IN the UK, the summer of 2007 was
a run-of-the-mill affair. Tony Blair
had stepped down as prime minister
in late June and his successor
Gordon Brown was enjoying a honeymoon
period. It was ...
THERE has been plenty to
criticise about President
Barack Obama's handling of
the economy. Yet the overriding
story of the past few
years is not Obama's mistakes but
the scorched-earth ...
MUTAZ Essa Barshim got
Qatar its second bronze medal
of the ongoing Olympic Games
in the men's high jump final at
the Olympic Stadium in
London on Tuesday.
Shooter Nasser bin Saleh al
Attiyah last Tuesday got ...
THE two glass exhibitions at the Museum of Islamic Art (MIA) will raise residents' interest in the exclusive art works featuring the creativity of the glasswares crafted in the Islamic World, said the Head.
THE market value of Standard Chartered tumbled $16 billion on Tuesday after New York's bank regulator threatened to tear up its state banking license for allegedly hiding $250 billion in ...
Mutaz Essa Barshim flies the flag of Qatar after winning the high jump bronze medal during the 2012 Olympic Games athletics at the Olympic Stadium, in London.
INSPIRATION can come in many forms. No one knows this better than actress/playwright/ screenwriter Zoe Kazan, who has a discarded mannequin to thank for breathing life into what is now her latest film, Ruby Sparks. Kazan wrote ...
MINISTER of State for Interior Affairs HE Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa al Thani attended the final match of the MoI Ramadan football championship. The tourney was organised by the Qatar Police Sports Federation (QPSF) for various MoI departments at Aspire stadium. Director of Arab and International Police Communication Department (Interpol) Brig Nasr Abdullah al Nasr, Head of QPSF Brig Khalid bin Hamad al Attiya, Director.
TENDER Touches Team of Qatar Center for Voluntary Activity (QCVA) recently held an iftar for Rumailah Hospital patients. The iftar was part of a Ramadan activity. Salwa Sultan, director of Tender Touches Team, said that her team endeavoured to organise many events during the month of fasting. The objective of the event is to bring joy to the patients admitted in hospitals. And this year the team held a gala dinner for the patients. Salwa added that the team ...
QTEL held a special Ghabqa celebration recently. The main objective of the celebration was to bring together employees from across the country under one roof. One of the highlights of the event was a special ceremony which saw participants in the Refaq programme felicitated for their support for the initiative. Refaq — a volunteer-driven programme which has seen teams refurbish dilapidated houses — has brought together a total of 70 volunteers, who ...
QATAR Holding, a unit of Qatar´s sovereign wealth fund, is in talks to increase its stake in Qatar Insurance Company (QIC) through the purchase of new shares in the firm, the insurer said on Tuesday. Qatar, the world´s biggest exporter of liquefied natural gas, currently owns 12 percent of QIC, according to Thomson Reuters data. QIC said it had received an offer from ´strategic partner´ Qatar Holding. No financial details were given. "The board of ...
CHESAPEAKE Energy said on Tuesday it plans to stop spending heavily on oil and gas properties next year in a strategic shift from land acquisition to resource development, helping to boost the US company´s shares by over 10 percent. Chief Executive Aubrey McClendon has spent heavily to amass more than 15 million acres (6 million hectares) in oil and gas basins around the United States, leaving the company awash in debt and unable to fund its operations...
RATING agency CRISIL slashed India´s growth forecast to 5.5 percent for the fiscal year ending March, one of the lowest estimates on the street, just two months after pruning its projection to 6.5 percent from 7 percent. Poor monsoon rainfall in India alongside a weakening eurozone outlook contributed to the latest cut in the growth projection, CRISIL said on Tuesday. "The revised growth forecast assumes that the stretched fiscal situation will limit the ability...
TOP Qatari shooter Nasser bin Saleh Al Attiyah - who won a bronze in the skeet competition at the London Olympic Games last week – is aiming for a spot on the fourmember IOC Athletes Commission. Attiyah, a highly popular sports figure in the Middle East for his rallying achievements that includes the 2011 Dakar-Rally title, is one of four international athletes trying their luck at the elections.
BRAZIL edged closer to their dream of an Olympic football title on Tuesday, easing into a final showdown with Mexico after a comfortable 3-0 victory over South Korea. The Brazilians, bronze medallists in Beijing four years ago, booked their place in Saturday´s showpiece match at Wembley after two goals from Leandro and Romulo ended the South Koreans involvement in the tournament. World Cup-winners on five occasions they may be, but Brazil have ...
FORMER champion Liu Xiang left the Olympics Games in the first heat of the 110-metre hurdles for the second time in a row, clutching the same right Achilles tendon that had already doomed his chances at the Beijing Games. It left one of the signature races of the games without one of its main characters ó a challenge by Liu of defending champion Dayron Robles and US-hurdler Aries ...
SONAKSHI Sinha feels its not right to call her latest song Go go Govinda an item number. It is a song with a difference, says the actress, who shares screen space with ace choreographer Prabhu Deva in the number. "The term ´item song´ is used very loosely today. Any solo number is termed as an item song. This is a good song with Prabhu, and is very different from other item numbers," Sonakshi said here on the sidelines of a promotional event ...
ACTOR Abhishek Bachchan, whose film Bol Bachchan has entered the Rs100 crore club, says the figure has become new age Bollywood´s ´silver jubilee´ landmark. The actor says there is no Rs100 crore "club". "I´ve just asked my team to find the address of where the Rs100 crore club is because I would like to have a cup of coffee there sometime. There is no such club," said Abhishek. "It´s ...
POPULAR Punjabi singer Mika says he is set to feature in a film titled Balwinder Singh Famous Ho Gaye, which will also star singer Shaan. "My friend Sunil Agnihotri (director) is making a film in which he had cast Shaan. Later, (production banner) Tseries said ´If you club Shaan and Mika, it would be great.´ So we are doing a movie," Mika said. "I am happy that someone thought that I can work in their film. The name of the film is very funny," he added ...
FIERCE fighting rocked the heart
of Syria’s commercial capital
Aleppo on Tuesday as 51 people,
including 30 civilians, 13 soldiers
and eight rebels were killed in
nationwide violence.
OVER 50 peple were killed as rescue
workers on Tuesday raced to
pluck people from their roofs and
out of fast-flowing water as the
worst flooding in two years
submerged a third of Manila, the
Philippines’ overpopulated
capital.
MINISTER of State for Interior Affairs HE Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa al Thani attended the final match of the MoI Ramadan football championship. The tourney was organised by the Qatar Police Sports Federation (QPSF) for various MoI departments at Aspire stadium. Director of Arab and International Police Communication Department (Interpol) Brig Nasr Abdullah al Nasr, Head of QPSF Brig Khalid bin Hamad al Attiya, Director.
TENDER Touches Team of Qatar Center for Voluntary Activity (QCVA) recently held an iftar for Rumailah Hospital patients. The iftar was part of a Ramadan activity. Salwa Sultan, director of Tender Touches Team, said that her team endeavoured to organise many events during the month of fasting. The objective of the event is to bring joy to the patients admitted in hospitals. And this year the team held a gala dinner for the patients. Salwa added that the team ... 
QTEL held a special Ghabqa celebration recently. The main objective of the celebration was to bring together employees from across the country under one roof. One of the highlights of the event was a special ceremony which saw participants in the Refaq programme felicitated for their support for the initiative. Refaq — a volunteer-driven programme which has seen teams refurbish dilapidated houses — has brought together a total of 70 volunteers, who ... 
QATAR Holding, a unit of Qatar´s sovereign wealth fund, is in talks to increase its stake in Qatar Insurance Company (QIC) through the purchase of new shares in the firm, the insurer said on Tuesday. Qatar, the world´s biggest exporter of liquefied natural gas, currently owns 12 percent of QIC, according to Thomson Reuters data. QIC said it had received an offer from ´strategic partner´ Qatar Holding. No financial details were given. "The board of ...
CHESAPEAKE Energy said on Tuesday it plans to stop spending heavily on oil and gas properties next year in a strategic shift from land acquisition to resource development, helping to boost the US company´s shares by over 10 percent. Chief Executive Aubrey McClendon has spent heavily to amass more than 15 million acres (6 million hectares) in oil and gas basins around the United States, leaving the company awash in debt and unable to fund its operations... 
RATING agency CRISIL slashed India´s growth forecast to 5.5 percent for the fiscal year ending March, one of the lowest estimates on the street, just two months after pruning its projection to 6.5 percent from 7 percent. Poor monsoon rainfall in India alongside a weakening eurozone outlook contributed to the latest cut in the growth projection, CRISIL said on Tuesday. "The revised growth forecast assumes that the stretched fiscal situation will limit the ability...
TOP Qatari shooter Nasser bin Saleh Al Attiyah - who won a bronze in the skeet competition at the London Olympic Games last week – is aiming for a spot on the fourmember IOC Athletes Commission. Attiyah, a highly popular sports figure in the Middle East for his rallying achievements that includes the 2011 Dakar-Rally title, is one of four international athletes trying their luck at the elections. 
BRAZIL edged closer to their dream of an Olympic football title on Tuesday, easing into a final showdown with Mexico after a comfortable 3-0 victory over South Korea. The Brazilians, bronze medallists in Beijing four years ago, booked their place in Saturday´s showpiece match at Wembley after two goals from Leandro and Romulo ended the South Koreans involvement in the tournament. World Cup-winners on five occasions they may be, but Brazil have ... 
FORMER champion Liu Xiang left the Olympics Games in the first heat of the 110-metre hurdles for the second time in a row, clutching the same right Achilles tendon that had already doomed his chances at the Beijing Games. It left one of the signature races of the games without one of its main characters ó a challenge by Liu of defending champion Dayron Robles and US-hurdler Aries ...
SONAKSHI Sinha feels its not right to call her latest song Go go Govinda an item number. It is a song with a difference, says the actress, who shares screen space with ace choreographer Prabhu Deva in the number. "The term ´item song´ is used very loosely today. Any solo number is termed as an item song. This is a good song with Prabhu, and is very different from other item numbers," Sonakshi said here on the sidelines of a promotional event ...
ACTOR Abhishek Bachchan, whose film Bol Bachchan has entered the Rs100 crore club, says the figure has become new age Bollywood´s ´silver jubilee´ landmark. The actor says there is no Rs100 crore "club". "I´ve just asked my team to find the address of where the Rs100 crore club is because I would like to have a cup of coffee there sometime. There is no such club," said Abhishek. "It´s ...
POPULAR Punjabi singer Mika says he is set to feature in a film titled Balwinder Singh Famous Ho Gaye, which will also star singer Shaan. "My friend Sunil Agnihotri (director) is making a film in which he had cast Shaan. Later, (production banner) Tseries said ´If you club Shaan and Mika, it would be great.´ So we are doing a movie," Mika said. "I am happy that someone thought that I can work in their film. The name of the film is very funny," he added ... 
