Shrugging off the global financial crisis, Dubai overnight toasted a new luxury hotel with a 20 million dollar bash attended by film stars and sporting greats and marked by a spectacular fireworks display.
More than 2,000 …

Call it what you will the opening of The Atlantis Dubai certainly did one thing put Dubai on the map, not that it wasn’t already there.
The highlight of all this was the fireworks display which …

The biggest party in Dubai is over , the invited guests are probably stone cold drunk or partying the night away as I write this, one just hopes there is no new sex on the …

For a man who escaped unpromising origins by seizing opportunity in the desert, Sol Kerzner was perhaps destined to turn up in Dubai.

Sol Kerzner invested Dh2.2 billion (US600 million) in the 1, 600 room-Atlantis, The …

The world’s most lavish hotel has been condemned by environmentalists for shipping dolphins from the South Pacific to the Middle East to stock a marine attraction.The £950 million Atlantis hotel, which officially opens on Thursday, …

Pressure is growing on Dubai’s newest and largest hotel resort to free a whale shark from its aquarium.
The Atlantis Hotel, on the iconic Palm Jumeirah island, originally said it had “rescued” the animal, which is …

Environmentalists on Thursday called on the managers of a massive new marine-themed resort in this Gulf boomtown to release a whale shark they are holding inside a giant fish tank.
The 13-foot long female whale shark wandered …