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Chilling out in sizzling Dubai's all-ice cafe

DUBAI (Reuters) - Honeymooners and other tourists from the Gulf are heading to the throbbing heart of Dubai to beat the summer heat by cooling off at the first "ice lounge" in the Middle East.Full story

Dubai hot spot is Chill Out ice bar

  Tourists beat the heat in Dubai's Chill Out ice bar where customers are given jackets, boots and hats as they sit among ice sculptures sipping drinks. NBCNews.com's Dara Brown reports.

Bank Muscat says mulling options to recover card fraud money

DUBAI (Reuters) - Bank Muscat <BMAO.OM>, the main victim of a $45 million global cyber heist, is examining all options to recover the money it lost in an unprecedented fraud brought to light by U.S. authorities. Full story

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A Saudi Arabian family drinks hot chocolate at Chillout cafe in Dubai
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A passerby looks into the Chillout cafe in Dubai
A passerby looks into the Chillout cafe in Dubai

A passerby looks into the Chillout cafe in Dubai May 12, 2013. Chillout, owned by UAE's Sharaf Group, is the first ice lounge in the Middle East, with temperatures set at -6 degrees Celsius . The cafe, with its illuminated interiors, curtains, paintings and seating arrangements, is all made of carve

A toddler sits in his stroller while his parents tour the insides of the Chillout cafe in Dubai
A toddler sits in his stroller while his parents tour the insides of the Chillout cafe in Dubai

A toddler sits in his stroller while his parents tour the insides of the Chillout cafe in Dubai May 12, 2013. Chillout, owned by UAE's Sharaf Group, is the first ice lounge in the Middle East, with temperatures set at -6 degrees Celsius . The cafe, with its illuminated interiors, curtains, paintings