Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates face off in the World Cup Qualifiers 2018 on Sunday. Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates face off in the World Cup Qualifiers 2018 on Tuesday.
Plumes of smoke were still visibly rising from a 63-story luxury hotel in Dubai Friday, after firefighters spent all night battling the New Year's blaze.
Enrique Iglesias has been announced as one of the performers for the Formula One After Race Concerts taking place on the weekend of November 27-29 in Abu Dhabi.
Bill and Hillary Clinton's nonprofit received hundreds of thousands of dollars from a Canadian government agency. Ottawa's Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development Department in 2014 donated between $250,000 and $500,000 to the Clinton Foundation in an apparent attempt to promote the embattled Keystone XL project.
An American woman who worked as a teacher in Abu Dhabi was stabbed to death at a shopping mall there. The incident occurred Monday afternoon in a public restroom, and the attacker was wearing a black robe and full-face veil, according to police. The shopping mall is located on Reem Island in the affluent United Arab emirate.
The UAE announced it will send a probe to Mars by 2021, 50 years after the combined emirates were formed into one country. The oil-rich country has the financial means to succeed, but speculation exists on a new space agency tackling Mars (before the moon) since veteran programs have struggled in the past.
Rihanna, who has crooned about falling in love "in a hopeless place," was recently kicked out of a place of hope, a mosque, for turning the place of worship into a set for her own photo shoot. The Abu Dhabi's Grand Mosque asked the pop star to leave after she posed for photographs in the compound's sanctuary.
A Norwegian woman jailed in Dubai after being raped has been pardoned, after an international outcry over her treatment by authorities in the conservative Muslim city.
