Price, base / as tested: Dh78,000 / Dh97,650
Engine: 2.5-litre in-line four-cylinder
Power: 182hp @ 6,000rpm
Torque: 244Nm @ 4,000rpm
Transmission: Continuously variable tranmission
Fuel consumption, combined: 7.6L / 100km
Director: Tom Tykwer
Starring: Tala Al Deen, Nicolette Krebitz, Lars Eidinger
Rating: 3/5
**Tomato and walnut salad**
A lesson in simple, seasonal eating. Wedges of tomato, chunks of cucumber, thinly sliced red onion, coriander or parsley leaves, and perhaps some fresh dill are drizzled with a crushed walnut and garlic dressing. Do consider yourself warned: if you eat this salad in Georgia during the summer months, the tomatoes will be so ripe and flavourful that every tomato you eat from that day forth will taste lacklustre in comparison.
**Badrijani nigvzit**
A delicious vegetarian snack or starter. It consists of thinly sliced, fried then cooled aubergine smothered with a thick and creamy walnut sauce and folded or rolled. Take note, even though it seems like you should be able to pick these morsels up with your hands, they’re not as durable as they look. A knife and fork is the way to go.
**Pkhali**
This healthy little dish (a nice antidote to the khachapuri) is usually made with steamed then chopped cabbage, spinach, beetroot or green beans, combined with walnuts, garlic and herbs to make a vegetable pâté or paste. The mix is then often formed into rounds, chilled in the fridge and topped with pomegranate seeds before being served.
**Engine:** Four electric motors, one at each wheel
**Power:** 579hp
**Torque:** 859Nm
**Transmission:** Single-speed automatic
**Price:** From Dh825,900
**On sale:** Now
**Uefa Champions League Group H**
Juventus v Valencia, Tuesday, midnight (UAE)
**Name:** Hassan Mohsen Elhais
**Position:** legal consultant with Al Rowaad Advocates and Legal Consultants.
**Name:** Almnssa
**Started:** August 2020
**Founder:** Areej Selmi
**Based:** Gaza
**Sectors:** Internet, e-commerce
**Investments:** Grants/private funding
**Directors:** Carol Mansour and Muna Khalidi
**Stars:** Dr Ghassan Abu-Sittah
**Rating:** 4/5
**1970**
October 26: Bahrain withdraws from a proposal to create a federation of nine with the seven Trucial States and Qatar.
December: Ahmed Al Suwaidi visits New York to discuss potential UN membership.
**1971**
March 1: Alex Douglas Hume, Conservative foreign secretary confirms that Britain will leave the Gulf and “strongly supports” the creation of a Union of Arab Emirates.
July 12: Historic meeting at which Sheikh Zayed and Sheikh Rashid make a binding agreement to create what will become the UAE.
July 18: It is announced that the UAE will be formed from six emirates, with a proposed constitution signed. RAK is not yet part of the agreement.
August 6: The fifth anniversary of Sheikh Zayed becoming Ruler of Abu Dhabi, with official celebrations deferred until later in the year.
August 15: Bahrain becomes independent.
September 3: Qatar becomes independent.
November 23-25: Meeting with Sheikh Zayed and Sheikh Rashid and senior British officials to fix December 2 as date of creation of the UAE.
November 29: At 5.30pm Iranian forces seize the Greater and Lesser Tunbs by force.
November 30: Despite a power sharing agreement, Tehran takes full control of Abu Musa.
November 31: UK officials visit all six participating Emirates to formally end the Trucial States treaties
December 2: 11am, Dubai. New Supreme Council formally elects Sheikh Zayed as President. Treaty of Friendship signed with the UK. 11.30am. Flag raising ceremony at Union House and Al Manhal Palace in Abu Dhabi witnessed by Sheikh Khalifa, then Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi.
December 6: Arab League formally admits the UAE. The first British Ambassador presents his credentials to Sheikh Zayed.
December 9: UAE joins the United Nations.
**Group** **A:** Palmeiras, Porto, Al Ahly, Inter Miami.
**Group B:** Paris Saint-Germain, Atletico Madrid, Botafogo, Seattle.
**Group C:** Bayern Munich, Auckland City, Boca Juniors, Benfica.
**Group D:** Flamengo, ES Tunis, Chelsea, Leon.
**Group E:** River Plate, Urawa, Monterrey, Inter Milan.
**Group F:** Fluminense, Borussia Dortmund, Ulsan, Mamelodi Sundowns.
**Group G:** Manchester City, Wydad, Al Ain, Juventus.
**Group H:** Real Madrid, Al Hilal, Pachuca, Salzburg.
* Suspend strict budget rules to allow member countries to step up defence spending
* Create new "instrument" providing €150 billion of loans to member countries for defence investment
* Use the existing EU budget to direct more funds towards defence-related investment
* Engage the bloc's European Investment Bank to drop limits on lending to defence firms
* Create a savings and investments union to help companies access capital
More than 2.2 million Indian tourists arrived in UAE in 2023More than 3.5 million Indians reside in UAEIndian tourists can make purchases in UAE using rupee accounts in India through QR-code-based UPI real-time payment systems
Indian residents in UAE can use their non-resident NRO and NRE accounts held in Indian banks linked to a UAE mobile number for UPI transactions
**Engine:** 2.9-litre, V6 twin-turbo
**Transmission:** seven-speed PDK dual clutch automatic
**Power:** 375bhp
**Torque:** 520Nm
**Price:** Dh332,800
**On sale:** now
**Director:** Laxman Utekar
**Cast:** Vicky Kaushal, Akshaye Khanna, Diana Penty, Vineet Kumar Singh, Rashmika Mandanna
**Rating:** 1/5
Updated: March 09, 2025, 3:14 PM