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The UAE's Ministry of Economy and Tourism has blocked 13,667 pirate websites for violating copyright laws in the first quarter of 2026.

UAE President His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan has discussed strengthening cooperation with Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson in a phone call on Tuesday.

United Arab Emirates Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan participated on Tuesday in the 19th Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Consultative Summit in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on behalf of UAE president His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan.

United Arab Emirates President His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan is set to honour Abdullah Al Sayed Al Hashemi by naming an Abu Dhabi street after him.

Pop star Billie Eilish has joined forces with famed filmmaker James Cameron to bring her "Hit Me Hard and Soft" tour to the big screen.

Lawyers for actors Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni have sparred in court on Tuesday over Lively's potential bid for hundreds of millions of dollars in damages in an upcoming civil trial stemming from her allegations of harassment during the filming of their 2024 romantic drama "It Ends With Us."

Pop superstar Taylor Swift has filed trademark applications for two audio clips and one image of herself in what a trademark attorney said is an attempt to protect her voice and likeness from deepfake videos and audio created by artificial intelligence.

Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel said on Monday his joke about US first lady Melania Trump had been misconstrued and was not a "call to assassination".

Two successive Israeli strikes on a building in a southern Lebanese town have killed five people on Tuesday, including three rescuers who went to help those wounded in the initial attack, Lebanon's health ministry said.

The leader of Mali's military government, Assimi Goita, has made his first public appearance on Tuesday since insurgents launched coordinated attacks over the weekend, vowing in a televised address to "neutralise" those responsible.

US President Donald Trump has instructed aides to prepare for an extended blockade of Iran, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday, citing US officials.

Britain's King Charles told the US Congress on Tuesday that despite an age of uncertainty and conflict in Europe and the Middle East, the UK and the US will always be staunch allies united in defending democracy, at a time of deep divisions between the two long-time allies over the war with Iran.

Defending champions Paris St Germain has battled past visitors Bayern Munich 5-4 in a pulsating Champions League semi-final first leg on Tuesday that had a record number of goals at this stage of the competition.

World number one Jannik Sinner brushed aside Britain's Cameron Norrie 6-2 7-5 on Tuesday to book a place in the Madrid Open quarter-finals, stretching his ATP Masters 1000 winning streak to 25 matches as the players avoided the worst of the heat.

Defender John Stones will leave Manchester City when his contract expires at the end of the season, bringing the curtain down on a decade-long stay, the Premier League club said on Tuesday.

Manchester United's Casemiro and Benjamin Sesko have struck first-half goals to secure a 2-1 Premier League home win over Brentford on Monday, taking their side to the brink of Champions League football for the first time since the 2023-24 season.

FIFA should press the US to establish an "ICE Truce" for the World Cup, including a public guarantee to refrain from immigration enforcement operations at games, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a report published on Monday.

The United Arab Emirates announced on Tuesday its decision to exit the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC and OPEC+), effective 1 May 2026.

Microsoft and OpenAI have renegotiated a pact that let Microsoft exclusively sell the ChatGPT creator's artificial intelligence models, clearing the way for the startup to forge new deals with rivals to the software and enterprise giant, including Amazon.

The UAE has been ranked first globally for the fifth consecutive year in the latest Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) report.

A US judge on Friday dismissed Elon Musk's fraud claims in his lawsuit accusing OpenAI and co-founder Sam Altman of betraying OpenAI's original mission, but plans to proceed to trial on Musk's breach-of-charitable-trust and unjust-enrichment claims.

Archaeologists in Italy's Pompeii have for the first time used artificial intelligence to reconstruct the appearance of one of the victims of the volcanic eruption that destroyed the ancient Roman city nearly 2,000 years ago.

German sportswear maker Adidas' shares rose on Monday after Kenya's Sabastian Sawe became the first person to run a marathon in under two hours in an official race, accomplishing his feat wearing the brand's Adizero Adios Pro Evo 3 trainers.

Icelandair is running a marketing campaign to find a "really bad photographer" for a 10-day, all-expenses-paid trip to Iceland.

A Frenchman won a Picasso painting worth 1 million euros (AED 4.33 million) in a non-profit raffle on Tuesday.

Twelve tonnes of KitKat chocolate bars went missing in Europe last week after thieves made off with the truck transporting them, Swiss food giant Nestle said.