Monitors must desist from making statements before completing their job. IN the eyes of some, the hard work of the Arab League mission to monitor the violence in Syria has been cast into doubt by statement from one of its leaders.
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NEARLY one in four girls who gets the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine mistakenly thinks that her risk of getting other sexually transmitted diseases is lowered, a new study indicates...
JO-WILFRIED Tsonga overcame his first service break and a knock on his knee before beating compatriot Gael Monfils in straight sets in an all-French final at the Qatar ExxonMobil Open on Saturday...
DOHA AS dense fog enveloped Doha and its surrounding areas on Saturday, reducing visibility to as low as zero metre in some places, the Department of Meteorology has warned of another foggy day with poor visibility on Sunday...
DOHA PERFORMANCE indicators measuring the QE showed a positive performance for the month of December 2011. All major indicators such the QE Price Index, market value, total value trading ...
DOHA THE FIRST edition of the Al Kass International Cup U-17 kicks off on Sunday where the world's top U-17 football teams will compete in an exciting 10-day tournament running from January 8 to 17...
SHE'S a double Oscar winner with a knack for accents, but Meryl Streep says playing Margaret Thatcher was a challenge — although her own experience helped her understand the struggles faced by Britain's first female prime minister...
DOHA QATALUM has pledged support for the Qatar National Cancer Society (QNCS) as part of its corporate social responsibility strategy. Ibrahim J Fakhri and Khalifa al Khuzaei from Qatalum's Public Relations Department handed over a cheque to Abdullah Mohammed al Abdul Jabar, board member of the Qatar National Cancer Society recently. Fakhri, public relations manager of Qatalum, said: "As a Qatari company interested in public welfare activities and in offering assistance to various social organisations, such as the Qatar National Cancer Society...
DOHA THE contributions of Formula 1 race cars to environmental sustainability will be discussed at the monthly meeting of SustainableQatar on Monday. The meeting will be held at the Friends of the Environment Center by 6.30pm. Williams Technology Centre's General Manager Damien Scott will be at hand to show that new advances in sustainability being developed in Qatar result directly from the technology in use on the race track. The Williams patented flywheel energy storage technology can realise environmental benefits in energy savings, carbon emission reduction, and reduction in use and disposal of toxic chemicals....
DOHA BRIGHT Future Pakistani International School (BFPIS) team emerged as the overall winner of the annual Inter-School Debate contest held at the Pak Shamaa School and College (PSS) premises on Friday. The contest was organised by Ehsaas, a socio-cultural organisation of Pakistani expatriates in Qatar, to mark the birth anniversary of Pakistan's founder Mohammad Ali Jinnah. Pakistan's Ambassador to Qatar HE Muhammad Sarfaraz A Khanzada presided over the event while President of PSS Management Committee M A Shahid was the chief guest on the occasion...
WESTERN powers this week readied a contingency plan to tap a record volume from emergency stockpiles to replace nearly all the Gulf oil that would be lost if Iran blocks the Strait of Hormuz, industry sources and diplomats told Reuters. They said senior executives of the International Energy Agency (IEA), which advises 28 oil consuming countries, discussed on Thursday an existing plan to release up to 14 million barrels per day (bpd) of government-owned oil stored in the United States, Europe, Japan and other importers. Action on this scale would be more than five times the size of the biggest release in the agency's history — made in response to Iraq's 1990 invasion of Kuwait...
PARIS ITALIAN Prime Minister Mario Monti warned the European Union on Friday not to let divisions over managing its debt crisis blow up into serious splits, and French President Nicolas Sarkozy warned that a euro collapse could trigger instability. Sarkozy, who met Monti in Paris ahead of his talks in Berlin on Monday with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, said Rome and Paris shared a "perfectly identical view" on Europe's future and onhow the crisis of confidence in the bloc should be resolved. Monti, a respected technocrat, has been warmly embraced by the French and German leaders since he took over from Silvio Berlusconi in November and pledged to turn his crisis-hit country around...
PARIS FRANCE said on Friday it aimed to push ahead with a new tax on financial transactions even without its EU partners on board, although Germany and Italy stuck to the idea of a tax across the 27- nation bloc in the face of stiff resistance from Britain. Presidential adviser Henri Guaino said France would take a decision on the socalled "Tobin tax" by the end of January to set an example for the rest of Europe. French Finance Minister Francois Baroin said the aim was to have a tax in place this year, at least in France...
BRISBANE,(AUSTRALIA) SERENA Williams has a badly sprained left ankle, Roger Federer an aching back and Kim Clijsters a sore left hip. Add in a limping ‚ but "I'll be OK" ‚ Andy Murray, Rafael Nadal playing with a sore left shoulder from the end of last season and the advance tournaments for this year's Australian Open are beginning to look like a star-studded sports injury clinic. Williams' injury seems to be the most serious of the bunch, and could affect her chances of winning the singles title for the sixth time at Melbourne Park. She rolled over on it badly in the second round at the Brisbane International and pulled out of the tournament several hours later....
DOHA QATAR Stars League defending champion Lekhwiya strengthened its lead at the top of the table after a 2-1 home win over Al Rayyan at the Al Gharafa Stadium on Saturday. Lekhwiya has 22 points from eleven matches, while Rayyan stays in fourth place with 16 points. Aruna Dindane and Madjid Bougherra were the scorers for the host in the 50th and 52nd minute. Rayyan's only goal came from Yong-Hyung Cho on the hour mark Elsewhere, Al Kharaitiyat crushed Al Ahli 4-1 at the Hamad bin Khalifa Stadium to clinch its first win of the season. Two goals from Yahya Keipi, one goal each from Mohammed Abdulrahman and Tico Okonkwo completed the rout. ...
LONDON PREMIER League strugglers Wigan were the highest profile casualties as the FA Cup third round lived up to its fabled giant-killing tradition on Saturday. Wigan crashed out 2-1 at League Two outfit Swindon as the Latics' troubled season took another miserable turn. Calum McManaman had put Wigan 1-0 up but Swindon, managed by Italian Paolo Di Canio, struck back to claim a famous win with goals coming from Alan Connell and Paul Benson. Bolton narrowly avoided becoming another Premier League casualty as it was forced to come from behind to scramble a 2-2 draw at Macclesfield, the League Two side who are 64 places below Wanderers. ...
REMEMBER those tall, shiny, metal, sliding boards? They seemed dauntingly steep, but you took the plunge and whizzed downward. Next, you tackled the monkey bars, climbing higher and higher and hanging by your knees at the pinnacle. Playgrounds are a lot different for today's preschoolers. Low sliding boards, safer plastic climbers and fence-protected platforms are meant to prevent injury. But a preliminary study suggests an unintended result: unenthused, less active kids. Platforms lead to nowhere, climbers are short and slides are slow. The equipment is easily mastered and kids soon lose interest, daycare providers told researchers in a series of focus groups....
WHAT'S the first step toward cooking and eating better ? Perhaps you should start by learning how to boil water. While that may not sound like much of a cooking technique, you will gain a new appreciation for the hidden potential of boiled food after reading the new book An Everlasting Meal: Cooking with Economy and Grace, by the chef and food writer Tamar Adler. Placing a pot of water on a hot burner allows us to "do more good cooking than we know," she writes. Adler waits for a rapid boil and adds surprisingly large handfuls of salt, tasting until it's reminiscent of ocean water...
REESE Witherspoon met her current husband Jim Toth when his drunken friend tried to chat her up. The Water For Elephants actress revealed she was approached by an intoxicated man at a party before Jim intervened to save both Reese and his pal. She explained in an interview with the US edition of Elle magazine: "It happened out of the blue. This really drunk guy was hitting on me, making such an idiot of himself, yelling at me. He was like, 'You don't know me.' And I was like, 'Yeah, I know. I don't know you!' Jim came over and said, 'Please excuse my friend....
AP MAIDUGURI MEMBERS of a radical Muslim sect attacked a church in northeast Nigeria during a worship service, part of a series of assaults that killed at least 30 people, authorities said on Saturday.
AFP MOSCOW CHINA’S state media stepped up its criticism on Saturday of the United States’ planned strategic shift into Asia, accusing Washington of being a “troublemaker” responsible for mounting tensions in the region...
