Dubai’s New Tower Will be Higher than Burj Khalifa

Dubai, who's already home to the world's highest skyscraper which is Burj Khalifa, has started building a tower that is even taller. The Tower at Dubai Creek Harbour should be completed in 2020 and will cost $1bn dollars. Its height was not yet announced but Emaar Properties did state it would be "a notch" taller than the Burj Khalifa's 829.8 metres . The new tower was designed by Spanish-Swiss architect Santiago Calatrava Vallsand and will…

UAE To Welcome 15,000 Syrian Refugees Over The Next Five Years

Why aren't Gulf countries opening their doors to Syrian refugees? Why is the majority of the world's refugees present in only ten countries? Why are the world's wealthiest nations leaving poor and politically unstable countries to bear the brunt of global refugee crisis? It may seem unfair but I don't think anyone is in a position to blame any country for not hosting tens if not hundreds of thousands of refugees. I'm not saying that…
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