The inaugural day of the Emirates Airline Festival of Literature on February 3 will showcase top Emirati writers and speakers in a series of talks, panel discussions, workshops and poetry performances.

French fashion designer Thierry Mugler, who dressed Beyonce and Lady Gaga, has died aged 73, according to a statement on Mugler's official Facebook page confirming earlier French media reports.

A leading French aquarium vendor has decided to stop selling round fish bowls because they drive fish mad and kill them quickly.