COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s Tamil-dominated northern region will hold its first elections for a provincial council that will grant limited autonomy to the former...
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s Tamil-dominated northern region will hold its first elections for a provincial council that will grant limited autonomy to the former...
LUSHAN: Clogged roads, debris and landslides impeded rescuers yesterday as they battled to find survivors of a powerful earthquake in mountainous southwest China...
BEIJING: A man in the northeastern Chinese province of Shandong has been infected by a new strain of bird flu, the first case...
NARATHIWAT: Four soldiers were killed and another four seriously injured while attempting to defuse a bomb at an army base in Thailand’s unrest-plagued...
People wave flags during a protest against an EU-sponsored deal to normalise ties between Serbia and breakaway Kosovo, in Belgrade, Serbia, yesterday. LUXEMBOURG/...
KANO: Heavy fighting between Nigerian troops and suspected Islamist insurgents has killed 187 people and injured 77 others, with massive blazes that raged...
WASHINGTON: The White House yesterday insisted that the surviving suspect in the Boston bombings would not be treated as an “enemy combatant” but...
LONDON: A British grandmother on death row for trafficking drugs into Bali lost her attempt yesterday to get the government in London to...
Washington: Gunfire erupted at an apartment complex in a city south of Seattle and five people were shot to death, including a suspect...
PARIS: Woolly mammoths stomp through the Siberian tundra as the giant moa strides the forest floor of New Zealand and Tasmania’s dog-like “tigers”...
OSLO: A French adventurer hopes to reach both the North and South Poles alone and unaided within one year in what would be...
WASHINGTON: The Emir H H Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani arrived in Washington last evening on an official visit to the US....
The Charge d’Affaires of Qatar in Libya Nayef Abdullah Al Emadi with the President of the General National Congress of Libya, Dr Mohammed...
Doha: The Minister of Education and Higher Education and Secretary-General of the Supreme Education Council (SEC) H E Saad bin Ibrahim Al Mahmoud...
Senior Urban Planning Researcher at the Ministry of Municipality and Urban Planning, Ali Al Khayat, discussing features of Qatar’s national masterplan at the...
Fahad Esmaeil Darman from Ooredoo presents the donation cheque to members of the organising committee. Doha: Ooredoo presented the organisers of the 12th...
DOHA: The best practices in interfaith dialogue and role of religious scholars in resolving conflicts across the world will be discussed at the...
DOHA: Banks here have warned customers not to disclose online any information about their accounts, credit cards or automated teller machine (ATM) PIN...
