Dubai

We turn to New York Times financial correspondent Landon Thomas, Jr. to discuss the troubles a possible loan default from Dubai could spell for the rest of the world.

WASHINGTON TAKEOUT: Julie Mason, White House correspondent for The Washington Examiner, discusses the security aspects of some high profile party crashers who snuck past the Secret Service and into the big tent of the White House’s state dinner Tuesday night. FINANCIAL TAKEOUT: The New York Times’ Louise Story discusses the tremors in world financial markets […]

Despite the showiness of Dubai’s gleaming and booming economy in recent years, the country is showing signs of vulnerability to the global economic downturn. For more we turn to the BBC Persian Gulf correspondent, Julia Wheelerin, who is in Dubai.

For today’s Geo Quiz, we’re looking for one of Islam’s holiest cities. The answer is Mecca. Jake Warga traveled to a different mosque? the Jumeirah Mosque in the United Arab Emirate of Dubai, and sent us this sound piece.

For today’s geo quiz, we are looking for the name of the building in Taiwan that held the title of world’s tallest building? until the newly-opened Burj in Dubai came along to take top spot.