EVERY German politician I have spoken to this week watches the chaos in David Cameron's government over Europe with something close to horror. This is a very dangerous game, says one. It's like the US Republicans with the Tea Party, says another.
GOVERNMENT, Clinton Rossiter once wrote, is something like fire: "Under control, it is the most useful of servants; out of control, it is a ravaging tyrant." So you want government workers to be acutely aware of the ambiguous and perilous nature of their position.
LONDON Olympic bronze medallist Justin Gatlin scorched the Qatar Sports Club Stadium with his season's best timing on Friday and defended his 100m title at the Doha Diamond League.
DOHA PAKISTAN'S Ambassador to Qatar HE Syed Hassan Raza said that Pakistani entrepreneurs should explore business opportunities in a rapidly growing Qatari market.
AYLESBURY THE Group of Seven top economies kick-started fresh talks on spurring growth on Friday amid US-Europe divisions over the scale of austerity and renewed market focus on "currency wars" after the yen hit new dollar lows...
DOHA LONDON Olympic bronze medallist Justin Gatlin lit up the Qatar Sports Club Stadium and defended his 100m title at the Doha Diamond League with his season's best time on Friday.
DOHA THE Childhood Cultural Centre (CCC) in collaboration with UCMAS Qatar Centre, will host Qatar's first National Abacus and Mental Arithmetic Competition at Doha Sheraton on May 25. A total of 250 male and female students from across Qatar's independent and public schools enrolled in the UCMAS Programme will take part in the competition. Being held under the patronage of the Secretary General of Qatar Olympic Committee (QOC) Sheikh Saoud bin Abdulrahman al Thani, the competition is part of CCC's efforts to realise its objectives of promoting and firmly establishing the principles of ...
DOHA AN expert at Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar (WCMCQ), Dr Laith Abu- Raddad, has said that about 150 million people are chronically infected and at risk of developing liver cirrhosis and/or liver cancer while more than 350,000 people die from Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) related liver diseases every year. Addressing the monthly Medicine & U health outreach programme at WCMCQ in Education City recently, Dr Abu-Raddad said: "HCV currently affects about two percent of the world's population. Egypt has the highest HCV prevalence in the ...
DOHA THE Munich Security Conference (MSC) will continue its successful MSC Core Group Meeting series with a new regional focus on the Arabian Gulf with its first conference in Doha on May 21 and 22. Following the successful Core Group Conferences in Washington (2009), Moscow (2010) and Beijing (2011), the 4th Munich Security Conference Core Group Meeting in Doha will focus on the Middle East. Insurgency and the unrest facing the Arab world are throwing up major challenges for the region and the international community.
BIRMINGHAM THE Bank of England (BoE) may have more scope to boost the economy after Mark Carney starts as governor because of tentative signs of lower inflation ahead, a member of its policymaking body said on Friday. Finance minister George Osborne has given Canadian Mark Carney, who starts as the next governor in July, the task of reviewing whether Britain should give more detailed guidance on future monetary policy, considered a way to help growth. Martin Weale, who serves on the BoE's rate-setting Monetary Policy Committee, said on Friday the central bank's ability to support demand had recently been...
NEW YORK US STOCKS advanced on Friday, with the S&P 500 erasing declines in the previous session, putting the index on track for its fourth straight weekly advance as data helped support recent momentum. The benchmark S&P 500 index fell 0.5 percent on Thursday, its biggest drop since May 1, after a Federal Reserve official said the US central bank could begin reducing its monetary stimulus programme this summer. The central bank's programme of $85 billion a month in bonds has been a major driver of the rally in equities that has ...
WASHINGTON CYPRUS should return to growth in 2015 after three years of deep recession, the International Monetary Fund said on Friday, but will need to ensure that its sweeping austerity programme does not slip off the tracks. The IMF agreed in March to provide Cyprus with some 1 billion euros in aid, along with another 9 billion euros from the European Union, to stave off a meltdown of the cash-strapped economy. A staff report issued on Friday backed that decision, praising the government for the steps it has taken to restructure the economy but warning that it must go even further to achieve long-term stability.
NEW DELHI INDIAN cricketer and Rajasthan Royals player S Sreesanth on Friday confessed to spot-fixing in the Indian Premier League (IPL), police said. "Sreesanth has confessed to spot-fixing. He was teary eyed during interrogation," a Delhi Police official said. Rajasthan Royals cricketer Ankeet Chavan was the first to accept his role in spot-fixing during questioned by Delhi Police while the third player, Ajit Chandila, has not yet accepted the charges. The three were sent to fiveday police custody on Thursday after being brought to Delhi from Mumbai, where they were arrested.
LONDON JAMES Anderson became only the fourth England bowler to take 300 Test wickets when he dismissed New Zealand's Peter Fulton on the second day of the first Test at Lord's on Friday. Lancashire seamer Anderson joined Ian Botham (383), Bob Willis (325) and the late Fred Trueman (307), the first man in history to take 300 Test wickets, in a select quartet of England bowlers. The 30-year-old Anderson started the match needing two more wickets for his 300th in Tests. And, after England had been bowled out for 232 in their first innings on Friday, he reached the milestone with a new-ball burst of two wickets for no runs in 17 balls to
PARIS PARIS Saint-Germain President Nasser al Khelaifi wants David Beckham to carry on working with the club after his retirement and is hopeful of reaching an agreement with the former England captain within the next two weeks. The 38-year-old midfielder announced on Thursday that he will retire from football after PSG's last game of the season. The big-spending club remains hopeful he will have a part to play in PSG's future, possibly in an ambassadorial role. "I met him yesterday, actually, and he's very interested to continue being involved with the big project of Paris Saint- Germain," Al-Khelaifi said at a news conference on ...
Top-rated US broadcast network CBS will bring comeddian Robin Williams back to television next season to plug one of the few holes in its primetime schedule. CBS Corp unveiled eight new series on Wednesday ahead of its upfront presentation in New York, an annual rite when broadcasters try to persuade advertisers to spend billions of dollars in commercials for their new shows. CBS is riding a stable of megahits, includiing crime drama NCIS and comeedies The Big Bang Theory and ...
Pop singer Shakira will leave NBC's television singiing competition programme The Voice after only one season as a judge in order to spend more time with her family. T he Colombian singer told entertainment news outlet Access Hollywood after Tuesday's episode of The Voice that she wanted to spend more time with her infant child and finish up a new album. "Not for next season," Shakira, 36, said when asked if she was coming back. "I was really struggling with the fact that I had to leave my nest with my little baby," she added.
Listening to actor Simon Helberg talk about The Big Bang Theory, you'd think his show was actually a nerdy nighttime soap. The actor, who plays aerospace engineer Howard Wolowitz on the CBS sitcom, dropped a few hints about what to expect from Thursday night's season finale. "This time, the adventure is for Leonard," Helberg revealed, referring to the experimental physicist played by Johnny Galecki. "Howard finds Stephen Hawking's crew is sending out an expedition to the North Sea, and he gets Leonard a job, going on a boat for four months." But there's no easy scientific equation that can tell Leonard how to ...
NEW DELHI PRIME Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday said the government was at an advance stage of considering a universal social security cover for workers while acknowledging that there could be "no disagreement" on issues raised by trade unions during the February general strike.
PESHAWAR TWIN bomb attacks on Friday killed at least 13 people outside mosques in northwest Pakistan, where the party of cricket star Imran Khan is forming a coalition government, officials said.
