ON Tuesday, the five-member bench of the Supreme Court stopped short of issuing any adverse order against the PPP-led federal government in the NRO implementation hearings but in giving six options to the Supreme Court chief justice...
THERE's limited evidence that any particular diet or supplement helps kids with attention- deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), but at least some research suggests that omega-3 fatty acids may help while fatty "Western-style" diets do these children no favours.
TThe Emir His Highness Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al Thani with Yutaka Bano, the member of the House of Representatives and President of theJapanese Parliamentary Association for Friendship with Qatar, in Doha...
DOHA LOOKING to make Qatar a botnet free country by year end, Q-CERT, an initiative of ictQatar for national information security, has announced the endorsement of Government Information Assurance (GIA) policies during a conference on Thursday...
MADRID SPAIN and Italy spread cheer through eurozone markets on Thursday with successful debt auctions at sharply lower borrowing costs in 2012's first real test of appetite for debt from the eurozone's bruised...
DOHA A SIMPLE and yet elegant ceremony marked the opening of the 12th at the sprawling Losail Range on Thursday.Asian Shooting Confederation (ASC) President Sheikh Salman al Sabah of Kuwait was the chief guest at the opening...
RECENTLY the 65-year-old singer, Dolly Parton, was at a posh hotel on Park Avenue in New York to talk about her new film, Joyful Noise. She's exactly what you'd expect from the legendary Dolly Parton...
DOHA QATARUniversity's Social and Economic Survey Research Institute (SESRI) recently unveiled the findings of the second part of its omnibus series on life in Qatar. In a press briefing, SESRI Director Dr Darwish al Emadi and Head of Research Dr Abdoulaye Diop outlined the issues which were addressed in the survey which was carried out in June 2011. A total of 2,854 respondents were asked about political values and attitudes, media, education in Qatar, attitudes towards Qatari traffic laws, and migrant labourers. That number comprised 992 Qataris, 1,008 expatriates, and 854 labour migrants...
DOHA THE Centre for Islamic Architecture and Urban Planning of Qatar Faculty of Islamic Studies (QFIS), a member of Qatar Foundation, organised its first international symposium on 'Shaping the Future of Architecture and Urbanism in Islamic Societies' recently. The aim of the symposium was to debate the future of architecture and urbanism in Muslim societies. Understanding how practitioners and academics could learn from successful endeavours and how such learning would have a positive impact on the contemporary Muslim city was the crux of the programme...
DOHA QATAR won four awards, including the 'World's Leading Business Travel Destination', at the prestigious World Travel Awards (WTA) held in Katara on Wednesday night. Qatar Airways was named 'World's Leading Airline — Business Class' and Regency Travel & Tours as 'World's Leading Travel Agency' at the ceremony that was attended by decision- makers in global travel and tourism. The Aspire Zone was also recognised as 'World's Leading Sports Tourism Development Project'. Hosted by Ece Vahapoglu, the 2011 WTA nominations featured over 5,000 companies in 1,000 categories across 162 countries...
LONDON BRENT crude rose more than $1 to over $113 on Thursday on worries a showdown between Iran and the West in the Middle East Gulf and a strike in Nigeria could disrupt oil supplies. Tension between the West and Iran over the Islamic Republic's nuclear program has increased after an Iranian nuclear scientist was blown up in his car by a motorbike hitman on Wednesday, prompting Tehran to blame Israeli and US agents. Brent crude futures for February rose $1.64 to a high of $113.88 a barrel and was trading close to that level by 1225 GMT....
FRANKFURT THEEuropean Central Bank left interest rates on hold on Thursday, pausing to assess the impact of back-to-back cuts and a slew of other measures it unleashed late last year that are showing some signs of helping fight the eurozone debt crisis. The ECB, holding its first policy meeting of this year, held its benchmark rate at 1 percent, matching the lowest level ever. The decision was in line with market expectations. Financial markets showed little reaction. The euro and benchmark German bund futures were both unmoved by the decision...
PARIS THE price of basic foodstuffs hit a record high in 2011, with the cost of cereals surging by more than a third over the last 12 months, the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation said on Thursday. The FAO said that its monthly Food Price Index averaged 228 points in 2011, the highest level since records began in 1990, although prices did slide by some 2.4 percent in December. The previous high was in 2008 at 200 points. The Rome-based organisation said that its cereal price index — which includes the cost of rice, wheat and maize — averaged 247 points in 2011, up some 35 percent from 2010 and the highest since the 1970s...
PERTH INDIA is considering an unusual fourpronged pace attack for the third Test against Australia but won't settle on its final line-up until just before the match, said captain MS Dhoni. A grassy pitch has greeted the Indians at Perth's WACA Ground, with curator Cam Sutherland predicting the wicket would have more pace and bounce than the corresponding Test against England last year, when seam bowlers dominated and just two of 40 wickets fell to spin. Down 2-0 in the four-Test series after losing by 122 runs at the MCG and being thrashed by an innings and 68 runs in Sydney, India are already certain to lose second spot in the ...
LONDON TOTTENHAM turned up the heat on Manchester rivals City and United with a comfortable 2-0 victory over Everton on Wednesday that confirmed the London club as a serious contender for the Premier League title. Only goal difference is keeping Tottenham behind second-place United while City's lead is three points. But while United has won a dozen English titles alone since 1993, City and Tottenham have not been champions of England since the 1960s. Tottenham manager Harry Redknapp, though, is not feeling the weight of expectation with his side in its usually elevated position...
MADRID LEVANTE's extraordinary season continued when they thrashed second-division Alcorcon 4-0 on Wednesday to secure a 5-2 aggregate victory and advance to the King's Cup quarter-finals for the first time in more than 70 years. One of the poorest teams in the Spanish top flight and relying on one of the oldest squads, Levante are a surprising fourth in La Liga and briefly topped the standings for the first time in their history in October. Wednesday's resounding Cup win set up a last-eight clash with their more illustrious city neighbours Valencia...
AMONG online networking sites, LinkedIn stands out as the specialised one – it's for professional connections only. That distinction has given it staying power as Facebook's predecessors have dropped away and as Facebook has grown to dwarf other sites. By keeping professional identity pristinely separate from the personal and the messy, LinkedIn, which is now publicly traded, has grown to more than 135 million members in 200 countries. But challengers have arrived, in the form of apps. Rather than starting from scratch, independent software developers are trying to add a professional layer to Facebook – and are hoping that users will accept a less-than-complete separation of the professional and the personal...
EVERY actor craves for good scripts and roles and Band Baaja Baaraat sensation Anushka Sharma has no qualms in accepting her craving for it. But seems like her deeply-rooted faith revolves around Yashraj banner only. Getting used to big hits and big roles at an initial stage of her career, Anushka gets miffed for being labelled for her association with Yashraj banner. "I don't work for production houses. I only work for good scripts and roles. If you follow my career graph you will find that I have not given a single flop yet in my career. I am proud of it. I am doing films from this banner because of the fact that I am getting good scripts from them...
THANKS to his role of Lord Voldemort in the Harry Potter franchise, actor Ralph Fiennes has attracted the younger generation to his fan base. The 49- year-old thinks it is "amazing" that so many young people have developed an interest in his career after he played the boy wizard's nemesis in the movie series. "It was an amazing thing to play Voldemort and to have so many younger people be curious now about what 'Voldemort' is going to do next is great. When doing The Tempest on stage in London last year, so many Harry Potter fans came to see the show....
NEW DELHI AN ambitious plan of Home Minister P Chidambaram to set up an intelligence hub that will integrate and analyse inputs on terror threats in India was finally accorded government approval on Thursday after hanging fire for almost two years.
AP MOSCOW A RUSSIAN space probe designed to burnish the nation's faded space glory in a mission to one of Mars’ moons has turned into one of the heaviest, most toxic pieces of space junk ever...
