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Dubai, UAE, 7 January, 2014: Hertz has delivered a big New Year offering to car rental users in the Middle East and Africa...

TOKYO: Tokyo shares slumped 2.35 percent Monday on their first trading day of the year, hit by a weaker dollar and profit-taking, after...

Supporters of Pakistani opposition party Mutahida Qaumi Movement hold portraits of party leader Altaf Hussain as they listen to his telephonic speech from...

MANILA: Mild earthquakes hit parts of Mindanao in Philippines on Monday but damages were not expected, state volcanologists said. Earlier on Monday a...

Afghan families receive winter assistance from a non-government organisation for the most vulnerable returnees, Internally Displaced Persons and others at risk in the...

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan government is set to formally start the privatisation and restructuring process of various state-owned enterprises (SoEs) from January 8, the...

ISLAMABAD: A lawyer representing Pakistan’s former military ruler Pervez Musharraf said yesterday the retired general would not make a scheduled appearance at his...

KABUL: Afghanistan fell about 20 percent short of its domestic revenue target in 2013 despite better tax collection as the economy slowed ahead...

PESHAWAR:  Several ministers, advisers and parliamentary secretaries of the ruling coalition in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province led by Imran Khan?s Pakistan Tehrik Insaf have...

ISLAMABAD: The Nawaz Sharif government is contemplating reviving through Swiss courts graft cases against former president Asif Ali Zardari for the return of...

SINGAPORE: A Singapore Airlines Airbus A380 superjumbo made an emergency landing in Azerbaijan on Monday due to a loss of cabin pressure but...

PESHAWAR: A suicide bomber blew himself up outside a government school in northwest Pakistan on Monday, killing a teenage boy, officials said. The...

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

BEIJING: A Chinese tycoon said Monday he is serious about buying the New York Times and wants to work on "rebuilding its credibility...

BEIJING: Fourteen people, some of them children, were killed and 10 injured in a stampede during a gathering at a mosque in China's...

A car’s windshield wipers stick out of its snow cover after a storm dropped up to 7 inches of snow in New York...

Cars pass each other on a flooded road in the village of Yalding in Kent, southern England, yesterday. LONDON: Britain remains in the...

A file picture of Polar Star, the US Coast Guard icebreaker, completing ice drills in the Arctic. The US is sending the Polar...