KINSHASA: Democratic Republic of Congo will start talks next week aimed at easing a political standoff in the capital and ending remote rebellions,...
KINSHASA: Democratic Republic of Congo will start talks next week aimed at easing a political standoff in the capital and ending remote rebellions,...
SYDNEY: Prime Minister Kevin Rudd intensified a bitter war of words with Rupert Murdoch yesterday as the head of the media mogul’s Australia...
Egyptian children display a portrait of ousted president Mohammed Morsi during a demonstration in Cairo yesterday. CAIRO: Islamist supporters of deposed Egyptian president...
BEIRUT: Gunmen kidnapped two Turkish Airlines pilots early yesterday on a road leading out of Beirut airport, in an apparent bid to secure...
JERUSALEM: Israel appealed to the European Union yesterday to rethink planned sanctions against its organisations in the occupied territories and called for talks,...
HOULA, Syria: The dark, murky waters of Houla Lake erupt daily when struck by the bombs of Syrian fighter jets and shells fired...
TRIPOLI: Libya’s army said yesterday it had deployed reinforcements in the capital Tripoli and its suburbs to bolster security after weeks of deadly...
BAGHDAD: Attacks killed four people in Iraq yesterday, officials said, as Muslims marked the end of the holy fasting month of Ramadan which...
The wife of Sicilian mafia boss Domenico Rancadore, Anne Skinner (left), and his daughter Daniela Skinner, leave the City of Westminster Magistrates Court...
Tian Tian, the female giant panda, sits in her enclosure in Edinburgh zoo, Scotland yesterday. LONDON: A giant panda at Edinburgh Zoo is...
US NAVAL BASE AT GUANTANAMO BAY: Shock waves from the threat of new attacks by Al Qaeda’s Yemen wing have reached the cells...
LONDON: Two British teenage girls arrived home yesterday badly burned after acid was hurled in their faces in Zanzibar, while the island’s authorities...
Complaints about beauty salons are galore, with a surge in demand for their services during the Eid holidays. The number of beauty salons...
The rush at beauty salons in Doha increases as Ramadan draws to a close, and women can be seen quarrelling over prices and...
US President Barack Obama at a news conference at the White House in Washington, yesterday. WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama yesterday announced plans to...
DOHA: An estimated 250,000 people are expected to travel overseas during the Eid holidays, making it a record exodus so far this year,...
DOHA: Qatar has lifted the ban slapped on infant formula Similac Gain Plus last week following media reports that some batches had been...
VIENNA, Austria: The OPEC cartel tweaked higher its forecasts for world oil demand for 2013 and 2014 on Friday following a stronger-than-expected first...
