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Dubai stories: 40 news summaries

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 Dubai's New Metro 
 a Surprise Social Leveler 

Rigid stratification breaks down underground, to delight of some

Oct 20, 09 11:24 AM CDT
(Newser) - It may or may not alleviate massive traffic jams of Mercedes and Hummers, but Dubai's new metro system is definitely loosening up the Emirate's rigidly stratified society. “No velvet rope or electrified security gate to keep out the masses,” Tom Hundley writes. “Privileged Emiratis suddenly find themselves... More »

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subway • Dubai • United Arab Emirates • metro • civil society • mass transit • egalitarian • stratification

 Dubai Unveils 
 Gulf's First Metro 

Sheikhdom aims to get drivers onto public transport despite rock-bottom fuel prices

Sep 10, 09 1:26 AM CDT
(Newser) - Dubai yesterday opened its gleaming new $7.6 billion metro rail system, the first on the Arabian peninsula, AP reports. The sheikhdom's leaders hope the system will help clear Dubai's chronically traffic-clogged streets and provide some good press for the downturn-battered emirate.  Each 5-car train on the driverless system... More »

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subway • Dubai • United Arab Emirates • metro • New York City Subway • London Underground • UAE • public transit • mass transit

Young Brit Jailed in UAE for Alleged Fling With Boss

Dive instructor sentenced to 3 months for 'sex crime' in Sharjah

Jun 10, 09 4:49 AM CDT
(Newser) - A young British dive instructor accused of having sex with her boss has been jailed for three months in the United Arab Emirates, the Telegraph reports. Authorities in Sharjah, the conservative emirate north of Dubai, arrested the 22-year-old woman after a raid on the dive shop where she worked. She... More »

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Dubai • United Arab Emirates • Sharjah

UK Woman Faces Jail for Adultery in UAE

Angry hubby reports illegal affair; wife
might get up to a year

May 26, 09 11:29 AM CDT
(Newser) - A British woman's cheating heart might land her in the Dubai clink after her husband told on her, the Times of London reports. Adultery is illegal in the United Arab Emirates, where Sally Antia, 43, and her husband have lived for a decade. Antia confessed in a Dubai court and... More »

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Dubai • jail • United Arab Emirates • adultery • cheating • Sally Antia

Mogul Who Paid for Ex's Murder Faces Execution

Hit on Lebanese pop star cost Egyptian billionaire $2M

May 21, 09 9:25 AM CDT
(Newser) - An Egyptian tycoon and the ex-cop he hired to kill his Lebanese pop singer ex-girlfriend have been sentenced to death by hanging, the BBC reports. The trial of billionaire Hisham Talaat Moustafa, an associate of president Hosni Mubarak's son Gamal, has gripped the Arab world. Although Suzanne Tamim was murdered... More »

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Middle East • Lebanon • murder • execution • Egypt • Dubai • Cairo • hanging • singer • murder trial • Hisham Talaat Moustafa • Suzanne Tamim

 Rihanna Hits 
 Red Carpet, 
 Nixes Concert 

Singer debuts at Met, cancels show on same day

May 5, 09 11:40 AM CDT
(Newser) - Rihanna hit the red carpet last night for the first time since her alleged beating by Chris Brown, the AP reports. The singer, clad in a tuxedo, attended the Metropolitan Museum’s annual costume gala. Also yesterday, a comeback concert in Dubai—scheduled for May 28, the day of Brown’... More »

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entertainment • celebrity trials • domestic violence • Dubai • celebrity • concert • red carpet • assault • Rihanna • Metropolitan Museum of Art • physical abuse • Chris Brown

ANALYSIS

 Downturn Lays Bare 
 Dubai's Dark Side 

Boomtown's shaky foundations becoming apparent as hard times hit

Apr 9, 09 9:09 AM CDT
(Newser) - Dubai's "Disneyland for grownups" is becoming a more sinister ride as the emirate's boom times end. Countless grand building projects lie half-finished in the sand while indentured building workers from abroad unable to leave languish in work camps, Johann Hari writes in the Independent. He sees Dubai as... More »

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Dubai • United Arab Emirates • credit crisis • financial crisis

Giant Vegas Project May File for Bankruptcy

Kerkorian-Dubai megaconstruction will miss debt payment

Mar 27, 09 7:33 AM CDT
(Newser) - City Center, the sprawling $8.6 billion Las Vegas development and the largest private construction project in history, will likely fail to make a $220 million debt payment today and may file for bankruptcy. The project is a collaboration between Kirk Kerkorian's MGM Mirage and Dubai World, a conglomerate owed... More »

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Kirk Kerkorian • Las Vegas • MGM Mirage • Dubai • casino • Dubai World • Nevada • Howard Stern Grid

 Clinton Turns 
 Back on Burkle, $20M

Amount owed from former business deal may have diminished with economy

Mar 16, 09 9:05 AM CDT
(Newser) - Bill Clinton has called it quits with Ron Burkle's Yucaipa Cos, walking away from a payment once estimated at up to $20 million, the Wall Street Journal reports. Clinton began distancing himself from Yucaipa in 2007 as Hillary Clinton’s run for the White House heated up, and continued to... More »

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Hillary Clinton • Ron Burkle • Bill Clinton • Dubai • Senate confirmation hearings • Yucaipa • Clinton Foundation

Under Tight Security, Israeli Makes Dubai Tennis Debut

UAE accepts player after barring his fellow citizen from competition

Feb 26, 09 9:23 AM CST
(Newser) - A week after denying a visa to one Israeli tennis player, Dubai ushered in another yesterday amid tight security—and his match went smoothly, the Guardian reports. After fines and criticism for its decision to reject female player Shahar Peer’s bid to play, the United Arab Emirates made Andy... More »

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Israel • tennis • Dubai • United Arab Emirates • Shahar Peer • Arab Israeli conflict • Israelis • Andy Ram

 UAE Denies Israeli 
 Tennis Player Visa 

Peer would have been first Israeli to compete in country

Feb 15, 09 1:05 PM CST
(Newser) - The United Arab Emirates denied an Israeli tennis player a visa to compete in a tour in Dubai, preventing her from becoming the first Israeli athlete to play professionally in the country, CNN reports. Dubai could lose its World Tennis Association membership over the incident, which violates WTA policy guaranteeing... More »

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tennis • Dubai • visa • United Arab Emirates • Shahar Peer

Boeing Loses More Orders
on Delayed Dreamliner

Aircraft-leasing company cancels orders for 16 of 21 jetliners it had ordered

Feb 5, 09 9:03 AM CST
(Newser) - The first aircraft-leasing company to order Boeing’s advanced 787 Dreamliner has slashed its order from 21 to 16 aircraft, citing economic uncertainties, reports the Wall Street Journal. It’s the second time this year that Boeing has lost an order for the jetliner, which is nearly two years behind... More »

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Boeing • Aircraft manufacturers • Boeing 787 Dreamliner • Dubai

 Arab States Cancel 
 New Year's Festivities 

Celebrations halted in solidarity with Gaza

Dec 31, 08 10:57 AM CST
(Newser) - Dubai's ruler has canceled its ritzy public New Year's Eve celebrations "in solidarity with the Palestinian people" in Gaza, the Times of London reports. Festivities also were called off in Egypt, Syria, Jordan, and Turkey. In Dubai, residents and tourists scrambled to come up with alternative plans. "We... More »

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Turkey • Jordan • Syria • Gaza • Hamas • Egypt • Dubai • New Year's Eve • New Year

Cruise-Ship Outfit Flies Passengers Around Pirates

Liner picks them up in Oman to continue month-long journey

Dec 9, 08 3:10 PM CST
(Newser) - Passengers will evacuate a German cruise liner and fly over the troubled waters off Somalia’s pirate-infested coast to avoid being the next victims of a maritime attack, the Wall Street Journal reports. The Hapag-Lloyd ship, slated to reach Yemen today, will travel empty through the Gulf of Aden and... More »

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Somalia • Germany • Dubai • cruise ships • pirates • Gulf of Aden

 What Recession?
 Dubai Throws $20M Party 

Star-studded night boasts fireworks display visible from space

Nov 21, 08 1:28 PM CST
(Newser) - Rich and famous people from around the world avoided the recession blues last night by flocking to a ridiculously extravagant party on a man-made island in Dubai, Bloomberg reports. Boasting a performance from Kylie Minogue and a fireworks display that could be seen from space, the party was the emirate’... More »

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Michael Jordan • Dubai • recession • global economy • luxury • Kylie Minogue

GLOSSIES

 Young Americans Ride Out 
 Recession in Dubai 

Booming reality counters talk of bubble in Middle East's 'Manhattan'

Nov 17, 08 1:55 PM CST
(Newser) - Back in Texas, Brooke Butler’s friends are worrying about their homes and jobs. Butler has other worries. “I’m thinking it’ll take about 5 years to make a million now,” the 24-year-old saleswoman tells New York. “It’s not that difficult over here.” Here... More »

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real estate • Dubai • United Arab Emirates • luxury • bubble

 QE2 Runs Aground on Last Trip 

Legendary liner, headed to become floating Dubai hotel, hits sandbar off UK

Nov 11, 08 2:04 PM CST
(Newser) - The Queen Elizabeth 2, one of the most famous cruise ships in the world, endured an inglorious UK homecoming today, running aground as it approached its home port of Southampton for the last time. Five tugboats had to haul the 70,000-ton liner off the sandbank; it still docked in... More »

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shipwreck • Dubai • QE2 • cruise ships • cruise lines

Diamond-Inlaid Mastercard? 'I Like!'

Company readies
lavish gold card for
rich Kazakhstanis

Nov 1, 08 7:50 PM CDT
(Newser) - MasterCard hopes that a worldwide recession won't stop shoppers from toting around a gold-encrusted, diamond-inlaid credit card, the Financial Times reports. Later this month, the company will issue VIP customers in Kazakhstan the "Diamond" card—which comes with a personal manager, is trimmed with gold, has a 0.... More »

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ultra rich • Dubai • diamond • Kazakhstan • credit card • gold • MasterCard

Brits Sentenced for 
Dubai Beach Sex

Vacationing couple slapped with 3-month sentences for sand snuggle

Oct 16, 08 4:59 AM CDT
(Newser) - A British couple has been slapped with a three-month sentence for a drunken roll in the sand on a Dubai beach, the Guardian reports. Prosecutors say the pair—an expatriate woman and a visiting businessman—were spotted having sex on the beach after meeting each other at a champagne brunch... More »

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beach • indecency • sex • Dubai • United Arab Emirates • public sex

 Dubai Cracks Down
 on Nude Tourists 

79 people detained by 'decency police'

Jul 15, 08 6:38 AM CDT
(AP) - It hasn't been all fun and games for Western vacationers on Dubai beaches, thanks to  decency police who have detained 79 people in recent days for topless sunbathing and nudity, AP reports. The Muslim city-state is attracting hordes of foreign sun seekers, who are being scrutinized by cops on the... More »

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Middle East • beach • behavior • Dubai • United Arab Emirates • vacation • resorts

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