Nightmare ordeal: Alicia Gali is warning other women to be cautious overseas. A Queensland woman spent eight months in a United Arab Emirates jail for adultery after complaining to police about being drugged and raped by co-workers. Alicia Gali, 29, yesterday detailed her harrowing ordeal after filing a Queensland lawsuit against the five-star international resort where the attack allegedly took place... 

The United States-dominated defense sales in the Persian Gulf in 2005-09 and delivered 54 percent of the Middle East’s military hardware, including advanced systems that had been denied Arab states because of Israeli objections, analysts say. The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, which monitors global arms sales, said in a recent study that the United Arab Emirates was the largest... 

There’s a half-off sale in the world’s tallest building. Even with an address at the iconic Burj Khalifa, rents for residences in the tower are not immune from Dubai’s real estate crash. Indeed, nearly a year after it was inaugurated with a massive water-and-fireworks display, about 825 of the tower’s 900 ultra-luxury apartments remain unoccupied, according to Better Homes,... 

Emirati officials have declared BlackBerry smartphones a potential threat to national security because users’ data is stored overseas, where local laws don’t apply and where analysts say it could be harder for authorities to monitor. The move renews concerns about efforts by the United Arab Emirates to control the flow of information in the Gulf nation, which includes the business hub... 

The Emirates Airlines plane on which Faisal Shahzad was arrested seen on the tarmac at JFK International Airport in New York, May 4, 2011. Pakistani-born U.S. citizen was hauled off a plane about to fly to the Middle East and arrested in the failed attempt to explode a bomb-laden SUV in Times Square, authorities said Tuesday. One official said he claimed to have acted alone. Faisal Shahzad was on board... 

Stranded: Charlotte Adams is unable to leave Dubai. She denies 'passionately kissing' a British man in public The British woman at the centre of the Dubai kissing case protested her innocence yesterday and claimed that she had ‘been caught up in a huge misunderstanding’. Charlotte Adams, 25, was on holiday there when she was spotted kissing Arab man Ayman Najafi, a 24-year-old British... 

Hamas chief: Mahmoud Al-Mabhouh poses in military garb with his rifle The use of fake passports will be condemned by European Union foreign ministers today, in a move designed to censure Israel over the assassination of a Palestinian militant in Dubai. Diplomatic sources said the statement from officials, meeting in Brussels was intended to show disapproval at the killing Hamas commander Mahmoud al-Mabhouh... 

An Israeli minister tonight insisted the assassination of a high-ranking member of Hamas should not be considered as murder. Yuli Edelstein, speaking on a visit to the House of Commons, said no-one should become ‘overly emotional’ about the killing of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, which has been widely blamed on the Israeli secret service, Mossad. His remarks came as it emerged that two more counterfeit... 

* Agent claims MI5 and Foreign Office were tipped off * David Miliband vows to ‘get to the bottom’ of affair * Gordon Brown promises an inquiry into identity theft * Dubai police chief calls for arrest of Mossad head * Hamas promises retaliation against Israel MI6 was tipped off that Israeli agents were going to carry out an ‘overseas operation’ using fake British passports,... 

The United Arab Emirates is considering the introduction of quotas to restrict the flow of non-Arab immigrants allowed to work in the country. According to the pan-Arab daily, Al-Sharq al-Aswat, the government does not want to limit the entrance for workers from specific countries. But it wants greater control over immigration since 80 percent of the national foreign work force is of Asian origin. For...