OK, Mr President, here's the
plan. Sometime in the next
few months you order the
Department of Defense to
destroy Iran's nuclear capacity.
Yes, I know it's an election year,
and some
...
HOW goes the state of the
union? Well, the state of
the economy remains terrible.
Three years after
President Obama's inauguration
and two and a half years
since the official end of the recession
...
THE Shafallah Declaration
on Crisis, Conflict and
Disability, which called for
action to make the perspective
on disability a part and
parcel of all humanitarian
efforts, was endorsed at the
conclusion of the Fifth
Shafallah ...
MORE than 300 leading oncologists from 18 countries will discuss guidelines and the latest innovation and products for cancer care at the Third National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) Middle ...
THE Reserve Bank of India in its quarterly review meet on Tuesday cut the cash reserve ratio (CRR) by 50 bps to ease tight liquidity pressure in the banking system. RBI kept repo and reverse repo rates unchanged at 8.5 percent ...
ROGER Federer and Rafael Nadal pencilled in the next chapter of their great rivalry when they reached the Australian Open semi-finals Tuesday, as Kim Clijsters gave Caroline Wozniacki a day to forget. Federer ...
THE train to this city on Rio de Janeiro's edge carries passengers from the urban underclass chasing dreams big and small: teenagers trying out for a soccer club, a maid studying to be a nurse, a knife salesman plying his trade in the aisles. Then there is the 30 ...
THE thirteenth lecture of the Distinguished Lecture Series organised by the Research Division of the Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development (QF) was held on Tuesday. It was presented by Dr Leroy Hood who discussed the future of systems biology in the 21st century. Dr Hood outlined his vision for the future of medical treatment -the so-called "P4" mode ...
GEORGETOWN University´s Edmund A Walsh School of Foreign Service has been ranked number one by Foreign Policy magazine for its master´s programme and fifth overall for its undergraduate programmes in international relations, respectively. Former US secretary of state, Madeleine Albright and former deputy assistant secretary for defence for the Middle East, Colin Kahl, are professors at its School of Foreign Service (SFS). The school earned the ...
QATAR Automotive Gateway (QatarAg) and Prodrive, one of the world´s leading automotive technology and motorsport businesses, signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for the development and production of advanced carbon fibre automotive parts and assemblies on Tuesday. Chairman of QatarAg Ghanim bin Saad al Saad and Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of ...
THE sale of Denizbank, the Turkish unit of troubled Franco-Belgian banks Dexia, should be concluded by the end of February, its chief executive said on Tuesday, but warned the sale process could be stopped if bids were deemed too low. "If received bids aren´t favoured, a sale may not take place. Ultimately, this is Dexia´s decision," Hakan Ates, Denizbank´s CEO said ahead of a press conference. No one at Dexia, the Belgian- French lender that is being broken.
SWISS-BASED oil refiner Petroplus is filing for insolvency, putting over 2,000 jobs across Europe at risk, after banks called in debts, triggering a $1.75 billion default. Europe´s largest independent refiner by capacity has been teetering since its lenders restricted credit late last year, a victim of thin refining margins and high debt that was a result of its private equity-backed, acquisition- based business ...
JAPAN probably produced its first trade deficit last year in more than three decades as energy imports surged to cover for the loss of nuclear power following the Fukushima disaster, a major blow to an economy built on its exports prowess. For decades Japan used an exports-orientated economic policy to build up global brand names such as Toyota, Sony and Canon and a manufacturing might that was the envy of the world. Official trade figures due for ...
RIVAL captains Misbah-ul Haq and Andrew Strauss expect tough work for bowlers on a battingfriendly pitch at Abu Dhabi Stadium where the second Test starts on Wednesday. The two Tests played till now were drawn with three double hundreds and two centuries, and the last one saw Pakistan letting Sri Lanka off by dropping seven catches in the second innings. Pakistan also drew with South Africa here. But despite that Pakistan have edge with off-spinner ...
AUSTRALIA´S Ricky Ponting became only the third player in history to pass 13,000 Test runs on Tuesday as he and captain Michael Clarke put India to the sword in the final match in Adelaide. The resurgent Ponting posted his 41st Test century — his second in three innings — while Clarke raised his 19th Test ton, which follows an unbeaten triple hundred in the second Test in Sydney. The experienced pair shared in a ground record fourth wicket partnership as ...
REAL Madrid defender Pepe will play in Wednesday´s King´s Cup quarter-final second leg at Barcelona if he is fit despite the controversy over his alleged stamp on Lionel Messi´s hand in last week´s first game, coach Jose Mourinho said on Tuesday. Pepe denied intentionally treading on Messi in the 2-1 defeat and the incident, caught on television cameras, was apparently missed by the referee ...
ON the day that Barack Obama was elected president only one newspaper, the satirical daily the Onion, really grasped the rich ambiguity of this moment of history. This book, The Obamas: A Mission, A Marriage, by Jodi Kantor, is one of the first to give us a sense of why that might be. What were the reasons for the stumbles, the drift, the malaise that many of his own supporters believe has hung over Barack Obama since the day he came ...
THEY´RE arguably Hollywood´s highestprofile couple, so it´s only natural that Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie would privately discuss the art and business of filmmaking. According to Pitt, they don´t always agree. Speaking with Reuters at Saturday´s Producers Guild Awards in Beverly Hills, Pitt said that he and Jolie, who are each busy on both sides of the camera as well as raising six children together, will talk shop at the end of a long day. "Usually we argue shop ...
SHE rose to fame as the desi Ugly Betty in Jassi Jaisi Koi Nahi, after which Mona Singh deliberately kept away from fiction shows. As she gears up to return to TV soaps with Ekta Kapoor´s Kya Hua Tera Vaada, she says this is the right time for old actors to come back and take control of the small screen. "I have never planned anything in life; so this new show just happened. Yes, it was a deliberate decision not to take up a show immediately after Jassi... I was flooded with ...
GUNMEN killed 15 fishermen in
the southern Philippines in an
attack at sea suspected to have
been triggered by a dispute
between rival fishing groups, the
military said on Tuesday. Three
fishermen were also wounded on
Monday off Sibago Island.
THE Arab League has formally
requested a meeting with UN chief
Ban Ki-moon to discuss its plan for
resolving the Syria crisis and to ask
for the Security Council’s support,
a senior League official said on
Tuesday.
THE thirteenth lecture of the Distinguished Lecture Series organised by the Research Division of the Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development (QF) was held on Tuesday. It was presented by Dr Leroy Hood who discussed the future of systems biology in the 21st century. Dr Hood outlined his vision for the future of medical treatment -the so-called "P4" mode ...
GEORGETOWN University´s Edmund A Walsh School of Foreign Service has been ranked number one by Foreign Policy magazine for its master´s programme and fifth overall for its undergraduate programmes in international relations, respectively. Former US secretary of state, Madeleine Albright and former deputy assistant secretary for defence for the Middle East, Colin Kahl, are professors at its School of Foreign Service (SFS). The school earned the ...
QATAR Automotive Gateway (QatarAg) and Prodrive, one of the world´s leading automotive technology and motorsport businesses, signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for the development and production of advanced carbon fibre automotive parts and assemblies on Tuesday. Chairman of QatarAg Ghanim bin Saad al Saad and Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of ... 
THE sale of Denizbank, the Turkish unit of troubled Franco-Belgian banks Dexia, should be concluded by the end of February, its chief executive said on Tuesday, but warned the sale process could be stopped if bids were deemed too low. "If received bids aren´t favoured, a sale may not take place. Ultimately, this is Dexia´s decision," Hakan Ates, Denizbank´s CEO said ahead of a press conference. No one at Dexia, the Belgian- French lender that is being broken.
SWISS-BASED oil refiner Petroplus is filing for insolvency, putting over 2,000 jobs across Europe at risk, after banks called in debts, triggering a $1.75 billion default. Europe´s largest independent refiner by capacity has been teetering since its lenders restricted credit late last year, a victim of thin refining margins and high debt that was a result of its private equity-backed, acquisition- based business ... 
JAPAN probably produced its first trade deficit last year in more than three decades as energy imports surged to cover for the loss of nuclear power following the Fukushima disaster, a major blow to an economy built on its exports prowess. For decades Japan used an exports-orientated economic policy to build up global brand names such as Toyota, Sony and Canon and a manufacturing might that was the envy of the world. Official trade figures due for ...
RIVAL captains Misbah-ul Haq and Andrew Strauss expect tough work for bowlers on a battingfriendly pitch at Abu Dhabi Stadium where the second Test starts on Wednesday. The two Tests played till now were drawn with three double hundreds and two centuries, and the last one saw Pakistan letting Sri Lanka off by dropping seven catches in the second innings. Pakistan also drew with South Africa here. But despite that Pakistan have edge with off-spinner ... 
AUSTRALIA´S Ricky Ponting became only the third player in history to pass 13,000 Test runs on Tuesday as he and captain Michael Clarke put India to the sword in the final match in Adelaide. The resurgent Ponting posted his 41st Test century — his second in three innings — while Clarke raised his 19th Test ton, which follows an unbeaten triple hundred in the second Test in Sydney. The experienced pair shared in a ground record fourth wicket partnership as ... 
REAL Madrid defender Pepe will play in Wednesday´s King´s Cup quarter-final second leg at Barcelona if he is fit despite the controversy over his alleged stamp on Lionel Messi´s hand in last week´s first game, coach Jose Mourinho said on Tuesday. Pepe denied intentionally treading on Messi in the 2-1 defeat and the incident, caught on television cameras, was apparently missed by the referee ...
ON the day that Barack Obama was elected president only one newspaper, the satirical daily the Onion, really grasped the rich ambiguity of this moment of history. This book, The Obamas: A Mission, A Marriage, by Jodi Kantor, is one of the first to give us a sense of why that might be. What were the reasons for the stumbles, the drift, the malaise that many of his own supporters believe has hung over Barack Obama since the day he came ... 
THEY´RE arguably Hollywood´s highestprofile couple, so it´s only natural that Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie would privately discuss the art and business of filmmaking. According to Pitt, they don´t always agree. Speaking with Reuters at Saturday´s Producers Guild Awards in Beverly Hills, Pitt said that he and Jolie, who are each busy on both sides of the camera as well as raising six children together, will talk shop at the end of a long day. "Usually we argue shop ... 
SHE rose to fame as the desi Ugly Betty in Jassi Jaisi Koi Nahi, after which Mona Singh deliberately kept away from fiction shows. As she gears up to return to TV soaps with Ekta Kapoor´s Kya Hua Tera Vaada, she says this is the right time for old actors to come back and take control of the small screen. "I have never planned anything in life; so this new show just happened. Yes, it was a deliberate decision not to take up a show immediately after Jassi... I was flooded with ... 
