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Guidelines for beauty salons likely soon 25 Apr 2014 - 05:15 am

DOHA: Qatar’s public health authorities are busy framing extensive guidelines for beauty salons and conditions for their licensing. Licensing criteria for beauty parlours...

King bids to reassure Saudis as MERS deaths hit 85 24 Apr 2014 - 02:47 pm

RIYADH: King Abdullah was in the Saudi commercial hub of Jeddah on Thursday in a bid to reassure a worried public as the...

Air raid kills 21 at Syria market 24 Apr 2014 - 01:50 pm

BEIRUT: An air strike on a market on Thursday killed at least 21 people, including three children, in a village of the north...

Kuwait Finance House CEO steps down 24 Apr 2014 - 01:43 pm

KUWAIT: The chief executive of Kuwait Finance House, the Gulf state's largest Islamic lender, has stepped down, two company sources said on Thursday....

Sidra-BMC event boosts biomedical research publishing 24 Apr 2014 - 01:43 pm

DOHA: A symposium organised jointly by Sidra Medical Research Centre and BioMed Central (BMC) mulled trends in research and on open access publishing...

Qatar Stock Exchange down 0.05pc 24 Apr 2014 - 01:40 pm

DOHA: The Qatar Exchange ended in the red area when trading closed Thursday at 12,954.93 points or 0.05 percent down 6.63 points from...

Sheikha Moza meets Mayor of Kobe 24 Apr 2014 - 12:51 pm

KOBE: Her Highness Sheikha Moza bint Nasser, Chairperson of Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development (QF), today held a meeting with...

Philippine Airlines quits flying shark fins amid outcry 24 Apr 2014 - 11:17 am

MANILA: Philippine Airlines (PAL) said Thursday it has stopped flying shark fin cargoes, joining a number of other Asia-Pacific carriers in taking a...

Three foreigners killed in attack in Afghan hospital 24 Apr 2014 - 11:17 am

KABUL: Three foreigners were killed on Thursday when a security guard opened fire at an international hospital in the Afghan capital, Kabul, security...

Car bomb kills 8 in central Iraq 24 Apr 2014 - 11:07 am

HILLA: A car bomb exploded at a police checkpoint south of Baghdad on Thursday, killing eight people, as Iraq struggles with daily violence...

Facebook quarterly income climbs 72pc in a year to $642m 24 Apr 2014 - 10:22 am

WASHINGTON: Facebook posted a 72-per-cent rise in first-quarter revenue Wednesday as its base of active users continued to grow. The social networking giant...

Hyundai Motor Q1 net profit hit by strong won 24 Apr 2014 - 10:22 am

SEOUL: South Korea's Hyundai Motor on Thursday said first-quarter profit fell 2.9 percent from a year ago, hit by a strong won, and...

Tokyo stocks close down 0.97pc 24 Apr 2014 - 09:19 am

TOKYO: Tokyo stocks closed down 0.97 percent on Thursday as US President Barack Obama and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe failed to announce...

Lincoln, Cadillac chase Audi in China luxury market 24 Apr 2014 - 09:03 am

A model poses by a Cadillac CTS car at the China International Exhibition Center new venue during the "Auto China 2014" Beijing International...

Police inspector killed, 3 injured in Karachi explosion 24 Apr 2014 - 09:01 am

ISLAMABAD: Two persons including a senior police officer Inspector Shafiq Tanoli were killed when a blast occurred near old vegetable market in Pakistan's...

Apple splitting stock as iPhone sales soar 24 Apr 2014 - 09:00 am

A customer tries an Apple product at the company's Fifth Avenue store on Earth Day in Midtown Manhattan on April 22, 2014 in...

Exchange Rates in Qatar 24 Apr 2014 - 08:35 am

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

Pakistan fighter jets target militant hideouts near Afghan border 24 Apr 2014 - 08:34 am

ISLAMABAD: Pakistani fighter jets pounded suspected militant hideouts near the Afghan border on Thursday in response to a spate of attacks around the...