Al Ain regained their seven-point lead in the Adnoc Pro League after edging out Shabab Al Ahli 1-0 at the Hazza bin Zayed Stadium on Saturday.
Kodjo Laba’s goal on the half hour was enough for the Garden City club to clinch their 11th win in the league and take their tally to 52 points, followed by Al Wahda on 45 with Al Jazira and Sharjah locked on 42.
Laba picked up a through pass from Cristian Guanca and the Togolese striker cut inside the area, beating two defenders and the goalkeeper Majed Naser, before slotting the ball into the back of the net.
Al Ain’s win was marred by Laba's red card in stoppage time after he brought down Yousef Jaber.
Al Jazira were held 1-1 at Baniyas and Sharjah thrashed Al Orooba 5-0 in the other games on the night.
Ahmed Rabia opened the scoring from Sasa Ivkovic pass on six minutes for Baniyas and Ali Mabkhout levelled from a quickly-taken free kick in the 64th minute for the defending champions.
Caio Lucas scored twice in Sharjah’s resounding victory.
Alex Gustavo opened the floodgates on 26 minutes and Bernard Duarte doubled the lead six minutes later. Caio was on target twice in three minutes before the break.
Salem Saleh then rounded off their victory when he met Marcus Meloni's brilliant cross with a powerful header on 75 minutes.
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KILLING OF QASSEM SULEIMANI
German plea
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told the German parliament that. Russia had erected a new wall across Europe.
"It's not a Berlin Wall -- it is a Wall in central Europe between freedom and bondage and this Wall is growing bigger with every bomb" dropped on Ukraine, Zelenskyy told MPs.
Mr Zelenskyy was applauded by MPs in the Bundestag as he addressed Chancellor Olaf Scholz directly.
"Dear Mr Scholz, tear down this Wall," he said, evoking US President Ronald Reagan's 1987 appeal to Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev at Berlin's Brandenburg Gate.
Pharaoh's curse
British aristocrat Lord Carnarvon, who funded the expedition to find the Tutankhamun tomb, died in a Cairo hotel four months after the crypt was opened.
He had been in poor health for many years after a car crash, and a mosquito bite made worse by a shaving cut led to blood poisoning and pneumonia.
Reports at the time said Lord Carnarvon suffered from “pain as the inflammation affected the nasal passages and eyes”.
Decades later, scientists contended he had died of aspergillosis after inhaling spores of the fungus aspergillus in the tomb, which can lie dormant for months. The fact several others who entered were also found dead withiin a short time led to the myth of the curse.
