In the closing days of last year, the Obama administration announced multibillion-dollar arms sales packages to Iraq and Saudi Arabia, including advanced fighter jets, tanks, helicopters and
One in 10 infants and toddlers have problems sleeping at night and may be at greater risk of developing a sleep disorder as they get older, a new study suggests.
THE Emir His Highness Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al Thani receives a message from the Custodian of The Two Holy Mosques Abdullah bin Abdulaziz al Saud...
DOHA QATAR Career Fair (QCF), a member of Qatar Foundation, has signed an agreement with Kuder, a leading international provider of internet-based tools for career planning, to provide a...
MAZAYA Qatar Real Estate Development Company has signed an agreement with QInvest to appoint the latter as financial advisor for its Sidra Village Residential Project...
DOHA TEAM Hummer's loss seems to be the Qatari shooting team's gain.Ace rally driver and Nasser bin Saleh al Attiyah, who won two stages in the 2012 Dakar Rally while defending his crown...
AS the Duchess of Cambridge turns 30 we follow the highs and lows of her growing wardrobe. With some hits and some misses continue to read to learn more...
DOHA THE Academic Bridge Program, a centre of Qatar Foundation, organised an orientation programme for 40 new students admitted to its 2012 spring semester recently. The event was aimed at introducing the ABP's policies and procedures as well as its administrators and faculty members to the students. ABP Director Dr Miles Lovelace welcomed students and briefed them about the programme...
DOHA THE Minister of Municipality and Urban Planning HE Sheikh Abdulrahman bin Khalifa bin Abdul Aziz al Thani signed a QR200 million consultancy services contract for the 'Central Planning Office Project' with the British consulting company, WS Atkins, on Wednesday. Speaking at the signing ceremony, the minister said that the office was created to coordinate many transport projects in Qatar...
DOHA AS part of its humanitarian initiative to support the displaced people of Syria and Yemen, Qatar Charity has recently carried out a project to bring relief to more than 1,000 Syrian families stranded on the Syria-Jordan border. A group affiliated to Qatar Charity, presided by Mohammed al Dardoor, director of relief and emergency, and Ali Mubarak al Kubaisi, chairman of funding department, visited Syrian refugee camps located in Ramtha, Marca, Mafraq and Swayleh...
MUMBAI INDIAN lenders may have to downgrade their loans to lossmaking state-run Air India after they deferred a longpending debt restructuring proposal, seeking a revision and making it tougher for the carrier to raise funds, three sources said. Banks are now expecting the federal government to bail out the carrier, which has overdues of more than 60 days with some banks, two of the sources said....
WIESBADEN (GERMANY) GERMANY showed first signs of feeling the pain from the eurozone's debt crisis as the economy shrank in the last three month of 2011, despite outperforming its peers for main part of the year thanks to strong domestic demand and exports. Gross domestic product (GDP) grew 3 percent in 2011, preliminary Federal Statistics Office data showed on Wednesday, below the previous year's growth rate of 3.7 percent ...
DOHA EXXONMOBIL on Wednesday announced the appointment of Barton (Bart) P Cahir as the new President and General Manager of ExxonMobil Qatar Inc. Cahir will be responsible for leading the interface of all ExxonMobil-affiliated activities in Qatar in partnership with Qatar Petroleum as well as joint ventures between Qatar Petroleum International and Exxon-Mobil abroad, said a press release from the company...
DOHA THE Qatar Police Sports Association will organise the Police Beach Football Championship with the partnership of InterContinental Doha on January 13 and 14. This is the fourth year in a succession that Police Sports Association and InterContinental Doha are jointly hosting the event. As many as 14 teams from different departments in the Qatar police are figuring in this popular two-day event...
MELBOURNE A JETLAGGED Jo-Wilfried Tsonga paid the price for a flight halfway round the world on Wednesday as he lost his Kooyong Classic opener in straight sets to Austria's Jurgen Melzer. The eight-man Kooyong tournament, where players face three matches in the space of four days, is a key warm-up for the Australian Open, which starts on Monday. Tsonga recorded the best grand slam performance of his career when he reached the ...
MALAGA HOLDER Real Madrid beat Malaga 1-0 in the Spanish Cup on Tuesday as Karim Benzema took them through to a near certain, mouthwatering quarter-final clash with Barcelona. Real Madrid already had a one-goal advantage after its 3-2 win in the Bernabeu and in-form French international Benzema sealed their return leg victory with a well-taken 71st minute shot that was badly fumbled by keeper Willy Caballero...
FOR the beleaguered music industry, any positive news about sales is cause for celebration. And in 2011, the numbers were slightly up. Sales of complete albums, the industry's most profitable product, reached 330.6 million in the United States last year, a 1.3 percent increase from 2010, according to Nielsen SoundScan, which collects sales data from retailers. Some businesses might call that level of growth flat, but since album sales had fallen every year since 2004....
SHE recently vamped it up as Marilyn Monroe in a steamy shoot for Playboy magazine, and now Lindsay Lohan is moving on to another screen icon. Lindsay,25, may be morphing in to none other than Elizabeth Taylor. She is in early talks to play Taylor in an upcoming movie based on the recently deceased actress' life. According to Deadline.com, Lindsay has been discussed to play the starring role in Elizabeth & Richard: A Love Story....
FIRST she opted for a glamourous role in Desi Boyz and then she gave a nod to an item number. Actress Chitrangada Singh, otherwise known for serious roles, surprised all and sundry last year and says the response has been encouraging. "I really hope 2012 turns out to be a year full of surprises for me, and surprises spring one after another. I am really happy with the kind of response I received for my work in Desi Boyz...
REUTERS MUMBAI THEcabinet will soon consider whether to let foreign airlines buy stakes in India's airlines, the PTI said, quoting the country’s civil aviation minister.
SEOUL NORTH Korea signalled on Wednesday it remains open to suspending uranium enrichment in exchange for US food aid, a deal that appeared imminent before leader Kim Jong-il died last month...
DOHA THE Academic Bridge Program, a centre of Qatar Foundation, organised an orientation programme for 40 new students admitted to its 2012 spring semester recently. The event was aimed at introducing the ABP's policies and procedures as well as its administrators and faculty members to the students. ABP Director Dr Miles Lovelace welcomed students and briefed them about the programme...
DOHA THE Minister of Municipality and Urban Planning HE Sheikh Abdulrahman bin Khalifa bin Abdul Aziz al Thani signed a QR200 million consultancy services contract for the 'Central Planning Office Project' with the British consulting company, WS Atkins, on Wednesday. Speaking at the signing ceremony, the minister said that the office was created to coordinate many transport projects in Qatar...
DOHA AS part of its humanitarian initiative to support the displaced people of Syria and Yemen, Qatar Charity has recently carried out a project to bring relief to more than 1,000 Syrian families stranded on the Syria-Jordan border. A group affiliated to Qatar Charity, presided by Mohammed al Dardoor, director of relief and emergency, and Ali Mubarak al Kubaisi, chairman of funding department, visited Syrian refugee camps located in Ramtha, Marca, Mafraq and Swayleh... 
MUMBAI INDIAN lenders may have to downgrade their loans to lossmaking state-run Air India after they deferred a longpending debt restructuring proposal, seeking a revision and making it tougher for the carrier to raise funds, three sources said. Banks are now expecting the federal government to bail out the carrier, which has overdues of more than 60 days with some banks, two of the sources said....
WIESBADEN (GERMANY) GERMANY showed first signs of feeling the pain from the eurozone's debt crisis as the economy shrank in the last three month of 2011, despite outperforming its peers for main part of the year thanks to strong domestic demand and exports. Gross domestic product (GDP) grew 3 percent in 2011, preliminary Federal Statistics Office data showed on Wednesday, below the previous year's growth rate of 3.7 percent ... 
DOHA EXXONMOBIL on Wednesday announced the appointment of Barton (Bart) P Cahir as the new President and General Manager of ExxonMobil Qatar Inc. Cahir will be responsible for leading the interface of all ExxonMobil-affiliated activities in Qatar in partnership with Qatar Petroleum as well as joint ventures between Qatar Petroleum International and Exxon-Mobil abroad, said a press release from the company...
DOHA THE Qatar Police Sports Association will organise the Police Beach Football Championship with the partnership of InterContinental Doha on January 13 and 14. This is the fourth year in a succession that Police Sports Association and InterContinental Doha are jointly hosting the event. As many as 14 teams from different departments in the Qatar police are figuring in this popular two-day event...
MELBOURNE A JETLAGGED Jo-Wilfried Tsonga paid the price for a flight halfway round the world on Wednesday as he lost his Kooyong Classic opener in straight sets to Austria's Jurgen Melzer. The eight-man Kooyong tournament, where players face three matches in the space of four days, is a key warm-up for the Australian Open, which starts on Monday. Tsonga recorded the best grand slam performance of his career when he reached the ... 
MALAGA HOLDER Real Madrid beat Malaga 1-0 in the Spanish Cup on Tuesday as Karim Benzema took them through to a near certain, mouthwatering quarter-final clash with Barcelona. Real Madrid already had a one-goal advantage after its 3-2 win in the Bernabeu and in-form French international Benzema sealed their return leg victory with a well-taken 71st minute shot that was badly fumbled by keeper Willy Caballero...
FOR the beleaguered music industry, any positive news about sales is cause for celebration. And in 2011, the numbers were slightly up. Sales of complete albums, the industry's most profitable product, reached 330.6 million in the United States last year, a 1.3 percent increase from 2010, according to Nielsen SoundScan, which collects sales data from retailers. Some businesses might call that level of growth flat, but since album sales had fallen every year since 2004.... 
SHE recently vamped it up as Marilyn Monroe in a steamy shoot for Playboy magazine, and now Lindsay Lohan is moving on to another screen icon. Lindsay,25, may be morphing in to none other than Elizabeth Taylor. She is in early talks to play Taylor in an upcoming movie based on the recently deceased actress' life. According to Deadline.com, Lindsay has been discussed to play the starring role in Elizabeth & Richard: A Love Story.... 
FIRST she opted for a glamourous role in Desi Boyz and then she gave a nod to an item number. Actress Chitrangada Singh, otherwise known for serious roles, surprised all and sundry last year and says the response has been encouraging. "I really hope 2012 turns out to be a year full of surprises for me, and surprises spring one after another. I am really happy with the kind of response I received for my work in Desi Boyz...
