Britain's Andy Murray crushed top seed Novak Djokovic 6-2 7-5 at the Dubai Championships semi-finals on Friday, avenging his five-set defeat at the Australian Open semis in January.
Emirates Airlines announced an order Sunday at the Dubai Airshow for 50 Boeing 777-300 ERs, in addition to a previous order for 20. The combined order is the largest dollar-value order in Boeing's history.
Legendary former Argentinean playmaker Diego Maradona has been named coach of Dubaï's Al-Wasl, a statement from the club announced Monday. The 50-year-old ex-manager of Argentina, who was fired in 2010, signed a two-year contract.
Mubarak has gone, but Egyptian protesters stand their ground - crowds in Tahrir Square call for justice, and an end to a military crackdown on their freedom to rally. And 50 years after Adolf Eichmann's trial, we look at a new exhibition teaching young Israelis to remember the Holocaust mastermind.
French skyscraper climber Alain Robert, known as the “French Spiderman”, scaled Dubai’s 800 metre Burj Khalifa tower Monday. It took the 48-year-old daredevil six hours to conquer what became the world’s tallest building in 2010.
Lebanon has a new prime minister but the political crisis is by no means over. Najib Mikati will have the tough task of forming a government in a very tense climate.
They have out-leaked Wikileaks: the Palestine Papers make for some shock revelations.
And our correspondent reports from Karbala, where the annual Shiite pilgrimage is underway, under very tight security.
A US-bound air parcel intercepted in Dubai carried hallmarks of the al Qaeda terror network, police in the Gulf emirate said on Saturday. The discovery, along with another parcel in the UK, has sparked a US search for more dangerous packages.
Dubai's police chief says he received death threats from the Israeli spy agency Mossad linked to his investigation into the January assassination of a senior Hamas leader, media reports said Thursday.
