GENEVA: The Arctic’s sea ice melted at a record pace in 2012, the ninth-hottest year on record, compounding concerns about climate change underscored...
GENEVA: The Arctic’s sea ice melted at a record pace in 2012, the ninth-hottest year on record, compounding concerns about climate change underscored...
WASHINGTON: Maryland yesterday became the 18th US state to abolish the death penalty when Democratic Governor Martin O’Malley, an outspoken critic of capital...
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (left) meeting the ruler of Dubai, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum (third left), in Dubai, yesterday. ABU...
JERUSALEM: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said yesterday he would put any peace deal with the Palestinians to a referendum, raising expectations that...
UNITED NATIONS: UN leader Ban Ki-moon discussed deadlocked efforts to end the Syria conflict with the major powers yesterday amid mounting signs that...
BEIRUT: Forces loyal to President Bashar Al Assad retook a central district in the city of Homs yesterday, driving a wedge between two...
BAGHDAD: The United Nations mission to Iraq says more people were killed in violent attacks across the country in April than in any...
KHARTOUM, Sudan: More than 60 workers were killed when an unlicensed desert gold mine collapsed in an area of Sudan’s Darfur where hundreds...
RIYADH: Twenty people have died and four people remain missing in Saudi Arabia after heavy downpours triggered flash floods in the desert kingdom...
H H Sheikha Moza bint Nasser with students during one of her visits to Qatar Foundation yesterday.
The Prime Minister and Foreign Minister H E Sheikh Hamad bin Jassem bin Jabor Al Thani with the Secretary General of the GCC,...
The artists along with guests at the opening of ‘Between Cultures’ exhibition at the Qatar Foundation Recreation Centre. Salim Matramkot BY RAYNALD C...
HGH doctors conducting the trans-catheter pulmonary valve transplant using robotic surgery. DOHA: A surgical team at Hamad General Hospital (HGH) recently conducted the...
A dance performed by a community group at the World Labour Day celebrations at Al Rayan Theatre in Souq Waqif. DOHA: Hundreds of...
BY RAYNALD C RIVERA DOHA: Qatar is emerging as a very important tourism generating market for Thailand, says a Thai tourism official. “Qatar...
Panellists taking part in the seminar titled ‘The Landscape of Qatari Media — Past, Present and Future’, organised by the Doha Centre for...
President of the Indian Community Benevolent Fund (ICBF), Kareem Abdullah (left) receiving a memento from the head of the Inspections Department at the...
DOHA: An average of 70 patients including children are treated annually at the Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) for neurourology disorders due to spinal...
