UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

The Navy began assessing the damage of the USS Essex after it collided with a refueling tanker, USNS Yukon, in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California. Early reports indicate that the Essex experienced technical difficulties with its steering.

Leaders of the Gulf Cooperation Council gathered in the Saudi capital of Riyadh on Monday for a one-day meeting to discuss the possibility of forming a regional bloc similar to the European Union.

The would-be bomber in the terror plot hatched by al Qaeda affiliates, which sought to bring down a Western airliner on the anniversary of Osama bin Laden's death, had either turned informant or was planted in the terror cell.

Iranians and Arabs fiercely disagree over what to call the Gulf between them, leading Google to leave the body of water nameless.

Norwegian swimmer Alexander Dale Oen died suddenly on Tuesday from cardiac arrest during a pre-Olympic training camp in Flagstaff, Ariz. at the age of 26.

Roy Hodgson has been confirmed as the new manager of the England team and will be unveiled at a news conference taking place at 11 a.m. ET.

Since fleeing the capital he has lived in exile in Kurdish-controlled northern Iraq, but has recently made trips to the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Turkey.

Pakistan has become pariah in the cricketing world.

Yonas Fikre, an American Muslim, is seeking asylum in Sweden and has claimed that he was detained, torture and kept in solitary confinement in the United Arab Emirates for 106 days at the request of the FBI.

Japan slashed its oil purchases from Iran in April, cutting imports from the Islamic Republic by nearly 80 percent.

Syria is trying to sell gold reserves to raise revenue as Western and Arab sanctions targeting its central bank and oil exports begin to bite, diplomats and traders said.

Abdul-Rahim blamed Iran for ruining efforts by Hamas and Fatah to reconcile.

The head of China's national pension fund called for a bigger role for the Chinese currency in the international monetary system, saying the yuan could someday account for 10 percent of global reserves.

Hashemi denies the government's terrorism charges, claiming they are motivated by politics given his prominence as a Sunni lawmaker.

After Maradona confronts angry fans in Dubai, we take a look at five more of the Argentinian legend's most dramatic moments.

The top U.S. diplomat is also set to meet with ministers from Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates before heading for talks with Turkish, Arab and Western leaders on the Syria crisis.

An Iranian organization called the Mojahedin-e-Khalq, or MEK, considered a terrorist organization by the United States, is paying hundreds of thousands of dollars to former American officials and politicians. But where is the money coming from?

Harry Harling, a 15-year-old British national living in Dubai, fell to his death on Saturday in a possible suicide. After leaving a party where drinking allegedly took place, he fell from a balcony 11 stories high.

In an announcement this week, Microsoft said the next version of the Kinect for Windows will be available at the end of May, with a 1.5 version of the software that works with it. The new Kinect for Windows 1.5 will come with a few new features, such as Kinect Studio, which will allow developers to record, playback and debug users' clips.

With the world's population increasing by an estimated 1 million more people each week for the next 38 years and more of humanity shifting from rural to urban living, cities across the world will be feeling squeezed very soon.

British taxpayers may take billion-pound hit if plans go ahead to sell off up to a third of stake in RBS to sovereign wealth investors in Abu Dhabi.