ON Monday, October 31,
seven months after it started,
NATO's operation in
Libya came to an end. It is
the first time NATO has
ended an operation it started. And it
comes on the heels of an...
A FEW years back
Representative Barney
Frank coined an apt phrase
for many of his colleagues:
weaponised Keynesians,
defined as those who believe "that
the...
THE Advisory Council (Shura)
elections would be held in the second
half of 2013. The Emir His
Highness Sheikh Hamad bin
Khalifa al Thani announced this
while inaugurating the 40th ordinary
session of the Advisory
Council on...
"WE are in a hurry to bring about change because going slow is too costly," said the winner of the first WISE Prize for Education Fazle Hasan Abed from Bangladesh as he received the award from the Emir His Highness...
THE Heir Apparent His Highness Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al Thani on Tuesday laid the foundation stone for the Barzan Gas Project in Doha. The project, a joint venture between Qatar...
PAKISTAN cricketers Salman Butt and Mohammad Asif were on Tuesday found guilty of fixing parts of a Test match against England in a case that has thrown the credibility of the international game into...
PRODUCER Frank Liddell compares most country music stars to drivers in Manhattan. They circle and circle until they find a parking spot, and once they find one, they never want to leave. Miranda Lambert found a roomy...
EXECUTIVE Director of Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) Michel Sidibe said on Tuesday that unity among partners in the fight against AIDS has become imperative as the world has reached a critical point in the spread of the disease. In a speech delivered on his behalf by Hind Khatib, regional director of UNAIDS at the ´Qatar Symposium on: Family, the MDGs...
THE Emir His Highness Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al Thani inaugurated the 40th ordinary session of the Advisory Council on Tuesday. The ceremony was attended by the Heir Apparent His Highness Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al Thani and the Special Adviser to HH the Emir His Highness Sheikh Abdullah bin Khalifa al Thani. Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs HE Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jabor al Thani, Deputy Prime Minister and Chief of the Emiri Diwan.
IMPROVING the social and financial level status of teachers in the Arab region is critical in ensuring delivery of quality education in the region, Dr Muhammad Faour, senior associate at the Carnegie Middle East Center in Lebanon, has said. Speaking at the World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE 2011) session on ´Education and Change in the Arab World´ on Tuesday, Faour said that the...
MINISTER of Energy and Industry and Chairman & Managing Director of Qatar Petroleum His Excellency Dr Mohammad bin Saleh al Sada and Total CEO Christophe De Margerie made their presence on Tuesday for the signing of a research framework agreement that sets the foundation for research cooperation between the two oil giants. The agreement was signed by Issa Shahin Issa al Ghanim, chairman of the steering committee for research and technology.
PRIME Minister George Papandreou´s shock decision to call a referendum on Greece´s bailout drew veiled threats from Germany on Tuesday and hammered markets edgy over the eurozone crisis. European politicians complained that Athens was trying to wriggle out of the rescue deal agreed only last week, concerned not so much about the fate of Greece as the possibly dire...
AUSTRALIA´S central bank cut its benchmark interest rate by a quarter percentage point on Tuesday in a bid to bolster the nation´s economy amid uncertainty stemming from Europe´s debt crisis. The Reserve Bank of Australia´s decision to lower the rate to 4.5 percent was largely expected by economists, and was the first time the bank had lowered its key interest rate since April 2009. The bank cited the significant slowdown in European...
AL SADD forwards Mamadou Niang and Keita Abdul Kader will be eligible for the Asian Champions League final, football chiefs said on Tuesday, after they escaped further bans over an ugly mass brawl. They were initially suspended for one match for their roles in the fight against South Korea´s Suwon Bluewings in the ACL first-leg semi-final last month, but were left to sweat on Tuesday´s ruling...
THE 2011 World Arabian Horse Organisation Conference will begin on Wednesday with its General Assembly. A host of activities are lined up for the prestigious event which Doha is organising for the first time. Ritz Carlton Hotel is the venue for the Conference which runs till November 8. Over 400 delegates are set to attend the Conference. WAHO President Dr. Hans- Joachim Nagel will address the members and a large number of VIP guests...
REAL Madrid return to familiar territory on Wednesday when they face Lyon, looking for a win that would seal their place in the Champions League knockout stages with two games left in Group D. Ever since a mid-September slip that saw them take just one point from two league games — a full-blown crisis for a club as big and as closely scrutinised as Madrid — Jose Mourinho´s side have won eight games in a row in all competitions, scoring an impressive 29...
WHEN I was 8, my mom gave me a selfesteem bear. It told me I was great. So I could relate to the recent New York Magazine article called The Kids Are Actually Sort of Alright. It´s a thoughtful millennials´ manifesto, written by one, which examines, among other things, existing in a chilly world after a childhood of warm and bountiful praise. The writer, Noreen Malone, quotes Lael Goodman, 27, who says: "The worst thing is that I´ve always gotten selfworth...
JACKSON Rathbone, a star of the Twilight movies, likened the wildly popular series about love between a human and a vampire to the story of Romeo and Juliet, as the next-to-last film in the saga was screened recently at Rome´s film festival. Speaking to reporters about The Twilight Saga - Breaking Dawn Part 1, Rathbone called the love between Bella and Edward "almost as mythological as the Romeo and Juliet story," referring to...
RELIANCE Mediaworks is offering 3D conversion services to Bollywood studios and its first project is Shah Rukh Khan-starrer Don 2: The Chase Continues. Producer Ritesh Sidhwani says the success of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2 in 3D drove their decision to convert Don 2 into the format. "After seeing the success of Harry Potter which was also converted, we were...
SYRIA and the Arab League have
agreed on a road map to end the
violence. A formal announcement
will be made on Wednesday at
Arab League headquarters in Cairo,
Syrian official media said.
PAKISTAN cricketers Salman Butt
and Mohammad Asif were on
Tuesday found guilty of fixing parts
of a Test match against England in
a case that has thrown the credibility
of the international game into
doubt.
EXECUTIVE Director of Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) Michel Sidibe said on Tuesday that unity among partners in the fight against AIDS has become imperative as the world has reached a critical point in the spread of the disease. In a speech delivered on his behalf by Hind Khatib, regional director of UNAIDS at the ´Qatar Symposium on: Family, the MDGs...
THE Emir His Highness Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al Thani inaugurated the 40th ordinary session of the Advisory Council on Tuesday. The ceremony was attended by the Heir Apparent His Highness Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al Thani and the Special Adviser to HH the Emir His Highness Sheikh Abdullah bin Khalifa al Thani. Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs HE Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jabor al Thani, Deputy Prime Minister and Chief of the Emiri Diwan.
IMPROVING the social and financial level status of teachers in the Arab region is critical in ensuring delivery of quality education in the region, Dr Muhammad Faour, senior associate at the Carnegie Middle East Center in Lebanon, has said. Speaking at the World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE 2011) session on ´Education and Change in the Arab World´ on Tuesday, Faour said that the...
MINISTER of Energy and Industry and Chairman & Managing Director of Qatar Petroleum His Excellency Dr Mohammad bin Saleh al Sada and Total CEO Christophe De Margerie made their presence on Tuesday for the signing of a research framework agreement that sets the foundation for research cooperation between the two oil giants. The agreement was signed by Issa Shahin Issa al Ghanim, chairman of the steering committee for research and technology.
PRIME Minister George Papandreou´s shock decision to call a referendum on Greece´s bailout drew veiled threats from Germany on Tuesday and hammered markets edgy over the eurozone crisis. European politicians complained that Athens was trying to wriggle out of the rescue deal agreed only last week, concerned not so much about the fate of Greece as the possibly dire... 
AUSTRALIA´S central bank cut its benchmark interest rate by a quarter percentage point on Tuesday in a bid to bolster the nation´s economy amid uncertainty stemming from Europe´s debt crisis. The Reserve Bank of Australia´s decision to lower the rate to 4.5 percent was largely expected by economists, and was the first time the bank had lowered its key interest rate since April 2009. The bank cited the significant slowdown in European...
AL SADD forwards Mamadou Niang and Keita Abdul Kader will be eligible for the Asian Champions League final, football chiefs said on Tuesday, after they escaped further bans over an ugly mass brawl. They were initially suspended for one match for their roles in the fight against South Korea´s Suwon Bluewings in the ACL first-leg semi-final last month, but were left to sweat on Tuesday´s ruling...
THE 2011 World Arabian Horse Organisation Conference will begin on Wednesday with its General Assembly. A host of activities are lined up for the prestigious event which Doha is organising for the first time. Ritz Carlton Hotel is the venue for the Conference which runs till November 8. Over 400 delegates are set to attend the Conference. WAHO President Dr. Hans- Joachim Nagel will address the members and a large number of VIP guests... 
REAL Madrid return to familiar territory on Wednesday when they face Lyon, looking for a win that would seal their place in the Champions League knockout stages with two games left in Group D. Ever since a mid-September slip that saw them take just one point from two league games — a full-blown crisis for a club as big and as closely scrutinised as Madrid — Jose Mourinho´s side have won eight games in a row in all competitions, scoring an impressive 29...
WHEN I was 8, my mom gave me a selfesteem bear. It told me I was great. So I could relate to the recent New York Magazine article called The Kids Are Actually Sort of Alright. It´s a thoughtful millennials´ manifesto, written by one, which examines, among other things, existing in a chilly world after a childhood of warm and bountiful praise. The writer, Noreen Malone, quotes Lael Goodman, 27, who says: "The worst thing is that I´ve always gotten selfworth... 
JACKSON Rathbone, a star of the Twilight movies, likened the wildly popular series about love between a human and a vampire to the story of Romeo and Juliet, as the next-to-last film in the saga was screened recently at Rome´s film festival. Speaking to reporters about The Twilight Saga - Breaking Dawn Part 1, Rathbone called the love between Bella and Edward "almost as mythological as the Romeo and Juliet story," referring to... 
RELIANCE Mediaworks is offering 3D conversion services to Bollywood studios and its first project is Shah Rukh Khan-starrer Don 2: The Chase Continues. Producer Ritesh Sidhwani says the success of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2 in 3D drove their decision to convert Don 2 into the format. "After seeing the success of Harry Potter which was also converted, we were... 
