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A cameraman in action during the Qatar Men’s League Round 2 match at Gharafa Sports Club yesterday. (Kammutty VP)

DOHA: Award-winning painter Lisa Milroy will give a lecture tomorrow as part of Katara’s Artist Talk and Residency Programme in connection with Encounter:...

DOHA: Twenty three schools have participated in a competition organised by Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Publishing (BQFP). Students were invited to imagine their dream...

Doha: Local cinemas and commercial complexes do not have proper checks in place for films that have age-restricted content, many concerned citizens say....

WASHINGTON: There was a buzz at the White House late on Thursday when President Barack Obama announced the nomination of two top financial...

WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama yesterday named longtime foreign policy aide Denis McDonough as his new White House Chief of Staff, tapping a...

  WASHINGTON: The Pentagon has begun laying off many of its 46,000 temporary and contract employees and cutting maintenance on ships and aircraft in...

JOHANNESBURG: A massive operation to round up thousands of escaped crocodiles intensified in flood-soaked South Africa yesterday, as the authorities tried to reassure...

LONDON: Britain may soon have to force workers to start saving for retirement to cut a soaring pensions bill set to reach £120bn...

SEGOU/BAMAKO, Mali: French-backed government forces advanced into northern Mali towards the Islamist rebel stronghold of Gao yesterday, recapturing the town of Hombori and...

    WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama and outgoing Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will sit down today for a joint television interview, US broadcaster...

  Khalid Al Sayed   EDITOR-IN-CHIEF The crisis gripping Mali is nothing but the result of a struggle for political influence between France and the...

Egyptian protesters run away as security forces use tear gas, near Tahrir Square in Cairo, yesterday.   CAIRO: Egyptian protesters stormed a regional government...

DOHA: Weather forecasters yesterday said winter wasn’t over yet and a cold spell was expected any time next month. According to a forecaster,...

By FAZEENA SALEEM & MOHAMMED OSMAN  More than a dozen big shopping malls have sprung up in Doha and its outskirts over the...

Plans to remove neighbourhood stores from residential areas all over the country and house them in a shopping complex in each locality have...

Anti-riot policemen block protesters during a predawn rally over the US Navy ship which ran aground in Tubbataha Reef, in front of the...

MANILA: The United Nations launched an appeal yesterday for more international aid to help nearly a million people in the Philippines as they...