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Bernie Ecclestone threatens to pull British GP if deal isn't agreed

05.11.09
Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone has suggested he will remove the British Grand Prix from next season's calendar if Silverstone does not agree to a deal in the next two days... more

Damon Hill calls for calm over Silverstone future

03.11.09
Damon Hill believes patience is the key if Silverstone is to secure the long-term future of the British Grand Prix... more

James Corden to make film with Ruth Jones

03.11.09
Gavin And Stacey funnyman James Corden has revealed his next project — a film with writing partner Ruth Jones.... more

Goldman bans parties during festive season

03.11.09
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Felipe Massa admits hopes of early return are over

09.10.09
Ferrari driver Felipe Massa conceded his chances of racing again in Formula One this season are "very, very low"... more

British Museum caught up in human rights row

24.08.09
British Museum urged to 'take a stand' over the rights of migrant workers in the oil-rich desert sheikdom of Abu Dhabi... more

Finish date for tallest tower is still hanging in the air

15.07.09
Residents in Dubai have grown accustomed to mega projects coming with mega delays. During the boom times, a year or even two behind schedule was normal. Invariably, developers blamed soaring demand for men and machines for the setbacks... more

What about the workers? Immigrants pose dilemma

08.07.09
A shopping mall in the desert city of Al Ain has banned male construction workers at evenings and weekends after wealthy customers complained about them staring at women. Labourers are allowed to enter Al Bawadi Mall during weekdays, but only through a side entrance ... more

Oil producer is going green for a good reason

01.07.09
Abu Dhabi is taking the green shoots of recovery a step further, winning the race to host the International Renewable Energy Agency (Irena). Abu Dhabi hopes it will add fuel to its Masdar project - a $15 billion (£9 billion) green city designed by Sir Norman Foster ... more

Go-ahead for Candy's £30m Chelsea flats

05.06.09
Property tycoon Christian Candy has been granted permission to build a £30 million housing development in Chelsea... more

Barclays shares backtrack as Singapore loses £800m

03.06.09
Only a day after the Abu Dhabi ruling family made £1.5 billion profit in just seven months from selling its stake in Barclays, it has emerged that a rival sovereign wealth fund has lost as much as £800 million through investing in the bank ... more

Barclays plummets after Sheikh dumps shares

02.06.09
Shares in Barclays dropped as much as 55½p to 264¾p today before recovering to 268½p as its broker Credit Suisse placed one of its largest sovereign wealth investors’ stakes in the market at about 267p a share...... more

Davids load their slings to take on the Goliaths

27.05.09
Challenger brands, I learned this week, are upstart companies snapping at the heels of established rivals. Virgin Atlantic taking on British Airways is the textbook example of a successful challenger (while Virgin Cola's lame assault on Coke and Pepsi is a popular case study for the opposite reason) ... more

Manchester City fans need to be patient, says Micah Richards

09.04.09
Football: Micah Richards believes it could be years before Manchester City realise their full potential under the Abu Dhabi United Group... more

Of bonds, homes and magic dust

01.04.09
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Casey finds groove again in Abu Dhabi

16.01.09
Paul Casey starred on his return to the scene of his last victory... more

Keothavong's primed for Aussie Open

12.01.09
Anne Keothavong reached the second round of the Moorilla International in Hobart today.... more

2008 was great for me

31.12.08
It will go down in history as the year of financial meltdown. But not everyone felt gloomy. As 2008 closes, four writers reveal how the past 12 months turned out well... more

I’m deserting my oasis for Abu Dhabi

15.12.08
According to the BBC's weather website, it's a balmy 24oC in Abu Dhabi and every day for the next five is marked with a shining little sun. ... more

3000 commandos and police guard England

08.12.08
England's cricketers will be guarded by a 3000-strong force of armed police and commando units from the moment they arrive in India... more

Pietersen defiant as new threat hits tour

04.12.08
Kevin Pietersen has spoken of standing "shoulder to shoulder" with India before starting a journey which is due to end with England playing cricket in a country which has been hit by a new terror warning... more

Mortgage boost from Abu Dhabi

26.11.08
Property: Abu Dhabi is set to launch a new mortgage lender to revive the housing market as liquidity dries up during the credit crisis... more

Barclays raiser backed

24.11.08
Barclays today won shareholder backing for its highly controversial £7 billion fundraising, for which most of the money comes from Qatar and Abu Dhabi... more

Barclays' holders take up its £500m olive branch

19.11.08
Banking: Barclays' shareholders snapped up all of the £500 million of preferred stock that the troubled bank offered to them as an olive branch to calm the row over its controversial fundraising plans... more

It is not about the money

05.11.08
The Standard’s City editor talks to ex-model Amanda Staveley about how she put together the £7 billion deal to shore up Barclays Bank... more

When Barclays was not so close to £40m Amanda

04.11.08
As Amanda Staveley basks in the glory of having secured the £3.5 billion capital injection for Barclays from her friends in Abu Dhabi’s royal family, thoughts turn to how things once were for the glamorous PCP Capital Partners director... more

Barclays rounds up £7.3bn of new funds

31.10.08
Barclays thumbed its nose at the sceptics, as the bank raised up to £7.3 billion of new capital to allow it to pass the regulators' capital demands without any recourse to the Government bailout... more

The moment that football learned money is global

04.09.08
Over the past few years, British business has become used to seeing some of its best-known names fall into foreign hands... more

Hollywood turns to Abu Dhabi for $1bn to fund new movies

04.09.08
Analysis: The Abu Dhabi Royal Family has announced that it will spend at least $1 billion over the next five years co-funding Hollywood and other international movies ... more

The $300 billion Arabs are coming

29.05.08
The soaring price of oil is bad news for credit crunch London - but it means a boom time for the Middle East producers who are embarking on a massive property spending spree ... more

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