The
recent conviction of the accused in the murder case of 16-year-old
Qatari boy Mohammed al Majed by a UK court has evoked mixed
response from his father Abdullah al Majed. While hailing the
jury for holding the accused guilty, he is critical of the British
judicial system, which, he feels, is not tough enough on perpetrators
of such...
BEFORE
Afghanistan´s president, Hamid Karzai, acceded to a runoff
election on Tuesday, you could almost hear his arm being twisted.
And it took a lot of top-level talent to do it. Secretary of
State Hillary Rodham Clinton, Prime Minister Gordon Brown of
Britain and the French foreign minister, Bernard Kouchner, all
insisted...
SUGARY
soft drinks and energy drinks are taking it on the chin these
days. First, two public-health experts floated the idea of a
specific tax on sodas and energy drinks, and now, two other
researchers are saying the drinks contribute to obesity and
need an extreme makeover. Walter Willett, who chairs the nutrition
department at the Harvard School of Public...
Elegance meets
luxury. This sums up the 8th International
Furniture & Design Exhibition
(INFDEX) 2009, Qatar's biggest
annual interior design and furniture
exhibition, which was inaugurated
at Doha Exhibition Centre.
The 7th Doha
Interfaith Dialogue declaration
was made on Tuesday by the chairperson
of the Doha International Centre
for Interfaith Dialogue (DICID)
Ibrahim al Naimi. The two- day
conference held at the Sheraton
hotel...
Qatar Telecommunications Company (Qtel) on Wednesday said its third-quarter net profit rose 9 percent. Net profit attributable to shareholders in the period under review increased to QR710.9 million ($195.3mn)...
A goal in
each half on Wednesday gave South
Korea's Pohang Steelers a 2-0
victory over Qatar's Umm-Salal
and a crucial cushion to take
into the second leg of its AFC
Champions League semi-final. Pohang
made the most of home advantage...
"Making a movie at a theme park is like running Disneyland for a day," Jesse Eisenberg says. He should know. Earlier this year the 26-year-old actor headlined the indie film Adventureland, a coming-of-age romantic comedy in which he...
Qatar is to launch a survey soon to detect cases of brucellosis disease in animals in the country, the Director of Animal Resources Department in the Ministry of Environment Dr Kassem Nasser al Qahtani said on Wednesday. Addressing a press conference to announce the opening of the 10th Conference of the World Animal Health Organisation (OIE) Regional Commission for the Middle East at Grand Regency Hotel in Doha from October 26, al Qahtani said that the result of the survey would help...
Qatar Charity spent QR1.3 million in funding the treatment of 34 patients with serious disease so far this year as part of its effort to ameliorate the pains of poor families whose members suffer from serious sicknesses. In a press statement, Head of Projects in Qatar Charity Jassim Abdullah al Jassim said the funds were raised between October 2008 and September 2009 to provide assistance for locals and residents unable to treat their...
Qatar Tourism Authority (QTA) participating in the second annual ITB Asia, the largest Asian travel trade show, which began in Suntec City, Singapore on Wednesday and will end on Friday. QTA participated in the launch ITB Asia event in 2008, and as Asia is a growing and important market for Qatar, will be exhibiting in ITB Asia 2009 with an important delegation from Qatar´s tourism and hospitality industries...
The Obama administration will shutter programmes at the heart of a $700 billion financial bailout but remains focused on supporting a fledgling economic recovery, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said on Tuesday. "We are now at the point where we can begin to wind down the programmes that really defined TARP in its initial stages," Geithner told Reuters in an interview, referring to the Troubled Asset Relief Programme. "Instead, the administration will focus on more-targeted...
Japanese automakers such as Honda and Nissan want to reduce their reliance on the US market, where weak demand and a falling dollar have slashed profits, even as a poor turnout at their flagship auto show highlights the challenges at home. No major overseas brands made it to this year´s Tokyo Motor Show which kicked off on Wednesday, while floor space and the number of world premiere car models is half that of the...
Web sites run by Macy´s, Gap and Urban Outfitters may prop up retail sales this holiday season as discounts and online improvements drive more shoppers to their computers. Macy´s reported a 15 percent increase in online sales for the month of September, compared with a 2.4 percent decline in total revenue. In the second quarter, the most recent period available, Gap´s online sales climbed 17 percent...
Defending champion Jelena Jankovic is into the second round of the WTA Kremlin Cup after a battling three-set defeat of Jaroslava Shvedova of Kazakhstan here on Tuesday. In the ATP section Wayne Odesnik of the United States battled back from a set down to produce the biggest upset at the event so far ousting second seed Victor Hanescu of Romania 5-7, 7-5, 6-4. The second seeded Jankovic, who is seeking a place in the...
Sevilla and Olympique Lyon closed in on the knock-out stage of the Champions League football by winning their third group game in a row in the lucrative competition, while Barcelona were stunned at home by rookies Rubin Kazan. Sevilla won their Group G game in Germany against VfB Stuttgart 3-1, while Argentine international Cesar Delgado scored in injury time to give French club Lyon a 2-1 victory at Liverpool in a Group E match on Tuesday. In Barcelona the defending champions...
Australia captain Ricky Ponting says his side will need to maintain its dominant form in one-day cricket if it is to beat India in the series starting on Sunday. "We (Australia and India) are the number one and two teams in the world and all points to an entertaining and good contest over the next few weeks," Ponting told reporters on Wednesday. "India is a very good and strong one-day team and we are not underestimating them."
Reinhard Mohn, the entrepreneur behind Europe´s largest media group, Bertelsmann, shared the initials and ambitions of the media moguls Robert Maxwell and Rupert Murdoch, but little else. Mohn was a modest man who regularly ate in the company canteen in the north-eastern German town of Gutersloh, rode his bike to the office and was sometimes referred to derogatorily as ´Red Mohn´ because he gave his workers company shares...
She demanded a different holder for each of the many cigarettes she smoked daily during the filming of Cleopatra, and the holder´s colour couldn´t clash with the cloth on any table at which she smoked. Quick to the scene of Montgomery Clift´s near-fatal car crash in 1956, she crawled into the vehicle and, with her fingers, pulled out the smashed teeth lodged deep in his mouth, an intervention that may have saved his life. And when she and Richard Burton commenced their affair, he discovered...
Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan, one of the most effective campaigners against polio, is likely to work for the cause again. Amitabh, who is goodwill ambassador for UNICEF, says UN officials have asked him to again extend his support to the cause. "I have worked tirelessly for the eradication of polio in certain distinct parts of our country, namely Bihar and Uttar Pradesh. The UN authorities had come over to meet and discuss how they could extend the appointment further and how...
A passenger train in northern India
crashed into another train’s rear carriage
reserved for women and disabled
passengers, killing 22 people
and injuring 16 who remained
trapped for hours on Wednesday
near Agra. Rescuers had to cut open
the wrecked compartment to free
trapped passengers.
The Barwa Real Estate
Company’s net profit has registered a
jump of 209 percent in the third quarter
as compared to the same period
last year.
According to the consolidated
interim financial statement released
by the company on Wednesday...
Qatar is to launch a survey soon to detect cases of brucellosis disease in animals in the country, the Director of Animal Resources Department in the Ministry of Environment Dr Kassem Nasser al Qahtani said on Wednesday. Addressing a press conference to announce the opening of the 10th Conference of the World Animal Health Organisation (OIE) Regional Commission for the Middle East at Grand Regency Hotel in Doha from October 26, al Qahtani said that the result of the survey would help... 
Qatar Charity spent QR1.3 million in funding the treatment of 34 patients with serious disease so far this year as part of its effort to ameliorate the pains of poor families whose members suffer from serious sicknesses. In a press statement, Head of Projects in Qatar Charity Jassim Abdullah al Jassim said the funds were raised between October 2008 and September 2009 to provide assistance for locals and residents unable to treat their...
Qatar Tourism Authority (QTA) participating in the second annual ITB Asia, the largest Asian travel trade show, which began in Suntec City, Singapore on Wednesday and will end on Friday. QTA participated in the launch ITB Asia event in 2008, and as Asia is a growing and important market for Qatar, will be exhibiting in ITB Asia 2009 with an important delegation from Qatar´s tourism and hospitality industries... 
The Obama administration will shutter programmes at the heart of a $700 billion financial bailout but remains focused on supporting a fledgling economic recovery, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said on Tuesday. "We are now at the point where we can begin to wind down the programmes that really defined TARP in its initial stages," Geithner told Reuters in an interview, referring to the Troubled Asset Relief Programme. "Instead, the administration will focus on more-targeted... 
Japanese automakers such as Honda and Nissan want to reduce their reliance on the US market, where weak demand and a falling dollar have slashed profits, even as a poor turnout at their flagship auto show highlights the challenges at home. No major overseas brands made it to this year´s Tokyo Motor Show which kicked off on Wednesday, while floor space and the number of world premiere car models is half that of the...
Web sites run by Macy´s, Gap and Urban Outfitters may prop up retail sales this holiday season as discounts and online improvements drive more shoppers to their computers. Macy´s reported a 15 percent increase in online sales for the month of September, compared with a 2.4 percent decline in total revenue. In the second quarter, the most recent period available, Gap´s online sales climbed 17 percent...
Defending champion Jelena Jankovic is into the second round of the WTA Kremlin Cup after a battling three-set defeat of Jaroslava Shvedova of Kazakhstan here on Tuesday. In the ATP section Wayne Odesnik of the United States battled back from a set down to produce the biggest upset at the event so far ousting second seed Victor Hanescu of Romania 5-7, 7-5, 6-4. The second seeded Jankovic, who is seeking a place in the...
Sevilla and Olympique Lyon closed in on the knock-out stage of the Champions League football by winning their third group game in a row in the lucrative competition, while Barcelona were stunned at home by rookies Rubin Kazan. Sevilla won their Group G game in Germany against VfB Stuttgart 3-1, while Argentine international Cesar Delgado scored in injury time to give French club Lyon a 2-1 victory at Liverpool in a Group E match on Tuesday. In Barcelona the defending champions...
Australia captain Ricky Ponting says his side will need to maintain its dominant form in one-day cricket if it is to beat India in the series starting on Sunday. "We (Australia and India) are the number one and two teams in the world and all points to an entertaining and good contest over the next few weeks," Ponting told reporters on Wednesday. "India is a very good and strong one-day team and we are not underestimating them." 
Reinhard Mohn, the entrepreneur behind Europe´s largest media group, Bertelsmann, shared the initials and ambitions of the media moguls Robert Maxwell and Rupert Murdoch, but little else. Mohn was a modest man who regularly ate in the company canteen in the north-eastern German town of Gutersloh, rode his bike to the office and was sometimes referred to derogatorily as ´Red Mohn´ because he gave his workers company shares... 
She demanded a different holder for each of the many cigarettes she smoked daily during the filming of Cleopatra, and the holder´s colour couldn´t clash with the cloth on any table at which she smoked. Quick to the scene of Montgomery Clift´s near-fatal car crash in 1956, she crawled into the vehicle and, with her fingers, pulled out the smashed teeth lodged deep in his mouth, an intervention that may have saved his life. And when she and Richard Burton commenced their affair, he discovered... 
Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan, one of the most effective campaigners against polio, is likely to work for the cause again. Amitabh, who is goodwill ambassador for UNICEF, says UN officials have asked him to again extend his support to the cause. "I have worked tirelessly for the eradication of polio in certain distinct parts of our country, namely Bihar and Uttar Pradesh. The UN authorities had come over to meet and discuss how they could extend the appointment further and how... 
A passenger train in northern India
crashed into another train’s rear carriage
reserved for women and disabled
passengers, killing 22 people
and injuring 16 who remained
trapped for hours on Wednesday
near Agra. Rescuers had to cut open
the wrecked compartment to free
trapped passengers.
