Jordan has barred public sector workers from accessing more than 50 websites at work, after it was found they were wasting almost 3 hours a day online. The 30-day study found that public servants visited 70 million websites at work, of which only...

Oman, running low on oil, opened its real estate market to foreign ownership in 2006, part of a plan to diversify the economy and expand the country’s housing stock. The decision appears to have been a success, producing major projects like Al...