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Morocco to Welcome Solar Impulse Pilots Tonight
We would give anything to be in Rabat as the world’s first solar-powered transcontinental flight comes to an end at roughly 11pm local time. Despite...
Grim Greenhouse Gas Milestone Dims Hope for Less Climate Change
Monitoring stations all over the arctic are reading greenhouse gas concentrations of 400 parts per million – a grim new milestone that dims hope of...
Dubai’s ‘Sustainable City’ to Include Horse Transportation
Not to be outdone by Masdar City in Abu Dhabi, Dubai will soon begin construction on its own ‘sustainable city,’ where green transportation options include...
Briton Replaces Gulf Developer’s Costly Cooling with Solar
Residents of the artificial Jumeirah Island villas in Dubai face cooling bills of up to $1,600 a month – almost double last year’s price, according...
Mesopolis in Tehran: Re-Thinking Daily Floods of Wasted Water
It may surprise many Iranians living in the country’s dense and sprawling desert capital to know that millions of cubic liters of water are wasted...
Culture Minister’s Daughter Arrested in Connection with Qatar’s Fire
Qatar’s Culture Minister’s daughter is among five people who have been arrested in connection with the fire that swept through Doha’s elite Villaggio Mall on...
The Rock Stadium Rises from the Desert in Sharp Planes
If you’ve ever had the experience of driving through a vast, mostly uncluttered landscape that is suddenly interrupted by a large, ill-fitting manmade structure, then...
Bauhaus Design Goes Underground in Tel Aviv
Galmidi Yitzhar and the industrial designer Yaksein Eliran won first place in a design competition for a new underground train station in one of Israel’s...
Qatar Mall Owner Faces Arrest for Deadly Fire
Authorities have issued arrest orders following Monday’s fire that engulfed Doha’s Villaggio Mall, killing 19 people. The owner of the mall and a handful of...
Qatar Fire: Expatriates Furious Over Officials’ Lackadaisical Attitude
Ten minutes after a fire broke out in Doha’s Villaggio Mall yesterday, an expatriate and Doha News reader Paula Rodrigues Duarte claimed that officials failed to...
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