As
the American School of Doha began its new academic year classes
in Sunday, it retained processes and procedures put in place
before the vacations in June to prevent the spread of AH1N1
virus. Parents were once more advised to refrain from sending
their children to school if they showed any symptoms of fever,
sore throat or flu.
OBSTETRICIANS and other medical professionals have long called
for an end to the barbaric and medically risky practice of shackling
pregnant prisoners - by their legs, wrists and even around their
abdomens - during labour. The Federal Bureau of Prisons ended
routine shackling last year and limited the use...
THE
Obama family is off for a week of summer vacation. This is something
Barack owes Michelle and the girls, although I am sure he would
personally have preferred to stay in Washington listening to
people tell him what to do about health care. The president
is getting no end of helpful suggestions. Right now there is
probably a caddy...
The day marked
the start of the long, tough and
rocky climb to the Carnegie Melon
University-Qatar (CMU-Q) summit.
"Congratulations, Class 2013,"
thundered Sara Abbas a senior
student of Business Administration...
Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar (VCUQatar) has welcomed 60 full time new students to its campus in Education City. Against 15 percent young men, the Class of 2013 has 85 percent are young women.
Palestine's
Wataniya Mobile said it has set
a deadline for the release of
frequencies needed for the launch
of mobile phone network, or else
will ask for licence fee returns
and other financial compensation.
Ethiopian superstar Kenenisa Bekele and Americans LaShawn Merritt and Sanya Richards won their second gold medals on the final day of the world athletics championships here on Sunday.
The monopoly of white models on the catwalks and in the glossies over the past decade has been immovable, but many fashionistas now believe the future is Asian. As Conde Nast prepares to launch GQ China ...
Indian Ambassador HE Deepa Gopalan Wadhwa has urged members of the Indian Business Professionals Network (IBPN) to generate awareness among businesses in Qatar and the general community on what India can offer in general tourism and medical tourism, service industry and small scale manufacturing. The ambassador spoke during a meeting with members of IBPN in Doha recently. She is the patron of the forum. IBPN President Azim Abbas gave a briefing on the forum´s activities and programmes...
Consolidated Gulf Co (CGC), Nokia partner for Qatar, rewarded its selected business partners with a week-long fun tour to the Philippines. The excursion for a group of 20 persons included a trip to the beautiful island of Cebu and several other natural and historical places in the Philippines. The tour follows the grand annual partner excellence awards ceremony in which CGC awarded the best performing channel partners with plaques and certificates. Welcoming the channel partners on their return, Anil Mahajan, COO, CGC...
Leading Pakistani professionals and members of the business community organised a function to welcome NLC Pearl´s new general manager and bid adieu to its outgoing head at Marriot Hotel on Saturday. Zaheer Rashid served as General Manager of NLC Pearl for one year and is scheduled to return back to Pakistan soon. His successor Saadullah Fatmi recently arrived in Doha. NLC Pearl is Pakistan´s leading construction company, engaged in several...
China Petroleum & Chemical Corp, Asia´s biggest refiner, said first-half profit rose more than four-fold, beating estimates, after the government eased curbs on fuel prices and the nation´s economic recovery spurred demand. Net income increased to 33.2 billion yuan ($4.86 billion), or 0.381 yuan a share, from a restated 7.7 billion yuan, or 0.057 yuan a share, a year earlier, Sinopec, as China Petroleum is known, said in a statement to the Hong Kong stock exchange on Sunday. That compares with a 27 billion-yuan...
President Barack Obama´s domestic policy proposals will face the reality of skyrocketing deficits on Tuesday when officials release two government reports projecting huge budget shortfalls over the next decade. The White House budget office and the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), a nonpartisan arm of Congress, release updated economic forecasts and deficit estimates on Tuesday, providing further fiscal fodder to opponents of Obama´s nearly $1 trillion healthcare overhaul plan. Many of the figures...
Empty terrace tables at Parisian cafes. Fewer sunbathers scattered along Italian and Spanish beaches: The global economic crisis has cast a dark cloud over Europe´s top tourist destinations. France, the world´s tourism champion with 79.3 million visitors last year, has been hit hard by the drop in foreign travellers. The number of international visitors in France has fallen by nearly one-third in the heat of summer — July and August — after sinking by...
Michael Owen admitted it was a relief to fire home his first Manchester United goal in the Premier League as the defending champions handed Wigan a 5-0 mauling on Saturday. The 29-year-old England striker came off the bench on 71 minutes and, after being put through by Nani, produced a vintage finish five minutes from time. "I probably scored the hardest chance I´ve had," said Owen, who had failed to find the net in United´s two opening league games against Birmingham and Burnley. "I had two chances at Burnley...
Russia´s Maria Sharapova took another big step in her comeback at the Toronto Cup on Saturday reaching her first final in more than year with a gritty 6-2 4-6 6-4 over Alisa Kleybanova. Playing for a title for the first time since Amelia Island in April 2008, Sharapova will try to confirm her return from shoulder surgery with a victory when she takes on compatriot Elena Dementieva in Sunday´s final. Fourth seeded Dementieva advanced to her fourth final of the yearer...
Pakistan has never beaten India in an ICC tournament and pacer Umar Gul says his team is desperate to break the jinx when the two sides come face to face in next month´s Champions Trophy in South Africa. "While every match will be important, the game against India, as always, will be special for both the sides. No rivalry can match that between India and Pakistan and I think the September 26 match will be something billions of people all over the world will be...
InMyOne and Only, a good-natured comedy road film set in 1953, Renée Zellweger plays Ann Devereaux, a fading Southern belle who drags along her two teenage boys on a nationwide husband-hunting expedition. Crinkling her eyes, smiling coyly and perambulating with seductive flounces, Ann could be a cousin of Blanche DuBois. She belongs to a breed of aggressively glamourous women whose syrupy wiles modern feminism has rendered quaint, and Zellweger inhabits her fully. The journey begins when Ann...
Talent-hunt show moghul Simon Cowell is so fond of dogs that he donates $165,000 every year to an animal shelter. Cowell gives the massive sum to Exorcist run by actress Linda Blair in Toluca Lake, California because he views it as the next best thing to having his own pet, reported femalefirst. co.uk. "Simon is a huge dog lover but because he´s always travelling he can´t have one. He thought it would be a great idea to help Linda out," said a source. "He doesn´t like to talk about it as he sees it as a private arrangement,"...
It´s all about Shahid Kapoor these days. His portrayal of the morallyincompatible twins – the ruffian with the endearing lisp and the simpleton who stammers – in Kaminey has catapulted the chocolate hero into an A-lister and audiences can´t stop raving. And just so we don´t forget the romantic hero, promos of his forthcoming Dil Bole Hadippa are all over the place. Six years after his debut in Ishq Vishk, Shahid has finally got his due. "Shahid is one of the most...
Kenenisa Bekele of Ethiopia completed
the first long distance double
at a world athletics championships
with a 5,000 metres victory in Berlin
on Sunday. American title holder
Bernard Lagat came second while
James Kwalia C’Kurui of Qatar took
third place.
Yemeni troops have
killed more than 100 Shiite
rebels, including two of their
commanders, in an operation
to recapture a small
town in the northern mountains,
the government said
on Sunday.
Indian Ambassador HE Deepa Gopalan Wadhwa has urged members of the Indian Business Professionals Network (IBPN) to generate awareness among businesses in Qatar and the general community on what India can offer in general tourism and medical tourism, service industry and small scale manufacturing. The ambassador spoke during a meeting with members of IBPN in Doha recently. She is the patron of the forum. IBPN President Azim Abbas gave a briefing on the forum´s activities and programmes... 
Consolidated Gulf Co (CGC), Nokia partner for Qatar, rewarded its selected business partners with a week-long fun tour to the Philippines. The excursion for a group of 20 persons included a trip to the beautiful island of Cebu and several other natural and historical places in the Philippines. The tour follows the grand annual partner excellence awards ceremony in which CGC awarded the best performing channel partners with plaques and certificates. Welcoming the channel partners on their return, Anil Mahajan, COO, CGC... 
Leading Pakistani professionals and members of the business community organised a function to welcome NLC Pearl´s new general manager and bid adieu to its outgoing head at Marriot Hotel on Saturday. Zaheer Rashid served as General Manager of NLC Pearl for one year and is scheduled to return back to Pakistan soon. His successor Saadullah Fatmi recently arrived in Doha. NLC Pearl is Pakistan´s leading construction company, engaged in several...
China Petroleum & Chemical Corp, Asia´s biggest refiner, said first-half profit rose more than four-fold, beating estimates, after the government eased curbs on fuel prices and the nation´s economic recovery spurred demand. Net income increased to 33.2 billion yuan ($4.86 billion), or 0.381 yuan a share, from a restated 7.7 billion yuan, or 0.057 yuan a share, a year earlier, Sinopec, as China Petroleum is known, said in a statement to the Hong Kong stock exchange on Sunday. That compares with a 27 billion-yuan...
President Barack Obama´s domestic policy proposals will face the reality of skyrocketing deficits on Tuesday when officials release two government reports projecting huge budget shortfalls over the next decade. The White House budget office and the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), a nonpartisan arm of Congress, release updated economic forecasts and deficit estimates on Tuesday, providing further fiscal fodder to opponents of Obama´s nearly $1 trillion healthcare overhaul plan. Many of the figures...
Empty terrace tables at Parisian cafes. Fewer sunbathers scattered along Italian and Spanish beaches: The global economic crisis has cast a dark cloud over Europe´s top tourist destinations. France, the world´s tourism champion with 79.3 million visitors last year, has been hit hard by the drop in foreign travellers. The number of international visitors in France has fallen by nearly one-third in the heat of summer — July and August — after sinking by...
Michael Owen admitted it was a relief to fire home his first Manchester United goal in the Premier League as the defending champions handed Wigan a 5-0 mauling on Saturday. The 29-year-old England striker came off the bench on 71 minutes and, after being put through by Nani, produced a vintage finish five minutes from time. "I probably scored the hardest chance I´ve had," said Owen, who had failed to find the net in United´s two opening league games against Birmingham and Burnley. "I had two chances at Burnley...
Russia´s Maria Sharapova took another big step in her comeback at the Toronto Cup on Saturday reaching her first final in more than year with a gritty 6-2 4-6 6-4 over Alisa Kleybanova. Playing for a title for the first time since Amelia Island in April 2008, Sharapova will try to confirm her return from shoulder surgery with a victory when she takes on compatriot Elena Dementieva in Sunday´s final. Fourth seeded Dementieva advanced to her fourth final of the yearer... 
Pakistan has never beaten India in an ICC tournament and pacer Umar Gul says his team is desperate to break the jinx when the two sides come face to face in next month´s Champions Trophy in South Africa. "While every match will be important, the game against India, as always, will be special for both the sides. No rivalry can match that between India and Pakistan and I think the September 26 match will be something billions of people all over the world will be...
InMyOne and Only, a good-natured comedy road film set in 1953, Renée Zellweger plays Ann Devereaux, a fading Southern belle who drags along her two teenage boys on a nationwide husband-hunting expedition. Crinkling her eyes, smiling coyly and perambulating with seductive flounces, Ann could be a cousin of Blanche DuBois. She belongs to a breed of aggressively glamourous women whose syrupy wiles modern feminism has rendered quaint, and Zellweger inhabits her fully. The journey begins when Ann...
Talent-hunt show moghul Simon Cowell is so fond of dogs that he donates $165,000 every year to an animal shelter. Cowell gives the massive sum to Exorcist run by actress Linda Blair in Toluca Lake, California because he views it as the next best thing to having his own pet, reported femalefirst. co.uk. "Simon is a huge dog lover but because he´s always travelling he can´t have one. He thought it would be a great idea to help Linda out," said a source. "He doesn´t like to talk about it as he sees it as a private arrangement,"... 
It´s all about Shahid Kapoor these days. His portrayal of the morallyincompatible twins – the ruffian with the endearing lisp and the simpleton who stammers – in Kaminey has catapulted the chocolate hero into an A-lister and audiences can´t stop raving. And just so we don´t forget the romantic hero, promos of his forthcoming Dil Bole Hadippa are all over the place. Six years after his debut in Ishq Vishk, Shahid has finally got his due. "Shahid is one of the most... 
Kenenisa Bekele of Ethiopia completed
the first long distance double
at a world athletics championships
with a 5,000 metres victory in Berlin
on Sunday. American title holder
Bernard Lagat came second while
James Kwalia C’Kurui of Qatar took
third place.
