Even as the residents of Doha sweated it
out with humidity reached its highest this season recording
80 percent on Monday, the Department of Meteorology has forecasted
still more humid days ahead. According to the MET Department,
nights would be more humid than the days ...
A man who put out water jugs in a wildlife refuge in the Arizona
desert for illegal immigrants crossing from Mexico was convicted
of littering and sentenced last week to probation and 300 hours
of picking up trash, after he refused to pay a fine. Walt Staton
belonged to No More Deaths, an advocacy group...
I´M
not sure the man who popped off and tweeted that Sonia Sotomayor
was a "Latina woman racist" is the best Henry Higgins
for the Eliza Doolittle of Alaska. But Newt Gingrich was a professor.
And he does know something about pulling yourself up by dragging
down others and imploding when you take centre stage...
Qatar and
Turkey signed an agreement here
on Monday to waive off the visa
requirement for passport holders
of either country. The pact was
signed at the conclusion of the
official talks between the two
countries, jointly chaired by
the Emir...
The Northwestern University in Qatar (NU-Q) which offers programmes in journalism and in communication began its five-day orientation on Sunday. The orientation provides incoming students greater understanding about the university...
Vodafone Qatar aims to capture around 40 to 60 percent of the telecom market share in Qatar over the next 10 years and has definite market strategy in place to achieve this goal, a senior company official has said.
Olympic champion Primoz Kozmus claimed the first gold medal for Slovenia at world athletics championships when he dominated the hammer throw on Monday. Kozmus was the only athlete to beat the 80-metres mark ...
You have to
feel a little bit sorry for Amanda
Redman, who clearly didn't know
the first rule when lying about
your age: don't go on about it.
Just last month she said, "I certainly
haven't booked an appointment
for a face-lift for my 50th.
A large number of Indonesian nationals gathered at their embassy on Monday to celebrate of the 64th Anniversary of the Proclamation of Indonesian Independence. The celebration led by Indonesian Ambassador to Qatar HE Rozy Munir highlighted this year´s theme of speeding up economic recovery towards a safe, just, democratic and prosperous society in the spirit of August 17, 1945 independence proclamation. Speaking on the occasion, Munir asked the participants to keep in mind the sacrifices made...
Kerala Muslim Cultural Centre (KMCC), the socio-cultural forum of Kerala community, will distribute 6.4 million Indian rupees (about QR 500,000) among its members through its various schemes. SAM Basheer, the general secretary of KMCC said this at a press conference in Doha on Monday. Indian Ambassador HE Deepa Gopalan Wadhwa will distribute the fund on Thursday. The function entitled ´Snehasanthwanam´ will commence at 8.30 pm at the Ashoka Hall of Indian Cultural Center (ICC). "As many as...
Sohni Dahrti, an organisation of expatriate Pakistanis working with Qatargas, Ras Gas and Dolphin Energy, organised a colourful programme to mark Pakistan´s IDay at Al Waha Club in Al Khor recently. Pakistani embassy´s Community Welfare Attaché Dr Syed Mansoor Abbas Rizvi was the chief guest. Over 100 families participated. General Secretary Sohni Dharti Abid Jelani compeered the programme. Members of executive...
China, unfazed by failures to invest in Rio Tinto Group and Unocal Corp, will boost spending on oil and mining acquisitions by at least half this year to take advantage of lower valuations after commodity prices slumped. State-owned Yanzhou Coal Mining Co on Monday agreed to buy Australia´s Felix Resources Ltd. for about A$3.5 billion ($2.9 billion), a day after Sinochem Corp, China´s biggest chemicals trader, offered to buy Emerald Energy Plc for 532 million pounds ($881 million) to gain oil fields in Syria...
Swedbank AB, the Baltic region´s biggest bank, plans a second rights offer in less than a year as it seeks 15 billion kronor ($2.1 billion) to shore up reserves and help it exit the Swedish state´s bank support plan. Swedbank fell as much as 9.5 percent in Stockholm trading after announcing the share sale today. About 46.6 percent of the offering will be taken up by shareholders, including Folksam Group, 48 independent savings banks and state-owned...
Uncertainty over the world economic outlook is changing Middle East gold buying behaviour, with individuals seeking bars and coins as a buffer against hard times, rather than snapping up jewellery for aesthetic reasons. Investors are following those in the rest of the world into gold, partly compensating for lower consumption from the region´s traditional retail demand base. "People´s confidence in the stock market went down with the financial crisis"...
The most prolific offence in the American League is about to become even better. Torii Hunter returned from the disabled list on Sunday and immediately made a difference for the Los Angeles Angels, sparking a nine-run 13th inning that produced a 17-8 win over the Baltimore Orioles. After missing 32 games with a groin injury, Hunter had two hits and two RBIs in his first action since July 7. The threetime All-Star had a sacrifice fly in the first inning, but missed a chance to give LA the lead in the 11th by lining...
Serbia´s Jelena Jankovic boosted her US Open hopes with a brisk 6-4, 6-2 victory over world number one Dinara Safina on Sunday in the final of the two million-dollar WTA Cincinnati Open. "My smile is back and I´m having fun playing the matches," said Jankovic, who started the year atop the world rankings but has seen her status slip with a series of lackluster results. "This is what I missed. I missed this for maybe seven months this year." Jankovic bounced back from a tough semi-final victory on Saturday night to claim...
Tillakaratne Dilshan will add another feather to his allrounder´s cap when he opens the batting for Sri Lanka in the first Test against New Zealand here from Tuesday. Dilshan agreed to open to lend balance to the team despite playing all his 55 Tests so far in the middle-order where he has scored 3,166 runs at an average of 41.11 with eight centuries. "Dilshan is the sort of bloke who would willingly do any job for the team," Sri Lankan captain Kumar Sangakkara said...
People are so preoccupied with the importance of the soul, it´s become its own cottage industry. Oprah Winfrey has devoted an entire series to the evolution of one´s soul. If yours is hungry, you can feed it chicken soup. But what if you just didn´t need yours? What if you decided one day you´d be better off without a soul and just... had it removed? That´s the inspired and absurd premise of Cold Souls, the feature debut from writerdirector Sophie Barthes. And who better to personify such existential hand-wringing...
Hollywood actor George Clooney will file a lawsuit against two magazines and a photographer for peeping over the walls of his retreat in Italy and taking pictures of a topless 13- year-old girl. Clooney said the teen was changing in one of his guest rooms when the photographer took her pictures. He claimed that the photographer also took shots of him enjoying private moments with his girlfriend Elisabetta Canalis, reports contactmusic. com. "We´re suing two...
Has patriotism been diluted in the films being made nowadays? Bollywood filmmakers admit high-voltage patriotic movies like "Purab Aur Paschim" are no longer being made, but insist they haven´t stopped visiting the theme even though the numbers have come down. "I don´t think filmmakers are not interested...at least after what Rang De Basanti did. It created a kind of revolution in portraying anger and love, and proved that young India could love ar...
A truck packed with explosives
rammed through the gates of a police
compound in southern Russia on
Monday and exploded in an apparent
suicide attack that killed at least
20 people and wounded many, officials
said. The attack in the city of
Nazran, the main city in Ingushetia,
occurred as police officers lined up
for roll call in morning shift.
The ex-wife of the groom at a Kuwait
wedding where a raging fire killed 43
women and children has confessed to
starting the blaze as an act of revenge,
local newspapers reported on
Monday. Al-Qabas said the woman
had told police she used petrol to
torch a wedding tent packed with
women and children to avenge her
ex-husband’s “bad treatment” of her
before their divorce.
A large number of Indonesian nationals gathered at their embassy on Monday to celebrate of the 64th Anniversary of the Proclamation of Indonesian Independence. The celebration led by Indonesian Ambassador to Qatar HE Rozy Munir highlighted this year´s theme of speeding up economic recovery towards a safe, just, democratic and prosperous society in the spirit of August 17, 1945 independence proclamation. Speaking on the occasion, Munir asked the participants to keep in mind the sacrifices made... 
Kerala Muslim Cultural Centre (KMCC), the socio-cultural forum of Kerala community, will distribute 6.4 million Indian rupees (about QR 500,000) among its members through its various schemes. SAM Basheer, the general secretary of KMCC said this at a press conference in Doha on Monday. Indian Ambassador HE Deepa Gopalan Wadhwa will distribute the fund on Thursday. The function entitled ´Snehasanthwanam´ will commence at 8.30 pm at the Ashoka Hall of Indian Cultural Center (ICC). "As many as... 
Sohni Dahrti, an organisation of expatriate Pakistanis working with Qatargas, Ras Gas and Dolphin Energy, organised a colourful programme to mark Pakistan´s IDay at Al Waha Club in Al Khor recently. Pakistani embassy´s Community Welfare Attaché Dr Syed Mansoor Abbas Rizvi was the chief guest. Over 100 families participated. General Secretary Sohni Dharti Abid Jelani compeered the programme. Members of executive... 
China, unfazed by failures to invest in Rio Tinto Group and Unocal Corp, will boost spending on oil and mining acquisitions by at least half this year to take advantage of lower valuations after commodity prices slumped. State-owned Yanzhou Coal Mining Co on Monday agreed to buy Australia´s Felix Resources Ltd. for about A$3.5 billion ($2.9 billion), a day after Sinochem Corp, China´s biggest chemicals trader, offered to buy Emerald Energy Plc for 532 million pounds ($881 million) to gain oil fields in Syria... 
Swedbank AB, the Baltic region´s biggest bank, plans a second rights offer in less than a year as it seeks 15 billion kronor ($2.1 billion) to shore up reserves and help it exit the Swedish state´s bank support plan. Swedbank fell as much as 9.5 percent in Stockholm trading after announcing the share sale today. About 46.6 percent of the offering will be taken up by shareholders, including Folksam Group, 48 independent savings banks and state-owned... 
Uncertainty over the world economic outlook is changing Middle East gold buying behaviour, with individuals seeking bars and coins as a buffer against hard times, rather than snapping up jewellery for aesthetic reasons. Investors are following those in the rest of the world into gold, partly compensating for lower consumption from the region´s traditional retail demand base. "People´s confidence in the stock market went down with the financial crisis"...
The most prolific offence in the American League is about to become even better. Torii Hunter returned from the disabled list on Sunday and immediately made a difference for the Los Angeles Angels, sparking a nine-run 13th inning that produced a 17-8 win over the Baltimore Orioles. After missing 32 games with a groin injury, Hunter had two hits and two RBIs in his first action since July 7. The threetime All-Star had a sacrifice fly in the first inning, but missed a chance to give LA the lead in the 11th by lining...
Serbia´s Jelena Jankovic boosted her US Open hopes with a brisk 6-4, 6-2 victory over world number one Dinara Safina on Sunday in the final of the two million-dollar WTA Cincinnati Open. "My smile is back and I´m having fun playing the matches," said Jankovic, who started the year atop the world rankings but has seen her status slip with a series of lackluster results. "This is what I missed. I missed this for maybe seven months this year." Jankovic bounced back from a tough semi-final victory on Saturday night to claim... 
Tillakaratne Dilshan will add another feather to his allrounder´s cap when he opens the batting for Sri Lanka in the first Test against New Zealand here from Tuesday. Dilshan agreed to open to lend balance to the team despite playing all his 55 Tests so far in the middle-order where he has scored 3,166 runs at an average of 41.11 with eight centuries. "Dilshan is the sort of bloke who would willingly do any job for the team," Sri Lankan captain Kumar Sangakkara said...
People are so preoccupied with the importance of the soul, it´s become its own cottage industry. Oprah Winfrey has devoted an entire series to the evolution of one´s soul. If yours is hungry, you can feed it chicken soup. But what if you just didn´t need yours? What if you decided one day you´d be better off without a soul and just... had it removed? That´s the inspired and absurd premise of Cold Souls, the feature debut from writerdirector Sophie Barthes. And who better to personify such existential hand-wringing... 
Hollywood actor George Clooney will file a lawsuit against two magazines and a photographer for peeping over the walls of his retreat in Italy and taking pictures of a topless 13- year-old girl. Clooney said the teen was changing in one of his guest rooms when the photographer took her pictures. He claimed that the photographer also took shots of him enjoying private moments with his girlfriend Elisabetta Canalis, reports contactmusic. com. "We´re suing two... 
Has patriotism been diluted in the films being made nowadays? Bollywood filmmakers admit high-voltage patriotic movies like "Purab Aur Paschim" are no longer being made, but insist they haven´t stopped visiting the theme even though the numbers have come down. "I don´t think filmmakers are not interested...at least after what Rang De Basanti did. It created a kind of revolution in portraying anger and love, and proved that young India could love ar... 
A truck packed with explosives
rammed through the gates of a police
compound in southern Russia on
Monday and exploded in an apparent
suicide attack that killed at least
20 people and wounded many, officials
said. The attack in the city of
Nazran, the main city in Ingushetia,
occurred as police officers lined up
for roll call in morning shift.
The ex-wife of the groom at a Kuwait
wedding where a raging fire killed 43
women and children has confessed to
starting the blaze as an act of revenge,
local newspapers reported on
Monday. Al-Qabas said the woman
had told police she used petrol to
torch a wedding tent packed with
women and children to avenge her
ex-husband’s “bad treatment” of her
before their divorce.
