A desperate plea from Dubai’s Princess Latifa, who claims her father, Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al-Maktoum, drugged her and held her hostage, has the world wondering what has happened to her and has renewed a global push for answers.

ONE of the world’s tallest residential buildings is engulfed in flames in Dubai.

IN JUST three decades’ time the human race could survive on drinking water produced by gigantic bio-engineered jellyfish “factories”.

AN Emirati national has been killed in a road accident, just 10 minutes after surviving another.

ON THE surface it’s a city lacking soul, a monotonous mashup of money and incongruities.