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25 stories for“back to school”
UAE schools reopen on 31 August. The families who find September easy are not the organised ones, they are the ones who started moving bedtimes while it was still August.
Aug 16, 2026
A 3 September piece on back-to-school cooking cited federal guidance that children may need nearly double the protein previously recommended, while a 18 September report tracked schools scrambling to meet new standards. These bake ahead for lunchboxes.
Sep 27, 2026
People start things at the beginning of a week, a month or a school year far more often than at any other moment. Behavioural scientists call it the fresh start effect, and it is worth using deliberately.
Aug 17, 2026
New dietary guidance sets a hard number for added sugar in a school meal. The harder problem is a box that comes home full, because a nutritious lunch that goes uneaten is not a lunch.
Aug 16, 2026
The UAE school calendar for 2026-27 is published. Everyone with children will book inside the same four windows, and the pricing follows a pattern you can plan against if you look now.
Aug 16, 2026
A ten-year panel of maths learning data found students spending 27 per cent less time on the problems AI can do, scoring better on unsupervised work, and 25 per cent worse when someone was watching.
Aug 18, 2026
For ten weeks the Gulf empties. In the last fortnight of August it refills, all at once, and the version of the city you got used to disappears in about four days.
Aug 16, 2026
Forty seven states settled with Meta on Wednesday, days into a trial in Oakland. The money is a fraction of one year of revenue. The rest of the deal is a list of product changes: a daily cap for under eighteens, hidden likes, no notifications during school.
Aug 28, 2026
Children absorb far more than parents realise, and silence does not protect them. What helps is honest, age-appropriate information, predictable routine, and adults who manage their own distress in front of them.
Aug 13, 2026
Dahab's Blue Hole draws freedivers year round for a reason: shore access to real depth, warm water, forgiving conditions and an established training community.
Nov 14, 2025
UNESCO-backed work across Pacific communities shows climate education becoming more useful when science is connected with local language, culture and lived knowledge.
Jul 24, 2026
Opening with photographs of children killed in the war's first strikes, Iran's president became the first leader in UN history to address the General Assembly in person while his country remained at active war with the United States.
Sep 25, 2026
The entry window has been cut from three months to thirty days, registration on Nusuk is mandatory with no exemptions, and a new visa lets you come back for a year. Three changes that reward planning.
Aug 16, 2026
A hands-on Qatar technology program is guiding 124 young participants from ideas toward viable startups. The deeper value lies in learning how to test, build and adapt.
Aug 1, 2026
As fires force evacuations across France and Spain, fine particles can travel far beyond fire lines and worsen heart and lung disease after the immediate emergency fades.
Jul 25, 2026
AI eyewear is becoming more capable and less conspicuous, but a celebrity revolt and fresh privacy fixes show that bystanders still get a vote on adoption.
Jul 22, 2026
A beloved Japanese comfort dish: panko-crusted chicken cutlet served alongside a silky curry sauce. Crispy, warm, and endlessly satisfying.
Mar 12, 2024
A physiologist went looking for the origin of the rule in 2002 and came back empty. What the reference intakes actually say, why food and coffee count, how much the number varies between people, and when in a Gulf summer it genuinely matters.
Sep 6, 2026
A small genre with a heavy subject. These are the documentaries and features that actually explain the sport, including the ones that handle its deaths honestly rather than as spectacle.
Aug 11, 2026
She was a working actress at four, a superhero at seventeen and a Golden Globe nominee at twenty-three. The part of her life that changed the most for other people happened off screen.
Aug 17, 2026
Raja Ampat remains one of diving's richest destinations, but current, season, permits and mounting pressure from tourism and mining belong in the booking decision.
Jul 25, 2026
In a placebo controlled trial of 109 people, 58 per cent of the antibiotic group and 57.7 per cent of the supplement group reached the clinical target. The placebo group reached 23.1 per cent, and that third number is what makes the first two mean anything.
Aug 31, 2026
Five Italian divers and a Maldivian rescuer died in May. A manslaughter file is open in Rome, a liveaboard lost its permit, and the Maldives is writing technical diving law. A follow-up assessment.
Aug 12, 2026
Deliberate career breaks of a few months, taken repeatedly across a working life rather than saved until the end. The idea is sound, the finances are unforgiving, and the visa questions are the ones nobody checks first.
Aug 8, 2026
Three Egyptian dive bases, three different Red Seas. Here is what Hurghada, Sharm el-Sheikh and Dahab each actually deliver underwater.
Feb 14, 2024
