Ice Cafe

A very unique experience for diners at Dubai' Ice Cafe when dining out for frost time. A cold cuts experience, from seating to glassware to cutlery and crockery, everything is cut in ice.
Almost everything at the cafe is sculpted out of ice. Diners will sit on ice benches/chairs, eat at ice tables out of ice plates and drink from ice glasses served from a bar made of ice.
"It is a popular misconception that furniture at an ice restaurant is wet. It is the moisture on the surface of ice that gives it the wet feel. There cannot be any moisture at minus 6 degrees. Every bit of it turns to ice." explained the spokeperson.
The restaurant was recently open Thursday, June 21 2007, located at Times Square mall, between 3rd and 4th interchange on Shaikh Zayed Road. Cover charge of Dh60 inclusive of thermal gear and a free mocktail.

Manta Ray

A baby giant manta ray was born at the Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium in southwestern Japan on June 16, 2007. Believed to be the first giant manta ray born in captivity but it died on June 21 after being abused by its father. The 1.9 meter baby female ray was captured on video by keepers as she emerged furled up from her 4.2 meter mother's body after a pregnancy of more than a year.

Ex-UN Boss

Kurt Waldheim, a former United Nations secretary-general, died on Thursday aged 88. He had served a decade as UN secretary-general after a career in Austria's diplomatic service dating back to 1945.

Gonu

Tropical Cyclone Gonu was responsible for many fatalities in the Arabian Peninsula recently mostly as a result of flooding. It lasted for 3 days from 6th to 8th June 2007. Muscat the capital city of Oman was hit most when torrential rains turned streets into rivers of water in this normally arid region. Some roads and bridges were damaged very badly.

Cyclone Gonu also affected southern region of Iran. Gonu stranded dozens of tiny villages in the deserts of Southern Iran. More than 100 villages surrounded by water in the Kerman Province. Dozens of villages flooded in Sistan and Blauchistan. Hundreds evacuated from Chabahir.

This rare cyclone in the Middle East is the strongest storm to threaten the Arabian Peninsula in 60 years.