Ali Mabkhout: The rise of the UAE’s five-star striker set for the biggest test of his flourishing career

Film review: Robert De Niro distracts from the main event in Hands of Stone

Alex Hales and England blast Pakistan for ODI record 444

ISIL spokesman Abu Mohamed Al Adnani ‘killed in Aleppo’

Peace and prosperity don’t have to be elusive

Barbie gets a curvy makeover and a new wardrobe

Transfer news: ‘Gabigol is an Inter player’ – Inter Milan announce Gabriel Barbosa signing

Education reforms are needed

Adec hosts occupational safety and health workshop for school staff

Lebanon’s waste crisis threatens to flare again

Nasdaq Dubai Futures is a bold venture

Education reforms put UAE pupils on track for better learning

‘My mind is made up’: Wayne Rooney retiring from England after 2018 World Cup

Antonio Conte warns Chelsea players to learn from recent history despite hot start

Libya says last chemical weapons stocks shipped out

Team Abu Dhabi look to keep up UIM F1 H20 title charge in Harbin, China

Plácido Domingo’s Dubai kick off: Meet the man who will raise the curtain at Dubai Opera

The September hot list: Abu Dhabi Restaurant Month, The Big Clearance Sale in Dubai, and more

Djokovic survives scare, Nadal marches into second round: US Open round-up and results

Reel Cinemas Dubai Mall to host screenings of short films by aspiring movie makers

Curriculum reforms will position the UAE well for the future, experts say

Dutch model Imaan Hammam is the new face of Maje

Sold by Nottingham Forest to RB Leipzig, Oliver Burke presents a strange case

Home improvements: Small kitchen, big plans

Building fire near Abu Dhabi’s Beach Rotana hotel – in pictures

Book review: Go inside the world’s most troubled country with The Mayor of Mogadishu

‘It’s not the same’: Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic ‘miss’ Roger Federer at US Open

Take your seat, please: Dubai Opera prepares for its grand opening – in pictures

Etihad sets good example for promoting careers of UAE women

Emirati motorcyclist, 19, killed after being hit by lorry in RAK

Dubai gaming exhibition postponed till next year

Boeing freezes jet prices for first time in seven years as sales slow

Suicide bombing outside Chinese embassy in Kyrgyzstan

Bastian Schweinsteiger, pivotal in shaping Germany’s recent success, set for a fitting farewell

Holly to Bolly: Idris Elba finishes shooting new film, the end for Pretty Little Liars, and more

Much more can be done on education

Sworkit app gets you fit while on the go

World in focus – best photos for August 30, 2016

September deals at Armani/SPA in Dubai’s Burj Khalifa

Dubai property market ‘in the minds’ of Gulf’s high net worth investors

Five years for pair who threatened associate and pregnant wife with axe

Businessman, 82, jailed by Dubai court for forging licence

Cancer-stricken woman has sights set on airline job despite failing health

Chelsea line up deals for two Serie A players as transfer deadline looms — reports

Non-interference or the responsibility to protect?

Nepal bans Indian couple after debunking Everest climb claims

Fierce Dale Steyn leads South Africa to second-Test win over New Zealand

Can entrepreneurial spirit and tourists help wean Oman off oil?

Why Uber and Careem have suspended operations in Abu Dhabi – video

Focus on the Philippines: 11-year-old Joshua Oliveros wins The Voice Kids Philippines

500 cows rustled from New Zealand farm in unusual crime

Transfer talk: Joe Hart to Torino, Barcelona and Arsenal add strikers

Workplace Doctor: Job loss can be confidence-shattering, even for the toughest

Masdar and MIT researchers develop device that makes steam from sunlight

Shadi Ghanim cartoon for 31/8/16

Five more hot tickets: shows not to miss at Dubai Opera

Mel Gibson finds a link to his past in his latest action-thriller Blood Father

Oryx return to Chad thanks to UAE breeding programme

Hospitality company of Lulu Group to open Sheraton Oman in October

Potential Marseille owner Frank McCourt no stranger to sport ownership – or controversy

Uber’s rise in the UAE ‘We are good. But we could be great’

Abu Dhabi shipbuilder’s huge floating drydock up and running at Mina Zayed

Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed meets with Emirati women at Sea Palace barza - in pictures

Southampton signing Sofiane Boufal: Five things to know

The Debt Panel: Dubai resident told to pay interest despite early credit card settlement

His dreams shattered, Yemen survivor wishes he died in ISIL attack

Etihad growth strategy gets top billing as credit rating holds firm

What Farc deal means for Syria

Saudi Arabia struggling to boost bank liquidity

Mystery disease chews up Zanzibar’s seaweed plan

Dubai rents fall less than expected in first half as delivery of new homes trickle

India’s angry Dalits rise against age-old caste prejudices

Putin faces tests at home and on foreign fields

UAE weather: Mercury - and humidity - expected to rise

Sample Asian street food in fine-dining setting

Oil prices and Asian equities lift Dubai shares

Barcelona signing Paco Alcacer: ‘Messi, Neymar and Suarez, it will be a privilege’

Take a free chauffeur ride for a women’s health check during September

How US technology company Uber has transformed the Middle East

‘It’s easy to make people cry, not so easy to make them laugh’, says Italian baritone Massimo Cavalletti

UAE and Saudi Arabian millennials to drive e-commerce growth in region

Model Felix Gesnouin launches Roberto Cavalli’s Uomo scent in Dubai

It’s not just cricket

UAE v Japan diary: Typhoon passed, Tokyo now bracing for football storm

Omar Abdulrahman: UAE ‘have already defeated’ Japanese before

‘Super crazy’: Abu Dhabi-based Jeremy Manning returns from basking in Fiji glory

Citibank’s UAE chief says it is her ‘destiny to give something back’

When I came so close to asking Trump the not-so-subtle question

Wednesday cover: Ali Mabkhout, the rising star key to pushing UAE higher

Hundreds evacuated as fire breaks out at Abu Dhabi construction site

Bangladesh upholds tycoon’s death sentence as party calls for nationwide strike

5 things to do today: Check out the newly opened Yas Ladies at Vogue Fitness and get tickets for Groove on the Grass

Saudi Arabia signs 15 initial deals with China

Investcorp in talks to buy minority stake in Saudi-based Al Borg Medical Laboratories

‘Willy Wonka’ star Gene Wilder dies aged 83

Alex Hales, Joe Root, Jos Buttler and England reach 444 in ODI – in pictures

UAE students group visit Emiratis in hospital in the US

Syrian rebels fighting ISIL have a new target in their sights – US-allied Kurds

Rory McIlroy to Thomas Pieters: Meet the 12 men of Europe’s 2016 Ryder Cup team

US slams EU order for Apple to pay back €13bn over ‘illegal’ Irish tax benefits