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RIYADH: A Saudi man who slapped his wife has earned himself a flogging and jail sentence, in a rare ruling in the Gulf...

SEOUL: North Korea said Wednesday it has passed a law on setting up more special economic zones, as the isolated state seeks to...

ATAMYRAT, Turkmenistan: The leaders of three Central Asian states on Wednesday launched the construction of a hugely ambitious railway project aimed at creating...

DOHA: Qatar Olympic Committee (QOC) has become a strategic partner in Sahtak Awalan (Your Health First), a health campaign by Weill Cornell Medical...

RIYADH: Saudi authorities on Wednesday freed liberal writer Turki al-Hamad who has been held without trial since December over comments posted on Twitter...

DOHA: HE the Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jabor Al Thani on Wednesday received a written message from...

ISTANBUL: Istanbul Governor Huseyin Avni Mutlu on Wednesday met with HE Qatar's Consul in Istanbul Sultan bin Ibrahim Al-Mahmoud.   Mutlu praised the efforts...

DOHA: Commercial Bank of Qatar (CBQ) and Qatar Islamic Bank (QIB) have asked Qatar Exchange to increase the number of their shares available...

RIYADH: Saudi Arabia's telecom regulator has banned use of the web-based communication application Viber, which is hard for the state to monitor and...

KUWAIT: Major crude producer Kuwait plans to start drilling for heavy oil so that the Gulf Arab state can produce up to 60,000...

DUBAI: Saudi Arabia's Ahmad Hamad Algosaibi & Brothers (AHAB) have hired three people from accounting firm Deloitte to senior management positions, the family...

ANKARA: Hackers said on Wednesday they had attacked Turkish government systems and obtained confidential details of staff in Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan's office...

SOFIA: Bulgaria's former interior minister Tsvetan Tsvetaeva signed away his parliamentary immunity Wednesday to fight charges over a major scandal involving the alleged...

BANGKOK: Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has told her commerce minister to clarify the cost of the government's rice intervention scheme, after a...

NEW DELHI: Online retail giant Amazon launched a new Internet shopping site in India on Wednesday, stoking already fierce competition in the fast-expanding...

SHILLONG, India: Police are investigating an Indian university suspected of issuing fake PhDs after it awarded more than 400 doctorates in a single...

NEW DELHI: Shareholders of India's Bharti Airtel Ltd on Wednesday approved a $1.2 billion deal to sell a 5 percent stake of the...

DOHA: Three teams from Qatar will participate in the Shell Eco-Marathon Asia 2013 to be held from July 4 to 7 in Kuala...