Barack Obama released his tax records when he ran for president in 2008. So did Richard Nixon in 1968. In fact, so did George Romney in that same campaign.But, in 2012, Mitt Romney, the former governor of Massachusetts and ...
NEARLY a third of middle-aged Americans regularly take a baby aspirin in the hope of preventing a heart attack or a stroke or lowering their cancer risk. But new research shows that aspirin is not for everyone...
DOHA THE Emir His Highness Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al Thani and the Prime Minister of People's Republic of China Wen Jiabao held talks at the Al Wajbah Palace on Wednesday. The Heir Apparent HH Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al Thani was also present...
The Heir Apparent His Highness Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al Thani and Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic Karel Schwarzenberg, in Doha...
DOHA OLYMPIC champion Du Li and her team welcomed their Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jianbao's visit to Qatar with world record performances at the Asian Championships in Losail on Wednesday...
JULIETTE Lewis was only 18 when she was hit by a freight train called fame. Playing the naive daughter of Nick Nolte's character, who is terrorised by a killer (Robert De Niro) in Martin Scorsese's Cape Fear (1991)...
GOVERNMENT bodies tasked with combating human trafficking in Arab countries have a vital role to play in implementation of the Arab Initiative for Building National Capacities to Combat Human Trafficking, the second Doha Forum on Combating Human Trafficking has said in its final statement which was read out by Director General of Qatar Foundation for Combating Human Trafficking Maryam al Malki. Participants at the two-day forum held under the title "Launch of the Arab Initiative for Building National Capacities to Combat Human Trafficking" under the auspices of....
DOHA THE Pakistan Welfare Forum (PWF) inducted a new steering committee for the next session 2012-2013 at its Annual General Assembly meeting held at the Pakistan embassy recently. Pakistan's Ambassador to Qatar HE Muhammad Sarfaraz A Khanzada, who is patron-in-chief of the forum, attended the function as the chief guest. Nadeem Bashir will be the new president while other office bearers are Ahmed Hussain (vice president), Dr Abdur Rehman (general secretary), Ghias Akhtar (deputy secretary), Asfandiar Ansari (finance secretary) and Siyab Khan (information secretary)...
DOHA BIRLA Public School (BPS) recently held its 8th Annual Athletic Meet at the Al Ahli Sports Club, in Doha. The event was attended by the basketball team captain of Qatar Yaseen Ismail, who was also the chief guest, C V Rappai, chairman BPS management committee; Gope Shahani, director; K M Varghese, life member and other dignitaries. Tributes were paid to the Indian Sporting legends of all times. The students donned the attire of eminent personalities and their contributions to the nation were commemorated at the occasion. In his opening address at the event...
YAHOO co-founder Jerry Yang has quit the company he started in 1995, appeasing shareholders who had blasted the Internet pioneer for pursuing an ineffective personal vision and impeding investment deals that could have transformed the struggling company. Yang's abrupt departure comes two weeks after Yahoo appointed Scott Thompson its new CEO, with a mandate to return the once-leading Internet portal to the heights it enjoyed in the 1990s. Wall Street views the exit of 'Chief Yahoo' Yang as smoothing the way for a major infusion of cash from private equity, or a deal to sell off much of its 40 percent slice of China's Alibaba, unlocking value for shareholders...
QATAR Islamic Bank (QIB), Qatar's largest sharia-compliant lender by market value, on Wednesday said its net profit rose 8 percent to QR1.37 billion in 2011, mainly due to higher investment income. In an emailed statement, the bank said investment income amounted to QR631 million at the end of 2011, compared with QR214 million in 2010. The value of its financing portfolio, or loan book, was QR29.6 billion at the end of 2011 against QR29.3 billion a year earlier, it said. The bank has proposed a 45 percent dividend distribution. "The results come on the back of a strategic transformation programme that the bank is implementing to ...
SOUTH Korea's central bank promised to gradually increase investments in yuan-denominated assets after being given a licence to invest in Chinese stocks and bonds. The Bank of Korea on Wednesday said it has secured China's qualified foreign institutional investor (QFII) licence, which allows it to buy stocks and bonds traded on the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock markets. The licence will help the central bank diversify its foreign exchange reserves, which reached $306.4 billion at the end of December, the seventh-largest in the world...
DOHA THE 15TH Commercialbank Qatar Masters due to start at the Doha Golf Club on February 2 has drawn an attractive star cast. While Thomas Bjorn will return to defend the title, five of the top 20 players led by No 2 Lee Westwood will be participating in the tournament. Two golf stars making their debut this year are world No 10 from Australia Jason Day and US Ryder Cup team member Hunter Mahan, it was announced at a press conference on Wednesday....
LONDON MARK Hughes registered the first win of his reign at Queens Park Rangers on Tuesday as the Premier League strugglers ended its 11-year FA Cup jinx to beat MK Dons 1-0. A powerful Danny Gabbidon header settled a scrappy game at Loftus Road, with QPR now advancing to a dream tie against west London neighbours Chelsea in the fourth round later this month. But Rangers, who had forced a replay with a late equaliser in the first meeting between the clubs...
JOHANNESBURG GHANA hopes its gifted squad can finally end a run of nearmisses at the African Cup of Nations and deliver a fifth title, 30 years after its last. With Ivory Coast the biggest and maybe only real challenger at the tournament in Gabon and Equatorial Guinea, the Black Stars are banking that a run of third and second at the last two African Cups continues with first this year. Ghana's strength in depth means that even the absence of Chelsea midfielder Michael Essien with injury, and AC Milan midfielder Kevin Prince Boateng, who announced a surprise international retirement last year, hasn't badly affected its hopes..
THERE really is such a thing as heartb r e a k i n g grief, suggests new research that finds losing a loved one can increase the risk of heart attack. Within a day of a significant other's death, heart attack risk was 21 times higher than normal, said researchers who looked at data on nearly 2,000 heart attack patients. And within the first week after death, the heart attack risk for the bereaved was still six times greater than usual. "Extreme grief can trigger heart attacks," said lead researcher Dr Murray Mittleman, director of the Cardiovascular Epidemiology Research Unit at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Centre and Harvard Medical School in Boston...
IBERIAN NIGHT Dimmed by thin clouds, night-time lights reveal the shape of the Iberian Peninsula in Europe in a recently released picture taken by an astronaut aboard the International Space Station. The 227,800-square-mile (590,000-square-kilometre) Iberian Peninsula includes the Principality of Andorra, the Kingdom of Spain, and the Portuguese Republic. The narrow Strait of Gibraltar separates the peninsula from northern Africa, seen on the right in this frame. This photograph from space also shows airglow, a faint green arc seen along the horizon that's caused by chemical reactions among the gas molecules of ...
TIMELESS elegance, fitted bodices and mermaid trains ruled the Golden Globes' red carpet on Sunday, as A-list celebrities channeled oldstyle Hollywood glamour. Angelina Jolie looked like Grace Kelly in her whitesatin Atelier Versace gown with a twist of Marlene Dietrich thanks to a red fold over collar, matching red lips and red clutch. Modern F a m i l y actress Sofia V e r g a r a seemed Jayne Mansfield-esque in her strapless teal Vera Wang gown, ruffled train and Harry Winston jewels. Charlize Theron could have passed for Lana Turner back in her heyday in Dior Couture with a plunging neckline and thighhigh slit dress...
REUTERS ADDIS ABABA TWO Germans, two Hungarians and an Austrian were killed by gunmen in an attack on tourists in the remote Afar region of northern Ethiopia, the Ethiopian government said on Wednesday.
MOSCOW RUSSIAN billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov on Wednesday submitted two million signatures from supporters in order to register as a candidate in the March presidential poll against Vladimir Putin.
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