“Dubai” on The Daily Caller

A fitness club in Dubai has apologized for running a tasteless ad featuring a photo of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi death camp, with the slogan “Kiss your calories goodbye.” (more)

Goldman Sachs says the United Arab Emirates’ third largest bank by assets may need to set aside as much as $2.2 billion by 2013 to cover bad loans, Bloomberg reports. (more)

(AP)  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – A man committed suicide on Tuesday in a plunge of 39 floors from a segment of the world’s tallest skyscraper in Dubai, according to the its owner and reports in the local media. (more)

A British tourist was beaten to death by officers in a Dubai police station after being arrested for swearing, it was claimed yesterday. (more)

Somewhere in the Arabian Sea| In my last dispatch, I explained how my Southeast Asia/Middle East journey of four quickly became a journey of one – and how most of the adventure was to be spent on a cruise feared by me to be a geriatrics ward-at-sea. (more)

DUBAI — Tiger Woods was facing a possible fine by golf’s European Tour on Monday after television cameras showed the world No. 3 spitting on one of the greens during his disastrous final round at the Dubai Desert Classic. (more)

While the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution outlawed slavery and indentured servitude in 1865, both practices are alive and well today in U.S. Government combat zone contracting. That’s despite the fact that a law that was designed to end these abhorrent practices has now been in place for ten years. (more)

It wasn’t exactly the view they had expected from the 124th floor of the world’s tallest building. (more)

The city of Dubai has become a major Middle Eastern commercial center.  It also has been called the Middle East’s “shopping capital.” (more)

It never seems to amaze me how the press uses the world’s stage to preach the Robin Hood theory knowing billions are watching. Perhaps I was credulous to think that the World Cup would be excluded from such a socialist message, but I was wrong. (more)

June 20 (Bloomberg) — Dubai’s benchmark stock index rose the most in 10 weeks and Egyptian shares gained, leading a rally in Middle East markets on growing confidence that Europe will contain its debt crisis. Oil gains boosted Gulf shares. (more)

A Thai court issued an arrest warrant Tuesday for ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra on terrorism charges, accusing the fugitive former leader of fomenting two months of unrest in Bangkok that left 88 people dead. (more)

Australia has expelled an Israeli diplomat saying Israel was behind the forging of Australian passports linked to the murder of a Hamas operative in Dubai. (more)

The mothers of three US hikers held in Iran for nearly a year on spying accusations returned home Saturday empty-handed, after failing to secure their children's release. (more)

An Air India Express passenger plane crashed in flames after overshooting the runway in the southern city of Mangalore today, killing most of the 166 people on board. (more)

KABUL, Afghanistan—The easiest way for an American to fly into Afghanistan is on Kam Air from Dubai. But it appears that only Americans fly into Afghanistan on Kam Air from Dubai. Almost, anyway. (more)

The latest bombing attempt in Times Square sheds light on the fact President Obama has been failing in his foreign policy endeavors. Leave aside the fact we are nowhere closer to Middle East peace talks and our allies feel abandoned. However, our president has failed to even mention Afghanistan lately where roughly 70,000 troops are stationed fighting bravely. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Law enforcement officials decided not to call all airlines directly on Monday to tell them an important name had been added to the government’s “no-fly” list, even as investigators pursued the man they suspected was the Times Square bomber. (more)

The man who attempted to detonate a fertilizer-filled Nissan Pathfinder in the middle of Times Square Saturday night has opened up to investigators after an intense manhunt in which the Pakistani-born U.S. citizen nearly got away. (more)

Last week we reported that Americans are now paying 80 cents more per gallon for gasoline—an increase of 39 percent compared to this time last year. We also discussed how one major cost element—federal and state taxes—inflates your cost at the pump. Noting the overall retail price at the pump is too high, we promised to delve into other factors and cost components in this edition. (more)