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Damon Hill calls for calm over Silverstone future

2009-11-03T16:33:26Z

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

Felipe Massa admits hopes of early return are over

2009-10-09T14:13:49Z

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

British Museum caught up in human rights row

2009-08-24T07:12:02Z

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

Finish date for tallest tower is still hanging in the air

2009-07-15T06:00:59Z

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

What about the workers? Immigrants pose dilemma

2009-07-08T06:33:19Z

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

Oil producer is going green for a good reason

2009-07-01T06:28:35Z

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

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

2009-06-05T07:10:32Z

Property tycoon Christian Candy has been granted permission to build a �30 million housing development in Chelsea

Barclays shares backtrack as Singapore loses �800m

2009-06-03T08:05:52Z

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

Barclays plummets after Sheikh dumps shares

2009-06-02T08:01:54Z

Shares in Barclays dropped as much as 55�p to 264�p today before recovering to 268�p as its broker Credit Suisse placed one of its largest sovereign wealth investors� stakes in the market at about 267p a share...

Davids load their slings to take on the Goliaths

2009-05-27T08:05:01Z

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)

Manchester City fans need to be patient, says Micah Richards

2009-04-09T08:05:53Z

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

Of bonds, homes and magic dust

2009-04-01T07:42:14Z

Shed no tears for the airport bosses

2009-03-20T09:00:21Z

I couldn't be happier to learn the British Airports Authority is to have a few of its sweaty fingers peeled off the levers of control in the form of a forced sale of three airports.

Market round-up: L&G short-sellers put the Footsie on downward trail

2009-02-18T09:47:39Z

Shares on the London stock market briefly dropped back below the important 4000 resistance level today for the first time since October, as the short-sellers appeared to regain the upper hand in Legal & General.

Keep hands off Barclays, Arabs warn Government

2009-01-22T09:27:53Z

Banking: Barclays' new Middle Eastern masters have issued a �hands off� warning to any British government plans to part-nationalise the High Street bank

Casey finds groove again in Abu Dhabi

2009-01-16T14:38:02Z

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

Keothavong's primed for Aussie Open

2009-01-12T09:54:53Z

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

2008 was great for me

2008-12-31T10:04:23Z

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

I�m deserting my oasis for Abu Dhabi

2008-12-15T08:24:44Z

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.

3000 commandos and police guard England

2008-12-08T09:47:16Z

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

Pietersen defiant as new threat hits tour

2008-12-04T09:20:59Z

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

Mortgage boost from Abu Dhabi

2008-11-26T10:02:45Z

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

Barclays raiser backed

2008-11-24T17:26:42Z

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

Barclays' holders take up its �500m olive branch

2008-11-19T09:40:12Z

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

It is not about the money

2008-11-05T10:25:34Z

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

When Barclays was not so close to �40m Amanda

2008-11-04T11:04:06Z

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

Barclays rounds up �7.3bn of new funds

2008-10-31T10:50:45Z

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

The moment that football learned money is global

2008-09-04T08:39:00Z

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

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

2008-09-04T09:37:22Z

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

The $300 billion Arabs are coming

2008-05-29T09:21:07Z

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