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May 20, 2013
It is the manual for many US psychiatrists and the latest edition is out this week. Yet the DSM-5 is already under attack for listing as mental disorders what others regard as just personality traits.
Read Article Mental illness or just personality traits?
May 16, 2013
The novel coronavirus has claimed 20 lives, including a patient from Abu Dhabi, but health experts have yet to determine the source of the outbreak, how it spreads - or even what it should be called. Read Article Coronavirus: Questions over the Sars-like virus but few answers
May 16, 2013
It seems to have begun on September 15 last year, when a doctor at the Dr Soliman Fakeeh Hospital in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, posted an alert on the international internet-based reporting system ProMED - the Programme for Monitoring Emerging Diseases. Read Article Coronavirus: Deaths date back a year to Jordan
Apr 26, 2013
A look at the life of Chuck Hagel, the US secretary of defence Read Article Newsmaker: Chuck Hagel – the Pentagon's prudence
Apr 22, 2013
The superyacht Azzam is the biggest vessel of its kind. The owner is still a mystery, but the name, which is Arabic for 'determined', suggests it will be heading for the Middle East. Read Article Azzam: World's largest superyacht sails into the record books
Apr 20, 2013
Three eagerly anticipated exhibitions honouring the diverse careers of Roy Lichtenstein, Yoko Ono and David Bowie have opened recently. But, asks Jonathan Gornall, is the curatorial aim to consolidate their legacies or to reconstruct them completely?
Read Article Retrospectives can also serve to revise an artist's body of work
Apr 13, 2013
A Tate Modern curator's visit to Beirut has led to international appreciation of the stunning work of 97-year-old Saloua Raouda Choucair, a pioneering Lebanese abstract artist who laboured in obscurity, writes Jonathan Gornall
Read Article Lebanese artist receives recognition late - perhaps too late - in life
Apr 12, 2013
A look at the turbulent life of King Juan Carlos of Spain. Read Article Newsmaker: King Juan Carlos I
Apr 08, 2013
The peregrine falcon is a fearsome killing machine and the fastest creature on Earth, swooping down on its prey at up to 380kph. But how did it evolve? Groundbreaking genome research initiated in Abu Dhabi is providing some surprising answers. Read Article UAE delves into the birth of the perfect predator
