Last night's launch party of Dubai's latest resort, is enough to make Brits want to head for the United Arab Emirates but life for ordinary expats is not quite so glamourous.

Property prices on the Palm Jumeirah, the island in Dubai that has been dubbed the 'eighth wonder of the world', have plummeted by as much as 40pc since September amid fears that the global credit crisis iA 63-year-old man facing

The Queen has been revealed in photographs as never before - wearing flares and a somewhat garish Oriental blouse in a yellowing 1970s snapshot.

An 11-year-old girl who was struck by a car had her life saved by her school bag, her family has said.

The BBC journalist Justin Webb explains his fondness for the beaches and fairways of South Carolina, which includes the 'beautiful' city of Charleston

A gambler has broken records by claiming the largest amount won from a British bookmaker, winning more than £2 million on an online fruit machine on a 50p stake.

Britain has become a nation of shopaholics, but at last we might have to get to grips with the addiction.

Property prices on the Palm Jumeirah, the island in Dubai that has been dubbed the 'eighth wonder of the world', have plummeted by as much as 40pc since September amid fears that the global credit crisis is stalling the emirate's

The Daily Mail and General Trust (DMGT) yesterday (November 20th) became the latest casualty of the housing crash as it published pre-tax profit losses of nine per cent.

Around two-fifths of buy-to-let mortgage holders will be suffering from negative equity by the middle of 2009, a report from Standard and Poor's (S&P) suggests.

London mayor Boris Johnson is to oversee an investment of £5 billion into building and renovating 50,000 new homes, it was announced yesterday (November 20th).

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