20 September 2009 Middle East

DUBAI METRO OPENS

On 9 September, Dubai's ruler Sheik Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum (who is also prime minister of the United Arab Emirates) officially opened the 52km metro - the first urban railway in the Arab Gulf states. It cost almost twice the original estimate. This was doubly unfortunate, opening at a time w

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