DUBAI

Firefighters had mostly extinguished flames at the 63-story Address Downtown Dubai hotel, but smoke still emanated at daybreak Friday.

A New Year's Eve blaze ignited in the 63-story the Address Downtown Dubai hotel ahead of a fireworks event.

Thousands of fireworks and pyrotechnic displays around the world will welcome 2016 with a bang.

The airline's last flight from Washington Dulles to Dubai will take off Jan. 25.

The 200-floor Kingdom Tower is part of a $8.4 billion project to construct Jeddah City in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

"Serving a jail term is in Jason Rezaian's sentence but I cannot give details," IRNA quoted the spokesman, Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei, as telling journalists during a weekly news conference in Tehran.

Fars news agency quoted the governor of Shush County in Khuzestan province saying a foreign surveillance drone had come down near the city of Shush.

In recent weeks, Iran's powerful hardline Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps has rounded up a number of artists, journalists and U.S. citizens.

This year's edition of the biennial Dubai Airshow has been muted compared to the previous one, which generated business of up to $200 billion.

Barring surprises, a drop is predicted in major commercial order announcements as Gulf airlines take stock after expansion.

Extreme heat waves more intense than anything ever on Earth will hit Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Doha and coastal cities in Iran starting in 2070 if climate trends continue.

The pair were Yemeni nationals and were returning from aid work in the far northern province of Saada.

The two people were alleged to have been spying for the U.S. and Israel.

The devaluation of the Chinese yuan and China's stock market meltdown might have a domino effect worldwide. In Dubai, the stakes are especially high.

Without human intervention, such as a groundbreaking effort in the United Arab Emirates, the species may survive just three more decades.

A prominent U.S. think-tank on Friday questioned Tehran's explanation for activity at its Parchin military site visible in satellite imagery.

Religious police arrested several people at two parties in Jeddah on suspicion of homosexuality, a crime in the conservative kingdom.

Russia will begin importing Iranian oil under a long-heralded oil-for-goods barter arrangement in the coming week, Iran's oil minister was quoted as saying, more than a year after negotiations began.

"There's great interest from Dubai in doing big-time boxing there," the Top Rank president said.

It is expected to cover 50,000 square feet, which will make it 25 percent larger than its currently largest store.

The aircraft made an emergency landing after a passenger said the plane would explode, UAE state news agency reported.