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It stretches along the Arabian Sea, across the water from places like Dubai, which has risen from the sands into glittering, monied skyscrapers.

Now - after a fully deserved victory engineered by a manager in Eddie Howe who has transformed the club in a time of riches under Saudi Arabian owners - the curse has been cast aside.

Hugo, an Arabian Mau, was owned by local woman Jane Rutherford who rescued him from Doha when he was six months old.

One of these ridges — known as the “subtropical ridge” — typically circles the globe at around 30 degrees latitude and gives rise to the Arabian, Saharan, and Sonoran deserts.

We followed, noting the car's unusual number plate - its code indicated the car was issued by the Saudi Arabian embassy in Washington DC, and that the vehicle's owner was embassy staff.