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June 28th, 2026 - 11:03 GMT

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US restaurants add mandatory tips to bills as World Cup fans are unfamiliar with tipping culture

ALBAWABA - The World Cup, doubtlessly, brings fans from all around the world to come and cheer for their favorite teams and to experience the cultures of the host countries, one culture. However, has slipped World Cup fans by, tipping. Tipping is seen not as something optional in the U.S. but as something compulsory, that anyone should tip their server as they pay for their meal. This mindset, however, hardly ...

Analemma Tower, created by Clouds Architecture Office, will be suspended from an orbiting asteroid. (Cloudsao)

March 29th, 2017 - 12:30 GMT

In pictures: Dubai to build a tower hanging from space

Dubai shuts down 25 percent of its shawarma shops. (File photo)

March 28th, 2017 - 09:29 GMT

Bye bye shawarma.. Dubai shuts down 141 ‘shawarma shops'

Dubai is home to 100,000 hotel rooms. (Pixabay)

March 27th, 2017 - 11:43 GMT

Dubai makes it to world's top 10 cities with most hotel rooms

Lesson #1: Embrace diversity. (Shutterstock)

March 26th, 2017 - 05:00 GMT

5 life lessons expats in Dubai can only learn the hard way

The college of dentistry at University of Dammam. (University of Dammam)

March 23rd, 2017 - 11:39 GMT

Girl power in Saudi Arabia: University of Dammam appoints its first female dean

The Mediterranean city came out at number 1 in a readers-chosen survey conducted by Travel and Leisure.
(Shutterstock)

March 22nd, 2017 - 04:15 GMT

Beirut named the world's number 1 food destination

The stone, valued at $60 million, has received the highest color and clarity grades from the Gemological Institute of America (GIA). (Sotheby)

March 21st, 2017 - 01:15 GMT

World's purest, rarest pink diamond leaves Dubai for an auction in Hong Kong

The W Dubai Hotel in Al Habtoor City . (Facebook)

March 20th, 2017 - 12:22 GMT

$9,500 a night for a Dubai hotel suite!

Saudi Arabia's first female tourist guide wants her country to allow more and more women to become tourist guides. (File photo)

March 19th, 2017 - 09:55 GMT

Saudi woman becomes country's first female tourist guide

The convict was initially arrested by Dubai Police in August last year for sharing a Facebook post against his former employer Malabar Gold and Diamonds. (File photo)

March 16th, 2017 - 11:43 GMT

Indian man defames UAE employer on Facebook, gets deportation and $68,000 fines

March 15th, 2017 - 03:35 GMT

Creepiest app of all time?

Daesh now relies on “virtual entrepreneurs”, who work independently from the jihadist leadership to cultivate smaller lone-wolf attacks, researchers said. (Shutterstock)

March 14th, 2017 - 07:48 GMT

Daesh's 'virtual entrepreneurs' lure westerners with social media campaigns: US report