BY MOHAMMAD SHOEB DOHA: With about 90,000 new vehicles and more than 100,000 new drivers coming on Qatar’s roads every year, the country...
BY MOHAMMAD SHOEB DOHA: With about 90,000 new vehicles and more than 100,000 new drivers coming on Qatar’s roads every year, the country...
DOHA: The problem of cheques being issued by people and companies without sufficient balance in their bank accounts is becoming worse as an...
A sudden surge in population caused by a heavy influx of foreign workers and the resulting explosion in the number of new vehicles...
NEW DELHI: Actress Freida Pinto, of Oscar-winning Slumdog Millionaire fame, said yesterday she would have become a wedding planner if she had not...
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang (left) is greeted by President Xi Jinping after his election yesterday. BEIJING: China’s legislature formally chose Li Keqiang as...
Thai bomb squad members watch as a crane is used to lift a wrecked car from a river after it was hit by...
KUALA LUMPUR: A Malaysian private investigator who returned from self-exile vowing to lift the lid on a sensational scandal linked to the country’s...
TAIPEI: Blind Chinese lawyer and activist Chen Guangcheng hopes to visit Taiwan in June, a rights group said yesterday, as the island’s government...
BANGKOK: The UN’s refugee agency yesterday called for the Thai government to probe reports its sailors shot at Rohingya boat people fleeing sectarian...
JAKARTA: Indonesia put to death a Malawian drug trafficker yesterday, the government said, in the country’s first execution for several years. Adami Wilson...
TOKYO: A 38-tonne wind turbine crashed 50 metres (165ft) to the ground in western Japan after the steel column supporting it snapped, officials...
Britain’s Prince William and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, react as they watch the second race at the Cheltenham Festival horse racing meet in...
BRUSSELS: British Prime Minister David Cameron said yesterday that Pope Francis had been wrong to say last year that Britain had “usurped” the...
A member of the Hungarian rescue team tries to clear the road at the M1 highway, 80km west of Budapest, yesterday. Thousands of...
WASHINGTON: A federal court ruled yesterday the CIA can no longer refuse to confirm or deny whether it has records related to drone...
LONDON: Workers building a new railway in London have unearthed 13 skeletons thought to be victims of the ‘Black Death’ plague that swept...
OSLO: The Norwegian Food Safety Authority said yesterday it would file a police complaint against a food company after finding large quantities of...
BEIRUT/brussels: Syria has warned it may strike at rebels hiding in neighbouring Lebanon if the Lebanese army does not act, the state news...
