Eleven things you don’t realise about Dubai until you’ve lived there - IN FOCUS: This was the year when everyone seemed to move to the UAE, or wanted to move there. As Rio Ferdinand and Luisa Zissman joined the high-profile exodus,

A rendering of the new $35 billion passenger terminal at Al Maktoum International airport. A few short decades ago, Dubai was ‘a dot in the desert.’ Now a city of more than three million people, most of whom are expatriates, its growth trajectory is ...

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His Highness Mohammed Bin Zayed is the 3rd president of the United Arab Emirates; he was elected on Saturday, 14 May 2022, a day after the death of former leader Sheikh Khalifa. Learn more about UAE’s latest president in the following article. High ...

Tahnoun bin Zayed al Nahyan—the UAE’s chess-obsessed, jiujitsu-loving intelligence chief—controls vast sums of sovereign wealth. America’s AI giants are scrambling for a piece of it. At a time when chess was still the main gladiatorial arena for ...

Unrelenting construction, progress and growth of the UAE megacity has led to a vibrant EDM club and music scene that didn't exist just three years ago

As excited as I was to be traveling to Dubai, which is one of seven Arab Emirates, I nonetheless had some preconceived notions about it. Most notably, I envisioned a destination that was simply akin to Las Vegas on steroids. Although comparisons to Vegas ...

The United Arab Emirates is planning to advance its processes for creating and updating laws using artificial intelligence, the first of its kind move towards AI-driven regulation. The country will establish a Regulatory Intelligence Office, which will ...