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Ooredoo launches Mozaic GO service for customers to stream films, series 26 Dec 2013 - 04:51 am

Mozaic TV provides access to a rich range of content, including latest releases from Hollywood, Bollywood, Asia and the Arab world. DOHA: Ooredoo...

Mobile learning app to improve training 26 Dec 2013 - 04:50 am

DOHA: A mobile learning application being developed by Qatar University (QU) is expected to change the face of corporate technical training in the...

Moroccan minister briefed on QF mission, vision 26 Dec 2013 - 04:50 am

DOHA: Qatar Foundation hosted Morocco’s Minister of Handicrafts, Social Economy and Solidarity, Fatima Marouane, yesterday. She is in Doha at the head of...

Emiri order for share allocations hailed 26 Dec 2013 - 04:49 am

Doha: The Cabinet praised yesterday directives of the Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani to allocate 750 shares paid in...

Emir ratifies Cabinet decisions 26 Dec 2013 - 04:48 am

Doha: The Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani yesterday ratified Cabinet Decision No. 55 of 2013 on the enforcement of...

Qatar expects budget surplus of QR80bn 26 Dec 2013 - 04:27 am

DOHA: Qatar is expected to post a budget surplus of over QR80bn ($21.97bn) in the current fiscal year as the budget was based...

Turkish PM faces resignation call 26 Dec 2013 - 04:21 am

Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan arrives to address the members of the Justice and Development Party (AKP), during a meeting at the...

Snowden worried over loss of privacy 26 Dec 2013 - 04:16 am

LONDON: Former US National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden, who revealed details of electronic surveillance by American and British spy services, warned of...

Charity plans drive against bank debt 26 Dec 2013 - 04:12 am

DOHA: A local charitable organisation has plans to start an awareness drive against rising consumerism in the Qatari community that has an increasing...

Storms bring misery to southern England 26 Dec 2013 - 04:02 am

Waves hit the jetty in the port of A Guarda in northwestern Spain yesterday. High winds and heavy rain battered parts of Europe,...

Brotherhood declared a terrorist group 26 Dec 2013 - 03:58 am

Egypt Army Chief Abdel Fattah Al Sisi & Former president Mohammed Mursi CAIRO: Egypt’s military-installed rulers declared the Muslim Brotherhood of ousted president...

Emir receives message from Sudan President 26 Dec 2013 - 03:55 am

The Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani receiving a message from Sudanese President Omar Hassan Al Bashir. The message was...

Healthcare facilities to be expanded 26 Dec 2013 - 03:51 am

DOHA: Qatar will see a massive expansion of health care facilities in the next few years, including several specialised hospitals to treat life-threatening...

Typhoon woes fail to dampen festive mood 25 Dec 2013 - 08:31 am

Victims of super Typhoon Haiyan decorate their improvised Christmas tree with empty cans and bottles (above) and with different appliances, plastic plates and...

Estrada visits Arroyo 25 Dec 2013 - 08:30 am

Former Philippine president and now Manila Mayor Joseph Estrada answers questions from the press as he leaves Veterans Memorial Medical Centre in Manila...

Security scare delays trial of Musharraf 25 Dec 2013 - 08:28 am

A paramilitary soldier and policemen stand guard outside a special court set up to try former Pakistani military ruler Pervez Musharraf in Islamabad...

Pakistan, India commanders meet 25 Dec 2013 - 08:27 am

Pakistani Director General of Military Operations (DGMO) Major General Aamer Riaz (right) with his Indian counterpart Lieutenant General Vinod Bhatia at the Wagah...

China commits $6.5bn for Pakistan nuclear project 25 Dec 2013 - 08:26 am

ISLAMABAD: China has committed $6.5bn to finance the construction of a major nuclear power project in Pakistan’s port city of Karachi as it...