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UAE Opens Biggest Solar Power Station In The World

The Shams Power Company opened its Shams 1 concentrated solar power station this week in Abu Dhabi. The station generates 100MW, and it can power 20,000 homes while reducing CO2 emissions by 160,000 tonnes per year.


Skydiving, Like Everything Else, Is Even Crazier In Dubai

Dubai is full of unbelievable things, like the tallest building in the world and a shopping centre with a ski slope. It’s pretty awesome, but you know what makes it even better? Skydiving over it.


11 Years Of Dubai’s Growth Seen From Space

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.


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

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.


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

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.


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

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.


A Museum With Wings

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.


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

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.


RIM And UAE Shake Hands, Avoid Banning Of BlackBerry Services

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!


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

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.