Filed under: Auctions, Art Once the undisputed land of conspicuous wealth and consumption, the United Arab Emirates is being squeezed by a large drop in oil prices. It's a shame this comes after the region's addiction to art has become fully entrenched. Sotheby's is planning its first contemporary a...

Citigroup is in talks with the US Treasury about increasing government ownership of the troubled banking conglomerate....

Essex are so hard up that players have to pay £2000 each in a preseason warmup tournament in Abu Dhabi....

Filed under: Tuners, Convertibles, SUVs, Etc., HUMMER "Hello, Abu Dhabi? Yeah, this is Taste. I'm outta here." Well, you can't really blame Taste now can you? There's only so much abuse a sense can take, and the motorists of Abu Dhabi - the same gulf emirate that ordered up the gold-plated Rolls-Roy...

Daryl Visscher for The New York Times We have shown so many awful projects in Dubai and Abu Dhabi that it was hard to take projects like Masdar seriously; are they real or greenwashing? Now it appears that Lord Foster's Masdar is under construction and they are getting serious. Elisabeth Rosenthal q...

Filed under: Airlines A few years ago, Etihad Airways was an upstart. Sure, it has grown at least 40% each year since its 2003 birth, but that trend can't be sustained with the economy the way it is now. Right? The Abu Dhabi-based carrier is adding destinations to its roster rapidly. New routes incl...

Every ball sent down every run scored on this tour is a six in the face of those that caused Mumbai horrors....

Music has been chasing money ever since Bach bundled together six concertos in the hope of earning a few lunches from Christian Ludwig, the Margrave of Brandenburg. In the twenty-first century, as the credit crunch bites and funding dries up in Western countries, hardly a day passes without a story ...

Ten thousand camels will participate in what may be the most bizarre (and perhaps also best) beauty contest of them all. Held in the United Arab Emirates' Abu Dhabi, the contest "is one of the richest and biggest events of its kind, with more than $9m and 100 cars in prizes up for grabs." Camels fro...

Ten thousand camels will participate in what may be the most bizarre (and perhaps also best) beauty contest of them all. Held in the United Arab Emirates' Abu Dhabi, the contest "is one of the richest and biggest events of its kind, with more than $9m and 100 cars in prizes up for grabs." Camels fro...