Dubai Square: Creek Harbour's retail centrepiece slipped a decade to 2028
Announced 2018 as Creek Harbour's 2.6m sq m retail city; quiet for years, re-planned in 2024, relaunched in Dec 2025 as the 'world's first drive-through mall'.
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2,000 PUBLISHED CASES · REGULARLY UPDATEDMars Climate Orbiter burned up because ground software mixed English and metric units
Pound-seconds reached models expecting newton-seconds; after nine months of drift the spacecraft was lost at Mars — and NASA's checks never caught it.
Read the casePrrsaar and Chaubara ran a 'desi Jane Street' F&O loop — SEBI froze ₹28.12 crore
A broker and a related entity lost money on futures by design, pre-positioned options to catch the induced moves, and took bigger gains on the options leg.
Read the caseDM9 won a Cannes Grand Prix with AI-faked results — then lost it, and two more awards
Brazil's DM9 submitted AI-faked video to the Cannes jury. Grand Prix revoked, two more campaigns invalidated, CCO resigned. Brazil lost 11 Lions.
Read the caseBraskem mined rock salt under a Brazilian city for 40 years — the ground finally caved
Decades of salt mining left brine cavities under Maceió; when they collapsed in 2018, five neighborhoods emptied and 60,000 people had to leave.
Read the caseJaiprakash Associates: ₹5.44 trillion of claims, 2.8% recovery, equity wiped
Jaypee parent defaulted on ₹55,000 crore, litigated six years, and lost everything in the IBC: Adani won on payment speed, lenders recovered 2.8%, equity zero.
Read the caseMira Hayati: the dangdut star who sold mercury whitening cream to 20,000 resellers
A Makassar singer turned beauty mogul claimed Rp 10 billion a month selling whitening cream; BPOM found mercury in it — three courts later she was in prison.
Read the case半亩花田 burned 47% of revenue on ads — then regulator asked six questions
半亩花田 grew to ¥2.8B on Kuaishou. Its IPO filing exposed 47% marketing, 1.5% R&D, 85% family control — and a lowbrow livestream scandal.
Read the caseNikolaus Otto pushed his chief engineer out over a dispute — and lost the automobile
Otto forced Gottlieb Daimler out of Deutz over an engine dispute. Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach left, and built the engine that made the car.
Read the caseE&B's fitness balls burst under users for years; 44 burst reports never reached the CPSC
E&B's unit sold 3 million exercise balls prone to rupture when overinflated; it reported only in 2008 after 44 incidents and 29 injuries — a $550K penalty.
Read the caseThe CRISPR patent fight between Berkeley and the Broad Institute lasted a decade
UC Berkeley's Doudna and Charpentier invented CRISPR gene editing. The Broad Institute's Zhang filed a patent first. A decade-long patent dispute followed.
Read the caseCamaïeu dressed French women for 38 years — the court gave it one day to close
Five hundred and eight stores, 2,600 jobs, and an owner whose rescue plan asked the state for most of the money. Lille's commercial court said no.
Read the caseOasis was a UK high street favourite for 30 years — then it collapsed in 30 days
Oasis grew from one store in 1991 to a national chain with an IPO by 1995. In April 2020, it entered administration; 1,800 jobs were lost and all stores closed.
Read the caseMediaMath, ad tech's first DSP, sold for $22M after a $165M debt load
The first demand-side platform filed Chapter 11 with $165M of funded debt and $125M of trade liabilities after a $70M sale collapsed.
Read the caseNorinchukin chased yield abroad — the exit cost a record ¥1.8T loss
Japan's farm-cooperative bank sold ¥17.3T of foreign bonds to escape rate losses, booked a record ¥1.8T net loss and replaced its CEO.
Read the caseFree held 24 million customers' bank details too long. A breach cost it €42M.
A weak VPN let the attacker in. CNIL found Free had hoarded millions of records for no reason and told customers too little. The fine: €42M.
Read the caseWormhole published its own security fix — and a hacker minted $325M before it deployed
Wormhole pushed the fix for its signature bug to public GitHub before deploying it; an attacker copied it and minted 120,000 wETH worth $325M.
Read the caseMärklin paid €40m to consultants under its new investor — then filed for insolvency
The families sold a 150-year-old model-train maker to an investor in 2006. €40m went to consultants, the banks pulled credit — February 2009, insolvency.
Read the caseBapco moves to call $484m of bond guarantees as refinery dispute goes to arbitration
Four years late, Bahrain's Sitra refinery revamp became a bond war: Bapco won leave to call $484m of guarantees; the builders froze them in three countries.
Read the caseDingqiao sold Huawei look-alikes in Huawei stores at Huawei prices
TD Tech's Dingqiao M40 mimicked Huawei's Mate40 design and sold in Huawei stores at the same price — with half the specs and no Huawei after-sales.
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