Dubai News

Dubai - In 2008 a young Australian woman was drugged and gang-raped by three co-workers whilst working in a luxury Dubai hotel. Upon reporting the rape she was imprisoned for engaging in illicit sex.

French health officials reported the need to test for additional cases of the SARS-like coronavirus that appears to have emerged from the Middle East, as the novel virus continues to demonstrate its ability to spread among human populations.

In only 30 years, great glaciers have retreated and a lake that was once the world’s fourth largest has all but dried up. For the first time ever, the human impact on the face of earth as seen from space is on full view, and it is not a pretty picture.

Dubai - No, it's not a joke. Dubai has added a Ferrari to the Lamborghini it bought for its police force earlier in the month. Al Arabiya says the Lamborghini cost $550,000 and Metro UK reports the new Ferrari costs anything between $250,000 and $500,000 as well.

Dubai - The London School of Economics has cancelled a Middle East conference on the Arab Spring that was to begin on February 23rd in Dubai in the UAE citing curbs on research by the UAE.

As the world turned, bringing 2013 to each country, fireworks lit the sky in incredible displays. Despite austerity, many major cities represented in the video offered pyrotechnic extravaganzas. Let us hope for peace and prosperity in the new year.

Dubai - In Dubai, UAE, fireworks lit up the world's tallest building, the Burj Khalifa, with a live orchestra playing in the New Year.

Dubai - Around $2.7 billion is to be invested in five new theme parks in Dubai. At the same time, the Dubai Group is cutting staff as it tries to reduce costs and manage huge debts.

Dubai - The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) will meet in Dubai UAE from December 3rd to December 14th to revise regulations for the first time since 1988,

Dubai - Civil defence and rescue teams have evacuated a 34 storey skyscraper in Dubai, United Arab Emirates as flames take hold on a portion of the building. As yet there is no information on the cause of the blaze.