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25 May 2013 Updated at 6:06 PM UAE
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New TV show strips back Dubai

Thursday, 9 May 2013 10:37 AM

A new TV show by the Discovery Channel entitled Strip the City will look at how the metropolis of Dubai was built, despite challenges from the heat, desert and limited shoreline

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World's second ugliest building turned into luxury hotel

Tuesday, 16 April 2013 11:06 AM

An old communist TV tower in Prague, which was voted the world's second ugliest building, has been transformed into a five-star one-room hotel

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Chinese take top travel spend spot

Tuesday, 9 April 2013 11:41 AM

Chinese tourists have overtaken Germans as the world's biggest-spending travellers according to a UN report

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Freerunner Ryan Doyle's guide to Dubai

Friday, 11 January 2013 8:36 PM

Parkour enthusiast takes to the rooftops of part of emirate to show off his athletic skills

Travel & Hospitality»

Salvaging of Costa Concordia contiues months later

Monday, 15 October 2012 10:45 AM

Nine months after the Costa Concordia struck rocks, workers in Giglio, Italy continue in efforts to salvage the luxury cruise liner

Travel & Hospitality»

Demolition of the Metropolitan Hotel Dubai

Monday, 21 May 2012 4:47 PM

The demolition of the Metropolitan Hotel Sheikh Zayed Road in April 2012. Al Habtoor Group's Metropolitan Hotel closed its doors after 33 years of operation to make way for the biggest hotel complex in the UAE which will include 3 luxurious hotels with over 1,600 rooms and suites and will cost AED 4.875 Billion (USD$ 1.33Billion) on Sheikh Zayed Road, Dubai, UAE.

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Thriving India lures its expats back

Sunday, 22 April 2012 11:51 AM

Indian professionals from IT to banking, who once saw the US and Europe as having a future to invest in, are now being lured back to India

Travel & Hospitality»

Leaked cruise audio tape reveals captain fled sinking ship

Wednesday, 18 January 2012 12:52 PM

Dramatic exchange hears coastguard order captain to return to ship to oversee evacuation

Travel & Hospitality»

Video shows panicked evacuation from stricken cruise liner

Tuesday, 17 January 2012 1:09 PM

Anxious crowds wait for life rafts as mega-ship Costa Concordia starts to sink off Italian coast

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British passengers tell of panicked escape from stricken cruiser

Monday, 16 January 2012 1:12 PM

The couple had boarded the Costa Concordia just hours before it ran aground off the coast of Italy

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Tunisia tourism at risk as Arab Spring scares away travellers

Monday, 16 January 2012 1:11 PM

Arab nation has lost half of its European tourists, threatening jobs of hundreds of hotel employees

Travel & Hospitality»

Cruise ship survivors blast crew for acting too slowly in sinking

Sunday, 15 January 2012 1:14 PM

Passengers caught in fatal sinking say crew of Italian liner failed to give instructions for evacuating

Travel & Hospitality»

Israeli travel firm markets West Bank as tourist hotspot

Monday, 2 January 2012 11:56 AM

Company is using Israeli and Palestinian guides to show tourists both sides of the land

Culture & Society»

French firm mulls turning Eiffel Tower into giant tree

Monday, 5 December 2011 1:04 PM

Controversial plans would see Parisian landmark covered with a mantle of 600,000 plants

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Chinese skyscraper hotel rivals Dubai for gold-plated luxury

Wednesday, 19 October 2011 11:32 AM

The 328m Longxi International hotel features a revolving rooftop and an ox statue made of gold


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