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  • Work starts on creation of new Dubai island Work starts on creation of new Dubai island

    Work began on Monday on the development of a man-made island in Dubai, 500 metres directly opposite the Jumeirah Beach Residence complex. To be known as Bluewaters Island, the new development will house five star hotels and resorts, al fresco dining and entertainment zones, and residential apartments and villas. The focal point of the island city, which will cost $1.6 billion, will be a 688 ...

  • Dubai must take steps to avoid another boom-bust cycle in property IMF official says

    Dubai should regulate the pace of its property market rebound to prevent another boom-bust scenario, a senior official at the International Monetary Fund said on Tuesday. Dubai's property market bubble burst spectacularly in late 2008, sending prices down as much as 60 per cent in some areas of the city, as the financial crisis sent the global economy into a tailspin. But since then, the ...

  • In pictures Dubai in top 10 fastest rising property markets in the world

    Number 4: Vehicles zip down Umm Amara Road with the night time Dubai skyline in the background. Prices in the emirate rose 18.3% from March 2012 to March 2013. Sarah Dea/The ...

  • Justin Bieber’s monkey to become German property

    Justin Bieber's pet Capuchin monkey ‘Mally' sits on the head of an employee in an animal shelter in Munich, Germany. AP BERLIN--Justin Bieber’s pet monkey is set to become the property of Germany. Mally the Monkey was seized by German customs March 28 when Bieber failed to produce required vaccination and import papers for the animal after landing in Munich. He had until ...

  • First it’s Sacramento then local Realtors travel to DC

    Just back from meeting their state legislators in Sacramento early in the month, members of the Silicon Valley Association of Realtors trekked to Washington, D.C., last week, joining more than 9,000 attendees from across the nation at the National Association of Realtors midyear legislative meetings and trade ...


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Oz the Great and Powerful

Oz the Great and Powerful

The last time Disney ventured into the Land of Oz, it was 1985 and the company was in dire straights, its fortunes so muddled and dimmed from its glory years that the decision makers were actually considering the idea of shuttering the companys animation division. ... ...

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  • Unfinished buildings in Lake Mary a reminder of real-estate crash

    For motorists in Seminole County, the cluster of unfinished buildings near the Seminole Towne Center mall is a high-profile reminder of how the real-estate crash is still taking a toll on the landscape. A never-completed strip shopping center faces Rinehart Road just south of County Road 46A. And behind it, the walls of four two-story concrete buildings ...

  • You think you pay a lot in taxes

    Les Echos reported on Friday that in addition to those taxed at over 100 percent last year, almost 12,000 households paid taxes worth more than 75 percent of their 2011 income and that a further 9,910 households were taxed at more than 85 percent of their income. The paper said this was due to a one-off levy imposed on the 2011 incomes ...

  • Report shows violent crimes property crimes down in Va.

    RICHMOND -- State police statistics show both violent and property crimes fell about 3 percent in Virginia in 2012 compared to the year ...

  • Property can be replaced life cant

    "Two arrested in iPad robbery that caused death of teenager," which was about the 15-year-old whose iPad was a contributing factor in his untimely death, made me sad and angry. If the charges against the two suspects are indeed substantiated, then I hope that they receive an appropriate punishment. Note to students: If it's your life or your Apple, please give up the latter. Your ...

  • Monster Okla. tornado kills at least 51

    View Photo Associated Press - A woman carries a child through a field near the collapsed Plaza Towers Elementary School in Moore, Okla., Monday, May 20, 2013. The relationship between the woman and the child was not ...

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