When Reyma Alen
Thomas, a member of Qatar´s
national athletic team and a
class X student of MES Indian
School, took a leap of 5.06 metres
at the First Asian Youth Games
being held in Singapore she not
only won for herself the silver
medal in girls´ long jump but also
brought laurels...
IN an assessment that is
not particularly surprising,
Pakistan finds itself
tenth on the Foreign Policy
journal´s annual index of
failed states. It is an accurate
representation of the
quagmire it has found itself
in ever since the new US
administration proved to
be serious...
JUST under four years ago
Michael Vaughan stood before
an ecstatic crowd at the Oval
ground in London, brandishing
cricket´s most storied trophy, the
Ashes, after leading England to a
long-awaited series victory over
Australia. It was the apogee of his
career.
With 12 more
bodies of
ship mishap victims being
fished out on Thursday, the
search and rescue team has
been successful in pulling out
18 bodies from the sea so far.
The search for the other 12
bodies is in progress.
Qatar University
(QU) celebrated the graduation
of 693 female students of the
Class of 2009 at a ceremony at
the Sheraton Hotel on Thursday.
The graduates comprised eight
MBAs, 13 MAs in Education...
A South African
businessman accused of orchestrating
a 15 billion rand ($1.93 billion)
fraud has admitted to forging
documents to deceive Qatar's Barwa
Real Estate, a source close to
the matter said...
Venus Williams
delivered crushing 6-1, 6-0 humiliation
to world number one Dinara Safina
on Thursday to line up against
her sister Serena for the fourth
time in a Wimbledon final.
In a sterile,
gray-carpeted rehearsal studio
in Los Angeles, Nick Jonas is
struck by a flash of inspiration:
a musical interlude for the Jonas
Brothers' 10-person backing band
to play while he, singer Joe and
guitarist Kevin make their exit.
The soaring temperature and humidity have left the traders at the fresh vegetable market, off Salwa Road, a worried lot. Even as the scorching heat has slowed down their business with very few customers coming to the mart, the humidity has added to their agony by taking a toll on their vegetables and fruits which tend to rot very quickly. All the improvisations they had done to keep their products fresh before the onset of summer have fallen by the wayside due to the humid scorcher. Speaking to Qatar Tribune...
The German School of Doha is working on an expansion strategy that will lead to the number of students in the school being doubled during the next school term, beginning on September 1. Since it´s foundation in October 2008 the school has developed enormously. Around 50 girls and boys aged between three and 15 years have finished their first school year. German construction companies based in Doha brought forth the idea of founding the German School mainly to attract employees with their families...
Malankara Orthodox Church, a worship place for the Malankara Christian community was consecrated in Doha on Thursday. Geevarghese Mar Kurilos, the bishop of Malankara Orthodox Church from India performed the consecration at Inter Denominational Christian Church (IDCC) complex at Abu Hamour. Thomas Mar Athnasious, bishop from Kerala region was the chief guest on the occasion. The spiritual leaders of the church were given warm welcome...
US stocks slid on Thursday after payrolls data showed much worse-thanexpected job losses for June, a sign that hopes for a quick economy recovery may be premature. US employers cut 467,000 jobs in June, far more than the 363,000 forecast by a Reuters survey. The unemployment rate rose to 9.5 percent, the highest since August 1983, the government said on Thursday, as the labour market continues to struggle. Stock losses were felt most heavily in the S&P 500´s consumer discretionary sector. GSPD, which fell...
Exelon Corp said on Thursday it raised its hostile takeover bid for rival NRG Energy Inc to about $8 billion in stock, citing newly identified cost savings and NRG´s acquisition of Reliant Energy´s Texas retail business . Exelon CEO John Rowe said in a statement that this is its "best and final offer." Both Exelon and NRG Energy have nominated a slate of directors for shareholders to vote on at NRG´s annual meeting on July 21. The outcome of that vote...
Buyout firms are eyeing minority stakes in publicly listed companies as sparse credit conditions prompt them to look for deals requiring no leverage — although they still want private- equity style returns. Debt funding for buyouts has dried up in the wake of the credit crisis, leading many large European and US buyout houses to consider PIPEs — private investment in public equity — as a means of putting their $1 trillion cash pile to work.
Spanish ace Carlos Sastre faces the race of his life over the next 21 days if he is to become the first rider since seven-time champion Lance Armstrong to successfully defend a Tour de France crown. The three-week epic clicks into gear with a 15.5km time trial here on Saturday´s first stage and Armstrong, despite a four-year absence from the race, is not ruling himself out of victory contention. After completing a pre-race training camp of key stages in the Alps, the 37-year-old American who returned to competition...
Flamboyant allrounder Shahid Afridi has said Pakistan would face a big challenge of switching over to Test cricket and adjusting to the Sri Lankan conditions after their month-long stint in the cold English conditions during the Twenty20 World Cup. "The series in Sri Lanka would not be easy at all it will be a big challenge for our players to make successful adjustment from T20 cricket to Tests as well the different weather conditions," Afridi said...
Worcestershire´s Stephen Moore blasted a century as a virtually full-strength Australia suffered the embarrassment of bowling 45 overs before taking an England Lions wicket. Moore´s unbeaten 103 guided the Lions to 185 for two at tea on Thursday´s second day of four here at New Road - a deficit of 173. However, Brett Lee, no certainty for a Test spot in next week´s Ashes opener in Cardiff, proved his speed and hostility hadn´t deserted him by snaring Kent´s 23...
French actress Marion Cotillard has gone from playing singing legend Edith Piaf to portraying the girlfriend of another kind of popular hero, bank robber John Dillinger. In the movie Public Enemies, Cotillard plays Billie Frechette, a woman who fell in love with Dillinger, played by Johnny Depp, during his illfated cops-and-robbers war with the US Federal Bureau of Investigation in the 1930s. Cotillard won the best actress Oscar for her portrayal of Piaf in 2007 movie La Vie en Rose. Her role in Public Enemies as the daughter...
Model-turned-actress Megan Fox has sparked rumours that she is dating her Transformers co-star Shia LaBeouf. The 23-year-old actress, who called it splits with beau Brian Austen Green recently, has moved on and was spotted having dinner with 23-year-old LaBeouf in New York, reports the New York Daily News. The pair caused heads to turn as they sat side by side during a dinner with 10 friends recently after attending a West Hollywood party together. "They definitely seemed into each other... Shia couldn´t keep his eyes...
After a strike between Hindi-language movie producers and multiplex owners, Indians are returning to the cinema. But some new Bollywood releases are being anticipated for a different reason — nudity. New York, charting the reactions of international students in the city on September 11, 2001, opened on recently and features actor John Abraham in the nude. Abraham´s buttocks were seen — briefly — in last year´s Dostana. Neil Nitin Mukesh, meanwhile...
Nakilat took delivery on Thursday of
another of the world’s largest and most
advanced Q-Flex LNG carriers. The
carrier has been chartered out on long
term contract to Qatargas Liquefied
Gas Company Limited (3), known as
Qatargas 3, according to a press release
on Thursday.
Jermaine Jackson said he would be
“hurt” if toxicology reports show that
Michael Jackson abused prescription
drugs, but that he did not know about
any drug use by his younger brother.
“In this business, the pressures and
things that you go through, you never
know what one turns to,” Jermaine
Jackson said in an interview broadcast
Thursday on NBC television.
The soaring temperature and humidity have left the traders at the fresh vegetable market, off Salwa Road, a worried lot. Even as the scorching heat has slowed down their business with very few customers coming to the mart, the humidity has added to their agony by taking a toll on their vegetables and fruits which tend to rot very quickly. All the improvisations they had done to keep their products fresh before the onset of summer have fallen by the wayside due to the humid scorcher. Speaking to Qatar Tribune... 
The German School of Doha is working on an expansion strategy that will lead to the number of students in the school being doubled during the next school term, beginning on September 1. Since it´s foundation in October 2008 the school has developed enormously. Around 50 girls and boys aged between three and 15 years have finished their first school year. German construction companies based in Doha brought forth the idea of founding the German School mainly to attract employees with their families...
Malankara Orthodox Church, a worship place for the Malankara Christian community was consecrated in Doha on Thursday. Geevarghese Mar Kurilos, the bishop of Malankara Orthodox Church from India performed the consecration at Inter Denominational Christian Church (IDCC) complex at Abu Hamour. Thomas Mar Athnasious, bishop from Kerala region was the chief guest on the occasion. The spiritual leaders of the church were given warm welcome... 
US stocks slid on Thursday after payrolls data showed much worse-thanexpected job losses for June, a sign that hopes for a quick economy recovery may be premature. US employers cut 467,000 jobs in June, far more than the 363,000 forecast by a Reuters survey. The unemployment rate rose to 9.5 percent, the highest since August 1983, the government said on Thursday, as the labour market continues to struggle. Stock losses were felt most heavily in the S&P 500´s consumer discretionary sector. GSPD, which fell... 
Exelon Corp said on Thursday it raised its hostile takeover bid for rival NRG Energy Inc to about $8 billion in stock, citing newly identified cost savings and NRG´s acquisition of Reliant Energy´s Texas retail business . Exelon CEO John Rowe said in a statement that this is its "best and final offer." Both Exelon and NRG Energy have nominated a slate of directors for shareholders to vote on at NRG´s annual meeting on July 21. The outcome of that vote...
Buyout firms are eyeing minority stakes in publicly listed companies as sparse credit conditions prompt them to look for deals requiring no leverage — although they still want private- equity style returns. Debt funding for buyouts has dried up in the wake of the credit crisis, leading many large European and US buyout houses to consider PIPEs — private investment in public equity — as a means of putting their $1 trillion cash pile to work.
Spanish ace Carlos Sastre faces the race of his life over the next 21 days if he is to become the first rider since seven-time champion Lance Armstrong to successfully defend a Tour de France crown. The three-week epic clicks into gear with a 15.5km time trial here on Saturday´s first stage and Armstrong, despite a four-year absence from the race, is not ruling himself out of victory contention. After completing a pre-race training camp of key stages in the Alps, the 37-year-old American who returned to competition... 
Flamboyant allrounder Shahid Afridi has said Pakistan would face a big challenge of switching over to Test cricket and adjusting to the Sri Lankan conditions after their month-long stint in the cold English conditions during the Twenty20 World Cup. "The series in Sri Lanka would not be easy at all it will be a big challenge for our players to make successful adjustment from T20 cricket to Tests as well the different weather conditions," Afridi said... 
Worcestershire´s Stephen Moore blasted a century as a virtually full-strength Australia suffered the embarrassment of bowling 45 overs before taking an England Lions wicket. Moore´s unbeaten 103 guided the Lions to 185 for two at tea on Thursday´s second day of four here at New Road - a deficit of 173. However, Brett Lee, no certainty for a Test spot in next week´s Ashes opener in Cardiff, proved his speed and hostility hadn´t deserted him by snaring Kent´s 23...
French actress Marion Cotillard has gone from playing singing legend Edith Piaf to portraying the girlfriend of another kind of popular hero, bank robber John Dillinger. In the movie Public Enemies, Cotillard plays Billie Frechette, a woman who fell in love with Dillinger, played by Johnny Depp, during his illfated cops-and-robbers war with the US Federal Bureau of Investigation in the 1930s. Cotillard won the best actress Oscar for her portrayal of Piaf in 2007 movie La Vie en Rose. Her role in Public Enemies as the daughter...
Model-turned-actress Megan Fox has sparked rumours that she is dating her Transformers co-star Shia LaBeouf. The 23-year-old actress, who called it splits with beau Brian Austen Green recently, has moved on and was spotted having dinner with 23-year-old LaBeouf in New York, reports the New York Daily News. The pair caused heads to turn as they sat side by side during a dinner with 10 friends recently after attending a West Hollywood party together. "They definitely seemed into each other... Shia couldn´t keep his eyes...
After a strike between Hindi-language movie producers and multiplex owners, Indians are returning to the cinema. But some new Bollywood releases are being anticipated for a different reason — nudity. New York, charting the reactions of international students in the city on September 11, 2001, opened on recently and features actor John Abraham in the nude. Abraham´s buttocks were seen — briefly — in last year´s Dostana. Neil Nitin Mukesh, meanwhile... 
Jermaine Jackson said he would be
“hurt” if toxicology reports show that
Michael Jackson abused prescription
drugs, but that he did not know about
any drug use by his younger brother.
“In this business, the pressures and
things that you go through, you never
know what one turns to,” Jermaine
Jackson said in an interview broadcast
Thursday on NBC television.
