DUBAI: Standard Chartered Plc appointed its Middle East, North Africa and Pakistan Chief Executive, Christos Papadopoulos to head its Islamic banking arm, the...
DUBAI: Standard Chartered Plc appointed its Middle East, North Africa and Pakistan Chief Executive, Christos Papadopoulos to head its Islamic banking arm, the...
MULTAN, Pakistan: Toxic liquor has killed at least 12 people in central Pakistan, police and health officials said Wednesday. The deaths occurred near...
BAGHDAD: Attacks in Iraq killed six people Wednesday, including a school principal who was among several victims in a spate of shootings in...
ROME: One third of the food produced worldwide is wasted, costing the global economy around $750 billion or 570 billion euros a year,...
Protesters are escorted by anti-riot policemen while marching towards the Edsa Shrine in Quezon City.Reuters/Romeo Ranoco MANILA: About a thousand people staged a...
SANAA: Seven people were killed, including two girls, due to floods following heavy rains in three districts of Mahweet province. Floods following heavy...
MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin will offer to supply Iran S-300 air defence missile systems as well as build a second reactor at...
PARIS: The Senegalese government has won an initial ruling in an international arbitration case concerning an iron mining project in the southeast of...
YANGON: A government-appointed body that oversees Myanmar's Buddhist monkhood has issued a directive intended to check the influence of a monk-led movement accused...
Russian cosmonauts Alexander Misurkin (L) and Pavel Vinogradov (C) and US astronaut Chris Cassidy (R) arrive for a press conference at the Karaganda...
CAIRO: Two bomb attacks on Wednesday targeted Egypt's army in the restive Sinai peninsula, where the military is engaged in a campaign to...
JERUSALEM: Israel is to pay more than $1 million to the family of an alleged Mossad spy who hanged himself in prison in...
DUBAI: Dubai lender Mashreq expects to post a 40 percent increase in 2013 profits, significantly higher than its earlier forecast, mainly thanks to...
DOHA: Qatar's Cultural Village Foundation (Katara) and the United National Information Center (UNIC) have agreed to hold joint cultural activities aiming at enriching...
Exchange Rates in Qatar DOHA: Exchange Rates for foreign currencies as issued on Wednesday Qatar National Bank (QNB) are as following: Currency Buying...
TOKYO: Tokyo stocks ended flat Wednesday as late profit-taking erased early gains, after a strong two-day rally driven by upbeat Chinese economic data...
BANGKOK: Suspected Muslim insurgents killed five policemen in Thailand's deep south on Wednesday in one of the most serious attacks since talks between...
Residents believed to be hostages of Moro National Liberation Front rebels wave white cloth and shout to the government soldiers "stop firing" while...