What is the first place that comes to mind when you hear the phrase “street art”? New York subways? A Parisian underpass? Chances are it won’t be the smart Swiss city of Lugano, with its elegant squares, luxury hotels and yacht-jostled lake. But cast off your preconceptions and reflect for a moment ...

By using a driving robot, Volvo engineers can get cars to perform repeatable manoeuvres – over and over again. This makes it possible to improve the way cars drive by collecting high-quality data from a wide range of tests. For example, an engineer will set a route around a track and the robot’s on-...

It is perfectly possible to get a luxury desert camping experience in Dubai – but we decided to strike out on our own and commissioned film set designer Andrew Del Rosario from ArtVenture Design to build us a tent fit for a sheikh. His work can be seen in the forthcoming Mission: Impossible – Ghost ...

Like all good businesses, Dubai’s success has been founded on forward sightedness and diversification. The Al Maktoum family realized that their oil wasn’t going to last forever and developed subsidiary interests in trade and tourism. But if you look hard enough you can still find traces of the humb...