Mitt Romney had a hard time selling his agenda to far right GOP supporters THE Iowa caucuses, in which a nation awaits the verdict of a handful of some of its least representative citizens, are not going to settle the race for the Republican nomination for president.
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LET'S hear it for Volkswagen at the start of 2012. The German automaker has responded to demands from its works council by agreeing to stop the email server to its BlackBerry-using employees a half-hour after their shift ends...
The Emir His Highness Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al Thani with Mauritanian President Sidi Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz at the presidential palace,in Nouakchott
DOHA THREE of German football club Bayern Munich's top stars interacted with their fans and took part in an autograph signing session at the Adidas store in Villaggio on Thursday...
NEW YORK SERVICE sector gains and better- than-expected jobs data in the United States failed to stem a rout in stocks and the euro on Thursday, as concerns about Europe's debt crisis lingered after a...
DOHA IF befitting for the 20th anniversary of the Qatar ExxonMobil Open, all the four top seeds, led by No 1 Rafael Nadal, qualified for the last four stages at the Khalifa International Tennis and Squash Complex on Thursday...
VARUN DHAWAN: David Dhawan's elder son Rohit Dhawan made his debut as a director in 2011 with Desi Boyz. His younger son Varun Dhawan will debut as an actor with Karan Johar's ambitious project Student of the Year...
DOHA THE Qatar Society of Petroleum Engineers (QSPE) held a lecture on Wednesday which focused on the extraction of gas from wells with minimal sand production. The lecture was delivered by Mike Gunningham, well, reservoir and facility management advisor at Maersk Oil Qatar. With an MSc in petroleum engineering, Gunningham is also a lecturer with the Society for Petroleum Engineers (SPE) which has given him an opportunity to lecture internationally. He told the audience that "cased and selectively perforated wells deliver world class performance by maximising gas production while minimising sand production...
DOHA DIRECTOR-GENERAL of the Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (ISESCO) Dr Abdulaziz Othman Altwaijri has lauded Qatar's support for the organisation's efforts in spreading Islamic culture and Arabic language. Dr Altwaijri said that Qatar as a founding member of the ISESCO fulfills its obligations to the organisation regularly and actively participates in the implementation of action plans adopted by the ISESCO General Conference every three years. The ISESCO director-general highlighted Qatar's continuous support for the programmes and activities of the organisation...
DOHA AFTER hosting pre-school promotional festival for four and five year olds on Wednesday, the Qatar Tennis Federation (QTF) hosted another promotional event for six and seven year olds on the sidelines of the Qatar ExxonMobil Open 2012 on Thursday. Around 850 boys and girls from 13 schools took part in the festival. The session included fun activities in the 'Kid's Zone', face painting, drawing, clown show and fitness demonstration. The children received presents at the end of the session. Around 25 coaches and volunteers focused on the tennis and fitness' aspects of the sports. They held different drills for skills and ....
NEW DELHI/MUMBAI THE Directorate-General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) on Thursday demanded assurances from Kingfisher Airlines and the budget arm of Air India that their financial problems would not affect safety. The DGCA told the airlines to offer a timeline to put in place measures to tackle their financial problems, which it said were affecting maintenance, training and other operations that could compromise safety. "There is a list of discrepancies," Bharat Bhushan, the director general of the agency, told reporters, referring to aircraft maintenance and other potential safety problems....
PARIS FRENCH borrowing costs rose slightly when the eurozone's second-largest economy sold debt for the first time this year on Thursday but demand was solid despite concerns the country could lose its AAA credit rating. With a heavy schedule of debt redemptions in the first quarter, market fears about euro states' ability to fund their debts remains high. France, which has a slowing economy and a presidential election looming in April, is seen by many to be at greater risk from ebbing investor confidence than regional powerhouse Germany....
NEW DELHI BIGGER is better for global automakers aggressively targeting growth in India's underdeveloped SUV market as the country's much-vaunted small car market stalls. Ford Motor Co, Hyundai Motor Co and domestic leader Maruti Suzuki Ltd all unveiled new SUV models for the Indian market as part of over a dozen new rugged, full-powered SUVs at the Delhi Auto Expo. India's once-booming small car market has slumped, dragging overall sales growth into the doldrums, as first-time buyers and customers requiring credit baulk at high interest rates and rising fuel and vehicle costs....
SYDNEY TRIPLE centurion Michael Clarke put team interests ahead of personal glory as Australia moved towards a crushing win over India in the second Test in Sydney on Thursday. Captain Clarke, unbeaten on 329, declared Australia's first innings closed at 659 for four to press for victory despite various individual milestones beckoning. After building a massive 468-run lead, Clarke called a halt to the onslaught to give his attack seven and a half sessions to bowl India out.He was rewarded with the key wickets of Virender Sehwag and Rahul Dravid as the tourists dug in to save going 2-0 down in the four-Test series....
DOHA GERMAN Bundesliga Champion Bayern Munich pummeled Qatar Stars League second division club Al Sailiya 13-0 in its first friendly match of 2012 at the Aspire Academy for Sports Excellence in Doha on Thursday. The Bayern team was in full command with the return of star midfielder Bastian Schweinsteiger after his lay-off due to a collarbone injury restricting him to two months of competitive football. Arjen Robben, Mario Gomez and Thomas Müller scored before half time, Ivica Olic scored an incredible five, Nils Petersen and Franck Ribéry claimed a brace apiece...
MADRID DEFENDING champion Real Madrid staged a second-half fightback to beat Malaga 3-2 on Tuesday in the first leg of their Copa del Rey round-of- 16 match. Sergio Sanchez and Martin Demichelis gave visitors Malaga a surprise early lead with almost identical headers inside the first half-hour but Sami Khedira got Madrid's comeback started with a goal in the 68th minute and Gonzalo Higuain hauled Madrid level two minutes later. After relentless pressure, Karim Benzema slid home the winner in the 78th. "The team didn't start the game as it should have," said Madrid coach Jose Mourinho....
ADBLOCK Plus became the most popular piece of "add-on" software for the Firefox Web browser, in part, because it had a simple mission: See online ad, block online ad. The name said it all – and each day 10 million people or so surf the Internet with Adblock Plus installed, presumably never missing the advertising they were meant to see. In December, however, Adblock Plus introduced a new concept, the "acceptable ad" – that is, an ad so inoffensive that it shouldn't necessarily be blocked by the software. And nothing has been quite so simple since...
SPECIALTY museums closed by the dozen this year, in fields as rarefied as New Jersey farming and Arizona mining, and their collections were stored away or split up. But broader institutions and their benefactors still had spare cash to make high-profile purchases. Here are six of 2011's most intriguing auction lots that emerged on the market and are now already on view or will be soon. An 1870s tintype of the outlaw Billy the Kid, the only known image of him, brought $2.3 million in June at Brian Lebel's Old West Auction in Denver...
FILMMAKERS Abbas-Mustan, known for making fast-paced action thrillers, are set to entertain their fans with another lean and mean heist flick, Players, that released in Doha on thursday. Co-produced by Viacom 18 and Abbas- Mustan, the film is the official remake of Hollywood movie Italian Job and stars Abhishek Bachchan, Sonam Kapoor, Bipasha Basu, Bobby Deol, Neil Nitin Mukesh, Sikander Kher and Omi Vaidya in prominent roles. Abhishek plays Charlie Mascarenhas, a chartered accountant by day and a master thief at night. He's got razor sharp intelligence...
SEOUL SOUTH Korea said on Thursday it wants better relations with North Korea under its new leader, despite Pyongyang’s fierce criticism of Seoul since the death of longtime ruler Kim Jong-il.
