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Yemen: HH Sheikha Manal Bint Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, President of Dubai Women Establishment, will lead a short visit to Yemen as part of her role with the 'Dubai Cares' campaign, the charity drive held during the Holy Month of Ramadan to help educate one million children in poor countries. [AMEInfo.com]

Yemen: Qatar National Bank has announced its branch in Yemen will start providing banking activities in Sana'a on 27th September 2007. QNB was granted official approval to open a full service branch in Yemen at the end of 2006. [AMEInfo.com]

Yemen: Qatar National Bank (QNB) announced that its branch in Yemen will start providing banking activities in Sana'a on Thursday 27 September 2007. [AMEInfo.com]

Yemen: Yemen has signed a $15bn deal with a US-based energy firm to build nuclear power plants over the next 10 years for electricity generation, reported AFP. Under the agreement, Powered Corporation, which is based in Houston, will build five nuclear reactors in the country that will generate 5,000 megawatts of energy. Construction of the first reactor is set to begin in early 2009. [AMEInfo.com]

A round-up of today's world news in brief

CHINA: Typhoon Wipha swept through eastern China yesterday, destroying hundreds of homes and forcing the evacuation of more than two million people.

US: One of the world's 7,000 distinct languages disappears every 14 days, an extinction rate exceeding those of birds, mammals and plants, researchers say.

BRITAIN: Gordon Brown's options for an autumn or spring election have been sustained by a fresh poll giving Labour an eight-point lead while suggesting David Cameron is now Britain's least popular party leader.

ITALY: Just two weeks after the death of tenor Luciano Pavarotti, representatives of both the maestro's families, that of his first wife Adua Veroni and of his widow, Nicoletta Mantovani, would seem to be preparing for a battle over the inheritance of the singer's huge estate.

ARGENTINA: Thousands of protesters have taken to the streets to mark the first anniversary of the disappearance of Jorge Julio Lopez, a key witness in the successful prosecution of a police chief from the "dirty war" years.