BAGHDAD: Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Al Maliki and his main rival Iyad Allawi were locked in a tight election battle on Wednesday, with updated results showing their blocs neck-and-neck in the race for parliament. Maliki's State of Law Alliance and Allawi's Iraqiya list were each on track to garner 87 seats in Iraq's Council of Representatives, with less than 9,000 votes separating the two nationwide, according to a calculation based on results released after 79 per cent of ballots had ...

BY AYSHA TARYAM

On Saturday night, and as per its daily schedule, the Oprah Winfrey Show aired on the locally broadcast television channel MBC4. This episode in particular was enthusiastically awaited by the UAE nationals since it was to feature our b...

BY AYSHA TARYAM

The "Communication Era" is what we have happily dubbed the times we live in. After being the most cumbersome, near-impossible feat for mankind it has now become one of the most mundane daily activities for us to communicate with one an...