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CMC to focus on street vendors 02 Apr 2013 - 05:06 am

DOHA: The Central Municipal Council (CMC) will discuss the safety of tents being set up inside residential facilities and the issue of street...

Research fund to fight obesity in children 02 Apr 2013 - 05:06 am

DOHA: A novel weight management programme to fight obesity among Qatari schoolchildren is one of the three major research projects that have been...

Human trafficking and media workshop begins 02 Apr 2013 - 05:04 am

DOHA: Recognising the importance of creating more awareness about human trafficking, Qatar Foundation for Combating Human Trafficking started a two-day workshop on ‘Human...

Kahramaa starts e-service for companies 02 Apr 2013 - 05:04 am

DOHA: Qatar General Electricity and Water Corporation (Kahramaa) has launched its new e-service exclusively targeting companies and business organisations. Through this facility, a...

Fan Zone event for football enthusiasts 02 Apr 2013 - 05:03 am

DOHA: Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development is inviting all football enthusiasts to attend a ‘Fan Zone’ event tonight outside the...

Air India Express to continue operations from DIA 02 Apr 2013 - 05:03 am

DOHA: Air India Express flights will continue to operate from the Doha International Airport (DIA), since opening of the Hamad International Airport (HIA)...

International carpet expo begins 02 Apr 2013 - 05:02 am

Visitors look at carpets on display at the third Qatar International Carpet Exhibition at Doha Exhibition Center yesterday. Shaival Dalal BY RAYNALD C...

PM meets Ethiopian agriculture minister 02 Apr 2013 - 05:01 am

Doha: The Prime Minister and Foreign Minister H E Sheikh Hamad bin Jassem bin Jabor Al Thani met yesterday Ethiopian Minister of Agriculture...

White House Egg Roll beats budget axe 02 Apr 2013 - 04:15 am

WASHINGTON: A venerable Washington tradition yesterday staved off the budget axe in an era of austerity, as President Barack Obama welcomed tens of...

UN set to okay draft arms trade treaty 02 Apr 2013 - 04:15 am

New York: The 193-nation United Nations General Assembly is expected to pass the long-anticipated draft arms trade treaty today, after a UN conference...

Central African rebels form government 02 Apr 2013 - 04:15 am

BANGUI: The Central African Republic’s new post-coup government vowed yesterday that it would get straight to work, as anger rose in South Africa...

Mandela spends time with family 02 Apr 2013 - 04:14 am

JOHANNESBURG: Nelson Mandela visited with family members yesterday at his hospital bedside, the South African government said, adding that there was no significant...

Eating fish linked to longer life: US study 02 Apr 2013 - 04:14 am

WASHINGTON: People age 65 and older who eat fish may live an average of two years longer than people who do not consume...

Girlfriend rules out suicide bid by Berezovsky 02 Apr 2013 - 04:14 am

MOSCOW: The 23-year-old girlfriend of the late Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky said yesterday that she did not believe he had killed himself and...

Osborne defends new welfare cuts 02 Apr 2013 - 04:13 am

LONDON: Britain’s government yesterday defended a raft of new welfare spending cuts, a key plank of efforts to rein in spending as the...

Khaled Meshaal re-elected as Hamas leader 02 Apr 2013 - 03:21 am

GAZA CITY: Veteran Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal was elected for a new term as head of the Palestinian Islamist movement, a party official...

Saudi police lift ban on women on bikes 02 Apr 2013 - 03:13 am

RIYADH: A Saudi newspaper says the kingdom’s religious police are now allowing women to ride motorbikes and bicycles but only in restricted, recreational...

Cairo airport to partly close as crisis bites 02 Apr 2013 - 02:48 am

CAIRO: Cairo’s international airport will be partly closed at night due to fewer incoming flights and to save energy, reports said yesterday, highlighting...