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11 Years Of Dubai’s Growth Seen From Space

2:15PM January 25, 2012 | Jesus Diaz

We knew Dubai was growing uncontrollably, but this video demonstrates how absolutely crazy this growth has been. It covers 11 years, from 2000 to 2011. These sheiks and their real estate developers are completely nuts. More »

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How To Auto-Milk Cows In The Middle Of A Desert

2:20AM September 30, 2011 | Andrew Tarantola

The middle of the Saudi Desert isn’t really the first place you’d think of as the location for the world’s largest dairy farm but that’s exactly where Al Safi Farms produces 600,000 litres of milk a day. More »

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Billionaire Sheik Tags His Name So That It’s Visible From Space

5:35AM July 21, 2011 | Adrian Covert

An eccentric, or perhaps just egocentric, Shiek in Abu Dhabi has carved his name into the desert of an United Arab Emirates island he owns in giant 1000m letters. And it just happens to be visible from space. More »

News

Did A Sex Tape Force A Man To Spy On Al-Qaeda?

11:40AM April 27, 2011 | Casey Chan

In a new file released by WikiLeaks, Abd Al Rahim Abdul Raza Janko told interrogators at Guantanamo Bay that he was forced to spy on Al-Qaeda when he was blackmailed with a sex tape. More »

A Museum With Wings

2:00PM December 1, 2010 | Kyle VanHemert

Watch me figure the Zayed National Museum out: its metallic sails are obviously supposed to represent the wingtips of some enormous super-insect whose head happens to be burrowed underground while it’s taking a nap. More »

Cars

There Has To Be A Quicker Way To Get Around The UAE, Right?

3:40PM November 24, 2010 | Adrian Covert

I’m sure many are impressed by this UAE inventor who’s about to travel 320km across the desert in a solar-powered wheelchair. Me? Nah. When he straps a 1600km/h rocket on the back of that, then I’ll be impressed. More »

Mobile

RIM And UAE Shake Hands, Avoid Banning Of BlackBerry Services

7:00PM October 8, 2010 | Kat Hannaford

A couple of months of wrangling between the United Arab Emirates and RIM over the overseas storage of BlackBerry data have come to a close today, with a ban on email and BBM being lifted. Hear the joyous clicks of BBMs! More »

Mobile

Is Kuwait Next In Line To Ban BlackBerry Services In The Middle East?

1:30AM August 9, 2010 | Jack Loftus

Unlike Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait does not yet have a ban or looming ban in place for BlackBerry smartphones and associated services. But it could, as Kuwaiti officials have today expressed “moral and security” concerns about the devices. More »

Mobile

Hillary Clinton: Blackberry Bans Could Infringe On Rights

8:29AM August 6, 2010 | Kyle VanHemert

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton weighed in on the impending BlackBerry bans proposed by the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia, acknowledging the potential security risks of such devices but citing the “legitimate right of free use and access” to them as well. More »

Mobile

Bahrain’s Crown Prince Says BlackBerry Bans Are "Ignorant"

6:39AM August 6, 2010 | Brian Lam

Bahrainian Crown Prince Sheikh Salman Al-Khalifa chimes in on the BlackBerry bans set to happen tomorrow in Saudi Arabia and the UAE over worries of encryption. Via his Foreign Minister’s Twitter account, he’s quoted as calling the bans “Ignorant, short sighted and unenforceable.”