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BELGRADE/DUBAI- Sheikh Mohammad Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, and Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic discussed in Belgrade on Wednesday "ways of boosting bilateral ties of friendship and cooperation as well as a range of regional and global issues of mutual concern," the Dubai-based English-language daily Gulf News reported.

While we've been desperately trying to keep up with the breaking news as it rolls in almost every hour, we woke up on June 21 to see that Saudi King Salman bin Abdel Aziz had deposed his nephew, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Nayef, in favor of his son Mohammed bin Salman.

Tate Modern is presenting the United Kingdom's first retrospective of Fahrelnissa Zeid, a pioneering artist best-known for her large-scale colorful canvases that fused European approaches to abstract art with Byzantine, Islamic and Persian influences.

Being the king of metal drummers was not enough for Lars Ulrich. So, the Danish-born Metallica drummer went and got a higher title on Monday (June 12) when he was officially dubbed a knight by the Danish crown prince. His bandmates congratulated Ulrich on the honor bestowed on him by Crown Prince Frederik, saying it was “not bad for a snot-nosed kid from Gentofte!”

Japan's lower house of parliament passed a bill on June 2 that allows ageing Emperor Akihito to step down, as it also called for a rare debate on the role of women in the male-dominated monarchy.

The dramatic arrival of Da’ish (ISIS) on the stage of Iraq has shocked many in the West. Many have been perplexed — and horrified — by its violence and its evident magnetism for Sunni youth. But more than this, they find Saudi Arabia’s ambivalence in the face of this manifestation both troubling and inexplicable, wondering, “Don’t the Saudis understand that ISIS threatens them, too?”

Police have detained 17 suspects and seized 19 carriages as part of an operation against a "carriage gang" on the largest of Istanbul's Prince Islands on May 11.

The operation, the largest in the district's history, was conducted by police in the touristic destination of Büyükada, which is known for its historic carriages. 

Horses that are used to pull carriages in places like Istanbul's Prince Islands have an average life expectancy of just two years rather than the standard 20, according to a report from an animal rights group, Turkish news portal Bianet has reported.

Some years ago, low on cash, I took an unusual job in Tokyo’s entertainment district Shibuya. Every morning I dressed in a swallow-tailed jacket stained with the sweat of a previous shift worker, assumed a fake name, and pretended to be an English butler for the women, and occasionally men, who visited a mock castle interior on the fifth floor of a beige high rise.

BELGRADE - US bassist/vocalist Nik West and her band will perform at the Nisville Jazz Festival on August 11.

Dubbed by the Eurythmics' Dave Stewart as the "female Lenny Kravitz", West, aged 25, has collaborated with some major names of the world's music scene, including Stewart, Prince, Marcus Miller and seven-time Grammy winner John Mayer.