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Obama-Romney in Round Two face-off 17 Oct 2012 - 04:38 am

US President Barack Obama greets well-wishers as he arrives at New York’s JFK Airport yesterday, en route to the second presidential debate against...

Britain blocks extradition of hacker to US 17 Oct 2012 - 04:38 am

LONDON: Britain said yesterday that Gary McKinnon (pictured), an Asperger’s sufferer who hacked into US military computers, will not be extradited to the...

Seven masterpieces stolen in Dutch museum heist 17 Oct 2012 - 04:38 am

ROTTERDAM: Seven masterpieces, including paintings by Picasso, Matisse, Monet and Gauguin, were stolen in a pre-dawn heist yesterday at Rotterdam’s Kunsthal museum, the...

870 million suffer from hunger: FAO 17 Oct 2012 - 04:37 am

ROME: Global governance of food security and a so-called new world food order were on the table at World Food Day talks held...

Karadzic trying to fool the world, say Srebrenica victims 17 Oct 2012 - 04:37 am

SARAJEVO: Embittered relatives of victims of the Srebrenica massacre lashed out at wartime Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic’s courtroom declaration yesterday that he...

Cuba scraps exit permits for foreign travel 17 Oct 2012 - 04:34 am

HAVANA: Cubans will no longer require exit permits for foreign travel from January 14, the government said yesterday, the latest in a trickle...

Syrian rebels agree on joint leadership 17 Oct 2012 - 04:32 am

A view of a building damaged in fighting in Baidah near Homs yesterday. BEIRUT: Syria’s divided rebels have agreed to set up a...

$254m Qatar plan to rebuild Gaza 17 Oct 2012 - 04:31 am

GAZA: Qatar yesterday launched a $254m plan to rebuild and modernise Gaza, the biggest injection of reconstruction aid for the Palestinian enclave since...

Action against erring lawyers 17 Oct 2012 - 04:31 am

DOHA: The Ministry of Justice has referred a number of lawyers for disciplinary action as they have been found violating Article 66 of...

Eid Al Adha on October 26 17 Oct 2012 - 04:30 am

Riyadh: The Saudi Supreme Court announced yesterday that standing in Arafat will be on Thursday, 9 Dhul Hijja, corresponding to October 25, and...

HMC to build $289m medical city in Yemen 17 Oct 2012 - 04:28 am

DOHA: The Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) will build a medical city in Taez in Yemen at a cost of $289m. The project will...

Three-day Diyafa exhibition begins 17 Oct 2012 - 04:26 am

Bahrain Ambassador Waheed Mubarak Sayyar, Japanese Ambassador Kenjiro Monji and General Manager of IFP Qatar George Ayache, inaugurating Diyafa 2012, at the Doha...

1001 Inventions, Arabick Roots expos open 17 Oct 2012 - 04:25 am

From left: Sheikh Thani Al Thani, Deputy General Manager of Shell Qatar, Aisha Al Khater, Director of Museum of Islamic Art (MIA) and...

Cyprus National Day 17 Oct 2012 - 04:22 am

Charalambos Panayides, Ambassador of the Republic of Cyprus, and Abdulla bin Khalid Al Qahtani, Minister of Health, along with other ambassadors cutting a...

Weather updates on smartphone 17 Oct 2012 - 04:19 am

DOHA: The Meteorology Department has launched a new service allowing people to get weather updates through iPad and iPhone. The service named ‘enjoy...

No dress code at Aspire Park: Official 17 Oct 2012 - 04:19 am

Doha: The Aspire Park management has denied reports about preventing men not wearing sportswear from entering the park. “The news that has been...

Huge increase in breast cancer cases 17 Oct 2012 - 04:18 am

By Fazeena Saleem DOHA: Breast cancer cases treated at the Hamad Medical Corporation has increased by more than fifty percent during the past...

Sheikha Hind opens Qatar University’s new library building 17 Oct 2012 - 04:17 am

H E Sheikha Hind bint Hamad Al Thani touring the library with the President of Qatar University, Dr Sheikha Abdullah Al Missned. Doha:...