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Vodafone holds training for sales staff 28 Nov 2012 - 05:02 am

Mada CEO David Banes with Vodafone’s store managers. Doha: In collaboration with Mada (Qatar Assistive Technology Center), Vodafone held a training workshop for...

Fire drill exercise at The Torch Doha 28 Nov 2012 - 05:02 am

Doha: The Torch Doha has conducted a fire drill exercise recently in the presence of Civil Defence Department. To enforce safety and security...

PEC Super Sixes Tournament on Friday 28 Nov 2012 - 05:01 am

Doha: The Pakistan Education Centre Alumni (PEC-A) is set to kick off its first sports event with the ‘PEC Alumni Super Sixes Tournament’...

Qtel offers high definition voice technology for 3G network 28 Nov 2012 - 05:01 am

Doha: In yet another first for Qtel, the company’s smartphone customers can now enjoy clearer and sharper calls thanks to the state-of-the-art High...

Emir meets Ukrainian President 28 Nov 2012 - 04:57 am

The Emir H H Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani and the Prime Minister and Foreign Minister H E Sheikh Hamad bin Jassem...

Rising sea threatens artificial Gulf islands 28 Nov 2012 - 03:57 am

The Fourth Plenary meeting of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action in progress at the Plenary 1 Conference Hall, at...

Replace cylinders with piped gas, says CMC 28 Nov 2012 - 02:50 am

DOHA: Public representative body, the Central Municipal Council (CMC), yesterday discussed the dangers involved in door-to-door sales of cooking gas cylinders, with a...

Safi fish to be tested for metal contents 28 Nov 2012 - 02:48 am

DOHA: Qatari authorities will be conducting laboratory tests on samples of rabbit fish (safi) collected from the sea near Doha and Al Khor...

Rice fails to convince Republicans 28 Nov 2012 - 01:31 am

Sen John McCain (R-AZ) speaks to reporters after meeting with US Ambassador to the United Nations, Susan Rice, on Capitol Hill in Washington,...

Kuwait’s Emir in Britain 28 Nov 2012 - 01:30 am

Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II with the Emir of Kuwait, H H Sheikh Sabah Al Ahmad Al Sabah, on his arrival at the Windsor...

US mammography guidelines faulted 28 Nov 2012 - 01:30 am

CHICAGO: Controversial US guidelines for mammography issued in 2009, calling for screening every two years rather than annually for women over 50 years...

Organ transplant pioneer dies 28 Nov 2012 - 01:29 am

WASHINGTON: Dr Joseph Murray , who won the Nobel Prize for performing the first-ever successful organ transplant, died late on Monday in Boston...

Cameron’s flagship job scheme is a failure: Data 28 Nov 2012 - 01:29 am

LONDON: Prime Minister David Cameron’s 5-billion-pound flagship scheme to get the long-term unemployed into work found jobs for fewer than three in every...

Four US women soldiers sue military over ban 28 Nov 2012 - 01:28 am

LOS ANGELES: A group of US servicewomen is suing Defence Secretary Leon Panetta over the Pentagon’s long-standing policy barring women from thousands of...

France backs Palestinian bid for UN status 28 Nov 2012 - 01:27 am

Paris/LONDON: France yesterday said it will back a Palestinian bid for enhanced United Nations status at a General Assembly vote this week, just...

Protest in Beirut 28 Nov 2012 - 01:26 am

Supporters of Lebanese prisoner in the French jail Georges Ibrahim Abdullah, shouting slogans against French government during a protest in front of the...

Wave of attacks kills 19 in Iraq 28 Nov 2012 - 01:26 am

BAGHDAD: A wave of attacks including six car bombs, nine roadside bombs and a shooting killed 19 people and wounded 71 others yesterday...

Gazans say ‘Thank you Iran’ 28 Nov 2012 - 01:25 am

GAZA: Gazans offered very public thanks to Iran yesterday for helping them in this month’s fight against Israel, when Iranian-made missiles were fired...