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Boats on the Corniche 30 Nov 2014 - 06:40 am

A view of leisure boats moored on the Corniche. (Kammutty VP)

Getting lost in translation: Lack of skill lamented 30 Nov 2014 - 06:39 am

DOHA: In an unfortunate situation some translators with lack of skills are just rendering a form of letters into another form of letters,...

Texas A&M awarded ISO 9001:2008 certificate 30 Nov 2014 - 06:38 am

DOHA: The campus of Texas A&M University at Qatar has been awarded the ISO 9001:2008 Management Systems certification by Lloyd’s Register Quality Assurance. ...

Boats on the Corniche 30 Nov 2014 - 06:34 am

A view of leisure boats moored on the Corniche. (kammutty VP)

Texas A&M awarded ISO 9001:2008 certificate 30 Nov 2014 - 06:33 am

DOHA: The campus of Texas A&M University at Qatar has been awarded the ISO 9001:2008 Management Systems certification by Lloyd’s Register Quality Assurance. ...

1,000 children getting treatment at HGH paediatric diabetes unit 30 Nov 2014 - 06:33 am

DOHA: At present, about 1,000 children with diabetes are being managed at the Paediatric Endocrine and Diabetes Unit at the National Diabetes Centre...

Call for changing land allotment rules 30 Nov 2014 - 06:32 am

Fatima Al Kuwari & Dr Mawza Al Maliki DOHA: Some Qatari women are demanding that the conditions for land allotment to nationals be...

Protest against Houthis 30 Nov 2014 - 06:31 am

Yemeni protesters shout slogans during a rally against the Shia Houthi insurgency, in Sana’a, yesterday.

Solidarity with Palestinians 30 Nov 2014 - 06:30 am

Palestinian and Lebanese students on their bicycles carrying Palestinian flags, during a march in Beirut streets on the occasion of International Day of...

Qaeda bombing kills guards in Yemen 30 Nov 2014 - 06:29 am

SANAA: Al Qaeda has claimed it detonated two bombs outside the US embassy in Sanaa, killing several guards, a US-based monitoring group said...

HMC observes world ulcer prevention day 30 Nov 2014 - 06:29 am

DOHA: Hamad Medical Corporation’s (HMC) facilities joined hospitals across the globe in observing World Wide Pressure Ulcer Prevention Day recently. The objective of...

Two die in Algerian rioting over housing, jobs 30 Nov 2014 - 06:28 am

ALGIERS: Two demonstrators were killed when clashes broke out late yesterday between riot police and residents demanding better living conditions in southern Algeria,...

Libya strongman vows to ‘take Tripoli’ from Islamists 30 Nov 2014 - 06:28 am

ROME: An anti-Islamist former Libyan general, Khalifa Haftar, said yesterday he has given himself two weeks to take Benghazi and three months to...

Ferguson protest 30 Nov 2014 - 06:03 am

A protester yells at a line of police officers during a demonstration against the grand jury decision in the Ferguson, Missouri shooting of...

13,000 enslaved in UK: Officials 30 Nov 2014 - 06:02 am

LONDON: Up to 13,000 people are estimated to be kept in conditions of slavery in Britain, four times higher than was previously thought,...

Scattered rains likely tomorrow 30 Nov 2014 - 06:01 am

DOHA: The meteorological office has forecast scattered rains for tomorrow. The weather is expected to be partly cloudy to cloudy today as well....

Indian rupee plunges vs riyal 30 Nov 2014 - 05:55 am

BY SACHIN KUMAR DOHA: For the first time in 14 months, the Indian rupee has breached the psychological barrier of 17 against the...

Court drops murder charge against Mubarak 30 Nov 2014 - 05:55 am

Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, 86, greets medics, army personnel and his supporters, as he leaves a helicopter ambulance after it landed at...