Dubai hosts Gitex, floods hit Kerala, Saudi Arabia turns oil rig into hotel - Trending

Trending Middle East brings you the latest social media and search trends from the region and around the world. In today's episode Gitex opens to the public, the death toll from floods in India's Kerala rises to 23 and two men have been arrested in France in connection with a nightclub shooting. Saudi Arabia will transform an oil drilling platform into a hotel and theme park and the British Museum is to display a 3,600-year-old map of the stars.

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