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Dubai Police have arrested several people on the orders of His Highness Shaikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, after Kuwait team members were attacked during the UAE Jet Ski Championship here yesterday.

Shaikh Abdullah Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Foreign Minister, issued an apology to the Kuwaitis and assured that the attackers will be brought to justice.

Several Emiratis were arrested and police are on the lookout for others, Deputy Dubai Police Chief Major General Khamis Mattar Al Mazeina said.

“What happened was the result of an earlier dispute between a member of the Kuwaiti team and an Emirati jet skier in an earlier race,” Maj Gen Al Mazeina said.

“Dubai Police will not show leniency to the attackers and will refer them to prosecution for legal action,” he said.

A trip for an Emirati family of three who decided to take a break in Sri Lanka ended in tragedy when two of the family members died.

The head of the family has been admitted to an ICU (Intensive Care Unit) at a hospital in the country.

According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which is investigating the cause of the death, an Emirati woman, 20, and her 11-month-old son died of poisoning, while the father Mohammad Ali Obaid Al Mazroui, 24, was admitted to the ICU.

Hamad Saeed Al Shamsi, Director of the Operations Department in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said a specialised medical team has been sent to Sri Lanka to follow up on investigations with the authorities there.

Al Shamsi said that the condition of the father was stable after receiving treatment. He said a committee from the ministries of Interior, Health and Foreign Affairs arrived in Colombo yesterday morning to determine the reason behind the ambiguity surrounding the deaths. The family arrived in Colombo on Monday and within less than 24 hours, two of the family members died.

Al Shamsi stressed the ministry’s keenness to follow up on the conditions of Emirati citizens abroad and provide them with assistance under all circumstances

Sheikha Lubna Al Qasimi has topped CEO Middle East magazine’s list of 100 Most Powerful Arab Women for the second year running.

The UAE’s Minister of Foreign Trade beat Yemeni Nobel Peace Prize laureate Tawakkul Karman to rank in first place.

Among the other notable public figures that made it on to the countdown was Princess Ameerah Al Taweel, wife of HRH Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal, who was the list’s highest ranking newcomer in fourth place.

See the full countdown of the 100 Most Powerful Arab Women.

Sheikh Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan, Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, took part today in a march against child slavery at the Abu Dhabi Corniche.

Present were also Sheikh Mohammed bin Nahyan Al Nahyan, Sheikh Shakhbout bin Nahyan Al Nahyan, officials from the UAE Red Crescent Authority, members of the Indian Women Association and representatives of other organisations.

The march is being organised as part of the activities of Small World events which will be launched on March 16 at Emirates Palace.

The Small World march, was held under the supervision of Abu Dhabi Police and ran through a 1km route as a show of support for the annual charity event that raises funds for the children around the world.

“The International Labour Organisation estimates that 250 million children worldwide are subjected to slavery, including forced labour and trafficking. We are compelled to dedicate this year’s event for the eradication of child exploitation,” said Salam Hamzeh Ghaith, who conceived the idea of holding a march. “Our aim is to actively participate as a community member in raising awareness about injustice against children of the world,” she added.

All proceeds generated from the march and the Small World events ticket sales and donations will go to organisations around the world actively working on the eradication of child exploitation.

The missing Emirati student, Yousuf Musabih Al Otoubi, 22, was finally located today at the intensive care unit (ICU) of the Rashid Hospital in Dubai. Dubai Police confirmed that an unidentified young man who was at admitted at the hospital because of a road accident was later recognised as Yousuf.

Gulf News learned from Dubai Police that the 22-year-old was admitted to hospital in critical condition three days ago after being hit by a car in the Dubai Mall area.

#Looking4Yousuf

The UAE have dominated the list of top MBA programmes in the Arab world. In this month’s Forbes Middle East issue, 12 private UAE institutions’ MBA programmes were among the top 20.

Source: Forbes Middle East

The Goethe-Institut Gulf Region will be organizing the second Heritage Film Festival under the title “The Young & the Old”. This open-air film festival will take place from 22 to 25 February 2012 at the Heritage Village .We will be screening selected Emirati, German and Swiss films.

After opening the event with a music and movie night, we will be screening short films and feature films on the relationship between generations in different cultures during the following three evenings. This unique blend of Arab and European films has been put together by the curators, Ali Al Jabri and Philip Bräuer. After each screening, film directors and experts on film will engage in a discussion and answer questions by the audience.

HIGHLIGHT: February 2011 the first Heritage Film Festival took place in Abu Dhabi at the Heritage Village. Watch this video to hear some of the participants talk about it in their own words.

The Ministry of Economy, in cooperation with other concerned departments, will start taking off the shelves cans of Coca-Cola and Pepsi that are sold at retail outlets for Dh1.50.

Hashem Nuaimi, head of Consumer Protection Department the Ministry of Economy, said that the ministry decided to pull the products off the shelves for violation of consumer protection rules. Nuaimi said the companies reduced their can size without prior official approval.

“Pepsi and Coca Cola violated rules when they reduced the size of the Dh1.50 can from 355ml to 300ml and removed the price tag,” said Al Nuaimi.

He added: “The two companies requested that they would market their 355 ml size cans with a price printed on them. We were surprised by their move when they reduced the size [of the cans] and took the price tag off the cans.”

“What the Pepsi and Coca Cola did was unacceptable … because the two companies illegally reduced the size [of the cans] but maintained the price. In other words, they simply increased the price in violation of consumer protection laws,” he said.

Al Nuaimi said, “We took this measure against the two companies after we had received public complaints that the two companies had reduced the can size without decreasing its price.”