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LONDON: The prospect of becoming a grandfather to the baby of Prince William and his wife Catherine has strengthened Prince Charles's determination to...

BEIJING: Former New Mexico governor Bill Richardson and Google chairman Eric Schmidt arrived Monday in North Korea, where a US citizen is being...

DOHA: Qatar Finance and Business Academy (QFBA) has signed an exclusive partnership with KPMG, a big 4 accounting firm providing audit, tax and...

BENGHAZI, Libya: Libyan Islamist leader Ahmed Abu Khattala said on Monday that a man was killed and another injured when planting a car...

SANAA: Yemeni authorities impounded 500 illegal motorbikes in a three-day campaign to put an end to hit-and-run shootings which killed dozens of security...

DOHA: Qatar Exchange pursued its upswing trend Monday, adding 32.58 points (or 0.38%) to advance to 8,669.02 points from 8,636.44 Sunday.   The volume...

TRIPOLI: Tupras, Turkey's sole oil refiner, will definitely extend purchases of crude oil from Iran when the company's contract expires in August, despite...

DOHA: Qatar Petroleum (QP) has announced the official prices of its onshore and offshore crude for the month of December.   QP set the...

SEOUL: Samsung Electronics, the world leader in mobiles and memory chips, likely earned a quarterly profit of $8.1 billion, as it sold close...

ALGIERS: HH the Emir of Qatar Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani arrived in Algiers on Monday on a state visit to the...

This video image, taken from footage by NHK and Discovery Channel in July, 2012 and released on January 7, 2013 shows a giant...

DUBAI: Arcapita, a Bahrain-based investment firm, said on Monday it has sold its 80-percent interest in a joint venture controlling five London senior...

KUALA LUMPUR: The world's largest rare-earths processing plant will start producing finished products within weeks in Malaysia, its Australian owner said Monday.   Lynas...

BANGKOK: A Vietnamese man was arrested with rhino horn worth more than half a million dollars in his luggage at Bangkok's main airport,...

BERLIN: The chief executive of Air Berlin stepped down on Monday amid turbulent times for Germany's number two airline, in the red since...

MANILA: A US drone believed to be used for reconnaissance was recovered on Monday in waters off the central Philippines, police and naval...

DUBAI: Bahrain's highest appeal court upheld sentences against 13 leaders of a 2011 uprising on Monday, a defence lawyer said, in a decision...

BEIJING: Heavy fog has caused the shutdown of an airport at China's Sichuan province, grounding more than 100 flights and stranding nearly 10,000...