Inflation in the UAE may have surged to a record 14% in 2007 as a result of strong domestic demand, reported Emirates Business 24/7 quoting a semi-official report."The phenomenon has become one of...Continue to the full story at www.dubaichronicle.com

London's West End is once again the world's most expensive office market, but Dubai has now entered the top ten for the first time, according to CB Richard Ellis Group, Inc. (CBRE) Research's...Continue to the full story at www.dubaichronicle.com

Global Sources announced today that its three upcoming China Sourcing Fairs in Dubai will be over 60% larger this year. The China Sourcing Fairs: Gifts & Home Products, Electronics, and Fashion...Continue to the full story at www.dubaichronicle.com

Prices of all varieties of rice are expected to rise in the UAE following India's decision not to relax a ban on rice exports imposed in March.India, the largest rice supplier to the Gulf, has been...Continue to the full story

Beirut / Sanaa - Yemen's tourism income will reach $ 44 billion over the coming years, a study suggests. The state-run 26 Sep.net said the study which was conducted by Fast Future entitled

Beirut / Riyadh - Saudis are returning back to one of their top tourism destinations: Lebanon. According to local travel agents, flight reservations are up for the Saudi summer vacation season after numbers fell dramatically following the July War of

Beirut - The Lebanese army shot and killed a suicide bomber who tried to blow himself up at an army checkpoint next to the Ein el Helweh Palestinian refugee camp, near Sidon south Lebanon, according to NBN TV

Tripoli-- A Lebanese soldier was killed by an explosion at dawn Saturday in the north of the country, the military said.

Beirut - Al Hayat Sources have reported that acting Defense Minister Elias Murr will be include in the share of President Michel Suleiman for a cabinet post in the new national unity government

Baabda - Prime minister Designate Fouad Siniora said after meeting with President Michel Suleiman at the Baabda Palace "There is much work to be done in the coming period to reach a solution to the cabinet formation and I will

The children, aged five or six, were playing near a rubbish dump in Baquba, 65km northeast of Baghdad, when they spotted a strange object, police said. When they picked it up, the home-made device exploded. Relatives brought the injured children

By: Ali Hussein, Ya Libnan VolunteerBeirut- Lebanon's Prime Minister designate Fouad Siniora will be facing many challenges in forming the new cabinet as the first day of consultations has revealed.

Beirut- Siniora's first day of consultations at the parliament went very smoothly, considering the negative reaction by the opposition to his appointment just 2 days. Each bloc handed Siniora its wish list. But the lists are so entangled, it may

The country has made big strides in recent months and is on course to pass an important threshold for nuclear weapons capability next year, scientists and analysts say

Iran is home to the largest Jewish community in the Middle East outside Israel, despite the president's anti-Zionist rhetoric, and they say they have religious freedom

The UAE aviation sector is on track to achieve the 100 per cent e-ticketing deadline by the end of the month, but travel agents are expected to continue issuing paper version of the new air ticket...Continue to the full story

The United States supplied over 1,356,000 rounds of ammunition of various calibers to the Lebanese Army last week, a U.S. Embassy statement said.

By Tariq AlhomayedBeirut - In his last Monday's speech , Hassan Nasrallah promised us a calm summer. However, his pledge was not without conditional terms; "except if the Americans want it to be a hot one," he said.

Beirut- Opposition tempers seem to have cooled overnight, with scathing remarks over Siniora's reappointment as Prime Minister fading into more conciliatory positions Friday morning, ahead of the start of consultations on the new cabinet.

In 2006 it was the war with Israel, in 2007 it was the struggle against Fatah al-Islam militants in the North, and this year internal sectarian clashes dragged Lebanon to the brink of a new civil war. For three consecutive