‘It was the most terrifying experience of my life’ Love Island star Kaz Crossley has spoken out about her “terrifying experience” in a Dubai jail after a video of her snorting a white substance led to her being arrested at Abu Dhabi airport. Crossley, who has since been released, has said she was locked up […]
3 years ago
It has not yet been revealed whether privately-owned companies will also follow suit in the UAE The United Arab Emirates is changing the schedules of all federal employees so that they only work four and a half days a week. In a bid to “boost productivity and improve work-life balance,” the UAE is completely reshuffling […]
4 years ago
The Catalan club could be pulled out of the mire by foreign investment Barcelona have apparently received an offer of approximately €1.5 billion (£1.2bn) from a Dubai based company which would help them clear their humungous debts. As reported in the Mirror, the Spanish giants were made an offer to refinance their debts from an […]
4 years ago
Dubai doesn’t have natural rain, so they made some Already, after only a week of blistering sun, the UK has had enough. Besides a few utterly sociopathic people who enjoy this weather, the rest of us want to be permanently glued to a beer garden with a glass of Pimms in hand. But in places […]
4 years ago
AFC Asian Cup hosts UAE were convincingly beaten by Qatar Qatar reached the final of the AFC Asian Cup on Tuesday by defeating host nation the United Arab Emirates 4-0 in the semi-final. Goals from Boualem Khoukhi and Almoez Ali had given the Qatari’s a 2-0 lead by half-time, and when Hassan Al-Haydos scored a […]
7 years ago
British student Matthew Hedges has been sentenced to life in prison in the UAE, after being accused of spying The PHD student from Durham University was returning home from Dubai on May 5 when he was detained. Hedges was busy working on a thesis focusing on the security policies surrounding the Arab Spring in 2011, […]
7 years ago