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Cash rich Dubai on Wednesday unveiled the latest in a series of grandiose projects, a 75 kilometre (46 mile) canal which will extend the business and leisure hub into the heart of the emirate's desert.

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When it comes to Italy and canals, Venice has the glamour but Milan has the mileage: three times longer than the waterways of its tourist magnet neighbor.

But the 152 kilometers, or 94 miles, of historic shipping canals, construction of which the Renaissance genius Leonardo da Vinci helped oversee, are falling apart and experts are fighting to save one of Italy's lesser-known treasures.

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