Louvre Abu Dhabi: Jean Nouvel’s spectacular palace of culture shimmers in the desert

With its cosmic dome and starry latticework, the French architect’s water-lapped Gulf outpost shuns the petrodollar glitz of its neighbours. But there’s no whitewashing the appalling treatment of the labourers who built its light-filled halls

Model Gigi Hadid to feature on the first cover of Middle East Vogue

The magazine will launch as a website first, with Saudi princess Deena Aljuhani Abdulaziz as editor-in-chief

Qatar wins approval to turn US embassy in London into hotel

Westminster council accepts plan to build 137-room hotel in Grade II-listed building in Grosvenor Square

World’s billionaires lose £215m each as global economy struggles

Study finds billionaire population grew in 2015, but total wealth of this group fell by nearly £250bn as economic growth stalled

‘We will be ready, inshallah’: inside Qatar’s $200bn World Cup

Can the richest country in the world buy its way to footballing glory? We joined the Qatar 2022 hopefuls to find out

Alwaleed bin Talal: meet the Saudi prince giving away all his money

The high-flying royal, who sued Forbes for ‘underestimating’ his fortune just years before handing it all to charity, seems to defy the cliches of a Saudi magnate