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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 ...
Marina could cost about £10m according to the president of the States Trading Supervisory Board (STSB). STSB has approached ...
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 ...
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.
The QE2, which was launched 50 years ago, was a British "style icon" that became one of the most famous liners in the world - but it also marked the end of generations of large passenger ships ...
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 ...
When you check in your bags at Waterloo Station, they go straight to the Southampton docks and onboard the QE2 and eventually to your stateroom. The boarding facilities in Southampton are very ...
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 ...
QE2, the Federal Reserve’s program to buy an additional $600 billion of Treasuries (along with an estimated $200 to $300 billion in re-investment of maturing securities), should be far more ...
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 ...