BAGHDAD: Iraqis in two Sunni-majority provinces voted under heavy security in delayed provincial polls yesterday which were marred by mortar attacks on polling...
BAGHDAD: Iraqis in two Sunni-majority provinces voted under heavy security in delayed provincial polls yesterday which were marred by mortar attacks on polling...
CAIRO: Authorities in Egypt have valued the wealth of former dictator Hosni Mubarak, his wife and their two sons at nine billion Egyptian...
By Mansoor Ahmed I have a theory as to why we tend not to focus on the Quran: We are drawn towards controversy....
By Kamal Badr The Glorious Quran is full of glad tidings with which Almighty God soothes distressed and troubled souls, and nourishes the...
Family members of the victims of the Villaggio fire speaking to the media near the court yesterday. DOHA: Parents of children who died...
(File Picture) Villaggio Mall fire DOHA: In a landmark judgement, a lower criminal court yesterday sentenced four people to six years in jail...
Syrian-Kurdish refugees wait in line to fill water canisters at the Domiz refugee camp, 20km southeast of the northern Iraqi city of Dohuk. ...
Researchers use a special tool called a microtome to cut sections from a brain preserved in paraffin wax into tiny slivers 20-micrometers thick. ...
Parliament session at the Kuwait's National Assembly in Kuwait City. (File photo: AFP) KUWAIT: Kuwait will hold its sixth parliamentary election in seven...
The Heir Apparent H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani with Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the...
Members of civil society organisations scuffle with police who blocked their way to parliament during a protest in Beirut yesterday. Activists were protesting...
LONDON: US President Barack Obama repeatedly called British Finance Minister George Osborne “Jeffrey” at the G8 summit, media reported yesterday. The US president...
DOHA: A Qatari court on Thursday sentenced five people, among them the emirate's envoy to Belgium, to six years in prison over "negligence"...
DOHA: The Qatar Exchange down on Thursday 93.82 points or 1 percent to 9,246.19 points from the previous closing of 9,340.01 points. The...
LONDON: More than a third of all women worldwide are victims of physical or sexual violence, posing a global health problem of epidemic...
CAIRO: An Egyptian court on Thursday ordered the release of former Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif who has been detained for more than two...
MOSCOW: Italian Fabio Capello is expected to stay on in his job as boss of Russia's national side until at least the 2014...
DHAKA: A Bangladeshi court sentenced 10 Islamic militants to death on Thursday after finding them guilty of assisting a deadly suicide bombing on...
