SAN JOSE, California: US President Barack Obama mounted a staunch defence yesterday of just exposed spy agency surveillance programmes, telling Americans “nobody is...
SAN JOSE, California: US President Barack Obama mounted a staunch defence yesterday of just exposed spy agency surveillance programmes, telling Americans “nobody is...
LONDON: Some 165 million children worldwide are stunted by malnutrition as babies and face a future of ill health, poor education, low earnings...
LONDON: Queen Elizabeth II made a show-stopping appearance live on the BBC news yesterday as she officially opened the corporation’s new headquarters, pressing...
GENEVA: The World Health Organisation yesterday formally raised the global death toll from the Sars-like virus MERS to 31, after a new fatality...
BY MOHAMMAD SHOEB Growing traffic snarls in Qatar can be addressed by developing roads, highways, parking facilities and an affordable public transport system,...
BY FAZEENA SALEEM DOHA: Many expatriates as well as some Qataris believe that imposing restrictions on newly arriving foreign workers getting a driver’s...
An apex government committee has suggested that restrictions be imposed on issuing driver’s licences to expatriates as part of measures to curb the...
WASHINGTON: The debate over whether the US government is violating citizens’ privacy rights while trying to protect them from terrorism escalated dramatically amid...
An ambulance carrying wounded Syrians from Qusayr, in Syria's central Homs province, arriving at a hospital in Shtora in the Lebanese Bekaa Valley. ...
DOHA: Al Rayyan Service Centre hopes to soon begin an evening shift since its workload has gone up immensely. The service centre issues...
DOHA: The Ministry of Labour plans to have a hotline to enable workers to complain if an employer fails to comply with summer...
BATUCO, Chile: As pets go, they are low maintenance. No muss, no fuss, nice and quiet, and even a bit furry. So, how...
MOSCOW: She has led Moscow’s renowned Pushkin Museum for over half a century, helped Russians discover the art of her friend Marc Chagall...
LOS ANGELES: Hong Kong film star Jackie Chan became the first Chinese to have his hands and feet cast in wet cement at...
LOS ANGELES: Michael Jackson’s jailed doctor Conrad Murray has sent a consoling message to the late pop icon’s daughter Paris after she tried...
Youths hold flower-shaped pinwheels, with each petal representing a child death caused by malnutrition, during a Global Day of Action against Global Hunger...
New Delhi: Even as the Rajasthan Royals management yesterday threatened to suspend its co-owner Raj Kundra if found guilty of “betting and spot...
SRINAGAR: Pakistani troops shot and killed an Indian army officer yesterday near the countries’ disputed border in the Himalayan region of Kashmir, an...
