OMAN: The 500-year-old wreckage of a Portuguese ship piloted by an uncle of explorer Vasco da Gama has been found off the coast of Oman, a discovery that included the recovery of an incredibly rare coin — of which only one other was thought to exist.

BlackBerry users across Europe, the Middle East and Africa were hit with service disruptions to their smartphones for a second day after an unexplained glitch cut off internet and messaging services.

Prosecutors have charged India’s former telecommunications minister, two other officials and six company executives with fraud and forgery in a scandal estimated to have cost the country billions of euro.

Manchester City are set to sign a three-year sponsorship deal with Middle East telecommunications giant Etisalat.

A computer whizzkid has been fined £2,000 for hacking into the United Arab Emirates' only internet provider and causing the whole country's system to crash.