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How to avoid being killed: A traveller's guide
A Middle East-based journalist has penned a book advising travellers how to keep themselves safe in dangerous places.

Caviar farm will satisfy Gulf's growing appetite
The desert city of Abu Dhabi is the newest location for a vast caviar farm that dwarfs its global competitors.

Neo-Nazis ditch skinhead image in bid to entice voters
Despite a less aggressive image the violence committed by these extremists continues to increase dramatically.

Paul Holmes: No place here for burqa
Culturalism, schmulteralism: Mask wearers want no part of the West except our privileges, according to Paul Holmes.

Paul Thomas: I'll take boring over US loony extremes
Biggest economy wouldn't default over politics, would it?

Obama's dead! Fox's Twitter hacked
Hackers broke into Fox's Twitter account, posting updates saying President Barack Obama had been assassinated.

Activist flotilla sinks deeper into mystery
Israel dismisses claims it is behind events hampering Gaza protest.

A transport of delight in Dubai
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.

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

Muslim woman wins prison appeal
A Muslim woman's successful appeal against a jail sentence has again raised concerns.

Stephen King: Economic future not worth the paper it's written on
Once-solid financial securities are losing their safe status.