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With faux wind towers giving it the appearance of a storybook stronghold from One Thousand and One Nights, Anantara's Desert Islands Resort & Spa stands alone on the shores of Sir Bani Yas - a large island in the Persian Gulf, lying just 5 miles (8 km) off the coast of the emirate of Abu Dhabi. And in truth, there is a whiff of fantasy about this sand-colored, 64-room property, fringed by cobalt-blue sea on one side and, on the other, a saltwater lagoon fronting desert scrubland and a jumble of rocky central hills...
Remote Sir Bani Yas was once the private domain of Sheik Zayed bin Sultan al-Nahyan, ruler of Abu Dhabi and co-founder of the United Arab Emirates. He irrigated much of its barren landscape and created his very own wildlife reserve, initially for endangered regional species like the Arabian oryx and both mountain and sand gazelles, but later for many African animals, including giraffes, ostriches, elands, gemsboks, blackbucks and striped hyenas, all of which remain to this day. (See pictures of luxury private islands...
...build a fan base, the typical contemporary Tehran music act relies on word of mouth and MySpace and YouTube. The rapper Yas, whose socially critical rhymes have gained him a considerable following, has given up trying to get a permit. "Rap's beat is transgressive, it doesn't matter what your lyrics are," he explains. Even artists who have successfully promoted their music online are unable to make any money without legally publishing their music, and that requires obtaining a permit from the Ministry of Culture - a procedure so arcane that most attempts fail. Many, like the former rock band...
...driving, hard-edged drumming for the Rolling Stones has made him rock's premier percussionist, but it may surprise some fans to learn that Charlie Watts was stomping at the Savoy long before he ever got his ya-yas out. Watts, 45, who grew up in England listening to the gospel-tinged music of Cannonball Adderley and Art Blakey, had always dreamed of organizing an old-style jazz orchestra, but it was not until last year that the idea came together in a big 34-piece way. Last March in London, the soft-spoken stickman and his new group (including...
...that have been in Belarus for less than 20 years from publishing literature or setting up missions. MIDDLE EAST Courtroom Rage Scuffles broke out in court between the families of Israeli victims of terrorist attacks and Palestinian spectators at the trial of Marwan Barghouti. Israel accuses Barghouti, head of Yas-ser Arafat's Fatah faction in the West Bank, of leading a militia that allegedly murdered 26 Israelis. A woman whose daughter was killed by Palestinians said Barghouti was a vampire who took "the blood of Jewish children." Before being led away he shouted: "We will be victorious over...