Westfield London, largest urban shopping center, sprawling across 43 acres just north of Shepherd's Bush Green, will house 265 shops, with Tiffany & Co, Louis Vuitton, Gucci, Prada and De Beers. The Mall will offer 5 levels connected to 96 elevators, 14 screen cinema, 50 restaurants, a gym, a spa, a library and a central atrium.
Department stores include Debenhams, Marks & Spencers, Next and House of Fraser.
The retail area is almost 100% leased and following the slide into recession Westfield have been given a 13-month rent-free period following its opening.
As the cutting edge of "retail experiences" Westfield will be opened to 4500 parking space and 570 bays for bicycles. Nine London transport links have been uprooted to accommodate the 25 Million shoppers expected every year
Emirates' LA flight will be its third into the US, following New York and Houston.
Reclining seat, mini bar, and a lounge for first class cabin
2 new spa-shower suites for first class passenger
76 lie flat seats on the upper deck of the aircraft for Business class
Spacious lounge area where First class passengers can mingle and relax in comfort.
Emirates has become the Middle East's first airline to connect Los Angeles to Dubai non stop.
The Emirates Boeing 777-200LR flight EK215 took off from Dubai at 8.30am on Sunday and was expected to arrive in Los Angeles at 13.30pm local time the same day.
Existing service to Houston and New York are been very successful and the new route Dubai- LAX opens a new destination for business and leisure in the Gulf region.
The new service will target the large concentration of residents of Middle Eastern and South Asian origin based in Los Angeles and other West Coast cities.
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Welcome to the room most likely to weather the credit crunch, a vast vault filled with the final word in financial security: gold.
Several thousand 28 lb bars of 24-carat gold stored in the Bank of England's massive underground vault could surely reassure anyone of us!
The bank of England is the second-largest gold store - the largest is the Federal Reserve bank vault in New York
As we saw the noble metal trading at $ 275 an ounce a few years ago, today an ounce of gold fetches $ 787. Each bar of gold are worth $ 325,000 as much as a top range Ferrari or again the average home in Florida.
If you look long enough at the picture, one may be able to see 15,000 bars--- 210 tonnes of pure gold value at $ 5 Billion.
In fact what you see is 1/20 of the gold stored in concrete-lined vaults in London.
Most of the gold stored here is held by the Bank of England on behalf of other depositors, notably the central banks of various foreign governments.
As the world loses its faith in most investments, gold still provides a sense of security.
In a week that saw panicky stock markets, falling oil prices and credit growth outstripping deposits, the brashest economy in the Middle East barely paused for breath.
With annual growth of nearly 18% since 2001, Dubai's government will pour as much money as is needed into any element of the economy to see it safe.
The overall real estate market across the Gulf has been valued at a whopping $1.3 Trillion.
Property prices in Dubai have increased by 40% since January and by almost 80% in the last 18 months, though we are seeing some evidence of a slowdown.
Nakheel, owned by the Dubai government, has unveiled plans for the world tallest tower at a cost of $38 Billion. Immediately after Meraas Development's Jumeirah Gardens complex came in at $95 Billion.
Dubai is well known to defying normal behavior: the tiny emirate, one of the seven states of the United Arab Emirates, has an economy second in size only to giant Saudi Arabia, even though it has relatively little oil.
Of its 1.3 million people, 80% are non-native foreigners.
Dubai's status as a regional hub for business, leisure, and travel means much investment is international rather than local – and that could be seen as a safe haven in stormy times elsewhere.
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The Westfields shopping centre covers 43 acres
