This unusual avian hospital is the biggest of its kinds in the world. Wealthy Arabs from the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Qatar bring their prized hunting birds here to have their broken wings fixed... or simply to be fussed over.

Jim Eagles visits a falcon hospital in Abu Dhabi for an insight into this most majestic of birds.

Bigger, taller, glitzier - it's how they do things in Dubai, and little problems like a property crash aren't being allowed to dampen the mood. Chris Barton reports.

Whisking your loved one to one of these romantic retreats will impress.

How to make the most of your trip without getting an intimate tour of the jails.

Ten Dubai highlights that no tourist should miss.

Dubai is like a 40-year-old man with a new red Ferrari. It can't help but show off.

The Kiwi at the centre of a fiery love triangle has been freed from a Dubai prison cell.

The desert city of Abu Dhabi is the newest location for a vast caviar farm that dwarfs its global competitors.

It's an oasis in the desert, filled with massive and mind-bending wonderments, all easily accessible by train, air, ferry ... or camel. Jim Eagles takes a look.

A New Zealander has been jailed in Dubai for having consensual sex with two women, both of whom have also been jailed.

Championship is led by Whincup, van Gisbergen lies third.

V8 Supercar champion James Courtney is ready to put his new red rocket into hyperdrive in Abu Dhabi this weekend.

Kiwi Toby Carroll has been bailed from a Dubai prison and his two girlfriends have revealed new details of the events before their arrests.

As Toby Carroll begins his 49th day in a Dubai prison, his family fear his property career could already be ruined.

Model Priscila Ferreira is at the centre of a love triangle in which a Kiwi man is being held by Dubai police.

A British woman found in bed with a NZ man in a Dubai apartment had previously worked as lapdancer, a British newspaper reported today.

The New Zealand man caught in a violent love triangle in Dubai has reportedly spent six weeks in jail without being charged.

A NZ man is in a Dubai jail after calling police for help when a jilted lover allegedly attacked him with a knife.

Eww, eww and awe ... Shayne Currie suffers vertigo in the world's tallest building.

Liz Breslin spends a day in Abu Dhabi, a city largely under construction.