A residential skyscraper in Dubai has caught fire in the densely-populated Marina district, sending plumes of smoke into the air and pieces of the building's facade tumbling below.

Fire has broken out in a residential building near Dubai’s massive New Year’s Eve fireworks display.

Equipment which Irish-based firefighters can only dream of using is becoming a reality in mega-rich Dubai, with emergency crews in the Persian Gulf city are to be equipped with jetpacks.

Sixty years ago today, if Swede Hans Jeppson wanted to toast the appearance of his name in the first Guinness Book of Records using the most expensive bottle of wine commercially available, he would have had to spend a staggering £8 on a 1949 Feinste Trockenbeeren Auslese, a white wine from the Rhine Valley.

ENGLAND: Britain’s prime minister has been serenaded by a man with a ukulele who sang that he should "fuck off back to Eton".

An eagle has flown from the world’s tallest building, the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, with a tiny camera mounted on its back and the result is beautiful.

The Eiffel Tower in Paris is the most popular spot in the world to take a selfie, according to new statistics.

A climbing system inspired by geckos has turned spider man fiction into fact by making it possible for a human to scale vertical glass.

Larry Summers and Lant Pritchett have written a paper predicting a Chinese growth slowdown. In 2013, Barry Eichengreen, Donghyun Park, and Kwanho Shin wrote a paper with much the same message, which accurately predicted the recent Chinese slowdown from about 10% annual growth to about 7.5%.

The Crown Prince of Dubai climbed to the top of the Burj Khalifa with the impressive moon in the background.

The president of the United Arab Emirates has suffered a stroke and undergone surgery, according to the country’s state news agency.

Dubai shattered the world record for the largest ever pyrotechnic display on New Year’s Eve with a show involving more than half a million fireworks, Guinness World Records said yesterday.

Just when you think you have seen it all you get a leprechaun, in Dubai and an Eagles cover.

Iran's state television claims at least 40 people have been killed after a 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck near the country's border with Pakistan.

A major earthquake has struck near the Iran-Pakistan border, less than a week after one in Iran killed at least 37 people.

Dubai’s ruler announced plans for a development boasting the world’s biggest shopping mall and gardens larger than London’s Hyde Park, as the emirate revives property projects on hold since the global financial crisis.

Cruising sceptic Diane McDermott spent a week around Dubai and its environs, taking in dubious marketplaces, majestic building, and the Brilliance of the Seas.

The world’s tallest tower and Tokyo’s biggest new landmark, the Tokyo Sky Tree, has opened to the public.

Jeremy Renner was “terrified” doing stunts for ‘Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol’.

A MAN threw himself off the world’s tallest building in Dubai, its developer said, plummeting to his death in the first suicide from Burj Khalifa tower.

A French man has climbed the world's tallest building.

A TINY speck more than half a mile in the air, a French skyscraper climber has successfully scaled the world’s tallest building, even navigating the tapered spire that extends beyond the top floors of the Dubai structure.

Dazzling fireworks lit up Australia’s Sydney Harbour, communist Vietnam held a rare, Western-style countdown to the new year, and Japanese revellers released balloons carrying notes with people’s hopes and dreams as the world ushered in 2011.

A BRITISH woman was arrested and charged with indecency after walking through a Dubai shopping mall wearing a bikini, it was reported today.

The observation deck of the Burj Khalifa – the world’s tallest tower – has been unexpectedly shut down, little more than a month after it opened.

Dubai today opened the world’s tallest skyscraper, hoping to shift international attention away from its deep financial crisis and rekindle the optimism that once fuelled its turbocharged growth.