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/ 14 December 2009
Abu Dhabi has stepped in to help fellow UAE member Dubai with a -billion injection, Dubai said on Monday.
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/ 1 December 2009
Dubai’s ruler on Tuesday urged citizens of the Gulf emirate to "roll up your sleeves" to support the economy.
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/ 30 November 2009
Glitzy Dubai may face a debt crisis that has sent a shudder through global markets, but you wouldn’t know it from officials or local media.
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/ 30 November 2009
World oil prices perked up on Monday as investor worries over Dubai’s debt crisis receded, analysts said.
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/ 28 November 2009
The biggest mystery of the Dubai debt crisis is not why this desert dream has turned into a nightmare, but why it took so long.
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/ 28 November 2009
As Michael Owen swooped over Dubai in a helicopter to promote property, he may have seen the half-built Boris Becker Business Tower below.
The Taliban have adopted rules for the handling of captured ”infidel fighters”, according to reports on Monday.
Pakistan have arranged unprecedented security arrangements for Australian cricketers during the limited over series in Dubai.
SA firm Murray & Roberts has pulled out of a R5-billion contract in Dubai after failing to finalise ”acceptable” terms with a client.
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.