HERE are some home truths
about Syria. It's going to get
worse before it gets better.
Nobody can put this genie
back in a bottle. This is the
mother of all proxy fights. The remorseless
Assad regime is finished, when it
dies being the only question.
Nations get
...
FRACKING isn't going away.
To put it another way, the
technique of hydraulic fracturing,
used to extract natural
gas from once-impossible-
to-get-at reservoirs like the
Marcellus Shale that lies beneath
New York and Pennsylvania, has
more than proved its value
...
FIFA Communication and Public
Affairs Director Walter De
Gregorio emphatically tried to end
the rumours about the change of
time of the 2022 World Cup from
summer to winter.
The nine-member FIFA team is
on its first visit to Qatar.
FRENCH world champions
clean-swept the pole races in
their respective categories at
the UIM-ABP Aquabike
Grand Prix of Qatar in Doha
Bay on Thursday.
The local drivers also did
well to draw attention as
Rashid al Mannai, a motorbike
racing professional,
grabbed the fifth place in the
Runabout class qualifying
race.
The opening round of the
World Championship is being
organised by the Qatar
Marine Sports Federation
(QMSF), under the presidency
of Sheikh Hassan bin Jabor
al Thani, in collaboration with
H20 Racing and under the
auspices of the UIM.
World champion Jeremy
Poret claimed pole position in
the Ski F1 category with a best
lap of 1m ...
ATTAULLAH Shah of
Pakistan turned around twogame
loss and overcame seeded
Jordanian Abdallah
Alsarraj in the opening match
of the under-17 category at the
Qatar Junior Open Squash
Tournament on Thursday.
At the Khalifa International
Tennis and Squash Complex,
Shah lost the first two games
at four and eight. But he
staged a thrilling comeback
and upset Alsarraj in the most
interesting match of the day,
lasting 33 minutes.
Ali Imran, another
Pakistani player, got the better
of local Sadam Mehawesh in
half an hour as he won a place
in the quarter-finals with a 11-
7 11-7 11-8 victory.
However Syed Azlan Iqbal
was the lone Qatari player to
survive ...
FRANCE and Holland gained
significant psychological
boosts with 100 days to go to
the Euro 2012 finals as they
beat England and Germany
away in their respective friendlies
on Wednesday.
The Dutch - European
champion in 1988 - edged a
vastly-less experienced
England 3-2 at Wembley
thanks to a double by Arjen
Robben while the French -
champions in 2000 - beat
Germany 2-1 in Bremen.
Elsewhere David Silva´s first
goal of the year and a hat-trick
by Roberto Soldado helped
defending champion Spain to
a 5-0 win over Copa American
semi-finalist Venezuela while
Sebastian Larsson´s double
was instrumental in an
impressive 3-1 win for Sweden ...
FRENCH world champions
clean-swept the pole races in
their respective categories at
the UIM-ABP Aquabike
Grand Prix of Qatar in Doha
Bay on Thursday.
The local drivers also did
well to draw attention as
Rashid al Mannai, a motorbike
racing professional,
grabbed the fifth place in the
Runabout class qualifying
race.
The opening round of the
World Championship is being
organised by the Qatar
Marine Sports Federation
(QMSF), under the presidency
of Sheikh Hassan bin Jabor
al Thani, in collaboration with
H20 Racing and under the
auspices of the UIM.
World champion Jeremy
Poret claimed pole position in
the Ski F1 category with a best
lap of 1m ...
ATTAULLAH Shah of
Pakistan turned around twogame
loss and overcame seeded
Jordanian Abdallah
Alsarraj in the opening match
of the under-17 category at the
Qatar Junior Open Squash
Tournament on Thursday.
At the Khalifa International
Tennis and Squash Complex,
Shah lost the first two games
at four and eight. But he
staged a thrilling comeback
and upset Alsarraj in the most
interesting match of the day,
lasting 33 minutes.
Ali Imran, another
Pakistani player, got the better
of local Sadam Mehawesh in
half an hour as he won a place
in the quarter-finals with a 11-
7 11-7 11-8 victory.
However Syed Azlan Iqbal
was the lone Qatari player to
survive ... 
FRANCE and Holland gained
significant psychological
boosts with 100 days to go to
the Euro 2012 finals as they
beat England and Germany
away in their respective friendlies
on Wednesday.
The Dutch - European
champion in 1988 - edged a
vastly-less experienced
England 3-2 at Wembley
thanks to a double by Arjen
Robben while the French -
champions in 2000 - beat
Germany 2-1 in Bremen.
Elsewhere David Silva´s first
goal of the year and a hat-trick
by Roberto Soldado helped
defending champion Spain to
a 5-0 win over Copa American
semi-finalist Venezuela while
Sebastian Larsson´s double
was instrumental in an
impressive 3-1 win for Sweden ...
