Sports Calendar

Gulf markets fall ahead of Dubai creditor talks

Markets across the Middle East open lower as investors wait to see if Dubai World will be able to delay debt repayments

Asia's middle class to drive 'blue gold rush'

An explosion in the market for bottled water will see the world consuming more than 280 billion litres a year by 2012

Dubai moves to repair its reputation

Two of Dubai’s most senior figures have begun a roadshow with business and political leaders in the UK and the US

Abu Dhabi demands damages from Citigroup

The Abu Dhabi Investment Authority seeks more than $4 billion in damages over a bailout deal struck in 2007

High price of waiting game in the Gulf

Those who said that the richer, more staid Abu Dhabi would make Dubai sweat before bailing it out have been proved right

Abu Dhabi lifeline for Dubai buoys markets

Share prices rise across the world after Abu Dhabi agrees to step in to cover the immediate debts of Dubai World

UK shares bounce on $10bn Dubai rescue

The London Stock Exchange, Standard Chartered and RBS soar after Dubai's wealthy neighbour bails out Dubai World

US inquiry into sale of Virgin Galactic stake

National security investigation is underway into sale of 32 per cent stake worth $280m to Arab buyer Aabar Investments

British groups move from Dubai to Abu Dhabi

Mouchel, the management consultancy, and Carillion, the UK’s second-largest construction company, are cutting their losses

Dubai markets recover after early falls

Government intervention to scrap a planned property group merger fails to stop confidence from dropping

Emaar pulls out of Dubai Holding rescue merger

The Arab world’s biggest listed property developer backs out as the web of state-backed companies in the emirate unwinds

Documents show earlier Dubai World bailout

A property subsidiary could have lost up to $6 billion in the first half of this year had it not been given government cash

Finance minister: 'no quick fix for Dubai debt'

Abdulrahman al-Saleh says six months is not enough to sort out Dubai World debts and overseas assets may be sold off

Bank lenders in talks with indebted Dubai World

HSBC, Royal Bank of Scotland, Lloyds Banking Group and Standard Chartered are in talks to secure interest payments on debt

Law shows UK banks were wrong on Dubai World

The Times has obtained a copy of the law and it clearly states the emirate will not back the state-owned company’s debts

Dubai World's debt fuels Japanese anxiety

Luxury developers have thrived on demand from the emirate, but now stand to be hurt if the problems at Dubai World spread

Dubai is the damp squib as other emirates celebrate

The city state has suffered a crisis of confidence in the past week as its debt-fuelled growth strategy unravelled