The futuristic walled city of Neom in Saudi Arabia is turning into a grandiose failure instead ... The city-wall was supposed to stretch for 170 km and be 500 meters high. But the ambition was dashed ...

Private yachts were moored nearby, and some of the biggest celebrities were in attendance as Saudi Arabia partially opened Neom, its ambitious $500 billion mega-city in the desert.

When the Saudi Crown Prince ... for his futuristic mirror city in the desert, he promised a “civilisational revolution”. The images revealed a gleaming 170 km-long skyscraper city only 200m ...

Neom, the £1.2 trillion ambitious mega-city in Saudi Arabia, has already cost £40 billion ... The Line will stretch over 170 kilometers from the Neom mountains through the desert to eventually ...

The Saudi crown family's megalomaniacal dream of building a gigantic, futuristic holiday resort in the middle of the desert is facing a brutal reality check. Saudi Arabia’s ambitious Neom ...

Satellite images from December 2024 show the construction of the Hidden Marina section of The Line, a planned 170-kilometer-long linear city located in northwestern Saudi Arabia on the Red Sea coast.

Saudi Arabia is building a futuristic mega-city 33 times the size of New York City from scratch. Saudi officials describe it as "the world's most ambitious project." It's called Neom, a planned 16 ...

(Johnny Simon/WSJ, Abaca/Sipa/AP, Planet Labs, AFP/Getty Images) Costs are spiraling at Neom, Saudi Arabia’s planned desert metropolis. Early work on the futuristic project, anchored by an ...

but will the 170-kilometer-long megacity known as "the Line" ever become a reality? Journalists cannot freely report from Saudi Arabia, so we analyzed satellite imagery and spoke to experts to ...