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(Jordan Times, Rana Husseini - Amman) Her Majesty Queen Rania on Wednesday urged motorists to drive with the utmost responsibility and to keep in mind the tragic consequences of reckless driving. 
 
The Queen made the remarks during a morning call to the popular Radio Fann show “Bisaraha Maa Al Wakil” or “Frankly with Wakil,” hosted by Mohammad Wakil. 
 

(Jordan Times - Amman) Her Majesty Queen Rania on Wednesday visited an open-air exhibition of photographs in Jabal Qalaa taken by school and university students as part of a competition entitled “Amman in a Picture”.

On display at the outdoor exhibition, organised by the Greater Amman Municipality in cooperation with the private sector, were a total of 40 photographs taken by young participants aged between 16 and 23 years, depicting various locations across the capital.

(Jordan Times, Press Department - Amman) Her Majesty Queen Rania on Tuesday inaugurated the Hashemite University social work centre, highlighting its role in providing the country with trained and efficient social workers.

(Office of Her Majesty, Press Department – New York) Speaking at a United Nations Foundation’s event in New York, Wednesday, Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah urged world leaders and the global community to refocus their commitment to achieving the Millennium Development Goals by the 2015 deadline.

(Office of Her Majesty, Press Department – New York) In an effort to promote the Middle East as an attractive travel option to prospective tourists, Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah delivered the keynote address at the second annual Condé Nast World Savers Congress in New York, Tuesday. The Queen also announced the establishment of several new parks in Jordan.

(Office of Her Majesty, Press Department - Kuala Lumpur) Just like the hundreds of students rushing to their seats at the University of Malay early Friday morning, Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah arrived on campus donning a cap and gown in time to receive an honorary degree in International Relations from the country’s oldest university.

(Office of Her Majesty, Press Department – Herefordshire, UK) Amongst Google executives and many other dot com heavyweights, Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah spoke passionately about the need to utilize the web in bridging the divide between East and West, at the third annual Google Zeitgeist forum, Monday. For the first time since launching her YouTube channel dedicated to this end, Queen Rania also spoke about the origins of the idea and how it is working and why virtual communities need to pay more attention to the Arab world.

(Office of Her Majesty, Press Department – Amsterdam) After forming and launching the Arab Sustainability Leadership Group (ASLG), Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah convened the network’s first meeting, Wednesday, while in Amsterdam.

“We have to use this window of opportunity to do the right thing,” said the Queen. The group will encourage businesses to balance profit with environmental protection, and equal opportunity.

(Office of Her Majesty, Press Department - New York) Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah joined the Prime Ministers Gordon Brown, of the UK, and Kevin Rudd, of Australia, as well as other global leaders at the "Class of 2015: Education For All" pledging summit, in New York, Thursday to urge world leaders to refocus their commitments for universal access to primary education. At the event, a coalition of governments, charities and U.N. agencies pledged $4.5 billion to support efforts to get all the world's children in school by 2015.

(Jordan Times - Salt) Her Majesty Queen Rania on Monday expressed support for the Salt Secondary School for Boys, which will be revamped under the recently launched Madrasati initiative.
 
Launched by the Queen last month, the ambitious Madrasati (my school) initiative seeks to make education a social responsibility by pairing corporations and NGOs with 500 public schools in the Kingdom in desperate need of repair.