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Qatar Airways files $600m claim over airport delay 30 Dec 2012 - 04:17 am

DOHA: Qatar Airways is filing a $600m legal claim against a contractor for delay in opening New Doha International Airport (NDIA). Lindner Depa...

Defective road design blamed for traffic jams 30 Dec 2012 - 04:12 am

DOHA: Nationals and residents have expressed their resentment over the defective road planning and recurrent road closures from protracted infrastructure projects in the...

New Year tradition 30 Dec 2012 - 02:50 am

Over 50,000 biodegradable balloons are released by Sao Paulo’s Commercial Association (ACSP) at Patio do Collegio in Sao Paulo, Brazil. An office boy...

Senate renews warrantless surveillance act 30 Dec 2012 - 02:50 am

WASHINGTON: The Senate approved a five-year extension on Friday of a George W Bush-era surveillance law that allows US spy agencies to conduct...

Ex-Times editor Rees-Mogg dies 30 Dec 2012 - 02:50 am

LONDON: William Rees-Mogg, a former editor of Britain’s Times newspaper who famously backed Mick Jagger when the Rolling Stones singer was jailed for...

Obama calls for avoiding middle class tax hike 30 Dec 2012 - 02:49 am

WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama yesterday urged Congress to protect the middle class from an income tax increase and lay the groundwork for...

US Senate okays $60.4bn Sandy aid bill 30 Dec 2012 - 02:49 am

WASHINGTON: The US Senate on Friday approved a $60.4bn aid package to pay for reconstruction costs from Superstorm Sandy, which ravaged mid-Atlantic and...

Murder numbers fall in NY 30 Dec 2012 - 02:21 am

NEW YORK: The number of murders in New York this year fell to its lowest point in 50 years, mayor Michael Bloomberg said...

Russian airliner crash lands, 4 killed 30 Dec 2012 - 02:20 am

MOSCOW: A Russian airliner flying without passengers broke into pieces after it slid off the runway and crashed onto a highway outside Moscow...

Berlusconi accuses Monti of plot with Italy’s centre left 30 Dec 2012 - 02:19 am

ROME/MILAN: Silvio Berlu-sconi yesterday condemned outgoing Prime Minister Mario Monti’s plan to lead a centrist alliance in Italy’s election in February, accusing him...

Central Africa rebels defy peace efforts 30 Dec 2012 - 02:18 am

BANGUI: Rebels in the Central African Republic, defying regional mediation efforts, yesterday seized a new town in their advance on the capital Bangui...

French court rejects 75pc upper income tax rate 30 Dec 2012 - 02:18 am

PARIS: France’s Constitutional Council yesterday rejected a 75 percent upper income tax rate to be introduced in 2013 in a setback to Socialist...

Gunmen kill seven in Nigeria’s volatile north 30 Dec 2012 - 02:17 am

KANO: Gunmen suspected of belonging to the Boko Haram Islamist group have killed seven people in separate attacks in Nigeria’s volatile north, the...

Syria 30 Dec 2012 - 02:17 am

Aquino quietly signs birth control law 30 Dec 2012 - 01:44 am

MANILA: President Benigno Aquino has quietly signed the Reproductive Health (RH) bill into law, although the exact date of the signing is not...

Fukushima ‘unprecedented challenge’: Japan PM 30 Dec 2012 - 01:44 am

FUKUSHIMA DAIICHI: The clean-up at Fukushima after its tsunami-sparked nuclear meltdowns is unlike anything humanity has ever undertaken, Japan’s prime minister said yesterday...

Storm Wukong leaves 13 dead in Philippines 30 Dec 2012 - 01:43 am

MANILA: Thirteen people have died from storm Wukong (locally named Quinta) in Panay island and Leyte, while six others remain missing. The dead...

27 injured in Macau-Hong Kong ferry collision 30 Dec 2012 - 01:42 am

HONG KONG: Twenty-seven people were injured yesterday in a collision between a Hong Kong-bound passenger ferry and a buoy in Macau, authorities said....