Pan-African and Middle East reinsurance group Africa Specialty Risks (ASR) has opened a new office in Dubai. The office, the company’s first in the Middle East, is located in the Dubai International Financial Centre. It is aimed at strengthening ASR’s ties in the region, where it has been engaged in commercial activities since February 2022. […]
At an indoor pool in Dubai, three rowers battle artificial rain and simulated waves as they train for an Arctic voyage intended to highlight the perils of marine pollution. Their quest will take the team from one extreme to the next. Home base is the United Arab Emirates, notorious for its sweltering heat, especially in […]
A former Royal Marine who was arrested in Dubai on suspicion of spying has been cleared and is free to leave the country, authorities in the United Arab Emirates said Friday. U.K. media reported this week that Matthew Croucher, who won one of Britain’s highest bravery honors for his service in Afghanistan, had been arrested […]
During excavations in the United Arab Emirates, archaeologists uncovered the remains of several ancient settlements, shedding light on the early history of the region. The discoveries were made on Al Sinniyah Island, a tourist hotspot about 42 miles northeast of Dubai, according to a May 6 news release from the country’s Department of Tourism and […]
Saudi Arabia is planning to build the world’s longest infinity pool in Neom’s Treyam region. If completed, the pool would be 1,500 feet long and suspended 220 feet above the sea. The plans dwarf Dubai’s 393-foot-long infinity pool that’s suspended between twin skyscrapers. Saudi Arabia is planning a spectacular infinity pool that will be almost 1,500 feet […]
Social media users are sharing a video of a truck speeding through Dubai while enveloped in clouds alongside claims that weather modification programs triggered the deadly floods that hit the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in April 2024. But the clip was created using visual effects, its creator told AFP — and scientists say cloud seeding […]
Emirates was forced to cancel and delay several flights in and out of Dubai, the second-busiest international airport in the world, while people and students were instructed to work and study from home, as heavy rains returned to the United Arab Emirates on Thursday. The storm comes just two weeks after record-setting rainfall triggered damaging […]
As the Dubai skyline bristles with high-rise residences, Mira villas designed by Bentley Home presents a unique alternative with the launch of a fully furnished ultra-luxe villa community that offers both easy access to the heart of the city and serene natural beauty. The exclusive gated enclave includes 36 modernist villas, a private lagoon, a […]
As heavy floods drenched Dubai in April 2024, a video of fish squirming about on a supermarket floor surfaced in Facebook posts that falsely claimed it showed an incident in the Middle East financial centre. The footage was in fact filmed years earlier in Georgia. It circulated in news reports from February 2018 about fish […]
Dubai International Airport, the world’s busiest for international travel, will move its operations to the city-state’s second, sprawling airfield in its southern desert reaches “within the next 10 years” in a project worth nearly $35 billion, its ruler said Sunday. Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum’s announcement marks the latest chapter in the rebound of […]
Circumstantial evidence points to climate change as worsening the deadly deluge that just flooded Dubai and other parts of the Persian Gulf, but scientists didn’t discover the definitive fingerprints of greenhouse gas-triggered warming they have seen in other extreme weather events, a new report found. Between 10% and 40% more rain fell in just one […]
Unprecedented, torrential rainfall plunged parts of the United Arab Emirates underwater last week, bringing life to a standstill in Dubai and elsewhere. The flooding that resulted from the UAE’s largest deluge on record was so intense that satellites were still able to see it from space days after the clouds cleared and the last drops […]