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Dubai flooding: Dramatic photos after UAE sees heaviest rainfall in 75 years. Yahoo News Photo Staff. April 18, 2024 at 6:40 AM. ... (Christopher Pike/Bloomberg via Getty Images) ...
Dubai is the capital city of the emirate of Dubai, one of seven emirates forming the United Arab Emirates. Dubai is the second largest city next to Abu Dhabi in UAE. The upper part of the image shows the center of the city, which developed along the west side of the Dubai Creek.
Dubai Frame was formerly known as "Al Berwaz Tower" [22] The project is a complete glass, transparent structure resembling a huge window frame intended to highlight the attractions of the city and has a view of the skyscrapers on Shaikh Zayed Road from one side — displaying modern Dubai — while the other side of the frame will show the old ...
The second-tallest building in Dubai is the 425-metre (1,394 ft) Marina 101, which also stands as the world's fourth tallest residential skyscraper. [3] The skyscrapers of Dubai are, for the most part, clustered in three different locations.
The structure of the Rose Rayhaan, also in Dubai, is 333 metres (1,093 ft) tall, [22] 12 m (39 ft) taller than the Burj Al Arab, which is 321 metres (1,053 ft) tall. [22] The Burj Al Arab’s helipad, located 210 meters above ground, has been the site of several high-profile events, including a tennis match between Roger Federer and Andre ...
Intercity bus service on the Dubai-Abu Dhabi, Dubai-Sharjah, and Dubai-Ajman routes were suspended. [31] A total of 1,244 flights at Dubai International Airport were cancelled over a two-day period with 41 others diverted. [32] [33] All Flydubai flights scheduled for departure on 16 April from Dubai were cancelled.
The museum is located on the 2nd level of The Dubai Mall facing Galeries Lafayette and is the largest digital art center in the Middle East, occupying a space of 2,700 square meters and equipped with 130 projectors, 58 speakers, and 3,000 high-definition images, all pieced together in a digital masterpiece. [36]
Dubai has a free trade in gold and, until the 1990s, was the hub of a "brisk smuggling trade" [59] of gold ingots to India, where gold import was restricted. Dubai's Jebel Ali port, constructed in the 1970s, has the largest human-made harbour in the world and was ranked seventh globally for the volume of container traffic it supports. [165]