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/ 27 November 2008
Nicole Johnston savours the (vegetarian) culinary delights of Dubai.
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/ 28 October 2008
Dizzying construction boom relies on migrant labourers who are lured into a life of squalor and exploitation, writes Ghaith Abdul-Ahad.
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/ 16 October 2008
The emirate plans to build the world’s tallest building, which will incorporate traditional Islamic styles, reports Ian Black.
Dubai laid claim to a record on Sunday with a multibillion-dollar plan to build the world’s tallest tower in the face of deepening financial gloom.
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/ 29 September 2008
Dubai boasts a new resort billed as unique in the Middle East: the ocean-themed Atlantis, where a night will cost up to $25Â 000.
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/ 24 September 2008
Sex on the beach or drunken trysts may not raise eyebrows in many cities, but a recent case in Dubai has exposed a growing cultural divide.
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/ 22 September 2008
It’s the latest word in Gulf excess — a sprawling ,5-billion resort boasting a 000-a-night suite and dolphins flown in from the South Pacific.
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/ 21 September 2008
Mark Arnold, the man being held by Dubai police in connection with the disappearance of South African Kerry Winter, told a UK paper that he beat her.
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/ 7 September 2008
The United Arab Emirates’ capital, Abu Dhabi, is at the centre of an explosion of wealth.
Tiger Woods unveiled on Monday the master plan for the Tiger Woods Dubai, an exclusive residential golf community in the United Arab Emirates.
Following the arrest of a British woman for allegedly having sex on a beach in Dubai Lucy Morgan reveals the realities of life for the UAE’s British
Cricket chiefs were locked in delicate negotiations on Tuesday to break the divide over strife-torn Zimbabwe and conjure a face-saving compromise.
Osama bin Laden vowed in an audio tape marking Israel’s 60th anniversary celebrations to continue the fight against the Jewish state and its allies and not give up an inch of Palestinian land. ”We will continue, God permitting, the fight against the Israelis and their allies,” the al-Qaeda leader said in the tape posted on an Islamist website on Friday.
Saddam Hussein, the ousted Iraqi dictator who was hanged in 2006 for crimes against humanity, feared he would pick up sexual diseases while he was United States custody, according to extracts from prison writings published in an Arabic newspaper.
Pakistan’s envoy to Afghanistan, Tariq Azizuddin, who went missing in February, appeared on Saturday in a video aired by al-Arabiya news channel in which he said that he was held by the Taliban. ”We were on our way to Afghanistan in our official car on February 11 when we were kidnapped,” said Azizuddin.
Osama bin Laden urged Palestinians on Thursday to use ”iron and fire” to end an Israeli blockade of Gaza, in a recording after the Vatican rejected accusations by the al-Qaeda chief of a ”new crusade”. In an audiotape broadcast by the Qatar-based al-Jazeera satellite channel on Thursday, bin Laden urged Muslims to keep up the struggle against US forces in Iraq
The International Cricket Council (ICC) restored controversial Australian Darrell Hair as a Test and one-day international umpire on Tuesday and decided to shorten the 2011 World Cup. Cricket’s governing body also said a ”full independent security assessment” would be made before violence-hit Pakistan staged the Champions Trophy in September.
The International Cricket Council (ICC) will be headed up by a South African within the next four months. Imtiaz Patel, CEO of SuperSport, has been offered the position of CEO at the ICC and now it’s just a matter of negotiating terms before he takes over the reigns from current CEO Malcolm Speed in early July.
Sudan President Omar al-Bashir on Tuesday raised doubts over a peace deal that Senegal said the leaders of Sudan and Chad are to initial in Dakar on the eve of an Islamic summit. Bashir referred to a Saudi-brokered deal signed in Riyadh in May 2007, when the two leaders made a pilgrimage to Mecca and prayed together inside the Kaaba, the holiest Muslim shrine.
The world’s tallest skyscraper under construction in the Gulf city-state of Dubai will take longer than planned to finish, its builders said on Wednesday, putting off the opening planned for the end of this year. The building’s final height is a closely guarded secret. Building representatives previously said it would stop somewhere above 693m.
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/ 25 February 2008
An Iraqi militant group posted a video on the internet on Monday that appeared to show the 2004 killing of 12 Nepalese men who worked for a contracting firm in Iraq. In the video, a militant beheaded one of the men with a knife. The rest were shot in the back lying face down in a sandy lot.
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/ 3 February 2008
Tiger Woods watched his 25-foot putt race down the slope and bend toward the cup, then he skipped backward and punched the desert air in celebration when it disappeared into the cup for a final birdie. So ended his spectacular charge on Sunday to win the Dubai Desert Classic over Ernie Els, a familiar victim.
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/ 3 February 2008
Tiger Woods struggled with everything on the course on Saturday, missing putts, driving wayward balls into the desert terrain and yelling at a photographer for taking a shot while he was swinging. Ernie Els had a very different day, rising from fifth to first place at the Dubai Desert Classic.
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/ 30 January 2008
Al-Qaeda’s North Africa wing said it was behind a blast at a police station in Algeria which authorities said killed two people. Al-Qaeda Organisation in the Islamic Maghreb said a suicide bomber drove a truck packed explosives that detonated at the police station in a town east of Algiers on Tuesday.
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/ 14 January 2008
United States President George Bush heads to Saudi Arabia on Monday to encourage support for Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking by the Arab powerbroker and seek help maintaining American pressure on Iran. Bush will spend two nights in the Islamic kingdom, having already visited Kuwait, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates.
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/ 30 December 2007
Al-Qaeda chief Osama Bin Laden warned Sunni Muslims in Iraq not to take up arms against the terror network and promised the "liberation of Palestine" in a new online message. In the 56-minute tape released late on Saturday, the Western world’s most wanted man also accused the United States of seeking to control the region through the Iraqi government.
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/ 4 December 2007
An armed group demanded that Britain leave Iraq in video footage aired by the Dubai-based al-Arabiya news channel on Tuesday, which showed one of five Britons seized in May. ”I have been here, now held for 173 days, and I feel we have been forgotten,” a man identifying himself as Jason said in the video.
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/ 3 December 2007
South Africa are edging closer to Australia at the top of the International Cricket Council one-day international (ODI) rankings and now lie just four points behind the leaders following a 2-1 series victory over New Zealand. Graeme Smith’s team began the series on 123 rating points, five adrift of Australia.
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/ 21 November 2007
South Africa fast bowler Dale Steyn has left his mark on the LG International Cricket Council (ICC) player rankings following his man-of-the-series performances against New Zealand. Steyn, who took 20 wickets in two matches against the Black Caps, has rocketed up to third in the latest listings for Test bowlers, a reflection of his recent potency.
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/ 19 November 2007
South Africa’s comprehensive clean sweep of its two-match series against New Zealand has lifted it to third position in the latest LG ICC Test championship table. Graeme Smith’s side, which won Tests in Johannesburg (358 runs) and Centurion (an innings and 59 runs) collected four rating points for its efforts.
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/ 12 November 2007
Sudan on Monday blamed countries that allow Darfur rebels to operate in their territory for failing to use their influence to persuade the insurgents to attend peace talks last month. Neighbouring Chad allows Darfur rebels to remain armed on its territory, though the groups have representatives in several countries.
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/ 8 November 2007
Seven people were killed and about 15 others injured when a Dubai bridge collapsed in a luxury area of the Gulf Arab emirate of Dubai on Thursday, the police said. The collapse appeared to be the result of a construction problem, police said. "Engineers are at the site and are inspecting the situation."