar Properties said it will add new villas to its Yas Island development with a project valued at 6bn dirhams ($1.63bn), the builder's largest single project to date.
Flag-carrier Philippine Airlines (PAL) has opted for a Manila-Doha flight via Abu Dhabi instead of its earlier plan for direct flights to Doha.
A season of events leading up to the opening later this year of the Louvre Abu Dhabi has kicked off with a concert mixing traditional Arab music with a classical Western orchestra.
Torrential rain in northern Oman and the United Arab Emirates has killed six people this week, local media reported on Thursday.
Some flights between Doha and Dubai were cancelled after a strong storm hit the United Arab Emirates on Wednesday
Schools were ordered shut, flights suspended and the stock market was closed down in the United Arab Emirates as rare heavy rain hit the desert Gulf state on Wednesday.
