Employees of Qatar Airways gather outside their office building in Doha after earthquake tremors were felt in the afternoon yesterday. (SHAIVAL DALAL) By...
Employees of Qatar Airways gather outside their office building in Doha after earthquake tremors were felt in the afternoon yesterday. (SHAIVAL DALAL) By...
The Emir H H Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani and the Prime Minister and Foreign Minister H E Sheikh Hamad bin Jassem...
Icicles on a flower plant in a garden in Hami, northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. The area has seen temperatures fall sharply.
PARIS: The camel that grateful townsfolk in Mali presented to President Francois Hollande for sending in French troops to chase away Islamist extremists...
Singapore: Elevators in Singapore public-housing blocks are still sometimes being used as toilets, infuriating residents despite a long government campaign to eradicate the...
KATHMANDU: A Nepalese presenter will attempt to set the world record for the longest television talk show this week by staying on air...
TEHRAN: A powerful 6.1 magnitude earthquake struck on Tuesday near the Gulf port city of Bushehr, home to Iran's only nuclear power plant,...
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia has registered its first female trainee advocate, paving the way for women to practise as lawyers in the kingdom where...
NEW DELHI: Five Indian peacekeepers escorting a United Nations convoy in South Sudan have been killed in an ambush by rebels, the Indian...
JERUSALEM: A new Israeli television channel called "i24news" that will go out in English, French and Arabic is to begin broadcasting by summer...
DOHA: Doha Bank, Qatar's fifth-largest lender by market value, plans to nearly double its profits from international operations by 2015, mirroring a strategy...
SINGAPORE: Carnival, the world's largest cruise group, unveiled its Asian expansion plans on Tuesday, predicting the regional market for leisure voyages will grow...
RIYADH: Saudi authorities beheaded a citizen in the northern town of Hael Tuesday after he was convicted of intentionally causing the deaths of...
DOHA: HH the Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani welcomed at the Emiri Diwan premises here Tuesday Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, who...
DOHA: The Qatar Exchange down on Tuesday 2.37 points or 0.03% to 8,518.34 points from the previous closing of 8,520.71. The volume of...
JAKARTA: Three Philippine men could face the death penalty in Indonesia after being caught trying to smuggle methamphetamine with a street value of...
DUBAI: The United Arab Emirates central bank said on Tuesday it was introducing a direct debit system for commercial banks, a step which...
TRIPOLI: A top aide to Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zeidan kidnapped at the end of last month in a Tripoli suburb has been...