ATMA, Syria: Regime aircraft hammered insurgent bastions nationwide yesterday as rebels said they now control most of the country and have moved their...
ATMA, Syria: Regime aircraft hammered insurgent bastions nationwide yesterday as rebels said they now control most of the country and have moved their...
CAIRO: Egypt’s Supreme Administrative Court yesterday ruled that members of ousted president Hosni Mubarak’s dissolved party can stand in future parliamentary elections. The...
By Chico Harlan This summer, a 66-year-old woman surfaced at a news conference in North Korea to tell of her jubilant homecoming after...
A mile-high skyscraper, almost double the height of today’s tallest building, may become a reality by 2025 as developing countries splurge cash in...
NEW DELHI: Flash floods and landslides triggered by heavy monsoon rains in northeast India have claimed at least 26 lives and another eight...
TOKYO: A Japanese fishing boat with a crew of 22 collided with a cargo vessel in the Pacific Ocean off eastern Japan in...
By anna M Clark Since 1950, humans have manufactured more goods than have ever existed in history. Our consumption of those goods –...
DUBAI: State utility Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) may issue an Islamic bond, or sukuk, in 2013, as part of its refinancing...
DUBAI: Qatar Holding, the investment arm of the Gulf state's sovereign fund, is in advanced talks to buy a 49-percent stake in Brazilian...
MOSCOW: Four militants died in Russia's North Caucasus Republic of Dagestan after a gun battle with local security forces, an Investigative Committee source...
DUBAI: UAE OPEC Governor Ali al-Yabhouni said on Monday the United Arab Emirates was committed to supplying all its customers with all their...
JEDDAH: Saudi Arabia's gross domestic product exceeded SR 2.2 trillion in 2011, registering a growth rate of 31 percent in current prices, compared...
SINGAPORE: Brent crude futures fell below $111 in early Asian trade on Monday, dragged down by a firm dollar and worries about weak...
ASTANA: Kazakh Prime Minister Karim Masimov will submit a letter of resignation to President Nursultan Nazarbayev on Monday, a government source said. The...
DOHA: Exchange Rates for foreign currencies as issued on Monday by Qatar National Bank (QNB) are as following: Currency Buying Selling ======= ======...
H H Sheikha Moza bint Nasser being introduced by John Gregg, Director of Education Above All (EAA), at the launch of a unique...
PARIS: Paris’s famed Louvre museum yesterday opened to the public a new wing of Islamic art in a bid to improve knowledge of...
DOHA: A major overhaul of the emergency services at all the hospitals of the Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC), which is currently under way...
