Topic: Dubai
A resort hotel on one of Dubai's manmade islands said Thursday it has freed a whale shark whose captivity had been criticized by environmentalists. The Atlantis hotel on the city-state's Palm Jumeirah island said it released the 13-foot (4-meter) female shark into the Persian Gulf ...
A string of steamy text messages has resulted in a jail sentence for an Indian couple, local media announced Wednesday, in the latest case of passions clashing with the law in the cosmopolitan, yet occasionally conservative, Gulf city of Dubai. The conviction said the sexual content ...
Croatian veteran Ivan Ljubicic ousted a weary world number two Novak Djokovic 7-5, 6-3 to reach the quarter-finals of the Indian Wells Masters 1000. While third-seeded defending champion Rafael Nadal booked his quarter-final berth with a 7-5, 3-6, 6-3 triumph over big-serving American John Isner on Wednesday, Djokovic couldn't keep pace with the blistering serves and clean groundstrokes of ...
