KUALA LUMPUR: Ten teams from Qatar have travelled to Malaysia to compete in this years’ World Robot Olympiad (WRO) Finals as part of...
KUALA LUMPUR: Ten teams from Qatar have travelled to Malaysia to compete in this years’ World Robot Olympiad (WRO) Finals as part of...
By Issandr El Amrani What a difference four years can make. In 2008, Barack Obama’s victory turned into a worldwide celebration. Just as...
Every defeated party has to travel from denial to acceptance. At least in Mitt Romney’s case the loss was unequivocal. by Jonathan Freedland...
GAZA: Israeli tank fire killed four Palestinians and wounded 25 in the Gaza Strip yesterday after an anti-tank missile hit an Israeli army...
A boy rides a bicycle past a house damaged after shelling by forces loyal to President Bashar Al Assad, in Al Atareb village...
DAMASCUS: Twin suicide bombings killed at least 20 soldiers in Syria’s south on Saturday, as days of foreign-backed efforts to reorganise the opposition...
WASHINGTON: Pentagon leaders knew of the September 11 attack on the US Consulate in Benghazi an hour after it began, but were unable...
DIYARBAKIR: Six of Turkey’s leading Kurdish politicians have joined hundreds of jailed militants and activists in a hunger strike now in its 60th...
BAGHDAD: Baghdad cancelled a $4.2bn arms package with Russia yesterday citing graft concerns and instead opted for new talks, ending a deal that...
KHARTOUM: Sudanese rebels yesterday said they captured one government armoured vehicle and destroyed others in a battle near the capital of North Darfur...
DIYARBAKIR: Seventeen Turkish soldiers were killed yesterday when their helicopter crashed in southeastern Turkey due to bad weather conditions including fog, the area’s...
KUWAIT CITY: Kuwait has released two members of the Al Sabah ruling family after holding them for two days allegedly over tweets deemed...
Fireworks light the sky near the Kuwait Towers during celebrations marking the 50th anniversary of Kuwait’s constitution, in Kuwait City, yesterday. Kuwait marked...
An aerial view of the QR27bn new Doha port taking shape. Strategically located between Mesaieed and Wakra, the port will have a new...
DOHA: A senior official of the Ministry of Labour has said that the number of complaints it received from expatriate workers has dwindled...
DOHA: Controversial Dubai Police Chief Dhahi Khalfan has fired a fresh salvo at the Muslim Brotherhood and said that while Ayatollah Khomeini divided...
DOHA: The Syrian National Council said on Saturday that it would put its own proposals to delayed talks on broadening the base of...
BEIJING: China is aiming to launch its next manned space mission as early as June 2013, state media reported Saturday, as the country...