A court in Dubai on Tuesday sentenced a Frenchman to life in prison following his conviction for drug trafficking, Emirati media reported.
Share prices in the Gulf states fell sharply as oil dived to an 11-year low and China triggered a global markets rout.
A newspaper photographer who was on a 48th floor of the 63-storey Address Downtown hotel on New Year’s Eve in Dubai to take pictures of the fireworks when the fire erupted said he had spent a harrowing 30 minutes standing on a ledge outside the building, only metres from the raging blaze.
A blaze that engulfed a Dubai skyscraper on New Year's Eve has raised fresh questions about the safety of materials used on the exteriors of tall buildings across the region.
Firefighters appeared to have mostly extinguished a blaze that suddenly engulfed one of Dubai's most prominent skyscrapers on New Year's Eve, witnesses said.
Dubai's Emirates airlines carried 51.3mn passengers in 2015, up 9% from last year, the company said.
Dubai plans to raise spending by 12% next year, balancing that out with identical growth in revenue, on a budget of 46.1bn dirhams ($12.6bn), the government said on Sunday
