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  • Dubai Wild Water Park in Pictures

    26 January 2014 ( #Dubai, #Wild Water Park, #Beautiful Places, #Asia )

    The Wild Wadi Water Park is an outdoor water park in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Situated in the area of Jumeirah, next to the Burj Al Arab and the Jumeirah Beach Hotel, the water park is operated by Jumeirah International, a Dubai-based hotelier. Wild...

  • Amazing Beauty of Ooty

    28 January 2014 ( #India, #Ooty, #Beautiful Places, #Tamil Nadu )

    Ooty is a town, a municipality, and the district capital of the Nilgiris district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It is located 80 km north of Coimbatore. It is a popular hill station located in the Nilgiri Hills. Originally occupied by the Todas,...

  • Dubai Dolphinarium

    26 January 2014 ( #Dubai Dolphinarium, #Dubai, #Asia )

    Dubai Dolphinarium is the first fully air-conditioned indoor dolphinarium in the Middle East, providing habitat to dolphins and seals, allowing the public to watch and interact with them through live shows and photo sessions. It is located in the creek...

  • Dubai Zoo

    26 January 2014 ( #Dubai Zoo, #Dubai, #Asia )

    Dubai Zoo is a 1.5-hectare (3.7-acre) located in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. It was originally built in 1967 by a Dubai resident when H. H. Sheikh Rashid bin Maktoum, the late Ruler of Dubai, permitted Otto J. Bulart to build a zoo on a two hectare plot...

  • Dubai Museum in Pictuers

    26 January 2014 ( #Dubai, #Asia, #Dubai Museum )

    Dubai Museum is the main museum in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. It is located in the Al Fahidi Fort (Arabic: حصن الفهيدي ), built in 1787 and is the oldest existing building in Dubai. The museum was opened by the ruler of Dubai in 1971, with the aim of...

  • Sky Dubai - Winter wonderland in the desert

    26 January 2014 ( #Sky Dubai, #Dubai, #Beautiful Places )

    Ski Dubai is an indoor ski resort with 22,500 square meters of indoor ski area. It is a part of the Mall of the Emirates, one of the largest shopping malls in the world, located in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. It was developed by Majid Al Futtaim Properties,...

  • Beauty of Barcelona

    28 January 2014 ( #Barcelona, #Spain, #Europe )

    Barcelona is the capital city of the autonomous community of Catalonia in Spain, and the second largest city in the country, with a population of 1,620,943 [1] within its administrative limits. The urban area of Barcelona extends beyond the administrative...

  • Afghan refugees in Pakistan

    29 January 2014 ( #Afghanistan, #Pakistan, #Afghan refugees in Pakistan )

    Afghans in Pakistan are refugees who have fled wars in Afghanistan. [1] It also includes smaller number of asylum seekers waiting to be settled in Western countries, [1] as well as Afghan diplomats, traders, businesspersons, workers, exchanged students,...

  • Bosnia and Herzegovina History

    29 January 2014 ( #Bosnia and Herzegovina, #Europe, #Bosnia )

    Bosnia and Herzegovina sometimes called Bosnia-Herzegovina or simply Bosnia, is a country in Southeastern Europe. Its capital and largest city is Sarajevo with a population of 369,534 people and 515,012 inhabitants across the entire metropolitan area....

  • The West Bank Life and History

    23 January 2014 ( #Palestinian people, #Middle East, #Israel )

    The West Bank is a landlocked territory near the Mediterranean coast of Western Asia, forming the bulk of the Palestinian territories. The West Bank shares boundaries (demarcated by the Jordanian-Israeli armistice of 1949) to the west, north, and south...

  • The Dubai Fountain in Pictures

    26 January 2014 ( #The Dubai Fountain, #Dubai, #Asia )

    The Dubai Fountain is the worlds largest choreographed fountain system set on the 30-acre manmade Burj Khalifa Lake, at the center of the Downtown Dubai development in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. It was designed by WET Design, the California-based company...

  • Amazing Beauty of Kerla

    28 January 2014 ( #India, #Kerla, #Beautiful Places )

    Kerala is a state in the south-west region of India on the Malabar coast. It was formed on 1 November 1956 as per the States Reorganisation Act by combining various Malayalam-speaking regions. Spread over 38,863 km2 (15,005 sq mi) it is bordered by Karnataka...

  • Amazing Beauty of Amsterdam

    28 January 2014 ( #Amsterdam, #Netherlands, #Europe )

    Amsterdam is the capital city of and the most populous within the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Its status as the Dutch capital is mandated by the Constitution of the Netherlands [5] though it is not the seat of the Dutch government, which is at The Hague...

  • The Alhambra

    28 January 2014 ( #Alhambra, #Spain, #Europe )

    The Alhambra the complete form of which was Calat Alhambra, [b] is a palace and fortress complex located in Granada, Andalusia, Spain. It was originally constructed as a small fortress in 889 and then largely ignored until its ruins were renovated and...

  • Amazing Beauty of Aden

    29 January 2014 ( #Aden, #Yemen, #Asia )

    Aden is a seaport city in Yemen, located by the eastern approach to the Red Sea (the Gulf of Aden), some 110 miles (170 kilometres) east of Bab-el-Mandeb. Its population is approximately a million people. Aden's ancient, natural harbour lies in the crater...

  • Cholistan Desert Pakistan

    29 January 2014 ( #Cholistan, #Pakistan, #Desert )

    The Cholistan Desert also locally known as Rohi (روہی), sprawls thirty kilometers from Bahawalpur, Punjab, Pakistan and covers an area of 26,300 square kilometres (10,200 sq mi). It adjoins the Thar Desert, extending over to Sindh and into India. The...

  • Republic of Senegal

    01 February 2014 ( #Senegal, #Africa )

    Senegal, officially the Republic of Senegal (République du Sénégal , IPA: [ʁepyblik dy seneɡal] ), is a country in West Africa. It owes its name to the Sénégal River that borders it to the east and north. Senegal is externally bounded by the Atlantic...

  • Sheikh Ahmed Yassin Life Images

    26 January 2014 ( #Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, #Palestinian people, #Philistine, #Israel )

    Sheikh Ahmed Ismail Hassan Yassin (1937 – 22 March 2004) [1] was a founder of Hamas, an Islamist Palestinian paramilitary organization and political party. [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] Yassin also served as the spiritual leader of the organization. Hamas gained...

  • Amazing Beauty of Chicago

    29 January 2014 ( #United States, #Chicago )

    Chicago is the third most populous city in the United States, after New York City and Los Angeles. With 2.7 million residents, [1] it is the most populous city in both the U.S. state of Illinois and the American Midwest. Its metropolitan area, sometimes...

  • Amazing Beauty of Niger

    01 February 2014 ( #Niger, #Africa )

    Niger officially the Republic of Niger, is a landlocked country in Western Africa, named after the Niger River. It borders Nigeria and Benin to the south, Burkina Faso and Mali to the west, Algeria and Libya to the north and Chad to the east. Niger covers...

  • Mikhail Kalashnikov Life and History

    23 December 2013 ( #Russia, #World War II )

    Mikhail Timofeyevich Kalashnikov 10 November 1919 – 23 December 2013) was a Russian small arms designer, most famous for developing the AK-47, AKM, and AK-74 assault rifles. [1] Kalashnikov was born in Kurya, Kuryinsky District, Altai Krai, Russia, to...

  • Typhoon Hagibis : Japan suffers deadly floods and landslides

    22 October 2019 ( #Japan, #Natural Disasters, #Floods, #Landslides, #Typhoon Hagibis )

  • Polio vaccination campaign in Pakistan

    26 January 2014 ( #Pakistan, #Polio vaccination, #Karachi )

    According to media news thousands of Pakistani children are at high risk of Polio disease after killing of several polio workers most of them were women in Karachi and other different parts of country. After well-coordinated attack and killing of several...

  • The Yarmouk refugee camp - All we need is access

    27 January 2014 ( #Yarmouk refugee camp, #Syria, #War )

    The Yarmouk refugee camp near Damascus has become a test for world conscience. The camp has been under siege by Assad regime’s forces for the last three years. The camp’s 50,000-plus population is facing a humanitarian crisis. Because of heavy bombardment...

  • Help Ukraine’s poor economy

    27 February 2014 ( #Ukraine, #Russia, #European Union )

    Recent events and the departure of Russian-backed Ukraine president Viktor Yanukovych are big lesson for Russian President Vladimir Putin and have proved that the support of unpopular rulers to protect individual interest cannot protect their rule. After...

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