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China becomes world's 2nd largest retail market 09 Jul 2013 - 03:00 pm

BEIJING: China's retail market is booming. The nation has become the world's second largest retail market as its retail trade volume doubled to...

Qatar National Bank appoints Ali al-Kuwari as acting CEO 09 Jul 2013 - 02:49 pm

DOHA: Qatar National Bank (QNB), the largest Middle East lender by assets, appointed Ali al-Kuwari as acting chief executive officer after a recent...

Nujira, TowerJazz extend agreement to 4G phone power-saving chip 09 Jul 2013 - 02:09 pm

JERUSALEM: Chip makers TowerJazz and Nujira Ltd said they extended their partnership agreement to include production of Nujira's chip that prolongs the battery...

Pakistan oil chief brought home over graft scandal 09 Jul 2013 - 02:05 pm

ISLAMABAD: Pakistani investigators brought home the country's fugitive former oil and gas chief from the United Arab Emirates on Tuesday to face allegations...

India, Sri Lanka and Maldives sign maritime security pact 09 Jul 2013 - 02:04 pm

COLOMBO: India, Sri Lanka and the Maldives have entered into a tripartite agreement on maritime co-operation to secure sea routes in the Indian...

Bombers targeted giant Buddha idol in India 09 Jul 2013 - 01:46 pm

PATNA, India: Attackers who staged serial blasts at one of Buddhism's holiest sites this week also placed a bomb on a giant stone-carved...

Three US kidnap victims release thankyou video 09 Jul 2013 - 01:39 pm

WASHINGTON: Three women who escaped from a decade of captivity as sex slaves of a Cleveland man released a video Tuesday thanking people...

Qatar Stock Exchange up 0.29pc 09 Jul 2013 - 01:37 pm

DOHA: The Qatar Exchange in the green area Tuesday adding 26.75 points or or 0.29 percent to advance to 9,309.63 points from 9,282.88...

Real estate transactions worth QR670,588,597 last week 09 Jul 2013 - 01:26 pm

DOHA: Real estate transactions between June 30 and July 18 for the real estate sales contracts registered at the Ministry of justice are...

India's Supreme Court demands action on acid attacks 09 Jul 2013 - 01:22 pm

NEW DELHI: India's top court criticised the government on Tuesday for failing to formulate a policy to reduce the number of acid attacks...

AstraZeneca signs up first Cambridge partners in cancer research 09 Jul 2013 - 01:16 pm

LONDON: British pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca has agreed its first research partnerships in Cambridge for cancer treatments ahead of its relocation to the university...

5,500 may have died in north India floods 09 Jul 2013 - 12:53 pm

DEHRADUN, India: Authorities have raised to 5,500 the estimated number of people who perished in devastating floods that swept the northern Indian state...

Japan heatwave kills 3, hospitalises 2,500 09 Jul 2013 - 12:24 pm

TOKYO: Sweltering temperatures and scorching sunshine have killed three people and sent more than 2,500 to hospital across Japan in a week, the...

Several dead after car bomb hits southern Beirut 09 Jul 2013 - 12:23 pm

BEIRUT: Several people were killed or wounded when a car bomb hit Beirut's southern suburbs on Tuesday, a stronghold for the Lebanese Shi'ite...

4 killed after two-storey house collapse in Pakistan 09 Jul 2013 - 12:20 pm

ISLAMABAD: Four persons were killed and three more injured when a two-storey house collapsed due to heavy rainfall in Gujranwala, eastern Pakistan today...

Wounded dying for lack of medicine in Syria's Homs 09 Jul 2013 - 11:50 am

BEIRUT: People wounded in fighting between rebels and regime troops in the central Syria city of Homs are dying for lack of medical...

Israel urges US not to freeze Egypt aid 09 Jul 2013 - 11:44 am

JERUSALEM: Israel has urged Washington not to suspend its annual $1.3 billion in aid to Cairo in the wake of the ouster of...

GSK taps UK firm for "beyond antibodies" drug technology 09 Jul 2013 - 11:19 am

LONDON: GlaxoSmithKline plans to exploit new technology from private British biotech company Immunocore to develop next-generation drugs against cancer that fight tumours in...