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Shelling kills 15 students in heart of Damascus 28 Mar 2013 - 05:13 pm

DAMASCUS: Shelling killed at least 15 students in Damascus on Thursday, with state media blaming "terrorists" -- its term for Syrian rebels increasingly...

Exxon in talks to sell 5 percent of Iraq field to Abu Dhabi's Mubadala 28 Mar 2013 - 05:05 pm

BAGHDAD: Exxon Mobil is in negotiations to sell 5 percent of its stake in Iraq's West Qurna-1 oilfield to Abu Dhabi's state-run investment...

Cyprus appoints panel to probe banking meltdown 28 Mar 2013 - 04:52 pm

NICOSIA: The Cypriot cabinet appointed a panel of three ex-supreme court judges Thursday to investigate whether criminal activity was involved in the island's...

Pope appoints new Buenos Aires archbishop 28 Mar 2013 - 03:29 pm

VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis made his first clerical appointment on Thursday, assigning the bishop of Santa Rosa in Argentina to take over his...

Kuwaiti telco Wataniya appoints new CEO 28 Mar 2013 - 03:29 pm

DUBAI: Kuwait's No.2 telecoms operator Wataniya, which has suffered a sustained profit slump, appointed Abdulaziz Fakhroo as its new chief executive on Thursday,...

Sri Lanka denies tampering with BBC broadcasts 28 Mar 2013 - 12:27 pm

COLOMBO: Sri Lanka's state broadcaster on Thursday denied meddling with BBC programmes after the British corporation abruptly suspended FM radio feeds to the...

Swiss Re to take $610m and end dispute with Buffett 28 Mar 2013 - 12:26 pm

ZURICH: Swiss Re, one of the world's biggest reinsurance groups, on Thursday said it had settled a dispute with billionaire Warren Buffett's Berkshire...

Thai man jailed for selling royal documentary 28 Mar 2013 - 09:28 am

BANGKOK: A Thai man was sentenced to more than three years in prison on Thursday for selling copies of a controversial Australian documentary...

Tokyo stocks close 1.26pc lower 28 Mar 2013 - 09:09 am

TOKYO: Tokyo stocks closed 1.26 percent lower on Thursday as investors awaited the reopening of Cypriot banks while political uncertainty in Italy and...

Exchange Rates in Qatar 28 Mar 2013 - 09:03 am

Exchange Rates in Qatar DOHA: Exchange Rates for foreign currencies as issued on Thursday Qatar National Bank (QNB) are as following: Currency Buying...

US secret service gets first woman boss 28 Mar 2013 - 08:59 am

US President Barack Obama watches as US Secret Service agent Julia Pierson is sworn in as the first woman Director of the service...

UK loses bid to deport Abu Qatada 28 Mar 2013 - 08:59 am

LONDON: The British government yesterday vowed to continue its fight to deport radical Islamist cleric Abu Qatada to Jordan after failing in its...

Former policeman, prison officer jailed for selling stories to Sun 28 Mar 2013 - 08:58 am

LONDON: A former policemen and an ex-prison officer were jailed yesterday for selling stories to Rupert Murdoch’s tabloid the Sun, Britain’s top-selling newspaper....

US child alone with mother’s corpse for days 28 Mar 2013 - 08:58 am

NEWARK, New Jersey: A 4-year-old boy who spent four days in a New Jersey apartment with his mother’s corpse was released from a...

Berlin Wall section removed 28 Mar 2013 - 08:57 am

Police near a stretch of the Berlin Wall known as the East Side Gallery in Berlin, yesterday. A section of the wall was...

Only mentally ill would want Italy’s top job, says Bersani 28 Mar 2013 - 08:57 am

ROME: Centre-left leader Pier Luigi Bersani said yesterday that only a mentally ill person would want Italy’s top job as he scrambled against...

Uproar after Turkish reporters denied access to German trial 28 Mar 2013 - 08:57 am

BERLIN: German politicians, media and the country’s Turkish community accused a German court of gross insensitivity in failing to guarantee Turkish reporters access...

Kosovo hopes for fruitful Serbia talks 28 Mar 2013 - 08:56 am

PARIS: Kosovo’s foreign minister said yesterday he anticipated a breakthrough with Serbia when the two countries’ prime ministers meet next week to discuss...