Abu Dhabi is known for its incredible wealth largely due to the oil industry, but what might be less known is that they are envisioning a future without oil. Masdar City is poised to be the first zero-emission, skyscraper-free city. Vehicles are not permitted within the city limits. Instead, mass transit will be available to help traverse the city.

Just outside the city, solar and wind farms will provide electricity. Geothermal energy will be harnessed through the world’s largest hydrogen power plant. Masdar City will welcome many clean energy companies to set up shop and will even provide the headquarters for the International Renewable Energy Agency.

By the time it is completed in 2025, 40,000 residents and 50,000 commuters will be able to live and work in Masdar City with the goal of becoming the world leader in clean energy research and technology.

Look what the Muselmen invented - a sustainable city.

Not as good as the stick, but one should give credit where credit's due.

Dubai is being promoted as a luxury high class paradise in the desert, but the reality is brutally different as Australian Alicia Gali discovered.

Gali was using her laptop in the hotel's staff bar when her drink was spiked.She awoke to a nightmare beyond belief, she had been savagely raped by three of her colleagues,alone and frightened she took herself to hospital.

What Alicia didnt know is that under the UAE's strict sharia laws, if the perpetrator does not confess rape, a rape cannot be convicted without 4 adult muslim male witnesses.
She was charged with illicit sex outside marriage and thrown in a filthy jail cell for 8 months
Source-http://au.news.yahoo.com/sunday-night/features/article/-/17094076/abandonded