Dubai now boasts world’s tallest building

BURJ Dubai, the world’s tallest building since July, has become the world’s tallest free-standing structure, reaching 1,822 feet, the developers said.

The Dubai Tower’s final height is a closely guarded secret, but its completion is expected by the end of 2008.

The building’s climb is one example of Dubai’s stratospheric rise from a sleepy desert town to one of the principal business centres in the Middle East.