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Briton faked coma for two years to avoid arrest 22 Oct 2014 - 11:01 pm

LONDON: He might have got away with it if it hadn’t been for his supermarket loyalty card. A British fraudster who pretended to...

Jordanian minister meets Qatari envoy 22 Oct 2014 - 02:21 pm

AMMAN: Jordanian Minister of Culture Lana Mamkegh on Wednesday met HE Qatar's Ambassador to Amman Zayed bin Saeed Al Khayareen During the meeting,...

Bayern get Papal seal of approval after Roma demolition 22 Oct 2014 - 02:09 pm

Bayern Munich CEO Karl-Heinz Rummenigge (L) gives a soccer ball to Pope Francis before his weekly audience in Saint Peter's Square at the...

OPEC needs oil cut of at least 500,000 bpd 22 Oct 2014 - 01:59 pm

LONDON: OPEC should cut its oil output by at least 500,000 barrels per day (bpd), a Libyan oil official said, to tackle oversupply...

Total names new head, and chairman after CEO death 22 Oct 2014 - 01:53 pm

A handout photo taken on February 2, 2012 in Brussels, and released by Total shows Total President , Refining & Chemicals and member...

Peugeot says sales edge ahead in long haul out of crisis 22 Oct 2014 - 01:19 pm

PARIS: Peugeot Citroen on Wednesday said sales in China surged by almost half in the third quarter, putting the French auto group on...

Philippines' Aquino criticises typhoon rebuilding delays 22 Oct 2014 - 01:07 pm

Philippine President Benigno Aquino gestures as he answers a question during the annual Foreign Correspondents Association of the Philippines (FOCAP) forum in Manila...

Apple CEO meets Chinese official amid iCloud hacking row 22 Oct 2014 - 01:05 pm

BEIJING: Apple CEO Tim Cook (pictured) met a senior Chinese official Wednesday, days after hackers targeted the company's iCloud service in an attack...

Pakistani Taliban sack spokesman over support for IS jihadists 22 Oct 2014 - 12:20 pm

BANNU: The influential spokesman of the Pakistani Taliban has been sacked for pledging allegiance to the Islamic State group and for feuding with...

J&J aims for 1 million Ebola vaccine doses in 2015 22 Oct 2014 - 12:20 pm

LONDON: Johnson & Johnson is accelerating work on its experimental Ebola vaccine and said on Wednesday that it aims to have 1 million...

National Commercial Bank Q3 net income rises 7.8pc 22 Oct 2014 - 11:57 am

RIYADH: National Commercial Bank (NCB), Saudi Arabia's largest lender by assets, posted a 7.8 percent increase in third-quarter net income, it said in...

Malaysia's defence minister hopeful MH370 will be found 22 Oct 2014 - 11:33 am

The Malaysian defense minister Hishammuddin Hussein stands near the underwater probe on board the Malaysian contracted vehicle, GO Phoenix, docked at Fremantle Port...

Lufthansa outsources IT infrastructure ops to IBM 22 Oct 2014 - 11:14 am

The logo of German airline Lufthansa is pictured at the airport in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, on October 21, 2014. FRANKFURT: German airline...

Tokyo shares jump 2.64pc by the close 22 Oct 2014 - 10:46 am

TOKYO: Tokyo stocks jumped 2.64 percent on Wednesday, reversing a sharp drop the previous day, as investors took their lead from another Wall...

Japan trade deficit expands 1.6pc on-year in September 22 Oct 2014 - 09:40 am

Cranes unload containers from a freighter at a container wharf in Tokyo port on October 22, 2014. TOKYO: Japan's trade deficit expanded 1.6...

Apple co-founder to mentor at Australian university 22 Oct 2014 - 09:35 am

SYDNEY: Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak (pictured) has accepted an adjunct professorship at a Sydney university and will play a mentoring role at the...

Yahoo profit surges on Alibaba divestment, mobile 22 Oct 2014 - 09:23 am

SAN FRANCISCO: Yahoo said Tuesday its quarterly profit surged with its sale of shares in Chinese Internet powerhouse Alibaba, and that it was...

Exchange Rates in Qatar 22 Oct 2014 - 09:21 am

Exchange Rates in Qatar DOHA: Exchange Rates for foreign currencies as issued on Wednesday by Qatar National Bank (QNB) are as following: Currency...