"It took about two-and-a-half hours to escort the horse back to dry land and into the hands of a vet, " Kelly said.

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There is no sign to mark it, just a sprawl of heavy, dark, tropical hardwood left to dry and age in the sun and a couple of half-finished canoes in front of the open-air shed where he does his work.

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That was followed by an online dry-cleaning service called PurpleTie, which crumpled after a year and a half.

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Despite the arch-capitalist atmosphere, half the sheikhdom's top hotels, its airport, seaports, refinery, dry dock, aluminium smelter and two of its three banks, among other assets, are government-controlled.

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