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Visitors at the Summer Festival Concert and Big Bazaar at Doha Marriott beach resort, yesterday. Qassim Rahmatullah BY RAYNALD C RIVERA DOHA: Filipinos...

Tel Aviv: Noam Chomsky was among 20 academics who privately lobbied Professor Stephen Hawking to boycott a major Israeli conference, it emerged last...

BY AZMAT HAROON DOHA: Extended Qatari families crumbling under the pressure of modernisation, giving way to nuclear families is leading to an erosion...

By Isabel Ovalle The number of Western expats in Doha has grown rapidly in the past few years. European and American nationals arrive...

BY FAZEENA SALEEM Doha: More than 20 percent of the annual revenues of hotels in Qatar come from nightclubs and bars, which are...

Then, some hotels organise what they call ‘ladies night’ once a week, when not only entry but drinks also are free for women...

Asian workers cover their heads with white scarves to protect themselves from the strong sun as they work at a construction site in...

Rescuers move garment worker Reshma from the rubble of the garment factory in Savar yesterday. SAVAR: Rescuers pulled a woman yesterday from the...

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron arrive to address the media after their meeting in the Black Sea resort...

NEW YORK: The New York Times said yesterday its Islamabad bureau chief was ordered to leave Pakistan for unspecified “undesirable activities” in the...

LONDON: Britain is temporarily pulling out some staff from its embassy in the Libyan capital Tripoli due to security concerns over recent political...

MOSCOW: The International Space Station crew Friday were preparing for an emergency spacewalk to fix a "very serious' leak of ammonia from the...

NEW DELHI: India's railway minister Pawan Kumar Bansal resigned on Friday, two Indian television channels reported, dealing a fresh blow to the scandal-weakened...

VILNIUS: The development of shale gas in Europe could help the continent obtain better deals from its current key supplier, the Russian giant...

PARIS: Paris Saint-Germain's Brazilian defender Alex admits he is "a bit lost" and that he and his teammates are desperate to find out...

DAMASCUS: Syria's army has dropped leaflets over Qusayr in central Homs province, warning civilians to leave ahead of an attack that will be...

BERLIN: US President Barack Obama will visit Berlin next month for wide-ranging talks with Chancellor Angela Merkel, a German government spokesman said Friday.  ...

Manchester City's Italian manager Roberto Mancini reacts during the English Premier League football match between Manchester City and West Bromwich Albion at the...