Plumes of smoke were still visibly rising from a 63-story luxury hotel in Dubai Friday, after firefighters spent all night battling the New Year's blaze.
Rihanna, who has crooned about falling in love "in a hopeless place," was recently kicked out of a place of hope, a mosque, for turning the place of worship into a set for her own photo shoot. The Abu Dhabi's Grand Mosque asked the pop star to leave after she posed for photographs in the compound's sanctuary.
A Norwegian woman jailed in Dubai after being raped has been pardoned, after an international outcry over her treatment by authorities in the conservative Muslim city.
