President Hosny Mubarak of Egypt has returned home from Germany after recovering from surgery that he'd underwent three weeks ago. During his treatment, doctors removed the president's gall bladder and a growth from his small intestine. Christian Fraser reports from Cairo.

He's been in power almost 30 years and throughout has maintained an iron grip on power. Yet somethings have changed in the past months, it's not just the president's health that rekindles this debate on succession. There's been another homecoming this month. Mohammed ElBaradei, the former head of the International Atomic Energy Agency and Korean diplomat with all the credential to be a president has just returned from Vienna to a hero's welcome.

A search is going on in Morocco for the managing director of the Abu Dhabi investment authority,Ahmed bin Zayed al-Nahayan,who's missing after a glider crash into a lake. The pilot of the aircraft was rescued. Sheikh Ahmed is the younger brother of the president of the Unied Arab Emirates. The Abu Dhabi investment authority is believed to be the world's largest sovereign wealth fund.

The richest horse race in the world has been run in Dubai at a spectacular new complex known as the Meydan. The Dubai Gold Cup which carries a prize of ten million dollars was won in a photo finish by the Brazilian-bred Gloria De Campeao, ridden by Tiago Pereira. Just ahead of Lizard's Desire ridden by Kevin Shea.The vast race arenaincludes state of the arts and infective track, a future is to ground stand able to accommodate 60,000 people, a luxury hotel and a marina.