Dubai will spend 1.5 billion dirhams ($408 million/313 million euros) to link the Business Bay with the Gulf, the chairman of the roads and transport authority said on Saturday.

Mattar al-Tayer said the extension of the Business Bay Canal is a strategic project that will run 2.8 kilometers in length, with a width ranging from 80 to 100 meters.

Dubai's property sector, which went into free fall when the global financial crisis hit, looks like it might be on a path to recovery, with prices starting to bottom out and a few developers daring to roll out new projects.

At the annual Cityscape Global show, which served over years of property frenzy as a launchpad for grandiose projects, a handful of developers displayed scale models for seaside and desert developments to test the appetite of the market.

Vogue's fashion-loving fans will soon have a chance to drink in the magazine's aura at a new cafe in Dubai.

The glossy's publisher, Conde Nast International, said Tuesday that it expects to open the Vogue Cafe in the glitzy Gulf emirate's largest shopping mall by the end of the year.

A fugitive Lebanese-American businessman fighting fiscal corruption charges in Dubai has been returned to the United Arab Emirates after fleeing to Yemen, a spokesman said Saturday.

The return of Zack Shahin to UAE custody ends his bid to get American diplomatic assistance to return to the U.S. via Yemen and presumably escape a legal battle in Dubai dating back to 2008.

Dubai police confiscated a Gulf car with a tampered license plate, said Director of Naif Police Station, Lt. Col. Abdullah Khadem Suroor Al Masam.

He warned that as part of a campaign launched by Brig. Khalil Ibrahim Al Mansouri, Director of General Department of Criminal Investigation, any vehicle would be impounded and the owner would be held accountable if number plates are tampered.

Dubai police have stepped up accusations against the Muslim Brotherhood of plotting to topple Gulf monarchies, saying a group of UAE activists arrested for threatening state security was linked to the organization, a report said Friday.

The Brotherhood, which is the emerging force in the Arab world after the Arab Spring uprisings, "met people from the Gulf and discussed toppling Gulf regimes," Dubai police chief Lieutenant General Dahi Khalfan was quoted as saying by the Emarat al-Youm daily.

Nearly 300 stores in the Gulf emirate of Dubai will ban the sale of cigarettes for 24 hours on Thursday to mark the World No Tobacco Day, local media reported.

"In Dubai, nearly 300 outlets including petrol stations and supermarkets will stop selling tobacco for 24 hours," reported English daily, The National.

A bomb threat delayed a Pakistani passenger flight bound for Dubai by four hours on Thursday, with officials clearing it to take off after searches found no explosive device on board.

The Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) flight was preparing for a scheduled 11:00 am (0600 GMT) departure from Lahore when an anonymous caller rang the airport claiming there was a bomb on board.

Dubai is splashing into the business of underwater hotels again.

The Gulf emirate's state shipbuilding division Drydocks World said in a statement on Thursday that it has signed on with a Swiss company to become the sole Middle East construction contractor of the futuristic hotels.

Laimoon, a Dubai-based startup, is an alternative to traditional job boards with a current focus on sales and marketing in UAE and Qatar. Its aim is to match applicants to relevant jobs which in effect will also match employers to relevant applicants.

The company was founded nearly 1 year ago, but the official launch was 6 months ago.