Read more Dubai stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/4140/dubai.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 11:58:00 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/72124/dubais-new-metro-a-surprise-social-leveler.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagIt may or may not alleviate massive traffic jams of Mercedes and Hummers, but Dubai's new metro system is definitely loosening up the Emirate's rigidly stratified society. “No velvet rope or electrified security gate to keep out the masses,” Tom Hundley writes. “Privileged Emiratis suddenly find themselves in the unfamiliar...http://www.newser.com/story/72124/dubais-new-metro-a-surprise-social-leveler.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 20 Oct 2009 11:24:56 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/68998/dubai-unveils-gulfs-first-metro.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagDubai yesterday opened its gleaming new $7.6 billion metro rail system, the first on the Arabian peninsula, AP reports. The sheikhdom's leaders hope the system will help clear Dubai's chronically traffic-clogged streets and provide some good press for the downturn-battered emirate. Each 5-car train on the driverless system has...http://www.newser.com/story/68998/dubai-unveils-gulfs-first-metro.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 10 Sep 2009 1:26:49 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/61463/young-brit-jailed-in-uae-for-alleged-fling-with-boss.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA young British dive instructor accused of having sex with her boss has been jailed for three months in the United Arab Emirates, the Telegraph reports. Authorities in Sharjah, the conservative emirate north of Dubai, arrested the 22-year-old woman after a raid on the dive shop where she worked. She...http://www.newser.com/story/61463/young-brit-jailed-in-uae-for-alleged-fling-with-boss.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 10 Jun 2009 4:49:05 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/60120/uk-woman-faces-jail-for-adultery-in-uae.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA British woman's cheating heart might land her in the Dubai clink after her husband told on her, the Times of London reports. Adultery is illegal in the United Arab Emirates, where Sally Antia, 43, and her husband have lived for a decade. Antia confessed in a Dubai court and...http://www.newser.com/story/60120/uk-woman-faces-jail-for-adultery-in-uae.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 26 May 2009 11:29:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/59715/mogul-who-paid-for-exs-murder-faces-execution.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagAn Egyptian tycoon and the ex-cop he hired to kill his Lebanese pop singer ex-girlfriend have been sentenced to death by hanging, the BBC reports. The trial of billionaire Hisham Talaat Moustafa, an associate of president Hosni Mubarak's son Gamal, has gripped the Arab world. Although Suzanne Tamim was murdered...http://www.newser.com/story/59715/mogul-who-paid-for-exs-murder-faces-execution.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 21 May 2009 9:25:06 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/58102/rihanna-hits-red-carpet-nixes-concert.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagRihanna hit the red carpet last night for the first time since her alleged beating by Chris Brown, the AP reports. The singer, clad in a tuxedo, attended the Metropolitan Museum’s annual costume gala. Also yesterday, a comeback concert in Dubai—scheduled for May 28, the day of Brown’s next...http://www.newser.com/story/58102/rihanna-hits-red-carpet-nixes-concert.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 05 May 2009 11:40:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/55751/downturn-lays-bare-dubais-dark-side.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagDubai's "Disneyland for grownups" is becoming a more sinister ride as the emirate's boom times end. Countless grand building projects lie half-finished in the sand while indentured building workers from abroad unable to leave languish in work camps, Johann Hari writes in the Independent. He sees Dubai as a metaphor...http://www.newser.com/story/55751/downturn-lays-bare-dubais-dark-side.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 09 Apr 2009 9:09:33 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/54538/giant-vegas-project-may-file-for-bankruptcy.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagCity Center, the sprawling $8.6 billion Las Vegas development and the largest private construction project in history, will likely fail to make a $220 million debt payment today and may file for bankruptcy. The project is a collaboration between Kirk Kerkorian's MGM Mirage and Dubai World, a conglomerate owed...http://www.newser.com/story/54538/giant-vegas-project-may-file-for-bankruptcy.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 27 Mar 2009 7:33:24 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/53417/clinton-turns-back-on-burkle-20m.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagBill Clinton has called it quits with Ron Burkle's Yucaipa Cos, walking away from a payment once estimated at up to $20 million, the Wall Street Journal reports. Clinton began distancing himself from Yucaipa in 2007 as Hillary Clinton’s run for the White House heated up, and continued to do...http://www.newser.com/story/53417/clinton-turns-back-on-burkle-20m.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 16 Mar 2009 9:05:45 CDT