Residents awoke on Thursday morning with scattered showers, heavy traffic jams across UAE Dubai: The unstable weather is expected to continue over the weekend, with national forecasters also predicting a dip in temperatures. Residents in Sharjah, Dubai, Ras Al Khaimah and Umm Al...

The pressure on Abu Dhabi’s residential rentals could continue as about 4,000 new homes are delivered this year, with 1,600 of them on Reem Island alone. Abu Dhabi’s property market is caught in a situation where rents have seen declines in 2016 despite limited new handovers having taken place...

Dubai: From next month (March, 2017) onwards, all of Dubai's property lease contracts will have a unified structure, according to the Land Department. The "Unified Lease Form" is designed to "regulate relationships between all parties involved in such transactions and guarantees the rights of...

ABU DHABI // More than a kilometre of the capital’s Corniche will be reserved for the return of the Mother of the National Festival next month. The festival, which is in its second year, will take place over 10 days from Sunday, March 26. It will feature interactive programmes,...

The police raided the house when the suspect was about to leave for the airport. In an operation named 'Backpacker', the Dubai Police arrested a GCC national who was visiting the UAE for possession of narcotic substances and the promotion and abuse of drugs. Over 202kg of narcotic...

The gang used social media to sell drugs that caused abortion. The Ras Al Khaimah police have arrested a gang named Demons of Death in the emirate. The gang specialised in selling abortion-inducing drugs via social media, Brigadier Abdullah Ali Goad, director of Criminal Investigation...

State-backed property developer Nakheel has begun work on an 850 million dirham ($231.4 million) 55-storey residential tower at Ibn Battuta Mall in Dubai. With a built-up area of 675,000 square feet, Ibn Battuta Residences 2 will have 279 apartments, a 16-screen cinema complex, a...

The emirate of Abu Dhabi is in no rush to issue an international bond this year after completing a non-deal roadshow for investors in Asia, and may not issue at all this year, sources close to the matter said on Wednesday. Government representatives met Asian fixed income investors at the end...

DUBAI // The Roads and Transport Authority has signed an agreement with Tesla to buy 200 electric-powered cars. The vehicles will be Model S sedans and Model X SUVs to be added to Dubai Taxi Corporation’s fleet of limousines. The cars are equipped with a "semi-autonomous" autopilot...

Lego lovers will be excited to hear that Dubai is set to have its very own Legoland Hotel — the first in the Middle East. The hotel, a collaboration between Dubai-based leisure and entertainment company DXB Entertainments PJSC and Merlin Entertainments Group, will be the seventh Legoland...