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Dubai Aquarium & Underwater Zoo is managed by Emaar Retail, the leisure and retail arm of Emaar Properties. Other leisure components in Emaar Retail’s portfolio are the Olympic-sized Dubai Ice Rink; the UAE largest megaplex with 22-screens, Reel Cinemas; the region’s largest SEGA indoor theme park, SEGA Republic; and the award-winning children’s edutainment centre, KidZania®.

The spectacular opening ceremony that marked the Burj Khalifa's appointment with history is now receding into memory, but the sense of anticipation has only started to build up for the home and office owners in the skyscraper.

The opportunity to experience the "Stay with Armani" proposition is now a reality. Armani Hotel Dubai has unveiled the online booking system that has gone live yesterday, and bookings can be made in real time at www.armanihotels.com.

Dubai's crown prince inaugurated the first international branch of the Manhattan institution, famous for its "big brown bag" totes, in the Middle East's biggest shopping mall Sunday. Bloomie's Dubai outpost includes a 13,600 square metre clothing and accessories store and a nearby 5,000 square metre home furnishings store. Both stores are in the Dubai Mall, next to the world's tallest tower, Burj Khalifa.

Biggest accomplishment for CoxGomyl in the region so far is the hand over of the world's most complicated project: The task to keep the 24,000 window panels' façade of the world's tallest building Burj Khalifa in Dubai spotless. CoxGomyl Integrated Solution Division got involved in the Burj Khalifa project at an early stage in order to offer esthetic solutions by integrating all external maintenance and cleaning facilities into the building design.

IF you can imagine it, Dubai will create it. Islands in the shape of palm trees, or the planet? No problem. In fact Dubai gets quite hung up on superlatives. It has the world's tallest building in the Burj Khalifa (formerly the Burj Dubai), which soars to 800m (2,625 feet) and has more than 160 storeys.

Dubai Shopping Festival, the annual shopping extravaganza that attracts millions from across the globe has kicked off here, as the UAE attempts to boost its indifferent retail sector. A woman examines a gift at the souvenir shop of Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest building in Dubai.

Two aerobatics teams participating in this year’s Al Ain Aerobatic Show have made a spectacular fly-past over the southern emirates at the start of the second day of the internationally acclaimed event. At 9.50am, the seven L-39 Albatros Breitling Team jets joined forces with the four BAC 167 Strikemasters of Team Viper, flying over Al Ain before heading towards Dubai. They passed over Burj Khalifa and Atlantis Hotel and then headed to the coast of Abu Dhabi, circling over the Emirates Palace Hotel and Grand Mosque and finally returning to Al Ain.

Dubai's officials said that a dazzling display of fireworks at the inauguration of World's tallest tower-Burj Khalifa was aimed to give message of Dubai emerging from the worst financial crisis and the emirate has started its new journey for scaling new heights of growth.

On March 18—just over a month and a half from now—the world will have its first Armani Hotel on the first 37 stories of the newly-opened world's tallest building—the Burj Khalifa in Dubai. But this won't be the end of Signore Armani's hotels. In fact, it's only the beginning, what with Giorgio signing a contract to have ten Armani Hotel properties around the world by 2019.