Oman Air, which introduced
additional 11 flights
from Doha registering an
increase of more than 100 percent
in the number of flights
between Doha and Muscat in
one go, has embarked on a
massive expansion drive to
compensate for the loss .
PRESIDENT Obama
wisely began trying to
improve the United
States´ extremely sour
relations with Latin
America this week. He
slightly eased the counterproductive
embargo
on Cuba, and in a visit to
Mexico, he vowed to help
confront the drug cartels.
THE blood pressure drug valsartan
may not prevent
episodes of a dangerous
abnormal heart rhythm called
atrial fibrillation, an Italian study
finds.
Earlier research had suggested
that valsartan (Diovan) might
reduce the occurrence of atrial fibrillation.
Among things
that make Bill Gates excited are
countries like Qatar "that
invests in future". Microsoft
chairman Gates advised institutions
and organisations not to flinch
from investing in innovation.
The students
of Shafallah Center will dish
out their talent in the field
of music and art during the three-day
4th International Forum being
held at the centre from April
20 to 22. Department heads of
Shafallah Center.
The US Treasury
and financial regulators are clashing
with each other over how to disclose
results from the stress tests
of 19 US banks, with some officials
concerned at potential damage
.
HE Sheikh
Joaan bin Hamad al Thani steered
his swanky red-coloured Mitsubishi
Evo 10 to a brilliant win in the
fourth leg of the NBK Group Qatar
National Rally.
Through tears
and shock, Madonna continues her
fight for baby Mercy. Madonna
is nothing if not a master of
self-control. But she couldn't
contain her emotions when her
lawyer Alan Chinula rushed to
her room .
The famous author from United States, Kirby Larson, reached Doha and visited I-Spy bookstore at City Center on Saturday. She signed copies of her famous book Hattie Big Sky, which had won her the New Berry Honor Book award in 2007. A large number of students visited the store to buy the book, which is priced at QR 45. During her stay here, the author will visit four schools in Doha where she will talk to students about how she became a writer and narrate to them about her experience.
Pak-Qatar Family Takaful is planning to branch out in GCC countries while expanding its operation activities in Pakistan, said firm´s CEO P Ahmed. Unveiling his firm´s products and services at a presentation held at the Al-Dana Club recently Ahmed said Pak-Qatar Family Takaful was planning to open its branches in Qatar, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Bahrain and Kuwait to cater to the needs of non-resident Pakistanis. "We will soon be opening...
Founder of Mircosoft and one of the world´s most generous philanthropists, Bill Gates arrived at Education City on Saturday and met with several members of the board of directors of Qatar Foundation. Dr Fathy Saoud, President of Qatar Foundation, Dr Abdulla al Kubaisi, Executive Director of the Office of Her Highness Sheikha Mozah bint Nasser al Missned and Dr Tidu Maini, Executive Chairman of Qatar Science and Technology Park (QSTP) met him on the...
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev met his Azerbaijani counterpart Ilham Aliyev on Friday to discuss a deal on natural gas sales which could undermine the EUbacked Nabucco pipeline. "In my opinion we have a very high chance of entering a fullblown agreement," Medvedev told reporters after meeting Aliyev at the Russian leader´s residence outside Moscow. The meeting came after Russia and Azerbaijan´s staterun energy companies last month signed a preliminary deal on natural gas.
UPS Inc said on Friday that talks with DHL about carrying some of its air packages have ended, scuttling a venture that originally was expected to generate up to $1 billion in annual revenue for the world´s largest shipping carrier. Spokesman Norman Black told The Associated Press that the two companies agreed to terminate their negotiations. He did not elaborate. But the move was expected by many analysts after DHL decided that it would no longer offer US domestic-only air and ground services.
Singapore´s worst economic crisis since independence is predicted to be even worse than expected, with output now forecast to shrink by up to 9.0 percent in 2009, official data showed on Saturday. The Ministry of Trade and Industry (MTI) said gross domestic product (GDP) would fall by 6.0 to 9.0 percent this year, a stunning downgrade from the previous official estimate of a decline of 2.0 to 5.0 percent. "MTI´s earlier forecast had factored in the likelihood.
Sebastian Vettel delivered the Red Bull team their first pole position when he topped the times with a brilliant performance in qualifying for Sunday´s Chinese Grand Prix. The 21-year-old rising star clocked a best lap of one minute and 36.565 seconds in the closing seconds of a closely-fought session to end Jenson Button´s early season run of two straight poles in Australia and Malaysia. It was Vettel´s second pole after seizing his first at last year´s Italian Grand Prix where he went on to win.
Manchester United Manager Sir Alex Ferguson continued his war of words with Liverpool boss Rafa Benitez on Friday, accusing him of treating opponents with contempt. He criticised him for describing Liverpool´s city rivals Everton, whom United face in Sunday´s FA Cup semifinal, as a small club. "Everton are a big club, not a small one which Benitez arrogantly said," said Ferguson. He then condemned the Spaniard for a gesture he made during his team´s.
Bill Guerin thought he´d seen it all in the NHL. Then he saw this. Of all the strange and different ways there are to win a playoff game, this is among the rarest-a two-man advantage goal in overtime. Guerin scored one to give the Pittsburgh Penguins a dramatic 3-2 victory and a two-game series edge over the Philadelphia Flyers on Friday night, and he almost didn´t know what to say. Except this: Whew. "There´s a first time for everything," the 38-year-old Guerin said, referring to his first career overtime.
Consumers who buy minicars to economise on fuel are making a big tradeoff when it comes to safety in collisions, according to an insurance group that slammed three minimodels into midsize ones in tests. In a report prepared for release recently, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety said that crash dummies in all three models tested — the Honda Fit, the Toyota Yaris and the Smart Fortwo — fared poorly in the collisions. By contrast, the midsize models into which they crashed fared.
After teaming up with Ranbir Kapoor in the hit film Bachna Ae Haseeno, director Siddharth Anand has signed his childhood buddy for his next film too. The surprising thing is the casting of Priyanka Chopra opposite the young actor for the first time. "It is a romantic comedy, which I´ve specialised in over the years. But this is a twisted one with a twang and all that jazz," Anand said. Though neither producer Sajid Nadiadwala nor Anand are willing...
The peril in building a murdermystery thriller around a journalist is that a reporter is not a cop. Yet just about everything Russell Crowe does in State of Play, as DC reporter Cal McAffrey, relates to police work, not journalism. He visits an autopsy room, withholds evidence, grills a witness in a safe house, comes under fire more than once and targets the perp. He seldom has deadlines or writes anything. The highly implausible State of Play makes for a reasonably good edge-of-your-seater.
The number of failed US banks
reached 25 this year after two more
regional financial institutions closed
their doors, the government announced.
The tally for less than the first
four months of this year has already
equalled the total of last year.
Dubai’s ruler insists his Gulf emirate
has recovered from the worst of the
fallout from the global economic crisis.
“We have overcome the crisis
with the least amount of losses,”
Sheikh Mohammad bin Rashed al
Maktoum.
The famous author from United States, Kirby Larson, reached Doha and visited I-Spy bookstore at City Center on Saturday. She signed copies of her famous book Hattie Big Sky, which had won her the New Berry Honor Book award in 2007. A large number of students visited the store to buy the book, which is priced at QR 45. During her stay here, the author will visit four schools in Doha where she will talk to students about how she became a writer and narrate to them about her experience.
Pak-Qatar Family Takaful is planning to branch out in GCC countries while expanding its operation activities in Pakistan, said firm´s CEO P Ahmed. Unveiling his firm´s products and services at a presentation held at the Al-Dana Club recently Ahmed said Pak-Qatar Family Takaful was planning to open its branches in Qatar, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Bahrain and Kuwait to cater to the needs of non-resident Pakistanis. "We will soon be opening... 
Founder of Mircosoft and one of the world´s most generous philanthropists, Bill Gates arrived at Education City on Saturday and met with several members of the board of directors of Qatar Foundation. Dr Fathy Saoud, President of Qatar Foundation, Dr Abdulla al Kubaisi, Executive Director of the Office of Her Highness Sheikha Mozah bint Nasser al Missned and Dr Tidu Maini, Executive Chairman of Qatar Science and Technology Park (QSTP) met him on the...
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev met his Azerbaijani counterpart Ilham Aliyev on Friday to discuss a deal on natural gas sales which could undermine the EUbacked Nabucco pipeline. "In my opinion we have a very high chance of entering a fullblown agreement," Medvedev told reporters after meeting Aliyev at the Russian leader´s residence outside Moscow. The meeting came after Russia and Azerbaijan´s staterun energy companies last month signed a preliminary deal on natural gas.
UPS Inc said on Friday that talks with DHL about carrying some of its air packages have ended, scuttling a venture that originally was expected to generate up to $1 billion in annual revenue for the world´s largest shipping carrier. Spokesman Norman Black told The Associated Press that the two companies agreed to terminate their negotiations. He did not elaborate. But the move was expected by many analysts after DHL decided that it would no longer offer US domestic-only air and ground services. 
Singapore´s worst economic crisis since independence is predicted to be even worse than expected, with output now forecast to shrink by up to 9.0 percent in 2009, official data showed on Saturday. The Ministry of Trade and Industry (MTI) said gross domestic product (GDP) would fall by 6.0 to 9.0 percent this year, a stunning downgrade from the previous official estimate of a decline of 2.0 to 5.0 percent. "MTI´s earlier forecast had factored in the likelihood.
Sebastian Vettel delivered the Red Bull team their first pole position when he topped the times with a brilliant performance in qualifying for Sunday´s Chinese Grand Prix. The 21-year-old rising star clocked a best lap of one minute and 36.565 seconds in the closing seconds of a closely-fought session to end Jenson Button´s early season run of two straight poles in Australia and Malaysia. It was Vettel´s second pole after seizing his first at last year´s Italian Grand Prix where he went on to win. 
Manchester United Manager Sir Alex Ferguson continued his war of words with Liverpool boss Rafa Benitez on Friday, accusing him of treating opponents with contempt. He criticised him for describing Liverpool´s city rivals Everton, whom United face in Sunday´s FA Cup semifinal, as a small club. "Everton are a big club, not a small one which Benitez arrogantly said," said Ferguson. He then condemned the Spaniard for a gesture he made during his team´s.
Bill Guerin thought he´d seen it all in the NHL. Then he saw this. Of all the strange and different ways there are to win a playoff game, this is among the rarest-a two-man advantage goal in overtime. Guerin scored one to give the Pittsburgh Penguins a dramatic 3-2 victory and a two-game series edge over the Philadelphia Flyers on Friday night, and he almost didn´t know what to say. Except this: Whew. "There´s a first time for everything," the 38-year-old Guerin said, referring to his first career overtime. 
Consumers who buy minicars to economise on fuel are making a big tradeoff when it comes to safety in collisions, according to an insurance group that slammed three minimodels into midsize ones in tests. In a report prepared for release recently, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety said that crash dummies in all three models tested — the Honda Fit, the Toyota Yaris and the Smart Fortwo — fared poorly in the collisions. By contrast, the midsize models into which they crashed fared. 
After teaming up with Ranbir Kapoor in the hit film Bachna Ae Haseeno, director Siddharth Anand has signed his childhood buddy for his next film too. The surprising thing is the casting of Priyanka Chopra opposite the young actor for the first time. "It is a romantic comedy, which I´ve specialised in over the years. But this is a twisted one with a twang and all that jazz," Anand said. Though neither producer Sajid Nadiadwala nor Anand are willing... 
The peril in building a murdermystery thriller around a journalist is that a reporter is not a cop. Yet just about everything Russell Crowe does in State of Play, as DC reporter Cal McAffrey, relates to police work, not journalism. He visits an autopsy room, withholds evidence, grills a witness in a safe house, comes under fire more than once and targets the perp. He seldom has deadlines or writes anything. The highly implausible State of Play makes for a reasonably good edge-of-your-seater. 
The number of failed US banks
reached 25 this year after two more
regional financial institutions closed
their doors, the government announced.
The tally for less than the first
four months of this year has already
equalled the total of last year.
Dubai’s ruler insists his Gulf emirate
has recovered from the worst of the
fallout from the global economic crisis.
“We have overcome the crisis
with the least amount of losses,”
Sheikh Mohammad bin Rashed al
Maktoum.
