A Briton denied in a Dubai court on Thursday beating his South African ex-girlfriend to death and then dumping her body in the sea.
Sam Leith recounts his visit to the desert paradise in the United Arab Emirates. Everything from the cranes outside to his hotel lobby screams ‘money’
The fifth Rugby World Cup Sevens tournament will be played this weekend at a purpose-built stadium in Dubai and South Africa is among the favourites.
Dubai’s rapid expansion in recent years provided jobs for millions. But the global financial meltdown has abruptly ended the dream for many people.
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/ 27 November 2008
Nicole Johnston savours the (vegetarian) culinary delights of Dubai.
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/ 15 November 2008
Shivnarine Chanderpaul hit a fighting century but couldn’t stop Pakistan winning the second day-night international by 24 runs on Friday.
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/ 13 November 2008
Kamran Akmal hit successive sixes in the final over as Pakistan scored a thrilling four-wicket win over West Indies on Wednesday.
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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.
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/ 15 October 2008
The International Cricket Council plans to continue its trial of the umpire review system in Test series involving most Test-playing nations.
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 $25 000.
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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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/ 11 September 2008
South Africa pace bowler Dale Steyn won the International Cricket Council Test Player of the Year award at an awards ceremony on Wednesday night.
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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.
Al-Qaeda’s second-in-command Ayman al-Zawahri appeared in a new videotape posted on the internet on Friday.
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.
Al-Qaeda number two Ayman al-Zawahiri, in an internet audio message, urged Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip to escalate attacks on Israel over its crippling siege of the territory.
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.
Imtiaz Patel will not become the next International Cricket Council chief executive, the ICC said on Monday. Patel had been earmarked to succeed Australian Malcolm Speed who will step down in July after seven years in office. However, the sports television executive has told the ICC he is not interested in the post.
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.