Photo of Nad Al Sheba Racecourse - Dubai Racing Club in Dubai

2008-12-01 18:10:34 - Hard Rock Hotel San Diego Invites Guests to Ring in 2009 with Room Packages Including Tickets to the City's Hottest New Year's Eve Bash The countdown is about to begin and there's no telling what surprises 2009 will bring. To ...

QE2 left its home port of Southampton for the last time earlier this month on a final two-week cruise following four decades of service. As it docked in Dubai passengers waved from the decks and some hung banners and flags from the side of the ship ...

A British woman who avoided a jail term after being convicted of having sex on a Dubai beach said the ruling "proves our innocence". Michelle Palmer, 36, of Oakham, Rutland, was speaking after a judge quashed their three-month sentences. Along with ...

The sport of Ultimate Fighting has become more popular than boxing in the United States. Now the controversial spectacle, which has projected sales of around $250 million (€200 million) this year, is about to go global. There are still two hours ...

MGM Mirage Inc. said Wednesday that its outgoing chairman and chief executive is withdrawing from its board, severing all formal ties with the casino operator he led for 13-plus years as he faces increased scrutiny over whether he misrepresented his ...

DUBAI - After the infamous Nigerian email lottery scams, some residents of the UAE say they have received similar ‘get-rich-quick’ messages on their cell phones. The messages, sent from international numbers, announce lottery wins and return ...

Half a dozen Democratic state lawmakers -- all of them from districts with large rural areas -- today called on the state's attorney general to weigh in on whether a city can ban otherwise-legal firearms from city property. Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels ...

On the Emirates flight to Dubai, a city that many Indians know well but which I hardly know at all. Somehow, I’ve never had a reason to go there and oddly enough, nor have I felt anything more than marginal curiosity about it. But this time is ...

An Emirates' Airbus A380 superjumbo flew overhead and a flotilla of small craft accompanied the 70,000-tonne Cunard vessel as she reached port in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. Some passengers on the sold-out journey hung banners from the side of ...

A name emerges, blinking, out of the mists. It is the Chicago Rib Shack on Knightsbridge, created by Bob Payton, the late entrepreneur. This has been through a set of ownership changes almost impossible to comprehend, having once even been owned by ...