An Emirati 12-year-old student bravely saved his classmates after a fire engulfed their school bus earlier this week. Khalifa Al Kaabi, a 7th grader in Sharjah's Kalba city, was visited and honored by Dubai's ruler Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum after his heroic act.

The young man rescued several of his classmates by pushing them out of the burning bus after it caught fire early Tuesday morning. When Al Kaabi entered the bus, he alerted the driver that he saw smoke coming from under the vehicle. The man did a quick check and couldn't see anything unusual, so he resumed the trip. Just a few seconds later, a fire erupted on the bus. 

The boy then sprung into action, pushing the students - three boys - off the bus before the entire vehicle burst into flames. He also managed to call local police and fire departments using the driver's phone. Luckily, everyone on board the bus managed to get away unscathed. 

The Dubai ruler was on a visit to schools in the Eastern region of Sharjah, according to Gulf News, "to follow up on the start of the school year."

"I made sure to visit the hero student Khalifa Abdullah Al Kaabi. He is the pride of his generation and his courage reflects our inherent values. We thank him for saving his classmates when their school bus caught fire," Sheikh Mohammed said. 

In footage capturing the leader's visit to Al Kaabi's school, he can be seen embracing the child and conversing with him. He also toured the campus and met with a few other students. 

Al Maktoum hailed Al Kaabi both online and offline as a hero for saving his classmates. 

In a tweet posted on Wednesday, the Dubai royal shared a picture of himself and the schoolboy, writing: 

"With our hero Khalifa Al Kaabi, who saved his classmates when their bus caught fire and managed to get them all out minutes before it burst into flames. Khalifa is more than just a boy. He's a man who loves to offer a helping hand like his president Khalifa Bin Zayed."

Al Kaabi was also honored by Sharjah Police who visited him at his school on Wednesday morning. 

Dubai-based fans of U.S. sitcom F.R.I.E.N.D.S. better rejoice because the show's iconic Central Perk couch is coming to the UAE. 

A replica of the world's most popular sofa will be put on display at none other than the emirate's Burj Khalifa as part of global celebrations to mark the 25th anniversary since F.R.I.E.N.D.S. first aired. 

To mark the show's silver anniversary on Sept. 22, 30 replicas of the series' prop couch will be displayed at famous locations around the world. 

The series, which starred Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, Matthew Perry, and David Schwimmer ran for 10 seasons and featured 236 episodes. It followed the lives of six friends living in Manhattan, New York, and was broadcast on NBC from 1994 to 2004. 

The list of places where the replica couches are set to be displayed is quite expansive, to say the least. 

According to USA Today, the locations include global hotspots like "the Empire State Building in New York, the Grand Canyon in Arizona, Maggie Daley Park in Chicago and Willis Tower in Chicago, The London Eye, Abbey Road in London, the Venice International Film Festival in Italy, Stonehenge, Ross Fountain in Edinburgh, Cardiff Castle in Wales, Triton Fountain in Rome, the Royal Palace in Madrid and the Sony Center in Berlin."

Besides Dubai's Burj Khalifa, other international locations where the couch will feature are Comic-Con Africa in Johannesburg and landmarks in Colombia, Mexico City, São Paulo, and Buenos Aires. 

Couches aside, some Arabs have gone above and beyond to honor and celebrate their favorite sitcom, even launching businesses inspired by it. 

In the past few years, Emirati fans of F.R.I.E.N.D.S. opened cafés replicating Central Perk in Dubai. Though many of them have since closed down, that doesn't mean new ones aren't opening up in the emirate. In fact, one was launched in Dubai earlier this year. The coffee shop is named "Cultural Perks" and is said to be inspired by the sitcom's café. 

Central Perk replicas aren't exclusive to the UAE as Egypt has its very own version of the space. Central Perk Egypt has been around since 2015 and continues to amass great reviews. The café has meticulous attention to detail; something to guarantee an impressed crowd, especially F.R.I.E.N.D.S. geeks.