THE fate of one man can sometimes
clarify the deepest flaws of
a government and of the society
it rules. Nowadays in Egypt, on
the anniversary of its uprising
against Hosni Mubarak, that man is
Maikel Nabil Sanad.
Nabil spent much of the last
...
SURE, Mittens can be
annoying.Paying an infuriatingly
low tax rate and
stashing millions in Swiss
banks and the Cayman
Islands, like a John Grisham villain.
Letting son Tagg tweet a picture
of him doing laundry on the
road.
No matter what Romney is ...
PRIME Minister and Minister of Foreign
Affairs HE Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin
Jabor al Thani and Arab League Chief Nabil
al Arabi are to head to New York on
Saturday to seek support for an Arab plan
on Syria, Arabi said.
The two will "hold a meeting with the UN.
THE Ministry of Interior (MoI) organised a traffic safety forum on Tuesday. The forum was attended by Director of Traffic Department Brigadier Mohammed Saad al Kharji and Secretary General ...
THE European Central Bank remains no closer to agreeing on whether or not it will take losses on the Greek bonds it owns, eurozone central bank sources said on Thursday. Policymakers were widely split on the issue at a late ...
RAFAEL Nadal once again proved Roger Federer's grand slam nemesis on Thursday, withstanding a withering opening from the Swiss great to reach the final of the Australian Open. The Spaniard won 6-7 (5/7), 6-2.
A CHAOTIC Oscar season found a bit order on Tuesday, as The Artist, a mostly silent tribute to old Hollywood, and Hugo, another bit of film nostalgia, joined The Descendants, about life and love in Hawaii, and Midnight in Paris, about literary Paris ...
LEVERAGING its position in building local and international relationships to promote environmentally sustainable practices, the Qatar Green Building Council (QGBC) hosted a delegation headed by the Swiss Secretary of State for Energy Walter Steinmann. The delegation comprised three of Steinmann´s senior aides and executives from 22 leading energy companies based in Switzerland. Jassim Telefat, treasurer of QGBC´s board of ...
QATARI and Brazilian high school students came together with National Geographic photographers and experts from Qatar University´s Environmental Studies Centre to take photographs of Doha´s Al Dhakhira mangroves. Twenty-two high school students and six teachers from the Qatar Foundation International (QFI)- supported Arabic language and culture programmes in São Paulo and Curitiba ...
INDIAN schools in Qatar celebrated the country´s 63rd Republic Day with flag hoisting ceremonies and special programmes on its school premises on Thursday. A large number of students, teachers, parents and volunteers took part in the events which were colourful and full of patriotic fervour. The MES Indian School — the largest Indian school in Qatar — celebrated the occasion with festive ...
AIRBUS acknowledged a combination of internal manufacturing and design flaws as more examples of wing cracks arose during checks on the A380, while insisting the world´s largest airliner is safe to fly. A top executive said the European planemaker had established how to repair the cracks on a small number of parts inside the superjumbo´s wings, which prompted European safety ...
EASYJET defied the gloom surrounding the global airline sector by posting strong growth in quarterly revenue, helped by an uplift in the number of business travellers flying with the British budget airline and milder winter weather. Europe´s second largest low-cost carrier said on Thursday revenue jumped 16.7 percent to 763 million pounds ($1.2 billion) in the three months to December, as passenger numbers rose 8.1 percent to 12.9 million in its first ...
ITALY´S borrowing costs dropped sharply as it sold the maximum amount of 5 billion euros at an auction of shortterm debt on Thursday, helping drive down yields on its longer-dated bonds ahead of a crucial sale of five- and 10- year paper on Monday. At the first auction since credit rating agency Standard & Poor´s downgraded Italy by two notches, yields on its twoyear zero-coupon bonds ...
THE two-day Qatar International Rally gets underway at the Qatar Motor and Motorcycle Federation (QMMF) headquarters in Doha on Friday morning and kick-starts a new season of FIA Middle East Rally Championship action. The seven-round series, scheduled in Qatar, Kuwait, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Cyprus and Dubai, attracts the cream of off-road drivers from around the Levant and Gulf regions. QMMF President Nasser bin Khalifa al Attiya welcomed.
AUSTRALIA held a massive 382-run lead after dismissing India cheaply on Thursday and opting to bat again rather than enforce the follow-on on the third day of the fourth Test in Adelaide. Rising star Virat Kohli hit his maiden Test century and India´s first of the series with a defiant 116 as the tourists, facing a 4-0 series wipeout, mustered just 272 in reply to Australia´s imposing 604 for seven declared. Australia skipper Michael Clarke chose not to send ...
BARCELONA survived a late comeback from holders Real Madrid to knock them out of the Spanish Cup with a 4-3 victory on aggregate after a 2- 2 draw at the Nou Camp where the visitors put up a spirited fightback to come from two goals down. Jose Mourinho may still not have won away to Barcelona in nine attempts as a coach, whether at Real or any of his other clubs, but his team´s performance was a perfect answer to the critics who have blasted their recent poor displays.
ACTOR R Madhavan is not amused by the plagiarism charges levelled against his new Hindi film Jodi Breakers by the Indian distributors of the Belgian film Heartbreakers. "Let them read our script and point out even one similarity. I challenge them to prove we´ve copied even a frame," said Madhavan. Directed by Ashwini Chaudhary, Jodi Breakers is a story of two individuals who break others´ ...
FOR Daniel Radcliffe, it´s time to forget Harry Potter. The 22- year-old actor, inextricably linked to the boy wizard he played throughout the movie franchise, takes on his first adult role in Victorian-era horror film The Woman in Black. Hitting theatres in Britain on February 10 and a week earlier in the United States, the movie is a step into the unknown for an actor who grew up on the set of one of Hollywood´s most successful series. Instead of production ...
A CIVIL court in the city had ordered an interim stay on Karikalan's filming after K S Rajasekaran, aka, Nagaraj sent a notice to the team alleging that the film's story and title were his. The court had also issued summons to its makers and hero Vikram. But, now, the producers of the film are planning to file a defamation suit against Rajasekaran for involving Vikram's name in this issue. S S Vasan, one of the film's producers, he said that it is grossly unfair to drag ...
THE two-day
Qatar International
Rally will get
underway at the
Qatar Motor and
Motorcycle
Federation
(QMMF) headquarters
in Doha on Friday morning.
The seven-round series,
scheduled in Qatar, Kuwait,
Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Cyprus
and Dubai, attracts the cream of
off-road drivers from around the
Levant and Gulf regions.
AT least 22 people were killed in
clashes between Shiite Muslim
rebels and fighters from a Sunni
Islamist group in a province under
rebel control in rugged northern
Yemen, tribal sources said on
Thursday. Fighters from a Sunni
group attacked the rebels on
Wednesday night in Hajja and in
the Kataf area of Saada province,
an area that has seen intense sectarian
fighting recently.
LEVERAGING its position in building local and international relationships to promote environmentally sustainable practices, the Qatar Green Building Council (QGBC) hosted a delegation headed by the Swiss Secretary of State for Energy Walter Steinmann. The delegation comprised three of Steinmann´s senior aides and executives from 22 leading energy companies based in Switzerland. Jassim Telefat, treasurer of QGBC´s board of ...
QATARI and Brazilian high school students came together with National Geographic photographers and experts from Qatar University´s Environmental Studies Centre to take photographs of Doha´s Al Dhakhira mangroves. Twenty-two high school students and six teachers from the Qatar Foundation International (QFI)- supported Arabic language and culture programmes in São Paulo and Curitiba ...
INDIAN schools in Qatar celebrated the country´s 63rd Republic Day with flag hoisting ceremonies and special programmes on its school premises on Thursday. A large number of students, teachers, parents and volunteers took part in the events which were colourful and full of patriotic fervour. The MES Indian School — the largest Indian school in Qatar — celebrated the occasion with festive ... 
AIRBUS acknowledged a combination of internal manufacturing and design flaws as more examples of wing cracks arose during checks on the A380, while insisting the world´s largest airliner is safe to fly. A top executive said the European planemaker had established how to repair the cracks on a small number of parts inside the superjumbo´s wings, which prompted European safety ...
EASYJET defied the gloom surrounding the global airline sector by posting strong growth in quarterly revenue, helped by an uplift in the number of business travellers flying with the British budget airline and milder winter weather. Europe´s second largest low-cost carrier said on Thursday revenue jumped 16.7 percent to 763 million pounds ($1.2 billion) in the three months to December, as passenger numbers rose 8.1 percent to 12.9 million in its first ...
ITALY´S borrowing costs dropped sharply as it sold the maximum amount of 5 billion euros at an auction of shortterm debt on Thursday, helping drive down yields on its longer-dated bonds ahead of a crucial sale of five- and 10- year paper on Monday. At the first auction since credit rating agency Standard & Poor´s downgraded Italy by two notches, yields on its twoyear zero-coupon bonds ...
THE two-day Qatar International Rally gets underway at the Qatar Motor and Motorcycle Federation (QMMF) headquarters in Doha on Friday morning and kick-starts a new season of FIA Middle East Rally Championship action. The seven-round series, scheduled in Qatar, Kuwait, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Cyprus and Dubai, attracts the cream of off-road drivers from around the Levant and Gulf regions. QMMF President Nasser bin Khalifa al Attiya welcomed. 
AUSTRALIA held a massive 382-run lead after dismissing India cheaply on Thursday and opting to bat again rather than enforce the follow-on on the third day of the fourth Test in Adelaide. Rising star Virat Kohli hit his maiden Test century and India´s first of the series with a defiant 116 as the tourists, facing a 4-0 series wipeout, mustered just 272 in reply to Australia´s imposing 604 for seven declared. Australia skipper Michael Clarke chose not to send ... 
BARCELONA survived a late comeback from holders Real Madrid to knock them out of the Spanish Cup with a 4-3 victory on aggregate after a 2- 2 draw at the Nou Camp where the visitors put up a spirited fightback to come from two goals down. Jose Mourinho may still not have won away to Barcelona in nine attempts as a coach, whether at Real or any of his other clubs, but his team´s performance was a perfect answer to the critics who have blasted their recent poor displays.
ACTOR R Madhavan is not amused by the plagiarism charges levelled against his new Hindi film Jodi Breakers by the Indian distributors of the Belgian film Heartbreakers. "Let them read our script and point out even one similarity. I challenge them to prove we´ve copied even a frame," said Madhavan. Directed by Ashwini Chaudhary, Jodi Breakers is a story of two individuals who break others´ ... 
FOR Daniel Radcliffe, it´s time to forget Harry Potter. The 22- year-old actor, inextricably linked to the boy wizard he played throughout the movie franchise, takes on his first adult role in Victorian-era horror film The Woman in Black. Hitting theatres in Britain on February 10 and a week earlier in the United States, the movie is a step into the unknown for an actor who grew up on the set of one of Hollywood´s most successful series. Instead of production ... 
A CIVIL court in the city had ordered an interim stay on Karikalan's filming after K S Rajasekaran, aka, Nagaraj sent a notice to the team alleging that the film's story and title were his. The court had also issued summons to its makers and hero Vikram. But, now, the producers of the film are planning to file a defamation suit against Rajasekaran for involving Vikram's name in this issue. S S Vasan, one of the film's producers, he said that it is grossly unfair to drag ... 
