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A diverse selection of musical events is scheduled across Abu Dhabi and Dubai for Eid Al Adha. According to the UAE's ...
18 June 2007Cunard Line today announced the sale of QE2 to Dubai World, in a US$100 million deal which will turn this iconic liner into a first-class tourism destination at The Palm Jumeirah in ...
Marina could cost about £10m according to the president of the States Trading Supervisory Board (STSB). STSB has approached ...
The QE2, grande dame of the Cunard fleet, will be retired to Dubai at the end of this year. Gavin Bell, who joined one of her final voyages around Britain, reflects on what we stand to lose.
ABOARD THE QE2 IN DUBAI — A long and elegant era ended with a bang Wednesday as the world’s last true ocean liner sailed into history, though not obscurity. This Persian Gulf playground pulled ...
With the end of June in sight, so too is the end of the latest round of focused quantitative easing from the U.S. Federal Reserve commonly called "QE 2." Assuming that the program ends as planned ...
Farewell to all that: the QE2 leaves English waters on her way to Dubai, where the vessel will be converted into a luxury floating hotel Credit: Photo: GETTY IMAGES Yesterday evening, thousands of ...
Researchers obtained a series of radar images of the approaching asteroid 1998 QE2 late Wednesday using the Deep Space Network antenna at Goldstone, Calif. Images captured over the course of two ...
This sparked the idea to launch QE2. For people who are legally subjects of Her Britannic Majesty, the abbreviation QE2 is understood as shorthand for Queen Elizabeth the Second, the current ...
Cunard, the QE2's British parent company, is owned by the American cruise giant Carnival Corp. But Capt. Ian McNaught says, "We're not a cruise ship. We're a passenger liner." Touches of luxury ...
Claim: The ocean liner QE2 uses a gallon of fuel for every six inches she travels. Figures like those are difficult for many of us to appreciate in the abstract, so we often come up with shortcuts ...