Incident occurred at 1.13pm; civil defence on the scene A wooden dhow is on fire at Marsa Al Khor area in Deira, with civil defence authorities on the scene battling the blaze. Eye witnesses reported a black plume visible as far as Business Bay, while Civil Defence has confirmed the...

Dubai: The rapid emergence of holiday homes — with transactions made over an app — in Dubai will start to have consequences for hotel properties at both end of the pricing spectrum, according to a new update from Knight Frank. More so, as these holiday homes are starting to rope in...

Egypt’s Arab Contractors has signed on Thursday an AED 55 million (133 million Egyptian pounds and $15 million) contract with UAE-based Al Ghurair Properties to develop two hotel buildings in downtown Dubai. The contract involves the first phase of a larger project in the UAE worth AED 600...

DUBAI, Oct 10 (Reuters) - Dubai-listed construction and engineering company Drake & Scull International (DSI) , hit by tough conditions in the regional building industry, said on Monday it had appointed Wael Allan as its new chief executive, replacing Khaldoun Tabari. Low oil prices are...

The average ticket price for properties in Dubai may be coming down, but so is the space on offer inside many of them. Executives at Dubai South feted the launch of phase one of The Pulse on October 1, whose cheapest units were advertised at Dh280,000 – considerably lower than prices in...

Defendant stabbed victim in his neck with sharp glass shard following a group fight outside a night club. Dubai: A jobless man, who stabbed a clubber with a broken bottle following a group fight outside a nightclub, has been jailed for 15 years. The 31-year-old Pakistani man, S.M.,...

Fujairah: Fujairah Police have arrested one of their officers after he posted a video on social media that went viral. The video clip circulated on social media on Saturday showed the officer in official uniform and flaunting currency notes while driving. The clip also showed a...

Dubai is set to gain from the international success of the famous Madame Tussauds museums when the company behind the waxworks brand brings the attraction to the UAE. Merlin Entertainments, which will also manage the soon-to-open Legoland Dubai theme park under a contract with the owner...

The traffic patrols, ambulances, paramedics, and rescue teams were dispatched to the site in a record time, he added. A nine-year-old Emirati girl drowned after falling into a deep rain pond in the Shawkah district of Al Manei area. According to a senior police officer, her cousin was...

It also included the construction of a two-lane bridge stretching 1,000 metres as a main exit on the Shaikh Zayed Road from Dubai Parks in the direction of Abu Dhabi. The Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) has completed the Dubai Parks & Resorts bridges project in cooperation with...