World of opportunity as Dubai development takes shape

GOD made the world in six days and on the seventh he rested. Big mistake.

He should have been at his lawyers patenting his creation. The oversight has cost him lucrative copyright fees from ruler of Dubai, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, who, not content with filling the Arab state with superscrapers, ship-shaped hotels and marinas modelled on palm fronds, has gone further and recreated the world.

The elaborate development, not surprisingly called The World, consists of 300 artificial islands built off the Dubai coast and arranged in clusters to look like a map of the world.