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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 ...

  • Golfer Sharmila set for Deloitte Ladies Open

    Indian golfer Sharmila Nicollet is raring to go at the Deloitte Ladies Open after her recent success at the Turkish Airlines Ladies Open at Antalya, where she finished tied 17th. Sharmila, the only Indian at the Ladies European Tour (LET), is playing in the prestigious tour for a second successive year and will compete against some of the top lady golfers in the world. The 250,000 euro ...

  • Turkish Airlines open flight to Lankaran

    Turkish Airlines plans to expand cooperation with Azerbaijan opening the Istanbul-Lankaran air flight. "We are negotiating with the Azerbaijani side on the opening of a flight to Lankaran. It will presumably open in summer of 2014", head of the company Temel Kotil told Azerbaijani journalists as part of the International Transport Forum in Leipzig. Lankaran will be the fourth ...

  • Kerala Tourism to kick off seaplane project by this month end

    Kerala News: The first seaplane aircraftfor Kerala has reached New Delhi for the mandatory clearances from the Customs and the Director General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) and is expected to arrive in Kochi, the base of the seaplane operations, later this ...

  • Travel news Enjoy the new Shangri-La Bosphorus or a cool early summer in Tibet

    The Shangri-La Bosphorus has just opened in a converted 1930s tobacco warehouse on the European side of the Bosphorus in Istanbul. Its guestrooms range from 42- to 60-square-metres in size, most with river views; 17 suites have private terraces. Istanbul's Shangri-La has a Chi spa and a signature Chinese restaurant, Shang Palace, all of which will be familiar to Abu Dhabi's residents. ...


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Norbit

Norbit

In Norbit, Eddie Murphy plays three different roles, including Rasputia, a gargantuan tub of vain, bitter female vindictiveness whose favored phrase is How you doin?, an all-purpose insult, exclamation point, and space filler that is clearly meant to be a hilarious catch phrase for t ... ...

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  • Costa Concordia captain to stand trial in July

    The captain of the Costa Concordia cruise ship which ran aground off Italy with the loss of 32 lives is to be tried on 9 July. Capt Francesco Schettino denies charges of multiple manslaughter and abandoning ship. The ship foundered off the island of Giglio off Tuscany in January 2012 before tipping onto its ...

  • Mexico Germany vow to promote tourism

    Mexico and Germany pledged on Wednesday to promote bilateral tourism, air connectivity and the flow of visitors, Mexico's Ministry of Tourism said in a ...

  • Turtle tourism booming in Trinidad village

    UP CLOSE: In this May 2 photo, a tourist takes photographs of a leatherback turtle as it heads to the ocean after burying her eggs in the sand at daybreak on a narrow strip of beach in Grande Riviere, Trinidad. Officials with the US-based Sea Turtle Conservancy say Trinidad is now likely the world's leading tourist destination for people to see ...

  • Indian Hotels to open a resort in Hainan

    Indian Hotels Co. Ltd, a unit of the Tata Group that runs the Taj Group of Hotels, said on Tuesday that it would build four hotels in China in the next two years, including the Taj Temple of Heaven in Beijing in 2014. It will also open a hotel on Hainan Island, a tourist destination in China, the company said in a statement. Chinese premier Li Keqiang is staying at Taj properties in New ...

  • Arena International Aviation to train Chinese pilots for Hainan Airlines

    HUNDREDS of Chinese cadet pilots will amass crucial flight training in Port Macquarie to kickstart a ticket to the skies across the world. About 150 pilot cadets a year from China will train under the guidance of Port Macquarie-based Arena International Aviation in a step towards becoming pilots with Hainan Airlines. The relationship between Arena International Aviation and Hainan Airlines ...

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