Yesterday morning, Dubai started off differently. Sheikh Zayed Road turned into a bright blue wave of participants replacing the usual rush-hour traffic. A record-breaking 307,000 runners filled the 14-lane highway for Dubai Run 2025, presented by Mai Dubai.  Now in its seventh year, the event lived up to its title as the world’s largest free community run and was one of the best parts of this year’s Dubai Fitness Challenge (DFC).

Families, first-time runners, seasoned athletes, and casual joggers were out and prepared for the event early in the morning. The procession began with police supercars and passed some of Dubai’s most well-known sites, including the Dubai Water Canal, the Museum of the Future, and the Burj Khalifa. The celebration began at 6:30 a.m. with the raising of the UAE flag. Also, paragliders and aerial paramotors lit up the sky with fireworks in the national colours to mark the build-up to National Day.

Parachutes soared overhead, trailing pyrotechnics that painted the morning sky in the colours of the UAE flag. — gulf news.com

The atmosphere throughout the morning was energetic. The start line was adorned with UAE flags for Eid Al Etihad, while giant LED puppets, warrior drum crews, marching bands, stilt walkers, DJs from UNTOLD, and celebrity MCs Kris Fade and Katie Overy kept the energy high. Cooling mist, bubble arches, and festive mascots, were given to those who ran until the end.

Participants chose between two routes: a family-friendly 5km heading through Downtown Dubai to Mohammed Bin Rashid Boulevard, and a more challenging 10km stretching along Sheikh Zayed Road to DIFC Gate. Shafeek Hassan and his friends participated in the event for the sixth time, and families such as Ijaz Jamile’s, who also completed the Dubai Ride earlier this month, returned for the DFC. Runners brought playful touches too, including Zam and his colleagues dressed as fruits promoting healthy eating.

Ijaz Jamile and his family of four make Dubai Run an annual tradition. — gulf news.com

Saeed Hareb, the general secretary of Dubai Sports Council praised the turnout as a powerful display of unity in the UAE’s Year of Community, while DFRE CEO Ahmed Al Khaja noted that the event presents Dubai as a global wellness destination.

With the Dubai Run now complete, DFC 2025 moves toward its grand finale: Dubai Yoga on 30 November at Zabeel Park.

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Cardi B has turned a personal detail from her son’s birth into a custom keepsake. After the birth of her baby boy with New England Patriots star Stefon Diggs earlier this month, the rapper had the baby’s umbilical cord transformed into a heart-shaped gold pendant, a personal tribute to his earliest moments.

Photo Credit: Instagram – Iamcardib

The idea was created through Mommy Made Encapsulations, the same company Cardi used when she delivered her daughter Blossom in 2024. In a video shared on the Encapsulation Specialist’s Instagram on Nov. 20, Juliane Marie Corona walked viewers through the process: the cord was carefully shaped into a heart, dehydrated, and then dipped in gold chrome to create a lasting piece of jewelry.

Photo Credit: The US Sun

“Where her journey began, turned into a keepsake she’ll treasure forever,” Juliane wrote alongside the video. She described the pendant as a way to honor the start of the baby’s life. She continued, “Creating this keepsake is always such an honor, but doing it for Cardi and her sweet baby again means the world to us. Turning something so meaningful into a piece that can be held, remembered, and cherished forever is one of the most special parts of what we do.”

Phot credit: The US Sun

Additionally, She also had part of her placenta processed into capsules, a practice many new mothers choose for potential health benefits. While placenta encapsulation has become increasingly common, transforming an umbilical cord into gold jewelry remains rare, making this personal pendant uncommon.

The birth of their son marks Cardi’s fourth child and her first with Diggs. She recently shared the baby’s first photos, showing him wrapped in a Patriots blanket with Diggs by her side in the hospital. Though the infant’s face wasn’t revealed. This isn’t Cardi’s first experience with Mommy Made Encapsulations, and judging from the emotional value placed on these keepsakes, it likely won’t be her last. For her, these creations aren’t just artistic pieces. They are physical reminders of where her children’s stories began, preserved in a form she can hold onto forever.

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Khloé Kardashian has opened up about a painful incident that brought her journaling habit to an end.

In the November 19th episode of her Khloé in Wonder Land podcast, she shares the heartbreaking moment when her ex-husband, Lamar Odom destroyed all her journals that contained years of memories.

Khloe Kardashian – Pinterest

Former American basketball player Lamar Odom and ex-wife Khloé, got married in 2009 and finalized their divorce in 2016. Eight years later, the American media personality finally shares one of her experiences.

When asked, she said she loved journaling but stopped after her husband destroyed all her journals:

“So I used to journal all the time. I haven’t journalled in years. I used to love to journal. So I had a few journals that I journalled literally all my life away and I loved it and everything was in these journals.

And I remember my ex-husband was going through it… And he threw them all in the fire in front of me.”

Khloè explained that her ex-husband was going through a difficult time then and was always paranoid and burned her journals because he feared she was taking notes and sending them to the government.

Khloè Kardashian and ex-husband, Lamar Odom – Pinterest

She reminisced kneeling while screaming and sobbing as the journal burned before her destroying years of her life that had been documented. She shares that they meant a lot to her and she had never journalled since then.

In the podcast episode, she pointed out that it felt like everything was taken away in a blink and she no longer saw the point and didn’t want to risk something like that happening ever again.

Khloè opening up about this incredibly traumatic incident must have been so hard but it is also proof of her resilience and quiet strength.

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