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Today is a Holiday in the UAE. The local newspaper announced..."The private sectors in the country will get a one day paid holiday to mark the birth anniversary of the Prophet Mohammad (PBUH), according to an official announcement from the Ministry of Labour."

So there is a lot of free time to spend in whatever you want to do hehe. This is also a good time to catch up on the current news and be aware about what is happening in the world since we are always busy spending most of our time at the narrow confines of our work place...

In the US, it is reported that parts of the famous Niagara Falls have frozen over near the US-Canadian border.

(as seen from Skylon Tower, Niagara Falls image via Ujjwal Kumar)

Cairo, Egypt recorded measurable snow for the first time in over 100 years.

(Camel in the snow in Sinai, Egypt on December 13, 2013. Image via Saleh Mousa)

One month after Typhoon Haiyan blasted through the Philippines, its residents have started getting back in shape and life is slowly being breathed back into the city.

( cleaning up the city to give people some income, photo via bbc)

 Former South African President Nelson Mandela the country's first black president died peacefully at his Johannesburg home on 05 Dec 2013 after a prolonged lung infection. He was 95.

 

More than 200,000 people from 140 countries have applied for a one-way ticket to join a human settlement on Mars. 

(The £4 billion project, Mars One plans to establish the first permanent human settlement on Mars in 2023 and has proposed that humans will live in a modular environment made up of multiple inflatable units.)

Arab Spring: A revolutionary wave of demonstrations and protests (both non-violent and violent), riots, and civil wars in the Arab world began on 18 December 2010. By December 2013 rulers had been forced from power in Tunisia, Egypt (twice), Libya, and Yemen...

(The violence in Syria began in March 2011. The middle eastern country has been crippled by a brutal civil war.)