| UK- Save taxi protest
 Relatives and supporters of taxi drivers hold a demonstration outside of the headquarters of Transport for London, in London, yesterday. ... France foils 1,000 bids to cross Channel
 French police said they had prevented more than 1,000 desperate attempts by migrants to get into Britain via the Channel Tunnel yesterday, ... Suicide bomber kills six at market in Nigeria
 A female suicide bomber on a tricycle killed six people yesterday in a new attack on a market in Maiduguri, witnesses said, as Nigeriaand ... Ashes series swings in England's favour again
 Ian Bell delighted a capacity crowd at his Edgbaston home ground with a sparkling unbeaten fifty as England defeated Australia by eight ... Nadal beats Cuevas, reaches semi-finals of Hamburg Open
 Top seed Rafael Nadal defeated fifth seed Pablo Cuevas 6-3, 6-2 yesterday to set up a Hamburg semi-final clash against Italian veteran ... GM to invest $1bn in India to boost exports
 General Motors Co said yesterday it will invest $1bn over the next few years to turn India into a global export hub, even as it cuts ... Shell to axe 6,500 jobs and cut spending to cope with lower oil prices
 Royal Dutch Shell is to axe 6,500 jobs this year and step up spending cuts, responding to an extended period of lower oil prices which ... Dollar, bond yields rise on U.S. rate hike bets
The dollar jumped and world stocks were left flat-footed on Thursday after the Federal Reserve painted a relatively bright picture of the ... OPEC chief says oil cartel 'not ready' to cut production
.jpg) OPEC Secretary-General Abdullah El-Badri said on Thursday the oil producers' cartel is not planning to cut production despite the fall in ... Oil should not fall further: Opec
 Opec expects increasing oil demand to prevent a further fall in prices and sees a more balanced market in 2016, its secretary-general said ... Breakthrough in quest for Ebola vaccine
 An Ebola test vaccine provided blanket protection in a field trial in Guinea, said researchers Friday, possibly heralding "the beginning of the end" ... Russia's central bank makes small rate cut as ruble weakens
 Russia's central bank on Friday made its smallest interest rate cut this year as it juggled attempts to resuscitate the economy with inflation fears ... Mixed messages from Russia, France on warship compensation deal
 Russia has reached a compensation deal with France for the non-delivery of two Mistral warships, a Kremlin aide has said, but Paris on Friday denied ... IMF approves $1.7 bn loan installment to Ukraine
 The International Monetary Fund announced Friday the approval of a $1.7 billion loan installment to Ukraine despite uncertainty about the country's ... EU opens anti-trust probe into FedEx/TNT Express tie-up
 The EU on Friday opened an anti-trust probe into FedEx's 4.4 billion euro deal to buy Dutch rival TNT Express, a key tie-up for the ... New generation of skinny skyscrapers alters NY skyline
 Super tall, super skinny and super expensive: a new generation of New York skyscrapers, some taller than the Empire State building, are altering the ... Eurozone inflation, jobless rates unchanged
 Inflation in the 19-nation eurozone was unchanged in July while the jobless rate for June was also flat, suggesting the economy maintained only ... Asia stocks mostly up, dollar edges lower
 Most Asian markets advanced Friday on a healthy batch of economic growth data out of the United States but Shanghai sank again, extending the ... Athens stock market to reopen Monday: finance ministry source
 Greece's main stock exchange in Athens will reopen on Monday after being closed for five weeks by the Greek debt crisis after the government imposed ... Windows 10 entices millions in first day
 Some 14 million people installed the Windows 10 operating system in the first 24 hours following its release, Microsoft said, calling the response ... European stocks close higher
 European equities closed up on Friday, with London's FTSE 100 index gaining 0.41 percent to finish at 6,696.28 points.In the eurozone, the CAC 40 in ... China new home prices up in July
 China's new home prices increased in July for the third straight month, a survey showed Friday, as the market continued to recover on the back of ... Swiss central bank books record loss of 50 billion francs
 Switzerland's central bank said Friday it lost a record 50 billion francs in the first half of 2015, due mainly to ... Welsh surf park offers world's longest man-made waves
 A surf park on the edge of Snowdonia National Park in Wales opens Saturday, a 300-metre long lagoon that promises the longest man-made ... Japanese firm to mature whisky in space
 Japanese whisky will be sent into space next month to test how time in a zero-gravity environment affects its flavour, one of the country's biggest ... Lloyds profits rise despite further mis-selling costs
 Britain's state-rescued Lloyds Banking Group said Friday that net profits rose by 31 percent in the first half, despite setting aside further funds ... |
Oil prices were steady Tuesday as markets weighed up the effects of Iran's deal with world powers on curbing the Islamic republic's suspected ...
Emirates airlines' Islamic bonds are beating regional peers after slumping oil prices cut costs for the world's biggest airline by ...
Khalifa Ali al-Hetmi, president and CEO of Milaha, a Qatar-based marine transport and logistics conglomerate, will retire in September, it was ...
Iran's nuclear deal with world powers will mean "a happy day" if it stops the country gaining nuclear arsenal, but the agreement would ...
JPMorgan Chase earnings edged higher Tuesday, with lower expenses making up for a mixed performance in its various lending operations.Earnings for ....jpg)
An affiliate of Qatari-based television network Al Jazeera has acquired Turkish satellite network Digiturk, a statement from the companies ...
Kuwait charged 29 people Tuesday over the suicide bombing of a Shiite mosque last month, claimed by the Islamic State group, that killed 26 ...
UAE authorities arrested 40 members of a drug gang and seized 150kg heroin from them. The police also nabbed 80 drug users in the ...
A senior official of the Ministry of Environment has warned the public against using expired soaps, shampoos and other beauty products ...
Brazilian police investigating the giant Petrobras corruption scandal raided politicians, including former president Fernando Collor de Mello, in ...
The pipeline unit of refiner Marathon Petroleum Corp plans to buy MarkWest Energy Partners, the second-largest US processor of natural gas, ...
An unmanned NASA spacecraft whizzed by Pluto on Tuesday, making its closest approach in the climax of a decade-long journey to explore the ...
Israel will ramp up its lobbying of the US Congress to try to hinder the nuclear agreement struck with Iran yesterday and minutely monitor ....jpg)
I'm Japanese and so I'm a sucker for cute things, like manga, quirky figurines and mascot characters. And Pepper, the new companion robot ...
DUBAI/BEIRUT: Young Iranian men and women danced in streets in parts of Tehran and motorists honked car horns to cheer an historic nuclear ...
Mexican drug baron Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman had barely vanished from prison when the first rhymes hit the Internet -- his second spectacular ...
The Starbucks coffee chain will venture into sub-Saharan Africa for the first time by opening a cafe in Johannesburg, the company said Tuesday as it ...
Finnish telecoms equipment maker Nokia said late Monday it was looking at re-entering the mobile phone market by striking a licensing deal with ...
China's securities regulator said it is investigating Hundsun Technologies, which is linked to e-commerce giant Alibaba, over allegations it played a ...
Oil prices sank Wednesday, despite signs of strong US demand, as traders priced in the impact on supplies of Iran's historic nuclear deal with ...
Substantial capital gains on sale of properties led Barwa Real Estate Company to register about a 16-fold jump in net profit to QR3.45bn in ...
JEDDAH: The Gulf Organization for Industrial Consulting announced that the number of factories operating in the GCC food industries ....jpg)
National Bank of Kuwait reported net profits of KD 163.4 million for the first half of 2015 compared with KD 144.8 ...
Iraq can offset the impact of the Iran nuclear deal on oil prices and competition for export markets with higher production and improved regional ...
Brazilian aircraft builder Embraer announced Wednesday a record $22.9 billion backlog of orders in the second quarter and said it had delivered 60 ...
Toyota on Wednesday recalled 625,000 hybrid vehicles globally, mostly the Prius model favoured by the eco-conscious including Hollywood celebrities, ...
Asian markets rose Thursday as Greek MPs voted in favour of an austerity-laden bailout package, while the dollar extended gains after Federal Reserve ...
Loyalists of Yemen's exiled president recaptured the airport in second city Aden yesterday sealing a four-month battle with Iran-backed rebels ...
Kuwait seeks the death penalty for 11 out of 29 suspects being prosecuted for their alleged role in a deadly suicide bombing in a mosque ...
JEDDAH: On Monday Snapchat users witnessed thousands circling Makkah's iconic Kaaba in its first live story from the holy city honoring the ...
GENEVA: from the Large Hadron Collider outside Geneva appears to have proved the existence of particles made of five quarks solving a ...
Nine tourists from South Africa, Britain and India have been detained in China and may face criminal charges after being accused of ....jpg)
A U.S. spacecraft sailed past the tiny planet Pluto in the distant reaches of the solar system on Tuesday, capping a journey of 3 billion ...
An Italian court on Wednesday handed out jail sentences to 11 former officials of multinational tyre maker Pirelli for the ...
NEW YORK: He calls himself 50 Cent but the hip-hop mogul says he may not be worth even that. The rapper known for the album and movie 'Get ...
In Moscow, a sprawling city with highly-prized green spaces, hundreds of locals are up in arms to defend a park against what they claim is an illegal ...
Greece's drug agency EOF on Wednesday announced a temporary ban on the export of dozens of pharmaceuticals to the EU and other countries to avert a ...
A South Korean appeals court on Thursday rejected the latest effort by US hedge fund Elliott Associates to block the $8.0 billion merger of two ...
Greece's parliament on Wednesday prepared to vote on tough reforms demanded by eurozone creditors in exchange for a huge new bailout ahead of street ...
US entertainment giant Disney on Wednesday unveiled details of its planned theme park in Shanghai, promising Chinese features and new attractions not ...
Large US banks reported mostly higher second-quarter earnings this week even as a pullback in trading revenues due to crises in Greece and China ...
Boeing said Friday that its second-quarter earnings will include a charge for additional costs to complete the huge KC-46A aerial refueling tanker ...
Yahoo formally notified US regulators that it is spinning off its stake in Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba to an independent new company called ...
DUBAI: Almost all banks are now using data from the UAE's new credit bureau its CEO says a development analysts believe should boost confidence ...
Italian luxury automaker Ferrari is recalling about 800 cars in North America after discovering it had improperly installed Takata airbags, the ...
WASHINGTON: Foreign Minister Adel Al-Jubeir and US President Barack Obama welcomed the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action reached between the ...
A gospel serenade of deep baritones echoed through a dim alley in one of Manila's red light districts on a humid Sunday evening -- the joyful sounds ...
If tackling 3,600km of road including seven mountain stages over three weeks wasn't hard enough, the weather has proved to be the toughest challenge ...
Poland's new ambassador is a scar-faced hit man armed with two swords and potions against monsters and dragons. His name is Geralt, hero of a Polish ...
The return of oil from Iran following the landmark nuclear energy deal with world powers could create fresh tensions within OPEC but may reinforce ...
A replica of the Hermione, the 18th-century ship that brought French General Lafayette to America, sailed to Canada Saturday on the last leg of its ...
German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble is prepared to resign rather than go against his convictions in negotiations on Greece's debt crisis, he ...
Greece said Saturday its banks will reopen after a three-week shutdown, as a revamped government took up the task of enacting unpopular fiscal ...
A revamped Greek government took over Saturday in an effort to enforce a third bailout accompanied by tough fiscal reforms opposed by a sizeable ...
The three-week shutdown of Greek banks has cost the country's struggling economy some 3.0 billion euros not counting lost tourism ...
When Britpop legends Blur released an album inspired by Hong Kong one local artist got the chance to tell the band's story in pictures, suddenly ...
Too many boats and fewer fish. Making ends meet has never been harder for the fishermen of Sao Miguel in the Azores, yet from father to son they ...
For enterprising dwellers in Philadelphia, the pope's maiden visit to the US means one thing: mega bucks and listing their apartments on Airbnb for ...
The third rescue plan for Greece has not even been finalized but already the parties at the center of the deal are raising doubts over its ...
US stocks surged this week as fears about Greece and China receded for now and strong earnings from some banks and technology companies took center ...
Cuba's vice president for economic affairs held talks with Spain's economy minister in Madrid on Friday, in the highest level visit by a Cuban ...
LONDON: The oil market was massively oversupplied in the second quarter and remains so today the International Energy Agency wrote in its ...
Greece prepared Sunday to restart its struggling economy with a revamped government, a bank reboot and a new round of tax hikes agreed after months ...
NEW YORK: Large US banks reported mostly higher second-quarter earnings this week even as a pullback in trading revenues due to crises in ...
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BEIRUT: Daesh fired chemical weapons against Kurdish forces in Syria and Iraq last month Kurdish fighters and weapons experts have said. The ...
TEHRAN Iran: Iran's top leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said a historic nuclear deal with world powers reached this week won't change Iran's ...
BEIRUT: The deadly stabbing of a man in broad daylight in one of Beirut's busiest streets and in front of dozens of bystanders has shaken ...
LOS ANGELES: Music sensation Katy Perry and former football star David Beckham are reportedly being poised for an explosive new campaign for ...
CHATTANOOGA Tennessee: A male US Navy petty officer has died of wounds sustained in this week's shooting in Chattanooga Tennessee the US Navy ...
PHNOM PENH Cambodia: A Cambodian real estate magnate whose violent assault of a female TV star was captured on video was arrested Saturday ...
NEW YORK CITY: New York's Empire State Building was lit up green on Friday evening in celebration of Eid Al-Fitr that marks the end of the holy ...
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia announced Saturday it has broken up a cluster of Daesh cells members of which planned strikes in the Kingdom and arrested ...
LONDON: 'The Walking Dead' actor David Morrissey helped the desperate refugees arriving on the shores of southern Europe NBC News reported. ..._5974065d-86fa-4412-9950-e3d80c6c8d1c.jpg)
GAZA CITY: A senior Hamas official said Friday there could be no new exchange talks with Israel until it frees dozens of prisoners it has ...
BEIJING: Tourists who were held in China after being accused of looking at 'terrorist' materials were detained after they viewed a documentary ...
AMES Iowa: Donald Trump blustered his way into more trouble as he criticized Sen. John McCain's war record at a conservative forum Saturday ...
NEW YORK: Pitbull is the latest star to take a bite out of Donald Trump. The rapper called Trump out at Premios Juventad the Spanish-language ...
Chinese telecoms equipment giant Huawei said on Monday that revenue surged 30 percent year-on-year in the first half, helped by "solid" sales of ...
The ride-booking app Uber is fighting New York's city hall, which wants to keep in check a fleet of vehicles that already far outnumbers the Big ...
Japan's Mitsubishi Materials made a landmark apology to US prisoners of war forced to work in its mines during World War II, seven decades after the ...
World oil prices fell further Monday on a stronger dollar and concerns that a supply glut will worsen following a landmark deal which will allow Iran ...
Gold slumped Monday to the lowest point in nearly five and a half years, weighed down by reports of massive selling in China, dealers said.The ...
Natural wonders it has in abundance, but natural resources are lacking. And now one of Jordan's main money-earners -- tourism -- is being killed off ...
RIYADH Saudi Arabia's crude oil exports in May fell to 6.935 million barrels a day from 7.737 million barrels a day in April official data ...
Morgan Stanley reported a stronger-than-expected second-quarter profit as its bond and equities trading businesses handily outperformed those ...
Greece's government hiked taxes and paid billions of euros to its creditors on Monday, as banks reopened just days after the debt-laden country ...
Toshiba's top executives were involved in "systematically" inflating profits by $1.2 billion over several years, an independent panel said Monday, in ...
Egypt on Monday took delivery of three Rafale fighter jets from France, the first of 24 warplanes sold in a 5.2 billion euro deal ...
JERUSALEM: Human Rights Watch on Monday accused Israel of 'abusive arrests' of Palestinian children as young as 11 and of using threats to ...
JEDDAH: Jeddah should be able to enter the Guinness Book of World Records as 'The City of Festivals' in 2016 because it has been successfully ...
SANLIURFA Turkey: The children had all been shown videos of beheadings and told by their trainers with the Daesh 
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LOS ANGELES: Lady Gaga has fashioned a comeback: Not with a new act of overt transgression but singing jazz standards with Tony Bennett ...
Days after South Korean steel giant Posco put the $12bn mega steel project on hold in Odisha, the Posco Pratirodh Sangram Samiti , which ...
A Lenin statue, headless after an attack by a drunk Russian, has now lost its torso after a selfie-happy Siberian tried to pose alongside the ...
Buckingham Palace has refused to be drawn into the debate over the royal family's private archives amid mounting pressure to release ...
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ROME: Italy's Foreign Ministry says four Italian construction workers have been kidnapped near an industrial complex owned by the Italian ...
ZURICH: FIFA President Sepp Blatter on Monday announced a reform task force to try to leave the troubled body in better shape when he finally ...
The US Federal Reserve set Monday tough new capital surcharges for the country's eight largest banks in a new post-economic crisis effort to reel in ...
The International Monetary Fund named Maurice Obstfeld, one of US President Barack Obama's top economic advisers, as its new chief economist on ...
Lockheed Martin said Monday it will buy Sikorsky Aircraft, the storied US maker of the Black Hawk helicopter, in an all-cash $9 billion deal with ...
World oil prices ducked briefly under $50 per barrel on Tuesday, before staging a modest rebound on the eve of the latest snapshot of US crude ...
Islamic wealth management is going to become be the "new frontier" for the global Islamic finance industry as a growing number of Islamic ...
Iran will emphasise regaining oil sales it lost due to sanctions over helping to prop up prices once curbs that choked off the nation's crude ...
Nokia is nearing an agreement to sell its maps business to a group of German luxury-car makers including BMW, according to people familiar ...
Apple's latest quarterly profit leapt as people around the world snapped up big-screen iPhones but its shares slipped as analysts had expected even ...
Microsoft announced a net loss of $3.19 billion in the past quarter Tuesday, blaming a hefty writedown on the smartphone business it acquired from ...
Citigroup must pay $700 million to customers and another $70 million in federal fines for misleading consumers on credit card add-on products, US ...
One likely Saudi Arabian response to the deal its biggest enemy Iran has struck with world powers is to accelerate its own nuclear power ...
Toshiba has sold its stake in Finnish engineering giant Kone for almost $1.0 billion to bolster its balance sheet, the firm said Wednesday, after its ...
A new Kuwaiti law imposing mandatory DNA tests on citizens and foreigners violates the right to personal privacy and should be amended, Human Rights ...
Jihadists in the Gaza Strip have threatened to fire rockets at Israel in response to a Hamas crackdown on extremists in the Palestinian ...
Qatar's Government Communications Office yesterday described media reports linking the suspect of the recent tragedy in Tennessee to the state ...
Three Spanish freelance journalists have been kidnapped in Syria, Spanish press association FAPE sources told newspaper El Pais on ...
Morocco said eight people were arrested on Tuesday over alleged plots to carry out attacks mainly targeting security officials on behalf of ...
DUBAI: The United Arab Emirates has outlawed religious or racial discrimination the state news agency WAM said on Monday citing a royal decree ...
JEDDAH: An unspecified number of young men have been arrested for harassing two Saudi girls at Jeddah Corniche a day after Eid Al-Fitr even as ..._32ac7cea-a0e1-4897-80d0-cbfeeee78a83.jpg)
BEIRUT: Garbage is piling up on the streets of Beirut amid a growing dispute over tiny Lebanon's largest trash dump. The main company in ...
LONDON: British prosecutors on Tuesday charged a 24-year-old man with planning an attack on US military personnel in Britain following an ...
HOUSTON: A woman from Texas who gave birth to a baby boy in the front seat of a car while her husband recorded the birth in a video that went ...
CONCORD New Hampshire: The Republican establishment may hope this is the beginning of the end for Donald Trump's circus-like run for the ...
Scrabble lovers tend to alight on similar words when describing Nigel Richards, the New Zealander who this week won the word game's francophone world ...
Counterfeits are worth nearly 10 percent of the clothes, shoes and accessories sold in the EU, taking away over 26 billion euros in ...
Health-obsessed former Soviet Turkmenistan is the country with the world's lowest proportion of smokers, World Health Organisation chief Margaret ...
Oil prices fell Wednesday as the US government reported a surprise jump in the country's crude stockpiles, adding to market concerns about a global ....jpg)
The $10 billion GCC takaful industry is facing a shake-out following massive regulatory changes with respect to insurance over the past 12 ....jpg)
A total removal of energy subsidies will result in inflation going up by five percentage points, says Dr Monica Malik, chief economist at ....jpg)
The UAE will deregulate retail petrol prices from August 1, effectively ending an era of cheap fuel enjoyed by residents on the back of ....gif)
Officials cut a green ribbon to open KT Bank AG, Germany's first full-fledged Islamic bank, in Frankfurt yesterday. The bank, which is a ...
The dollar ticked higher against the yen in Asian trade Thursday as investors position for an expected US rate hike, pushing Japanese stocks higher ....jpg)
Yahoo is still limping along as the Internet company prepares to shed the financial crutch that has been propping up its stock during the ...
The French government Wednesday unveiled a package worth more than 600 million euros for farmers, after days of protests that have ...
Coca-Cola reported higher quarterly profits Wednesday as increased sales in North America offset lower revenues overseas due in part to the strong ...
US aerospace giant Boeing reported lower profits Wednesday and trimmed its full-year forecast following a previously-announced charge on an aerial ...
From a cocktail inspired by Salvador Dali to a piano Frank Sinatra once played for Ava Gardner, Madrid's Ritz hotel has a century's worth of classy ...
Mining giant BHP Billiton's spinoff South32 on Wednesday flagged pre-tax impairments of US$1.9 billion on manganese and coal assets in Australia and ...
An Egyptian court sentenced a former prime minister of ousted president Hosni Mubarak Wednesday to five years in prison for corruption and ...
FIFA needs reforms but they should be proposed and implemented not under embattled incumbent Sepp Blatter but by his successor, former ...
Spanish intelligence agents were working urgently Wednesday to track down three journalists from Spain, the latest foreigners to go missing ...
An Israeli court jailed two brothers from a far-right Jewish group on Wednesday for an arson attack on a Jerusalem school that had been a rare ...
KARACHI: Pakistani supermodel Ayyan Ali who was released on bail from jail last week in a currency smuggling case thanked her legal team for ...
Greece's parliament on Thursday passed legislation on a second batch of reforms needed to help unlock a huge international bailout for the country's ...
US mogul Donald Trump has laid bare the details of his purported $10bn riches in a 92-page disclosure listing 515 job titles, several golf ....jpg)
A partially sighted British pensioner has had most of his vision restored thanks to a "bionic eye" - a device that converts video images ...
A Koran manuscript has been carbon dated to close to the time of the Prophet Mohammed, making it one of the oldest in the world, a British university ...
British low-cost airline EasyJet forecast Wednesday that annual profits would rise by almost 14 percent, buoyed by demand for beach holidays in ...
Microsoft is aiming to build lasting relationships with Windows 10, the operating system to be launched on Wednesday and seen as critical to reviving ...
Gold prices hit multi-year low points this week, hit by a stronger dollar and weak Chinese demand.With metals prices generally weak, mining groups ...
US securities regulators on Wednesday set fines against two Chinese executives accused of looting formerly US-listed Puda Coal at more than $250 ...
Air France-KLM said Friday it would add a further 300 million euros to a previously announced 1.5-billion-euro cost-cutting programme ...
Amazon shares shot to record levels Friday after a blowout earnings report seen as a potential watershed for the US online giant.Amazon leapt as much ...
On the mean and traffic-choked streets of Mexico City, a fearless superhero is fighting to protect the planet from the worst the internal combustion ...
The dollar hit fresh multi-year highs against some emerging market currencies Friday as investors increasingly bet on a US rate hike this year, while ...
Polish TV presenter Robert Bernatowicz used to hate Warsaw's colossal Palace of Culture, an unwanted gift from Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin that ...
Japanese media giant Nikkei's surprise acquisition of the Financial Times for $1.3 billion underscores its goal to be the voice of Asia on economic ...
Asian markets mostly fell Friday following more downbeat Chinese data and another sell-off on Wall Street while the dollar edged up against the yen ...
Deep in the Chinese countryside, the lives of Liang Yuxiu and her brother Zhaolu epitomise the cost of decades of breakneck economic growth.Aged 10 ...
Around the corner from a bland grey street in the working class Tres de Febrero suburb of Buenos Aires, a blue boat starts to take form on a ...
US regulators on Friday approved a new cholesterol drug called Praluent, made by Sanofi and Regeneron, for people with certain genetic risk factors ...
The former head of Portugal's Banco Espirito Santo, Ricardo Salgado, was placed under house arrest after being questioned by a magistrate over his ...
A powerful typhoon which lashed Japan last week has killed more than 11,000 farmed bluefin tuna, costing over $10 million in damage, local media said ...
Payments company Square has informed US regulators privately that it is exploring going public with a stock market debut, according to reports.The ...
As dark clouds loomed overhead, Rabi Baral hurriedly secured his tent to the ground at a camp for victims of Nepal's earthquake, three months after ...
After a strong opening for the second-quarter reporting season, US stocks reversed course on a raft of earnings disappointments as Wall Street ...
Debt-crippled Greece on Friday took a step closer to a huge third international bailout by formally requesting IMF help, but sources said "logistical ...
Facing sluggish US car sales, Japanese automaker Mitsubishi said Friday it would stop making vehicles in the United States and is looking to sell its ...
Fiat Chrysler Automobiles issued a safety recall for 1.4 million US cars and trucks Friday after hackers demonstrated that they could remotely ...
A Singapore shipping firm blacklisted by the US government for allegedly supporting illicit arms shipments into North Korea strongly denied the ...
Saudi petrochemicals giant SABIC said Sunday its net profit was down 21.63 percent to 10.11 billion riyals in the first half compared ...
Foreign direct investment into Arab states dropped 8.0 percent last year with the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia attracting close to half the ...
MANAMA: Gulf International Bank BSC reported consolidated net income after tax of $47.3 million for the six months ended June 30 2015 ...
Gold prices hit multi-year low points last week, hit by a stronger dollar and weak Chinese demand. With metals prices generally weak, mining ...
Iran has assets of $29 billion in overseas banks that could be unlocked under a nuclear deal -- far less than reported estimates of over $100 ...
The first cargo ships passed through Egypt's New Suez Canal yesterday in a test-run before it opens next month, state media reported, 11 ...
The Saudi-led coalition bombing Yemeni rebels since March declared a five-day truce yesterday so aid can reach a country the UN says is on ...
Israeli forces broke into Al-Aqsa mosque compound on Sunday morning, firing stun grenades and rubber-coated steel bullets at Muslim ...
SYDNDY: An Australian nurse was charged on Sunday with terrorism offenses for allegedly supporting Daesh in Syria after he voluntarily returned ....jpg)
Despite tensions between the United States and China over the South China Sea, the two nations' militaries train together at a very high level. ...
Taliban insurgents seized a police base in northern Afghanistan after more than 100 policemen surrendered, inflicting one of the heaviest ....jpg)
ANGELINA JOLIE IS teaming up with Netflix to direct an adaptation of First they Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers.The ....jpg)
The advent of connected watches suffers from no shortage of hype, from Apple's smartwatch being made available for rent, to Pebble Time's ...
LOS ANGELES: Taylor Swift has eased restrictions on photographers covering her tour after she came under criticism for insisting on sweeping ...
TOKYO: Three people were killed Sunday when a small plane crashed into a Tokyo suburb shortly after takeoff police said leaving nearby homes ...
WASHINGTON: Real estate magnate Donald Trump moved to the top of the 2016 Republican presidential field in a CNN poll released on Sunday edging ...
SAN FRANCISCO: Investor enthusiasm for Amazon.com Inc. is pretty consistent: The stock tends to rise even though the company isn't consistent ...
CAPE CANAVERAL Florida: Pluto is hazier than scientists expected and appears to be covered with flowing ice. The team responsible for the New ...
Thousands of solar panels glint in the sun, but the prized farmland beneath lies barren. While the Italian island of Sardinia revels in a renewable ...
Qatar Navigation delivered a net profit of QR651m for the first half of 2015 , an increase of 26 percent in its ...
JEDDAH: The UAE topped the list of Arab League countries receiving foreign direct investment last year with $10.1 billion 23 percent of ...
DUBAI: Dubai developer Nakheel reported a 53 percent rise in half-year net profit as it handed over finished properties and expanded its other ...
LONDON: Oil hit four-month lows on Monday after a steep drop in Chinese stock markets spread concerns about the economic health of the world's ...
World oil prices slid on Monday, hurt by poorly-received economic data from China, the world's top energy consuming nation, traders said.A strong ...
Shanghai shares on Monday suffered their biggest one-day decline in more than eight years, plummeting 8.48 percent in defiance of government efforts ...
Switzerland's largest bank UBS on Monday posted a 53 percent rise in second quarter profits, in its first results since agreeing to plead guilty to ...
Automaker Fiat Chrysler will pay a record $90 million for lapses in recalls of its vehicles under a deal reached with US regulators, the company said ...
Israeli pharmaceutical giant Teva said Monday that it was buying the generic drug business of Allergan for $40.5 billion, consolidating its position ...
Flexing her muscles in defiance of the Gulf's conservative cultural stereotypes, bodybuilder Haifa Musawi has lost all hope of pumping iron for ....gif)
Qatar's elevated government spending and declining revenues are expected to narrow the country's fiscal surplus from 10.8 percent of gross ...
Iraqi security forces entered the University of Anbar in the western city of Ramadi yesterday and clashed with Islamic State militants ...
The Kurdish YPG militia on Monday captured a town from Islamic State fighters in northern Syria after a month-long offensive against the ...
LONDON: Prime Minister David Cameron said on Monday that he was ready to order air strikes on Daesh targets in Libya and Syria to prevent ...
JEDDAH: The negative attitudes of society in dealing with harassment and abuse cases prevent victims from reporting a great number of such ...
Former President APJ Abdul Kalam died on Monday at a hospital in Meghalaya, where he had gone to deliver a lecture at the Indian Institute ...
LOS ANGELES: 'Ant-Man' crept past new opener 'Pixels' to claim the top spot at the box office this weekend by an ant-sized margin. The Disney ...
Ever more Chinese women are embracing the "facekini" to protect them from the sun and the threat of a tan on a trip to the beach.Pale white skin is ...
The White House on Monday said that more than a dozen of America's biggest companies have pledged to tackle climate change, backing President Barack ...
Hitler sporting a Karl Marx beard and a swastika formed with axes are just some of the provocative pieces starring at the first show ever by ...
Brent oil prices were higher Tuesday, pulling back from near six-month lows, as commodity markets in general were calmer after a recent rout fuelled ...
The United Arab Emirates will hike the retail price of petrol by 24 percent but prices will still be low by international standards, a government ...
Kuwait National Petroleum Co said it awarded four contracts worth $11.5 billion to international consortia Tuesday to build a ...
A drastic fall in hydrocarbons export earnings has resulted in Qatar's trade surplus shrinking about 53% year-on-year to QR14.88bn in ...
UAE telecom giant Etisalat said on Tuesday its net profit plunged 40 percent in the second quarter because of higher depreciation and the impact of ...
General Motors said yesterday it would invest $5bn to introduce a new family of smaller cars under the Chevrolet line targeting emerging ...
Toyota has fallen behind Volkswagen in the race for the world's biggest automaker title, figures showed yesterday, as the German giant ...
Intel and Micron Technology on Tuesday unveiled what they touted as a new kind of memory chip that could "revolutionize" computing devices, services ...
A Libyan court passed a death sentence in absentia on Muammar Gaddafi's most prominent son, Saif al-Islam, on Tuesday for war crimes and ...
BEIRUT: A performance in Israel has cost Iranian-born British singer Sami Yusuf air time in Iran. State television in Iran has banned Yusuf ...
BRUSSELS/ISTANBUL: NATO gave Turkey its full political support in fighting militants in Syria and Iraq at an emergency meeting on Tuesday but ...
A Georgia man was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison on Tuesday for attempting to support the Islamic State militant group that ...
The big selloffs in shares of social media companies last quarter following weak results seem to be brushed under the carpet this earnings ...
LONDON: Scientists and tech experts including professor Stephen Hawking and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak warned Tuesday of a global arms ...
NEW YORK: British singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran whose music career has been soaring will play a recurring role in a television epic about a ...
Archaeologists have identified the remains of four men who were among the leaders of an early English settlement in Virginia's Jamestown.It took ...
Oil prices slid Wednesday as investors awaited the US Federal Reserve's latest monetary policy meeting and a closely watched report on crude ...
WASHINGTON: Microsoft began rolling out its Windows 10 operating system Wednesday aiming to revive the tech giant's fortunes especially in ...
Egypt said on Wednesday that the "new Suez Canal" was ready for navigation for all kinds of ships, as authorities geared up to launch the shipping ...
French oil giant Total on Wednesday announced a 4.0 percent slide in net profit in the second quarter while increased output, costs savings and ...
French automaker Peugeot on Wednesday announced a return to profitability in the first half of the year with a net profit of 571 million euros <$630 ...
Japanese electronics giant Panasonic said Wednesday that its net profit soared 57 percent from a year ago, mainly thanks to a tax accounting change ...
NEW DELHI: General Motors Co. will invest $1 billion in the next few years to turn operations in India into a new global export hub aimed at ...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday approved the "immediate" construction of 300 settler homes in the occupied West Bank ...
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AMMAN: Jordan handed down jail sentences Wednesday against seven of its citizens and a Syrian for planning attacks on US soldiers in the ...
EIN GEDI Israel: A neglected grove of date palms their leaves long fallen trunks drooping in the searing heat at the lowest point on earth is ...
ANKARA: The Turkish government has given its formal approval for the United States to use the Incirlik air base in southern Turkey for raids ...
When we were young we kept hearing our mothers instructing us to stand up straight stop squinting limit our sugar intake and so on. Many of us ...
BERNE: Former FIFA presidential candidate Prince Ali bin Al Hussein of Jordan has described Michel Platini's decision to stand for the post in ...
JEDDAH: A Mercedes car with a Saudi number plate was spotted in Israel. The discovery led to intense discussion on social media websites on ...
A 15-year-old boy was charged as an adult on Wednesday with sexually assaulting and murdering an 8-year-old girl whose body was discovered ...
NEW DELHI: India's president on Wednesday rejected a last-ditch plea to stay the execution of Yakub Memon for his role in the country's worst ...
Tablet computer sales fell in the second quarter of 2015, with market leaders Apple and Samsung losing ground to other vendors, a survey showed ...
Twitter shares fell hard Wednesday after the latest update from the one-to-many messaging platform revived doubts about its growth prospects.In early ...
Nissan on Wednesday said its three-month net profit jumped 36.3 percent to $1.3 billion on strong sales in North America, Europe and China, but ...
US oil giants Chevron and ExxonMobil signalled Friday further belt-tightening ahead as the industry responds to lower oil prices that ...
JEDDAH: OPEC oil output reached the highest monthly level in recent history in July a Reuters survey found on Friday as Saudi Arabia and other ...
CAIRO: Egypt expects to import 28.6 million tons of crude oil liquefied natural gas and other oil products worth a total of almost $16 ...
Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak said Qatar and China have expressed an interest in the assets of debt-laden state fund 1Malaysia ...
King Abdullah Economic City will provide logistical support and services for entrepreneurs supported by Saudi Aramco Entrepreneurship ...
TOKYO: Japanese electronics giant Sharp said Friday its net loss widened in April-June as it struggles through a painful restructuring and weak ...
Members of Osama bin Laden's family were among four people who died when a private jet crashed in Britain, Saudi Arabia's embassy in London ...
A 115-year-old US law that's grown like kudzu now hangs over the head of the Minnesota dentist who shot Cecil the lion.But it's one of the ...
Protesters hold placards with photos of opposition leader and head of Al Wefaq party Ali Salman during a protest after Friday prayers in ...
Yemeni Prime Minister Khaled Bahah flew into the devastated port of Aden from Saudi exile Saturday, two weeks after loyalist forces ousted ...
The parents and brother of a Palestinian toddler burned to death by suspected Jewish extremists were fighting for their lives Saturday, as ...
Rocket fire from war-wracked Yemen on Friday killed threeSaudi soldiers and a member of a paramilitary force, in the deadliest border ...
Al-Qaeda's Syria affiliate launched a fierce assault on the headquarters of a US-trained rebel group Friday, while claiming responsibility ...
JEDDAH: A terror attack by Jewish extremists in the West Bank village of Duma that killed a Palestinian infant was widely condemned by world ...
Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie met women garment workers in Myanmar on Saturday with opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi to learn more ...
Honda said that net profit in April-June jumped nearly 20 percent as strong sales in North America and a weak yen helped offset the impact ...
LOS ANGELES: Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg announced Friday that he and his wife Priscilla Chan are expecting a baby girl. But the ...
ROME: Italian police stopped California rapper Snoop Dogg on Friday as he prepared to board a private plane bound for Britain with $422000 in ...
WASHINGTON: Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and her husband former President Bill Clinton on Friday reported income ...
Dubai-based developer Emaar Properties on Sunday reported a 12 percent rise in net profits for the first six months of 2015 due to high revenues from ...
As Croatia gears up for exploration of oil and gas in the Adriatic sea, green groups have raised concerns about the environment and economy of the ...
HSBC announced Monday that net profit fell 3.8 percent in the three months to June, as the company agreed to sell its Brazilian business for $5.2 ...
Attention will be focused on Greece's embattled banks on Monday when the Athens stock exchange reopens after a six-week shutdown over the country's ...
Iran plans on buying 80 to 90 Airbus and Boeing passenger planes per year until 300 are in place to replace its ageing fleet, media reported Sunday ...
President Barack Obama will Monday unveil what he called the "biggest, most important step we've ever taken" to fight climate change, a sensitive ...
Grabbing something hot and tasty on the move You have the ancient Romans to thank. "Street food" was their invention, generally enjoyed with wine, ...
Egyptian court postponed its verdict expected on Saturday in the trial of Al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri's brother and 66 others accused ...
An Egyptian court is due to deliver its verdict on Sunday in the retrial of three Al-Jazeera journalists accused of supporting banned ...
Iran's president said Sunday his country's nuclear deal with the West would create better prospects for faster solutions in Syria and ...
ADEN: Yemen's Prime Minister Khaled Bahah made a symbolic visit to Aden on Saturday two weeks after loyalist forces ousted Houthi terrorists ...
Nomura Real Estate Holdings is considering buying the shares it doesn't already own in Toshiba Corp's NREG Toshiba Building Co, as the ...
Several beaches on the east coast of Australia were closed on Sunday after fresh shark sightings as authorities warned swimmers to be vigilant ...
Spain could become like Greece if the same austerity policies are imposed on the country, former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis said in an ...
Oil sank to six-months lows yesterday as sluggish data out of the US and China, and bets for weaker gasoline consumption after tearaway ...
Saudi Arabia's Etihad Etisalat , which last week slashed 27 months of profits, swung to a second-quarter net loss yesterday that ...
Led by a double-digit decline in the prices for crude and natural gas as well as refined petroleum products, basic metals and basic chemicals, ...
Industries Qatar , one of the region's industrial giants with interests in the production of a wide range of petrochemical, fertiliser ...
German car makers BMW, Audi and Daimler have teamed up to buy digital mapping service HERE for 2.8 billion euros from Nokia, the ...
Waste management giant Veolia said Monday its profits in the first half of the year more than doubled to 321 million euros , helped by ...
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A member of a new Syrian force trained by the US military was believed to have been killed in clashes last week with Al Qaeda's Syria wing, ...
Fighters loyal to Yemen's exiled president Abdrabuh Mansur Hadi, bolstered by Gulf Arab support, seized the country's largest military ...
JEDDAH: Police at King Khaled International Airport in Riyadh arrested a Saudi hacker after a government organization in Al-Leith in Makkah ...
Separate Dhaka courts yesterday sent Bangladesh Nationalist Party leader Amanullah Aman to jail in a number of cases filed for arson ...
FIFA President Sepp Blatter was relieved of his International Olympic Committee ex officio membership yesterday, seven months before he ...
Egypt is set to inaugurate a "new Suez Canal" waterway touted as an achievement rivalling the digging of the original, as it seeks to boost both its ...
A Jewish extremist group's leader was arrested Monday after a Palestinian baby died in a West Bank firebombing, as police investigated ...
A giant picture of the beloved Zimbabwean lion killed by an American trophy hunter was among images projected on Saturday onto the Empire ...
KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia: Malaysian officials said Sunday that they would seek help from territories near the island where a suspected piece of ...
Greece's stock exchange closed Monday with a record drop of 16.23 percent on reopening after a five-week shutdown caused by capital controls.The ...
The UAE ranks number one in the Arab world on empowerment of women for the year 2014 according to the Arab Women Foundation. In its annual ...
Qatar's crude oil production rose to 642,000 barrels per day in May 2015 from 635000 b/d in April. The production is expected to ...
Agthia Group one of the UAE's leading F&B companies reported that net profit for the first half of 2015 increased 20 percent from the same ...
DUBAI: Oman has ramped up its oil production to a record high in June adding to a global supply glut that has hit oil prices as the Gulf Arab ...
German automaker BMW said Tuesday its second quarter profits fell back by one percent, a figure which nevertheless was better than analysts ...
Toyota on Tuesday said quarterly net profit jumped 10 percent from a year earlier and raised its fiscal-year revenue forecast but warned over ...
Dubai, the Gulf state best known for its extravagant projects and scorching temperatures, announced yesterday it would build the world's ...
FRANKFURT: German car makers BMW Audi and Mercedes-Benz have teamed up to buy digital mapping service HERE for 2.8 billion euros ...
Life in the Syrian city of Hasakeh, divided between allied Kurdish and regime forces, comes at a price: two lots of military service and double the ...
US airlines Delta and American banned the shipment of big game trophies on flights, in the wake of outrage over the killing of Cecil the lion in ...
In his own words, Donald Trump is the very definition of American success. So why jeopardize a billion-dollar business empire for a populist shot at ...
The main suspect in a deadly attack on a Kuwaiti Shiite mosque in June confessed in court on Tuesday to being in the jihadist Islamic State ...
This Eid is very special for Shahida a 62-year-old Indian maid who has been working in the UAE for 20 years. Her long-cherished wish to ...
The Sharjah Police on Thursday arrested two Arab nationals for robbing bank customers in various emirates. Col Mussabah Al Ajil Director of ...
BEIRUT: A Syrian military aircraft crashed while on a bombing run over the fighter-held northwestern town of Ariha on Monday leaving at least ...
NEW DELHI: India's parliament Monday suspended 25 opposition lawmakers following days of uproar and disruptions that have so far thwarted the ...
MADRID: A 27-year-old Moroccan man suffocated to death while trying to illegally enter Spain hidden inside a suitcase in the trunk of a car ...
Anti-abortion activists' secret footage of officials from the largest US family planning organization discussing use of fetal tissue for research has ...
Low-cost Emirati carrier Air Arabia announced Wednesday its net profits fell 12 percent in the second quarter of 2015 to 152 million dirhams <$41 ....gif)
Qatar Exchange index gained 25.19 points or 0.21 percent when the bourse closed trading at 11,836.75 points yesterday. The daily ...
The United States yesterday carried out its first air strike on an Islamic State target in Syria after taking off from a Turkish air base, ...
The Qatar Development Fund is donating $10 million to the Wajd programme in Palestine to support 2,108 children and youths who lost their ...
Stricter catch quotas proposed to protect decreasing Atlantic fish populations have angered the fishing industry in Portugal as restrictions would ...
Asian markets were mixed Wednesday as traders assessed the prospects of an early US interest rate rise and China's moves to stem a recent market ...
Greece is in the "final stretch" of talks for a deal with creditors on a new bailout, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said Wednesday."We are in the ...
Canada's trade deficit narrowed in June to Can$476 million as exports rose 6.3 percent thanks in part to a weakening Canadian ...
Ukraine and its creditors hit another stumbling block Wednesday after a new debt restructuring offer from Kiev and call for a "decisive" final ...
The battle for supremacy in India's bulging e-commerce market between Amazon, Flipkart and Snapdeal is rapidly heating up with multi-billion-dollar ...
An Australian court Wednesday revoked approval for an Indian-backed project to build what could be one of the world's biggest coal mines, which ...
Europe's main stock markets closed higher yesterday, with all eyes on US economic data and prospects of an interest rate hike in the ...
CBS Corp. said it would take a $55 million charge for restructuring related to its local radio and TV stations in a cost-cutting move even ...
The head of the Bank of Japan said Friday that he would consider pulling the trigger on more stimulus if weak oil prices keep holding back ...
The German military is to invest billions of euros to fix recurring problems with its aircraft, helicopters and other military equipment, an official ...
The US economy kept its jobs machine humming in July with solid growth that looked likely to leave the Federal Reserve on track for an interest rate ...
China's foreign exchange reserves, the world's largest, fell to $3.65 trillion at the end of July, the official news agency Xinhua reported Friday, ...
German politicians warned Friday of possible further delays to Berlin's troubled new airport project, already five years behind schedule, after an ...
Germany's industrial output fell 1.4 percent and exports from Europe's top economy dropped by one percent in June from the previous month, data ...
Emirates and Etihad were months ahead of their American counterparts in banning the transport of hunting trophies on-board their aircraft. ...
An African man died after he jumped off the sixth floor of a residential building in Sharjah to flee a police raid. The incident was ...
A cement bust of America's most-wanted whistleblower Edward Snowden, once famously confiscated by police, returned to public display in New York on ...
Palmitas, a hardscrabble neighborhood in the Mexican city of Pachuca, used to have a reputation as a battleground where gangs fought deadly turf ...
The young man cowered behind a barrel on the barely lit stage, as his companion pointed a fake weapon towards a roaring audience in a Beirut ...
China's foreign trade performance worsened in July with both exports and imports falling on an annual basis, customs said on Saturday, spelling more ...
Is it time for big television to start worrying about digitalFor years, the threats to traditional television have been present, but the digital ...
Police in Greece have found no sign of electronic hacking into the tax files of millions of Greeks, which ex-finance minister Yanis Varoufakis ...
Rating firm Fitch raised its outlook on Ireland to 'positive' from 'stable', citing the eurozone country's strengthening economy after exiting an ...
Taxi service Uber's classification of drivers is being challenged in California, threatening the company's business model within the state.A hearing ...
Greece's government ordered a tax fraud inquiry Friday at one of the country's most visited archaeological sites, after tourists claimed its gift ...
Asia-Pacific countries negotiating a vast free-trade pact will hopefully secure a deal by the end of this year, US Secretary of State John Kerry said ...
India's largest car maker Tata Motors reported a near 50 percent dive in quarterly profits on Friday due to a slump in sales of its luxury British ...
Everyone speaks emoji, and now advertisers do too.Catching on to the digital era's cross-cultural language of choice, advertisers have learned to ...
LONDON: Oil prices hit multi-month lows Friday extending a prolonged losing run caused by a global supply glut. Excess crude supply is seen as ...
Microsoft's Bill Gates was the unsurprising leader of the first Forbes list of the richest global tech billionaires while Amazon founder ...
New York - Blackberry seems to have finally shed all qualms about the Android and is ready to hog the platform. There have been rumours ...
MUMBAI: Apple iPhone manufacturer Foxconn has agreed to invest $5 billion on a new plant in the western Indian state of Maharashtra a ...
For four years Samsung Electronics has basked in the success of its Galaxy smartphones making billions of dollars competing with Apple in ...
RAMALLAH West Bank: The father of a Palestinian toddler killed in an arson attack on his home a week ago died on Saturday of wounds sustained ...
Lebanese activists chant anti-government slogans during a protest against the garbage crisis, at Martyrs square in downtown Beirut, ...
JEDDAH: Thursday's attack on the Special Emergency Forces Mosque in Asir took everyone by surprise as the terrorists chose a different day and ...
LOS ANGELES: A lawsuit filed Friday by an estate administrator for Bobbi Kristina Brown accuses her boyfriend of giving her a 'toxic cocktail' ...
JEDDAH: The well-known Saudi television personality Saud Al-Dosari was found dead in his house in Paris on Friday. The award-winning talk show ...
Fifteen more fatalities were confirmed yesterday from a barrage of bombings in Kabul, taking the toll to 51 in the deadliest day in the ...
A powerful typhoon battered Taiwan yesterday with strong wind and torrential rain, cutting power to 3.62mn households as the death toll ...
Members of a coalition of local activists, church groups and community leaders try to promote peace amongst rival street gangs in an area ...
New York – Paying bills can be fun if you do it through Mastercard. You just need to click a selfie with your smartphone blink once ...
OMAHA Nebraska: Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway reported a 37 percent drop in its second-quarter profit as the paper value of its ...
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ANKARA: Turkey has frozen the assets of officials from Yemen's former regime including ex-president Ali Abdullah Saleh along with Houthi rebel ...
Holding the young couple's identity cards in one hand and the Koran in the other, the Palestinian justice of the peace pronounces Thaer and Rawan man ...
Doha Bank has announced the signing of project finance deal to the value of QR2.2bn with Leighton Contracting Qatar, a division of ...
The rise in gasoline prices and lower diesel costs announced by the Ministry of Energy following the introduction of de-regulation of fuel ...
JEDDAH: Most Gulf stock markets extended losses on Sunday on weaker oil prices but Saudi Arabia edged up following a sharp fall last week. The ...
Emirates National Oil Company or Enoc on Sunday increased its offer to buy Dragon Oil to 800 pence a share winning support from ...
With reputations tarnished by the financial crisis and a string of scandals, Britain's top banks are trying to adapt and move ahead by embracing ...
Hackers swarmed a Tesla sedan in a 'hacking village' at the infamous Def Con conference on Saturday as the high-tech electric car maker recruited ...
The UAE federal government collected Dh4 billion in revenue through the e-Dirham system during the first half of 2015 the Ministry of ...
Greece and its creditors resumed talks in Athens on Sunday with both sides indicating that the terms of a third bailout will be finalised in short ...
Bahraini authorities say they will allow an independent newspaper in the Gulf kingdom to resume publishing days after ordering it ...
ADEN: Forces loyal to Yemen's exiled government recaptured a southern provincial capital from Shiite rebels and their allies on Sunday as they ...
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CAIRO: Egyptians went all out to celebrate the launch of the new $8 billion Suez Canal over the weekend and Lebanese singers Nicole Saba and ...
BEIRUT: Daesh fighters killed at least 37 rival insurgents in an overnight attack in Syria's Aleppo province and 20 fighters remain missing the ...
Embattled Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump hit back yesterday at critics who say he went too far with caustic comments about ...
CAIRO: Egyptian satirist Bassem Youssef bid farewell on Twitter Friday to US comic show presenter Jon Stewart who ended his Daily Show after 16 ...
THURMONT Maryland: An active military-grade hand grenade was uncovered Saturday afternoon in the parking lot outside a Maryland McDonald's. ...
RIYADH: The body of a 23-year-old Saudi scholarship student was found at a university in the city of Kansas in the US on Saturday morning. ...
The infant mortality rate in Gaza has risen for the first time in more than half a century, a new study by the UN aid agency for Palestinian refugees ...
Oleksandr Verzhykhovskiy slips a crisp stalk of wheat through his fingers and surveys the sun-drenched fields that once made war-torn Ukraine the ...
A familiar presence at Britain's seaside resorts, seagulls have this summer spread fear after ambushing holidaymakers as they tuck into their fish ...
Residents of the remote Arctic settlement of Ny-Alesund never lock their homes -- happy to sacrifice privacy for the option of barging through the ...
For most farms, manure is a pungent problem. At Homestead Dairy, it smells like money.The family-run American farm invested in a biogas recovery ...
Crude oil prices jumped as much 4 percent yesterday after a rally in US petrol and diesel due to a refinery outage helped crude futures ...
Infrastructure growth and economic development is expected to continue in Qatar even as oil dropped below $50 per barrel on Friday, an ...
Google unveiled a surprise corporate overhaul Monday, forming a new parent company dubbed Alphabet to include Internet search and a handful of ...
Chinese Internet giant Alibaba is to pay 28.3 billion yuan for a near-20 percent stake in consumer electronics retailer Suning, the ...
The dollar rose against the yen in Asia on Monday after a solid US jobs report boosted expectations the Federal Reserve will soon lift interest ...
Human Rights Watch yesterday urged the Saudi Arabian authorities to free a writer and commentator arrested after he called on television ...
Two shoppers were stabbed to death in an attack at an Ikea store in the central Swedish town of Vasteras, over which a man has been arrested, police ...
Tycoon Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway will buy Precision Castparts, a leading metal products supplier to the aerospace industry, for $37.2 ...
US entertainment giant Disney was forced to apologise after one of its Japanese language tweets was criticised for being insensitive as the country ...
MYTILENE Greece: Greece's coast guard rescued more than 1400 migrants in nearly 60 search and rescue operations near several Greek islands in ...
STOCKHOLM: A pregnant 15-year-old Swedish girl is being held by Daesh in Syria after running away from her foster home with her boyfriend to ...
The decision to dedicate a day of beach festivities in Paris to Tel Aviv sparked condemnation on Monday, with leftist and pro-Palestinian groups ...
People who eat lots of fried food and sugary drinks have a 56 percent higher risk of heart disease compared to those who eat healthier, according to ...
In a sumptuous feast that will help astronauts eat healthy on long-duration space missions like Mars, the crew members on board the ...
Chinese hackers have been accessing the private emails of top U.S. national security and trade officials since April 2010, according to an ...
WASHINGTON: A man who engaged police in a standoff at a Texas home has been charged with capital murder after the bullet-riddled bodies of six ..._14036fb0-399f-4a71-98ef-90db1b2edc7f.jpg)
JERUSALEM: Israel has released all suspects detained in raids as part of a probe into the firebombing of a Palestinian home that killed an ...
Oil prices fell Tuesday, mirroring sentiment across commodity markets, after China devalued its currency to help boost its economic growth.Crude ...
Economic diversification and green infrastructure investments have put the GCC lighting systems market on a double-digit growth path with ...
The first half of 2015 saw 11 initial public offerings in the Middle East and North Africa region raising capital of over $2.4 billion ...
Qatar Electricity & Water Company is set to launch the country's biggest integrated water and power project . The foundation ...
The overall business activity across Dubai's private sector economy which has been on a continuous expansion for five-and-a-half years ...
The dollar rose against a range of Asia-Pacific currencies on Wednesday after China cut the value of the yuan against the greenback for a second ...
China cut the value of the yuan against the dollar for a second consecutive day Wednesday, trimming the reference rate by 1.62 percent and sending a ...
The surprise reorganization of Google under newly formed parent Alphabet gives the tech giant the ability to focus on its core business, while ...
Opec has no plans for an emergency meeting to respond to the slump in prices, according to delegates from the group, while members have ...
JEDDAH: Security authorities in Tabuk arrested a male citizen in his 30s for setting fire to two vehicles and shooting at the house of a family ...
Germany's BMW said Tuesday it was checking the "trademark implications" of Google naming its new parent company Alphabet, which is the registered ...
An Indonesian court has ordered a foundation set up by formerIndonesian dictator Suharto to pay back about $325m of embezzled state funds, ...
Qatar Oman Investment Company's net profit for the financial period ended June 30 has increased to QR 19.5 Million compared to QR 17.9 ...
Saudi Arabia's foreign minister yesterday poured cold water on Russian calls to join forces with the Syrian authorities against Islamic ...
On the first few days of working as a taxi driver in Dubai Filipino Maria Socorro Gonzaga said there were times she broke down due to the ...
WASHINGTON: A Mississippi couple has been charged with conspiring and attempting to provide material support to the Daesh militant group the ...
The Ikea branch in central Sweden where two shoppers were fatally stabbed -- reportedly with knives taken from the shelves -- will temporarily stop ...
India will seek damages of Rs6.39bn from Swiss group Nestle after a food scare involving reports of excess lead in the firm's ...
Chinese low-cost Smartphone manufacturer Xiaomi launched its first Made-in-India phone in the north coastal Andhra city of Visakhapatnam ...
LOS ANGELES: US-Colombian star Sofia Vergara is going to lend her voice to a character on long-running hit series 'The Simpsons' Entertainment ...
Determined to rise high enough for their prayers to be heard, climbers defy the stifling summer heat to conquer a summit in Algeria's northern ...
A 30-year-old nurse in Denmark was charged with a fourth count of murder on Tuesday following a series of suspicious patient deaths on her ward, a ...
An Ethiopian woman allegedly murdered her illegitimate one-month old baby stuffed the body in a box and threw it off the Sharjah corniche ...
Gold fell more than one per cent to its lowest in five years on Friday pressured by a strong dollar and US data that increased bets on a ...
Low-cost airline Air Arabia recorded on Wednesday a net profit of Dh237 million in the first half down by four per cent on the same 2014 ...
Dubai's Damac Propertieson Wednesdaysaid its second-quarter profit more than tripled as its subsidiary's revenue rose. The privately run ...
Finance House on Monday declared its financial results for the first half of the year and said consolidated net profit increased by 8.2 per ...
Amanat Holdings a healthcare and education company has acquired a 35 per cent stake in Sukoon International a Saudi Arabian healthcare ...
Gulf-based Islamic banks face challenges this year but will continue to grow and increase their market share Standard & Poor's Ratings ...
DUBAI/ABU DHABI: Abu Dhabi National Energy Company is close to sealing a $3.1 billion five-year loan which will consolidate existing ...
JEDDAH: Saudi Arabia's Tadawul All-Share Index dipped by 0.6 percent on Wednesday with most blue-chip stocks in negative territory. ...
The European Space Agency announced Wednesday that it has tapped Airbus Safran Launchers to build a new generation of rocket launcher by 2020 in a ...
Greece will tumble back into deep recession this year and next, EU sources said Wednesday as Athens implements a tough third debt rescue hammered out ...
A decade of anger over the Iraq war resurfaced in the 2016 US election race, with Jeb Bush and Hillary Clinton's campaigns trading blame ...
Actress Jennifer Aniston has reportedly struck a $5 million deal with airline company Emirates to endorse it. The deal came after Emirates' ...
BAGHDAD: Implementing reforms to curb graft and streamline the government 'will not be easy' and corrupt people will fight to hold back change ...
SEOUL: A 80-year old South Korean set himself on fire on Wednesday during a protest calling for Japan to apologize for forcing Korean girls and ...
North Korea's vice premier Choe Yong-Gon has been executed for voicing frustration at the policies of leader Kim Jong-Un, South Korea's ...
Four white men carrying military-style rifles and sidearms added a disquieting element to riot-torn Ferguson, Missouri, when they began ...
The Donald Trump bullet train charged full speed ahead, as the unfiltered US presidential hopeful slammed China, Barack Obama's ...
Airbus has won a patent for a hypersonic plane but Concorde's hydrogen-powered successor is unlikely to leave the drawing board any time ...
ABUJA: The Nigerian-based militant group Boko Haram has a new leader Chad's President Idriss Deby said. According to the BBC the president did ...
CAIRO: Daesh's Egyptian affiliate published a photograph it said was of the beheaded body of a Croatian hostage it had threatened to kill last ...
SAN FRANCISCO: Facebook is trying to lure skeptical advertisers in India with features such as free e-mail support for questions about ...
China cut the value of its yuan currency against the US dollar for the second day in a row Wednesday, taking the reductions to 3.5 percent this week ...
McDonald's France was forced to apologise Wednesday following the emergence of an internal note reportedly ordering staff not to hand out food to ...
Oil prices fell again on Thursday after an up and down week, as traders tracked developments over China and an oversupplied market.Brent North Sea ...
Qatari stock market staged a relief rally, snapping a three straight weeks of bearish trend. Driven by real estate and banks, the benchmark ...
Arab Bank has reached a settlement with hundreds of US victims of attacks in Israel and the Palestinian territories who filed a lawsuit accusing the ...
Samsung staked its claim to the high end of the smartphone market Thursday, unveiling two large-screen handsets and its new mobile payment system as ...
American billionaire George Soros's fund has sold most of its stake in the Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, according to regulatory filings. In its ...
Nine major banks accused of foreign-exchange rigging have agreed to pay more than $2 billion to investors in settlements, a law firm involved in the ...
German sports giant Adidas on Thursday agreed a sponsorship deal with NBA superstar James Harden which was reported to be worth $200 million in a ...
A synagogue now stocks fertilisers and a kindergarten has become offices: 10 years after Israel left Gaza, little remains of its former Jewish ...
Kuwait has broken up a new three-member "terror" cell and seized large quantities of weapons, ammunition and explosives, the interior ...
A Bahraini police patrol came under attack in a Shia village near the capital Manama on Friday, without causing casualties, the interior ...
A Palestinian held by Israel without trial has slipped into a coma after a nearly two-month hunger strike, his lawyer said yesterday, ...
BAGHDAD: A massive truck bomb ripped through a popular Baghdad food market in a predominantly Shiite neighborhood early Thursday morning ...
The European Union pledged Friday to fast-track new funding to help debt-hit Greece cope with a surge in migrants, with hundreds coming ...
Some insiders in the Democratic party are discussing having former vice-president Al Gore make another run for US President, BuzzFeed ...
Who needs nine lives Corduroy the cat seems to be getting the most out of this one, having recently turned a record-setting 26 years old -- or ...
Outfits and jewelry from Elvis Presley fetched higher than expected bids at the latest auction of memorabilia from the King of Rock 'n' Roll.The ...
Fleeing war and poverty, record numbers of refugees have made it to Germany, only to face another kind of chaos -- desperately overcrowded shelters ...
An 11-year-old Paraguayan girl who was raped by her mother's boyfriend gave birth Thursday, rekindling the uproar over authorities' refusal to let ...
DUBAI: Dana Gas said a sustained slump in oil prices and lower production was to blame as the United Arab Emirates energy company reported a ...
Mannai Corporation QSC, announced its half year results for the period ended June 30, 2015. Mannai Group revenue increased by 11 percent to ...
GFH Financial Group has reported a net profit of $13.6 million for the first six months of 2015 compared with $14.8 million during the ...
WASHINGTON: The bond market is saying China's decision to devalue the yuan won't stop the US Federal Reserve from raising interest rates. ...
The US National Security Agency has used a unique, decades-old partnership with AT&T to snoop on Internet usage, according to newly disclosed ...
CAIRO: The court-appointed legal team representing deposed Egyptian president Muhammad Mursi filed an appeal on Saturday at the country's ...
Lebanon on Saturday arrested a fugitive Islamic cleric wanted over deadly clashes with the army as he tried to flee via the country's ..._4dbedc1c-908b-44d4-a974-27c6f43a76d9.jpg)
KOS Greece: When the Daesh group took over their Iraqi city and burned down the family's home two teenaged brothers decided to risk everything ...
TRIPOLI: Daesh terrorists have beheaded 12 people and hung them on crosses during a battle for the coastal city of Sirte the ...
SANAA: Hundreds of Yemeni women are protesting in the country's rebel-held capital over a shortage of gasoline. It's a rare sign of dissent ...
Service slowly returned to normal Saturday at eastern US airports, after a computer problem at a regional air traffic control center delayed hundreds ...
The militant group Al-Murabitoun, which has claimed a string of deadly attacks in North Africa, has declared itself a branch of Al-Qaeda in ...
The U.S. Department of Defense is sending a team to military installations in Kansas and South Carolina to investigate the possibility of ...
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is opposed to a landmark nuclear deal reached with world powers, a prominent hard-liner ...
PYONGYANG: North Korea now has its own time zone. Bells were rung in Pyongyang and celebrations held at midnight as the nation's clocks were ...
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Saudi Arabia has long enjoyed the status of being the top crude oil exporter in the world. With record production of 10.564 million ...
Oil and base metals prices, already hit by oversupply and sagging demand, suffered a fresh blow last week as China shocked markets by ...
MUSCAT: Oman's crude oil and condensate production rose to more than 1 million barrels per day in July for the first time in its history the ...
KUWAIT: After decades relying on revenues from exports to invest at home and generate growth China wants to move toward a consumption based ...
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Animals will walk upright, oceans will part, a forgetful fish will remember her family and toys will fall in love in Disney and Pixar ...
TUNIS Tunisia: Libya's internationally recognized government has appealed to Arab countries to carry out airstrikes against the local Daesh ...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and her hardline Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble on Sunday hailed a dramatic change in Greece's approach to its ...
NBA star James Harden will soon be dribbling the ball with Adidas sneakers on his feet as the German sportswear maker hopes to retake US market share ...
Bahrain will remove government subsidies on meat from Sept. 1, allowing domestic prices to rise, state news agency BNA reported as the ...
Abu Dhabi Ports the master developer operator and manager of ports and industrial zones in the emirate has signed a standard Musataha ...
MULTAN Pakistan: A Pakistani teenager believed to have been kidnapped and repeatedly sexually assaulted has committed suicide after police ...
Barcelona boss Luis Enrique defiantly backed his side to pull off an incredible comeback in the second leg of the Spanish Super Cup today ...
LOS ANGELES: Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie signed a contract with the Irish production company Cartoon Saloon to produce an animated movie ...
Multinational firms shifting profits offshore to avoiding paying local taxes should be "named and shamed", the chair of an Australian parliamentary ...
Arabtec Holding Co has posted a third consecutive loss as costs rose amid a restructuring programme and project reviews.The UAE's biggest ...
Emirates Reit on Monday announced that its net profit increased by 2.8 per cent to $35.11 million for the first half of the ...
A fire at Kuwait's 200,000 barrel-per-day Shuaiba oil refinery on Monday led to its total shutdown but there were no casualties, an official ...
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. has announced the global launch of the Samsung Galaxy S6 edge+ and Galaxy Note5. Both devices represent Samsung's ...
Canada's Brookfield Infrastructure Partners on Tuesday said it hopes to use its US$6.6 billion purchase for Australian ports and rail operator ...
US securities regulators ordered two Citigroup affiliates Monday to pay $180 million to settle charges that they defrauded investors by falsely ...
Liberty Interactive, the owner of cable TV shopping group QVC, said Monday it would take over US women's fashion website Zulily for about $2.4 ...
The Syrian air force bombarded an area northeast of Damascus on Monday, keeping up its attack on a rebel-held district where close to 100 ...
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi approved an anti-terrorism law that sets up special courts and protects its enforcers in the face of a ...
Israeli security forces shot dead a Palestinian who tried to stab a border police officer in the West Bank on Monday, authorities said, in the ...
JERUSALEM: Israel on Monday offered to free a Palestinian detainee whose two-month hunger strike has left him in a coma but only if he goes ...
BEIRUT: Lebanon's health minister says the country is on the brink of a 'major health disaster' unless an immediate solution is found for the ...
Flamboyant billionaire White House candidate Donald Trump reported for jury duty in New York on Monday, stepping out of a sleek black limo to ...
NEW YORK: Oscar-winning actor Morgan Freeman's step-granddaughter was stabbed to death by her boyfriend in New York US media reported Sunday. ...
DHAKA Bangladesh: A court in Bangladesh's capital has sentenced six officials of a now-dissolved drug company to 10 years in jail for producing ...
South Korea said Tuesday it had reached agreement with Pyongyang on a wage hike for North Korean workers at their Kaesong joint economic zone, ending ...
The United Nations plans to contact AT&T following a report that the telecom giant helped US intelligence wiretap online communications at the ...
BuzzFeed announced plans Monday to launch a Japanese news website in a partnership with Yahoo Japan, the latest step in a global expansion push.The ...
Is online giant Amazon a bruising and uncaring workplace or a hub for innovation that pushes its employees to reach their potentialThe question was ...
Most Middle East stock markets fell yesterday as oil prices remained weak, but some shares in Dubai, Saudi Arabia and Egypt rebounded after ...
Turmoil in the Saudi Arabian money markets suggests that financing the government's budget deficit in an era of cheap oil may not be smooth as ...
The United Arab Emirates is still studying a proposal to impose value-added tax but its introduction has been delayed by a lack of agreement ...
Canada's Brookfield Infrastructure Partners yesterday said it hopes to use its $6.6bn purchase for Australian ports and rail operator ...
Foreign investment into China rose 5.2 percent in July compared to the previous year, largely on the back of mergers and acquisitions by overseas ...
Google unveiled a WiFi router looking to increase the ease and speed at which people's increasingly indispensable smartphones and tablets connect at ...
A Palestinian detainee on a two-month hunger strike emerged from a coma Tuesday but pledged to resume fasting if Israel did not resolve his ...
Dubai's Emirates Airline said Tuesday it will resume passenger flights to the Iraqi capital in September, months after they were suspended ...
Britain offered shale gas exploration licences for the first time in seven years yesterday, awarding new sites to companies including IGas ...
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Lenovo Group Ltd said on Tuesday it was establishing a smartphone assembly unit in India, becoming the biggest Chinese company so far to ...
A tough anti-smoking bill is trying to get nicotine-hooked Chile to kick the habit, but has provoked a backlash from the powerful tobacco ...
E-cigarettes should be prescribed to smokers to help them quit the habit, British public health experts recommended in a study on Wednesday.The study ...
US retail behemoth Wal-Mart Stores reported Tuesday increased sales in its home market, but slashed its profit forecast due to higher costs and the ...
Face taut, muscles bulging, his rigid body suspended horizontally in the air on a pole, Bakr al-Makadmeh's "street workout" showcases the urban ...
JEDDAH: Panic selling again gripped Saudi stock market on Wednesday due to weak oil prices causing the Tadawul All-Share Index to plunge below ...
Brazil exported $5.79bn worth of products to the region during the first half of 2015. Exports to Qatar grew significantly at 28.89 percent ...
Siemens, the global technology powerhouse, has won a �¬470m deal from Qatar General Water & Electricity Corporation . ...
A case of official corruption involving SR22 million allegedly committed by the chairman of a committee in Jazan has been unearthed. The ...
Google unveiled a WiFi router looking to increase the ease and speed at which people's increasingly indispensable smartphones and tablets ...
Swedish automaker Volvo Cars, owned by China's Geely, reported Wednesday a rise in first half profits even as sales tumbled in its biggest market, ...
US technology firm Intel, best known for its semiconductor chips, is jumping into reality TV with a competition pitting makers of wearables and smart ...
BEIRUT: The DAESH group has beheaded the 82-year-old retired chief archaeologist of Palmyra who refused to leave the ancient ...
The Economist Intelligence Unit is out with its annual ranking of the world's most livable cities - and the top 10 list is dominated by ...
India will host its Second Renewable Energy Global Investors Meet & Expo in New Delhi from February 18 to 20, 2016. The ...
Hong Kong flag carrier Cathay Pacific said yesterday first-half profit rose almost sixfold from a year earlier, helped by lower fuel ...
LONDON: Hackers say they have exposed unfaithful partners across the world posting what they said were the personal details of millions of ...
JAYAPURA Indonesia: The first bodies of 54 people killed when a plane went down in eastern Indonesia were Wednesday carried from the remote ...
Tata Opportunities Fund on Wednesday announced "significant investment" in the India arm of controversial app-based taxi hailing firm, Uber, ...
Hard up Iranian husbands will no longer face jail for failing to pay dowries that can reach hundreds of thousands of dollars, following passage of a ...
An almost complete version of a tiny human brain has been grown in a US lab in a move that could bring major strides to the treatment of neurological ...
E-cigarettes should be prescribed to smokers on the National Health Service to help them quit the habit, British public health experts recommended in ...
The oil market extended its dramatic descent this week to strike a 6.5-year nadir close to $40 per barrel on mounting fears of oversupply and poor ...
World stock markets tumbled towards their worst week of the year yesterday and commodities got another kicking, as more alarming data from ...
US Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew pressed China to continue with economic and financial reforms Friday in the wake of Beijing's surprise devaluation of ...
Ryanair could potentially be on the hook for millions of pounds in compensation after a British court on Friday confirmed that passengers have up to ...
The EU on Friday said the decision by Greek premier Alexis Tsipras to hold snap elections was "not a surprise" and that it remained confident the ...
When Mohammed Allan's friends found out he was launching a hunger strike, they knew his stubbornness meant he would not give up easily."We ...
Four members of Hamas' armed wing were abducted in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula on Wednesday after the bus they were on was stopped by ...
Israel said it carried out an air raid Friday that killed up to five Iran-backed militants it said were behind a rare rocket attack from ...
A commercial ship docked in Aden yesterday, the first to reach the former southern capital since Yemen's devastating war came to the port ...
South Sudanese journalists held a 24-hour news blackout yesterday after their colleague was shot dead, days after President Salva Kiir ...
The increase in penalties for some traffic violations has led to a drop in the number of deaths on Qatar road accidents, shows a study ...
July was the hottest month in history, and the first seven months of the year were also the warmest since modern record-keeping began in 1880, ...
It was a fine summer day over the airport at Charlotte, North Carolina and a CRJ200 commuter jet was preparing to land when its pilots spotted ...
Airbnb said Friday more than 1,000 companies have joined its new program allowing business travelers to use the peer-to-peer-lodging service.The San ...
A Can$760 million class action lawsuit has been launched against the owner of affair-seeking website Ashley Madison on behalf of ...
Norway on Friday gave its green light to the development of the mammoth Johan Sverdrup gas field in the North Sea, the first phase of which is worth ...
Global stocks have been hit hard over concerns for the Chinese economy, with a gauge of the country's manufacturing activity on Friday providing the ...
South Korea's dominant Samsung conglomerate will make its first entry into US stock markets next year with the listing of a biotechnology affiliate, ...
Twitter shares sank to an all-time low Thursday before closing at their initial public offering price from 2013, as growth concerns intensified over ...
JEDDAH: US crude oil prices on Friday plunged below $40 a barrel for the first time since the 2009 financial crisis notching their longest ...
World stock markets were hammered with heavy losses on Friday, as China's economic woes triggered European and Wall Street equity sell-offs and ...
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Global stocks have been hit hard over concerns for the Chinese economy, with a gauge of the country's manufacturing activity on Friday providing ...
Christian Taylor is back at the top of the triple jump. The US jumper won the world title in Daegu four years ago and followed that with ...
The steep sell-off that pushed down the benchmark Standard & Poor's 500 index 5% over three days may say more about the outlook for emerging ...
Irina Chapravska has just snapped up the last room of a luxury hotel that costs 300 euros a night and offers a panoramic view of Ukraine's ...
The world's emerging economies are allowing their currencies to slide in a quest to remain competitive, following China's devaluation of the yuan and ...
Iran's President Hassan Rouhani unveiled the country's latest domestically produced surface to surface missile yesterday, saying such weapons ...
Shelling and air raids by Syrian government forces killed at least 20 civilians and wounded or trapped 200 yesterday in rebel-held Douma east ...
At least 16 people were injured yesterday when clashes erupted in central Beirut between Lebanese security forces and demonstrators calling ...
A pilot was in a critical condition in hospital on Sunday following a crash at a British airshow that killed seven people when his plane ...
Scandal-hit FIFA can never be dominated by one continent, outgoing president Sepp Blatter said yesterday. Without going into details or naming ...
ANKARA: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Friday that the nation will hold an early election on Nov. 1 after no group won a majority ...
The first years proved a difficult start for Germany's only deep water port, Wilhelmshaven's Jade-Weser-Port container hub, inaugurated in 2012, but ...
Stock prices in Gulf states nosedived on Sunday in a massive market sell-off sparked by descending oil prices, with the Saudi and Dubai bourses ...
Loan growth, which is vital to banks' income growth, was flat for Qatari banks in July, but showed a 6.8 percent increase year-to-date ...
Iran's Oil Minister, Bijan Zanganeh, said on Sunday that holding an OPEC emergency meeting may be "effective" to stop the oil price slump, ...
An unprecedented war of words has broken out between Greece's outgoing government, the parliament chief and the president over early elections likely ...
MADRID: Markets will be watching for China's next move as signs of a slowdown in the world's second-largest economy stack up raising ...
Lebanese riot police sprayed thousands of protesters with water cannons and hurled stones at them yesterday in downtown Beirut, marking the ...
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Man is the deadliest predator on Earth. A new study has designated a new category of hunter under which mankind falls, the "super predator."It ...
A man has died after being struck by a bull, police said yesterday, bringing to ten the number of people killed in bull runs in Spain this ...
Islamic State group militants mutilated the body of a famed Syrian archaeologist after killing him execution-style in the ancient city of ...
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JERUSALEM: A Palestinian prisoner's hunger strike has sparked new calls for Israel to curb its use of a form of detention without trial with ...
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Thor star Chris Hemsworth said he had a blast filming director Paul Feig's Ghostbusters.Hemsworth took to Twitter to announce that he had ...
BEIJING: An explosion at a chemical plant in eastern China killed one person and injured nine others a state news agency reported Sunday less ...
US crude oil prices continued to fall Monday, diving below $40 a barrel to their lowest level since 2009, amid a global market selloff sparked by ...
Global stock markets plunged and commodity prices hit new lows Monday extending a Chinese-led rout, fed by fears of a damaging slowdown in the ...
Apple is still seeing "strong growth" in China despite fears about an economic slowdown which have sparked a global market rout, chief executive Tim ...
Oil futures led a dramatic fall in commodity prices on Monday, with US crude trading below $40 a barrel as fears over China's economy sent investors ...
Russia's battered ruble sank Monday to its lowest point this year as Asian and European stock markets nosedived on concerns over the Chinese economy. ...
Daimler said it was cutting another 1,500 jobs at a trucks plant in Brazil in response to a slump in demand in the country.The affected ...
Tunisia's coastguard yesterday rescued 124 would-be migrants bound for Italy from a boat adrift at sea near Libya, said the International ...
Activists in Lebanon vowed yesterday to press ahead with protests over a trash crisis that have become an outlet for deep-rooted, broad-based ...
The Islamic State group has blown up a famed temple in Syria's ancient Palmyra, in an act the UN condemned as a war crime and an ...
A strike by teachers and personnel in Gaza kept more than 200,000 children from returning to school for the new term yesterday, as the UN ...
Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande called yesterday for a unified response to Europe's biggest migrant crisis ...
At least two people may have committed suicide following the hacking of the Ashley Madison cheating website, Toronto police said yesterday, ...
LONDON: British pop phenomenon One Direction are to take an indefinite break from next year according to a media report Monday which has left ...
A global scheme meant to keep atmospheric greenhouse gas levels in check instead caused some 600 million tonnes of excess emissions, ...
A Greek court on Monday handed prison terms to two Germans, a Frenchman and an Italian involved in an anti-mine protest that degenerated into attacks ...
The utilities regulator in the US capital rejected Tuesday the proposed merger of power companies Exelon and Pepco Holdings, saying it was not in the ...
Gas giant Qatar is becoming commercially sharper, using traders and tenders to grab new customers, and fighting to hold on to its share in the ...
Gold fell more than one percent yesterday after an interest rate cut from China helped global markets rebound from the previous day's rout, ...
Shanghai shares rose on Wednesday, with early choppy trading easing after an interest rate cut in China began to soothe fears about stalling growth ...
Libya's foreign minister on Tuesday renewed a call for the lifting of an arms embargo and for international air strikes to help tackle the ...
Spain and Morocco on Tuesday arrested 14 people on suspicion of belonging to a network that recruited and sent fighters to the Islamic ...
BEIRUT: Ahlam was the bearer of bad news this week when she announced that Arab Idol won't be returning to our TV screens until 2016. The ...
BEIRUT: Lebanon's Cabinet ended an acrimonious meeting on Tuesday with no solution to a trash crisis that has sparked protests and calls for ...
The Pentagon has given truck-builder Oshkosh a $6.75 billion contract to build a successor to the famous Humvee, the ubiquitous work-horse of the ...
FIFA presidential candidate Chung Mong-Joon yesterday warned that the election to succeed Sepp Blatter was in danger of "being manipulated to ...
Japanese authorities advised 280,000 people to evacuate their homes as a typhoon lashed southern Kyushu island and western Japan on Tuesday, ...
French investigators had just hours left Tuesday to decide whether to charge a suspect in a high-speed train attack that was foiled by ...
Iran is not considering a prisoner exchange with the United States, a senior official said on Tuesday, ahead of an expected verdict for an ...
Protesters torched homes and clashed with police in western Nepal yesterday, a day after an 18-month-old boy and seven police died in ...
Migrants found working illegally in England and Wales face up to six months in prison and could have their wages seized under proposals ...
LONDON: A member of British-Irish pop phenomenon One Direction on Monday denied press reports the band was to split saying instead the group is ...
An unusually high number of cases of human plague have been recorded by US health authorities since April -- 11 in all, with three of them fatal, ...
Asian stocks took their cue from Wall Street on Thursday, rallying after days of wild swings, but dealers cautioned that the spectre of the slowing ...
Qatar recorded the highest earnings growth in first half of 2015 at 13 percent in GCC, with the rest of the countries recording a ...
JEDDAH: The Saudi riyal will remain pegged to the US dollar as it has served the economy well said the Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency on ...
Malaysian conglomerate Sime Darby Wednesday reported a 17 percent year-on-year fall in net profit in the fourth quarter due to a plunge in commodity ...
European markets joined Asia on a roller-coaster session Wednesday, as China's interest rate cut showed no sign of ending a crisis fuelled by fears ...
SEOUL/BEIJING: Heavy rain in North Korea killed 40 people stranded thousands in flash floods and caused 'massive' damage on the weekend the ...
RIYADH: Senior Indian police and intelligence officials interrogated two Saudis after they were detained following their suspicious movement in ...
Saudi Arabia on Wednesday executed three of its citizens for murder and a Syrian convicted of drugs smuggling, a day after Amnesty ...
A ceasefire between armed rivals in Lebanon's largest Palestinian refugee camp has restored calm after several days of clashes, Palestinian ...
The main suspect in the 1996 bombing of the Khobar Towers residence at a U.S. military base in Saudi Arabia has been captured after nearly ...
BEIRUT/DAMASCUS: Daesh published photos on Tuesday purporting to show the destruction of a Roman-era temple in the ancient Syrian city of ...
Deep in the pristine Amazon jungle, Brazil's newest skyscraper has a mission unlike any other: To save the world.The white and orange metal ...
Pakistan will host the first edition of it's lucrative Twenty20 league in Doha next year, details revealed here yesterday. The Pakistan ...
Japanese auto giant Toyota said Wednesday it would gradually restart operations in Tianjin after halting production in the wake of deadly explosions ...
Saudi plastic surgeon and stock-market investor Sami al-Harki is looking for help.Al-Harki already lost 40% on his shares, but doesn't want to ...
Qatar Exchange index finished in the green yesterday, after a sharp rise in all sectors. The market gained 3.08 percent or 337.84 ...
Day and night, trucks trundle the 10 miles from Algiers port to the suburb of Semmar, where workers unload and stack goods that will feed into ...
A second oil price rout of 2015 has forced Arab Opec members to cut their price expectations for this year, showing they are prepared to ...
The Lebanese Shia group Hezbollah and allied Christian politicians boycotted a cabinet meeting yesterday, a sign of rising political ...
suicide attack claimed by the Islamic State group killed two Iraqi generals yesterday in the key battleground province of Anbar, as ...
11 Daesh militants, some of them belonging to foreign nationalities, were killed in a pre-emptive attack against a hideout of the ...
At least 76 people have died after a ship carrying hundreds of migrants and refugees sank off the coast of Libya, the Libyan Red Crescent ...
Thousands of Iraqis demonstrated against corruption in Baghdad's Tahrir Square yesterday, including supporters of powerful Shia cleric ...
India and Sri Lanka were left to ponder the behaviour of an unusually greenish wicket as they delayed naming their line-ups for the decisive ...
Hungary said yesterday it has arrested four people over the discovery of 71 decomposing bodies in an abandoned truck in Austria, another ...
French oil giant Total announced Thursday it had agreed to sell a North Sea gas terminal and two pipelines in a deal worth over $900 ...
Thousands of Britons failed to receive their wages yesterday when a problem at Europe's biggest bank HSBC prevented some of its business ...
Many commodities faced a fierce sell-off earlier this week, rooted in demand fears arising from China's slowdown, but later rebounded in line with ...
Switzerland's economy expanded by 0.2 percent in the second quarter of this year, the economic affairs ministry said Friday, allowing the country to ...
Tokyo shares led Asian stock markets higher on Friday after a surprisingly upbeat US economic growth report buoyed investors following a prolonged ...
Brazil is in recession, official figures showed Friday, adding to the gloom in the world's seventh largest economy already battered by falling ...
Britain's economy accelerated in the second quarter by 0.7 percent compared with the previous three months, unrevised official data showed on ...
A rare grey pearl necklace that once belonged to a British aristocrat is expected to fetch up to $7 million when it goes under the hammer in Hong ...
Swiss food giant Nestle is being sued in the United States for allegedly knowingly allowing its Fancy Feast cat food to contain fish from a Thai ...
US Internet search giant Google on Thursday rejected accusations by EU anti-trust regulators that it illegally abuses its market dominance, in its ...
The Swiss bank UBS has agreed to pay US authorities $1.7 million to settle "apparent" violations of rules banning transactions benefiting officially ...
Qatar Airways was shamed into relaxing its policy of sacking cabin crew for getting pregnant or marrying in their first five years of employment, a ...
As violent clashes persist in many parts of Syria, Qatar Red Crescent Society has begun an urgent humanitarian intervention for ...
Qatar's consumer price index inflation remained moderate in the first seven months of 2015. Consumer price index inflation is ...
Qatar's trade balance achieved a surplus of QR14.3bn in July, down 1.4 percent compared to the previous month and down 55.6 percent ...
Federal Reserve Vice Chairman Stanley Fischer warned Saturday that the US central bank will not wait for inflation to hit two percent before raising ...
Lebanese protesters who first took to the streets over a trash crisis said yesterday they will call for new parliamentary elections and the ...
Two French investigative journalists have been charged in Paris with trying to blackmail the king of Morocco out of two million euros <$2.2 ...
An Egyptian court sentenced three Al-Jazeera reporters to three years in prison on Saturday, in a shock ruling following global demands for ...
Turkish warplanes have for the first time joined raids by the US-led coalition against Islamic State positions in Syria, the foreign ministry ...
A truce between Syrian regime forces and rebel groups in three key towns ended early yesterday as the warring parties resumed clashes and ...
Austria said yesterday 71 refugees, including a baby girl, were found dead in an abandoned freezer truck, while Libya recovered the bodies of ...
Hungary said yesterday that it has arrested four people over the discovery of 71 decomposing bodies in an abandoned truck in Austria, another ...
Tropical Storm Erika left at least 20 people dead when it swept over the tiny island nation of Dominica, officials reported on Friday, as the ...
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton took swipes on Friday at Republican frontrunner Donald Trump and his rivals who have lost ...
Thai authorities yesterday detained and charged a 28-year-old Turkish man over a bomb attack in Bangkok last week that killed 20 people and ...
Fifteen people were arrested this month in Spain for smuggling Moroccan migrants into the country on water scooters, authorities said ...
As thousands of Bangladeshis and Indians celebrated the end of one of the world's most intractable border disputes, Fatema Khatun was quietly hopeful ...
The European Central Bank looks set to keep its monetary policy gunpowder dry when its decision-making governing council convenes next week, despite ...
Hong Kong's towering skyline is dominated by major banks and investment houses -- but smaller start-ups are playing an increasing role on the ...
China's currency devaluation and slowing economy have caused enormous turmoil in world financial markets, but they have not really bothered tourists ...
Around one million people thronged the streets of a sun-drenched Zurich Saturday to take part in the Swiss city's annual techno Street Parade, ...
The oil and gas producer Nexen Energy, a Canadian subsidiary of China's CNOOC, was forced to suspend operations Saturday at 95 pipelines after a ...
Italian energy giant Eni on Sunday announced the discovery of the "largest ever" offshore natural gas field in the Mediterranean, in Egypt's ...
Japan's Suzuki Motor said on Sunday it plans to buy back its shares sold to Volkswagen after an international arbitration court settled a dispute ...
France's government and unions Sunday called on the head of telecoms equipment maker Alcatel-Lucent to renounce reported bonuses of some 14 million ...
"Straight Outta Compton" grabbed another top spot on weekend ticket sales charts, according to estimates Sunday, extending the rap film's rule over ...
Investcorp a global provider and manager of alternative investment products Sunday announced its full year 2015 results for the fiscal ...
Greeks vote again on 20 September. Even though the governing party Syriza has split, its leader € Alexis Tsipras € is in a strong ...
Berkshire Hathaway Inc's $37bn deal for aerospace supplier Precision Castparts Corp is encouraging investors to consolidate the fragmented ...
The Kremlin has released pictures of Russian President Vladimir Putin working out at the gym with Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, images ...
London's Notting Hill Carnival kicked off with a riot of colour despite grey skies on Sunday, in a celebration of Caribbean culture reputed as ...
Japan's factory output fell 0.6 percent month-on-month in July, worse than market expectations, official data showed on Monday.The reading from the ...
Britain's Rolls-Royce is cooperating with investigators in a massive corruption scandal at Brazilian state oil giant Petrobras, a spokesman said on ...
President Jacob Zuma inaugurated on Sunday the first unit of a massive new coal-fired power plant in South Africa, hailing it as a step away from the ...
As Europe grapples with its biggest wave of migration since World War Two, the Netherlands is about to toughen its asylum policy by cutting ...
It's a tall order to play the role of Pablo Escobar, the larger-than-life druglord who became the world's seventh-richest man with his shrewd, ...
Pressure was growing yesterday on Lebanon's government after a protest campaign spurred by a trash crisis gave political leaders a deadline ...
JOHANNESBURG: At least 38 girls and young women were killed in a crash while traveling to a famous traditional festival in Swaziland a rights ...
COLUMBUS Ohio: A former deputy treasurer in the state of Ohio who fled to Pakistan in the face of a 15-year prison sentence for a kickback ...
Most Middle East stock markets rose but closed well off their intra-day highs yesterday and some edged lower as investors started selling into ...
Qatar's fiscal balance went into a deficit of $5bn in the first quarter of 2015 . Impacted by lower oil and gas prices, the ...
Etihad Airways, the Abu Dhabi state-owned carrier, is seeking to raise as much as $500mn for fleet expansion, according to two people with ...
Italy's Eni is open to selling a stake in its "supergiant" Zohr gas field discovery off Egypt, its chief executive said, as the ...
Europe's main stock markets slid yesterday as investors still rattled by last week's turmoil pondered China's slowing economy and potential ...
Prolific horror filmmaker Wes Craven has died at the age of 76. He directed iconic horror films such as the 'Scream' and 'Nightmare on ...
There's a Coke machine on Capitol Hill with a history that's just as mysterious as what's inside.It's within earshot of the neighbourhood's ...
US President Barack Obama yesterday left the White House for Alaska, where he hopes to highlight the impact of climate change - and get some ...
Retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson has drawn even with front-running billionaire Donald Trump in a poll in early-voting Iowa released yesterday, ...
Boxing gloves raised, two orangutans enter a ring at a Thai zoo, a spectacle that fascinates locals and foreigners alike but sits increasingly at ...
A woman who died last week in northern Sierra Leone tested positive for Ebola, the National Ebola Response Centre said Monday, in a setback ...
Pressure was growing on Sunday on Lebanon's government after a protest campaign spurred by a trash crisis gave political leaders a deadline to ...
Saudi Arabia allowed women to register to stand in local elections on Sunday, in a historic first for the kingdom.The move was welcomed as an ...
A powerful blast in the ruins of Syria's ancient Palmyra raised fears yesterday that the Islamic State group has damaged another of the Middle ...
An air strike by warplanes from a Saudi-led coalition, which said it targeted a bomb-making factory, killed 36 civilians working at a ...
Alnoor Holdings has announced it has entered the final phase of its septology film franchise of Muhammad the Messenger. With over $1bn ...
Colombia President Juan Manuel Santos visited a tense border city amid an escalating row with neighbouring Venezuela that triggered ...
Malaysia's government reclaimed the streets of the capital yesterday after massive weekend protests demanding the premier's ouster, staging ...
Oil prices tumbled 7% on Tuesday and Brent futures fell back below $50 a barrel as weak Chinese manufacturing data revived concerns about ...
Google on Tuesday refreshed its logo to better suit mobile devices that are supplanting desktop computers when it comes to modern Internet ...
Barclays Egypt's profits increased 15% to reach EGP 281m during the first half of 2015, compared to the EGP 245m registered during ...
Majid Al Futtaim on Tuesday opened doors for its sixth City Centre mall in the UAE and its operator said it would serve four million ...
In its monthly price adjustments the Ministry of Energy lowered domestic prices for petrol and diesel for September. While diesel price was ...
JEDDAH: The criminal court in Jeddah has ordered Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency investigators to find out whether a man accused of money ...
Global stock markets plunged further on Tuesday as more gloomy evidence emerged of China's economic slowdown, leading to heavy sell-offs from Hong ...
Dozens of protesters occupied the environment ministry in the Lebanese capital on Tuesday calling on minister Mohamad al-Machnouk to resign ...
Football World Cup host Qatar will complete work on the first venue for tournament matches by 2016, six years before the event takes place, ...
GENEVA: The Gaza Strip ravaged by wars and nearly a decade of a grueling Israeli blockade could become uninhabitable for residents within just ...
Samsung unveiled its latest smartwatch yesterday as the South Korean tech giant seeks to challenge Apple's global domination in the ...
Russia will not deliberately cut oil production to prop up prices, however its output may decline if prices remain low, local news agencies ...
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TEHRAN: The head of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guard said Tuesday that the US is still the 'Great Satan' regardless of the nuclear deal struck ..._913a0cc2-0d5c-4c83-95fd-e5aeded15a79.jpg)
GENEVA: More than 350000 migrants have risked their lives crossing the Mediterranean this year and some 2600 have died while making the ...
CAIRO: A respected news organization has come under fire after referring to human rights lawyer Amal Clooney as an 'actor's wife' in their ...
LOS ANGELES: Taylor Swift was crowned queen of the MTV Video Music Awards as rapper Kanye West announced an improbable run for president in ...
Repeated delays, cost overruns, lax controls: construction of the world's first European Pressurised Reactor in Finland was meant to be a ...
Asian stocks witnessed a fresh round of volatility Wednesday, as further evidence of slowing growth in China's economy brought a new bout of ...
ST. LOUIS: The US Supreme Court is considering final appeals from a man scheduled to be executed Tuesday in Missouri for the kidnapping rape ...
LONDON: Crude oil prices have been on a rollercoaster over the last four trading sessions that has seen some of the highest volatility in a ...
Qatar has issued QR15bn of bonds as the country takes advantage of borrowing costs to replenish funds eroded by the decline in oil ...
Abu Dhabi: The United Arab Emirates will hike the retail price of petrol by 24 percent but prices will still be low by international ...
DUBAI: Middle East stock markets fell on Wednesday after oil prices plunged again although steadier global equities and some positive corporate ...
A sense of calm returned to Asian trading on Thursday after weeks of China-fuelled volatility as a public holiday on the mainland allowed investors ...
Opec oil output fell in August from the highest monthly level in recent history, a Reuters survey found yesterday, as disruptions to flows on ...
Doha: Union National Bank one of the leading banks based in the United Arab Emirates recorded a strong increase in profit of Dh1186m ...
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro announced China has granted his government a $5-billion loan to boost oil output in the recession-hit OPEC ...
Global stock markets faced renewed volatility Wednesday, as further evidence of slowing growth in China caused investors to question the prospects ...
Lebanese police ejected protesters who occupied part of the environment ministry yesterday to press the minister to resign, raising tensions ...
Saudi Arabia's top cleric hit out at the Iranian film Muhammad yesterday, describing its portrayal of the Prophet's childhood as a "hostile ...
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ATHENS: Thousands of refugees and migrants arrived in Athens on Wednesday piling further pressure on increasingly divided European nations as ...
Women drivers in Iran's capital could have their cars impounded by police if they are caught driving with a poorly fixed veil or without their ...
ISTANBUL: At least 12 people believed to be Syrian refugees drowned as two boats sank after leaving southwest Turkey for the Greek ...
SAN FRANCISCO: Google is introducing an application that will connect Android smartwatches with Apple's iPhone escalating the rivals' battle to ...
LONDON: The summer scourge of sticky hands could become a thing of the past as British researchers announced the discovery of an ingredient to ...
SAN FRANCISCO: Hackers targeting jail-broken iPhones have raided more than 225000 Apple accounts using them for app-buying sprees or to hold ...
A bicycle-sharing plan for Jerusalem is aiming to cut down on traffic and boost tourism in the Holy City, but ultra-Orthodox Jews are refusing to let ...
A cancer-killing therapy that engineers a patient's own immune cells to wipe out chronic lymphocytic leukemia has shown long-term success in a ...
The world's largest toy maker Lego on Wednesday reported a jump in first half profit and sales, underpinned by strong growth in Asia.Revenue ...
Oil prices fell Friday as investors weighed the outlook for the US economy after mixed jobs data gave no clue on the timing for a Federal Reserve ...
The European Central Bank cut its growth and inflation forecasts yesterday, warning of possible further trouble from China and paving the way ...
Google has launched a music streaming service in Japan, becoming the latest tech giant to push into the world's number two music market, despite ...
Google is talking with Chinese authorities and smartphone makers about opening an online shop in China stocked with applications for Android-powered ...
American financial service company Standard & Poor's issued war-torn Iraq a credit rating for the first time Thursday, with the country's ...
Finance ministers and central bank chiefs from the world's top 20 economies discussed the unprecedented migrant arrivals to the European Union as the ...
Wall Street stocks tumbled in early trade Friday after a mixed US August jobs report clouded the prospects for a Federal Reserve interest rate hike ...
The US unemployment rate fell to 5.1 percent, the lowest since early 2008, after the economy pumped out a modest 173,000 new jobs last month, the ...
Here's why you probably want a smartwatch: You can use it to do cool stuff like open doors, pay for coffee, and start cars.Here's why you ...
Novartis kicked off a new era in US medicine yesterday with the launch of the first "biosimilar" copy of a biotechnology drug approved in the ...
President Xi Jinping announced on Thursday he would cut troop levels by 300,000 as China held its biggest display of military might in a ...
A television series about Russia's fictional takeover of Norway's abundant oil and gas resources has vexed Moscow, which says it has had enough of ...
Archaeologists are having a field day in Poland's longest river, the Vistula, which because of a drought has hit a record low water level allowing ...
The contract that launched the career of The Beatles will be sold in London later this month and is expected to fetch up to £500,000 <681,000 euros, ...
Pope Francis thanked American nuns in a television special to be aired Friday, defusing tensions that arose after an investigation under the previous ...
Wall Street succumbed to worries over China and the world economy this week with broad selling across blue chips as investors took warning that ...
Toyota on Friday announced plans to invest $50 million into building artificial intelligence into cars, an indication it could be joining the race to ...
The Federal Reserve is expected to put off a long-planned interest rate increase this month despite another fall in the US jobless rate, placing ...
Ecuadoran villagers can seek to enforce in Canada a multibillion-dollar Ecuadoran judgment against US oil giant Chevron on pollution in the Amazon ...
The United States on Friday pressed China to improve communication of its economic policy and avoid competitive devaluations, as G20 finance chiefs ...
Smartwatches, intelligent homes and drones that follow users wherever they go are on show at Berlin's mega consumer electronics fair, which opened ...
ABU DHABI: Foreign individuals and institutional investors will be allowed for the first time to buy shares of UAE telecoms giant Etisalat from ...
Saudi Arabia's government is cutting unnecessary expenses and delaying some projects to compensate for low oil prices, though projects that ...
Maersk Oil Qatar's Qatar Whale Shark Research Project documentary film will feature on board Qatar Airways' in-flight entertainment system for ...
KHOBAR Saudi Arabia: Saudi Arabia's government is studying whether to cut state subsidies that keep domestic petrol prices at some ...
Crisis-hit Toshiba said Monday it would book a $318 million loss for its latest fiscal year in the wake of a billion dollar profit-padding ...
China on Monday lowered its GDP growth figure for last year by ten basis points to 7.3 percent, authorities said, as concerns mount over slowing ...
With little end to their economic misery in sight, Greeks are finding inventive ways to feed the poor while also fighting waste -- a movement that is ...
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Naguib Sawiris, one of the region's wealthiest men, said "there is no limit" on what he is willing to spend to buy an island from Italy or ...
Mexico's investigation into the abduction and apparent massacre of 43 students last year is plagued with errors and omissions and key parts ...
The civil campaign that has organised protests against Lebanese politicians in Beirut called yesterday for a nationwide mobilisation against a ...
MUNICH/BUDAPEST: Thousands of refugees and migrants streamed into Germany on Sunday many traveling through Austria from Hungary where they had ...
ISTANBUL: A Turkish police officer who was pictured picking up the lifeless body of three-year-old Syrian refugee Aylan Kurdi whose death ..._eb090b02-8f65-4498-9949-ba245c58a790.jpg)
BAGHDAD: Iraq has put F-16 warplanes acquired from the US into action against Daesh for the first time the commander of the air force said ..._3dc781e2-4b29-4257-a311-0e6305956f34.jpg)
JEDDAH: A wedding ceremony took a sad turn here when the bride insisted she be allowed to work after marriage and the groom and his family ...
JERUSALEM: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday said he would not allow Israel to be 'submerged' by refugees after calls for the Jewish ...
Bangkok The neat rows of clearly marked missile systems that wound their way through Beijing Thursday as part of a massive military parade ...
SANAA: Powerful explosions shook the Yemeni capital on Sunday witnesses said after the Saudi-led coalition vowed to press its air war ...
ISLAMABAD/KABUL: Afghanistan asked Pakistan to act against Afghan Taliban militants operating on its territory during weekend talks in Kabul ...
Move over Hong Kong, Tokyo and Singapore. Seoul is emerging as Asia's new fashion showcase, with the world's top luxury firms seeking to cash in on ...
Asian stocks started the week on a cautious note on Monday as China revised down its 2014 growth figure and prepared to release more data that will ...
As it gets harder to tear our eyes away from smartphones, televisions, tablets or computers, concerns are growing over a blue light emitted by their ...
GCC capital indices had fallen significantly in the third quarter 2015. The GCC capital indices performance till August 24 2015 on year to ...
DUBAI: Gulf oil ministers are due to meet this week in Qatar for an annual meeting in the first gathering by the heavyweight crude producers ...
Minister of Energy and Industry and Chairman of Nakilat H E Dr Mohammed b in Saleh Al Sada with directors and officials during the ...
Daman Investments the Arab world's leading financial services company has teamed up with a consortium of partners to bring as many as 15 ...
DUBAI: Saudi Aramco is talking to banks about raising a $5 billion loan related to a refinery it built in collaboration with China's Sinopec ...
Shanghai led most Asian markets lower on Tuesday after Chinese data showed imports and exports sank in August, adding to fears about the world's ...
The European Union will announce it has approved a deal under which General Electric will acquire the energy business of French company Alstom for ...
Pilots at German airline Lufthansa said Monday they will strike for two days this week, continuing a long-running dispute with management over early ...
Judge Ali Omran, acting assistant to the Prosecutor General, referred 53 suspects to a military court on charges of violence and ...
Denmark has placed adverts in several Lebanese newspapers warning would-be migrants about new and tighter restrictions on those seeking asylum ...
Egyptian authorities on Monday arrested the country's agriculture minister over corruption allegations, security sources said, just after his ...
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AMMAN: Daesh terrorists have seized the last major oilfield under Syrian government control during battles over a vast central desert zone a ...
RIYADH: Prince Alwaleed bin Talal chairman of Kingdom Holding Company received at his office in Riyadh Mohamed Mahmoud Ould Mohamed ...
An air and sea search involving four countries continued Monday for a medical evacuation plane carrying seven people that is believed to have ...
Britain and France have joined Germany in pledging to accept tens of thousands of refugees as Europe's record influx of people fleeing war and ...
Spanish giants Real Madrid have announced they will make a one million euros donation to aid the refugees ...
MALE: International human rights lawyer Amal Clooney arrived in Male on Monday to try to secure the release of jailed former Maldives president ...
LOS ANGELES: Hollywood A-lister Angelina Jolie shared a bare-faced picture of herself on Facebook to inspire women struggling everyday with the ...
LOS ANGELES: A weekend screening of 'Steve Jobs' a biopic about Apple Inc's famous co-founder drew high praise from some reviewers and ...
On a dirt pitch next to Khartoum airport, Sara Edward watches the players she hopes to mould into Sudan's first national women's football team hone ...
Australian energy giant Woodside Petroleum on Tuesday made an estimated Aus$11.6 billion bid for Oil Search in a move to tap into ...
Oil prices rose Tuesday after better-than-expected Chinese trade data that nonetheless showed lacklustre demand in the world's top energy consumer.US ...
Bahrain's national carrier Gulf Air is planning to buy up to 50 Airbus aircraft, the country's Information Minister Isa Abdulrahman Al Hammadi told ...
Vodafone Egypt will invest nearly EGP 9bn over the next three years, according to its plans in the Egyptian market.The company believes ...
Chinese online giant Alibaba on Wednesday set up a new company to focus on professional sports, it said in a statement, as it seeks new business ...
Microsoft said Tuesday it bought an Israel-based cybersecurity startup specializing in defending programs and content in the cloud, as it expands ...
European stocks surged higher Tuesday, buoyed by upwardly revised eurozone economic growth data, joining a rally of US and most Asian markets.The ...
US luxury property giant Strategic Hotels & Resorts said Tuesday it has accepted a $6 billion all-cash takeover offer from investment firm ...
Japan's Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance said Tuesday it has agreed to buy Britain's Amlin, becoming the latest Japanese insurer to launch an overseas ...
A heavy sandstorm swept across parts of the Middle East on Tuesday, killing two people and hospitalising hundreds in Lebanon and disrupting ...
Iraq's deputy justice minister was kidnapped from his vehicle on Tuesday by black-clad gunmen in a north Baghdad district, three security ...
A Saudi-led alliance killed at least 20 Indian nationals in air strikes on fuel smugglers at a Yemeni port on Tuesday, fishermen said, and ...
More than 107,000 people have signed a British petition calling for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to be arrested for war crimes ...
Berlin: Germany said it could take half a million refugees annually to help Europe’s migrant crisis as Greece’s Aegean islands ...
Prince Ali bin al Hussein who led a challenge against Fifa president Sepp Blatter this year said on Monday that world football leaders must ...
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RAPPER 50 CENT has suggested he is moving to Africa and showed off a video of his new home.The Candy Shop hitmaker is currently embroiled ...
Do you wish to send your name on a mission to Mars Do it now. Nasa is inviting space enthusiasts to send in their names that will go on the ...
Pope Francis on Tuesday made it easier, quicker and free for Catholics to have their marriages annulled in the biggest reform of the Church's ...
Scientists in the United States said Tuesday they had created a tiny implant which, in mice for now, captures cancer cells spreading through the ...
A wave of confidence swept through Asian markets Wednesday, led by a five percent surge in Tokyo and extending the previous day's broad global ...
France's environment minister cast doubt Tuesday on the planned 2017 closure of the country's oldest nuclear power plant, drawing anger from ...
Oil prices sank Friday after US bank Goldman Sachs slashed its forecasts for crude futures, while the International Energy Agency warned of a major ...
Europe's main markets fell on Friday as investers mostly held back ahead of next week's US interest rate decision.London's FTSE 100 index of leading ...
A dozen major banks agreed Friday to pay $1.9 billion to settle allegations of price-fixing in the market for credit default swaps, a derivative that ...
Saudi Arabia on Friday banned the slaughter of camels during this year's hajj pilgrimage, after a surge in deaths from the MERS virus linked to the ...
China's top taxi hailing app Didi Kuaidi has taken a stake in US archrival Uber's own domestic competitor Lyft, the Wall Street Journal reported, as ...
Nakheel, the developer of Dubai's palm-shaped islands, is building thousands of lower-priced homes in the city to become less dependent on ...
Israel outlawed two grassroots Palestinian groups involved in vocal protests at a flashpoint Jerusalem shrine against stepped-up visits by ...
The worst sandstorm in years blanketed parts of Lebanon and Syria yesterday, leaving at least eight people dead and sending hundreds to ...
Softly spoken schoolgirl Mariam Malak has become an unlikely symbol of the fight against corruption in Egypt after scoring the sum total of ...
Nigeria's army said yesterday it had released 128 detainees held on suspicion of being Boko Haram militants, two months after nearly 200 ...
Super Mario, the hyperactive little plumber who has become one of the best-known characters in video game history, celebrates his 30th birthday on ...
British singer Jane Birkin has dropped a request to have her name taken off a Hermes handbag after the group reviewed its treatment of crocodiles, a ...
A treasure-hunter on Friday claimed to have located two more Nazi built railway tunnels in southwestern Poland, adding to the global buzz around a ...
Treatment for high blood pressure that goes above and beyond what was previously recommended can significantly reduce risk of cardiovascular disease ...
Russia and the European Union on Friday discussed ways of ending Russia's gas dispute with Ukraine to allow for the resumption of gas supplies to ...
The European Commission will weigh the economic cost of the refugee crisis, Luxembourg's finance minister said on Friday, as concern grows over the ...
IMF chief Christine Lagarde urged African governments to spend responsibly as she visited Liberia on Friday, a week after it was declared free from ...
Canada, India, Singapore and Egypt are "seriously" interested in buying France's two Mistral warships, a senior French official has said, after Paris ...
A British bill to allow some terminally ill patients to end their lives was rejected Friday after it sparked fierce opposition from religious leaders ...
Telecoms equipment maker Alcatel-Lucent said Friday it had chopped the compensation due to its former chief executive after the 14-million-euro ...
An Israeli start-up has launched a pocket device which analyses instantly the composition of food, drink, medication or other objects.Consumer ...
LONDON: Gold fell to a one-month low yesterday heading for a third successive weekly loss as uncertainty over the timing of the US Federal ...
NEW YORK: Microsoft has given longtime executive Brad Smith the title of president as the company continues its transition to a new generation ...
BySaad Elkhadem No doubt this will come as a shock to anyone reading this who's under the age of 20 but there was a time in the ...
Paris: Cheap oil prices ushered in by Saudi Arabia’s policy of protecting its market share will end up squeezing high-cost producers ...
KARACHI: Pakistan's central bank has reduced interest rates to a 42-year-low of six percent after inflation fell dramatically. The State Bank ...
Bank Audi-Egypt is considering granting loans worth more than EGP 7bn during the coming period, according to Deputy Chairman and ...
Away from the crowdedness and the rush of the city, pure nature can be discovered in its glorious beauty by gazing up at the stars in ...
The "Islamic State" group has claimed to be holding a Norwegian man and a Chinese consultant hostage in Syria. The terrorist ...
member of the outlawed Freedom and Justice Party Mehaged Zaki was "kidnapped" last Monday and found dead Wednesday, the Muslim ...
NEW DELHI: The ministry of external affairs on Saturday said that two Indians were among the 107 killed in the crane accident at the Grand ...
CAIRO: The Arab League hailed the success of the Palestinian and Arab diplomacy in issuing a decision from the U.N. General Assembly to ...
Syrian refugees receive aid from volunteers and activists of the Greek NGO Praksis before crossing Greece’s border with Macedonia near ...
Yemeni children sit amid the rubble of houses destroyed in air strikes carried out by the Saudi-led coalition in Sana’a yesterday. ...
MAKKAH: Inclement weather will prevail in the holy city of Makkah until Tuesday and a warning had been issued about the weather on Thursday a ...
JEDDAH: Saudi Arabia has hosted around 2.5 million Syrians since the beginning of the crisis in that country in 2011 the Foreign Ministry has ...
The pop music world is not the first place most of us would turn to for role models. But Taylor Swift proves you can be a mega-selling ...
Three years ago India was the weakling of the emerging markets clan, politically stagnant and struggling to grow -- but as gloom engulfs other ...
When Chinese Premier Li Keqiang sought to reassure business leaders that the world's second-largest economy can stave off a hard landing, he ...
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The days since the MTV Video Music Awards have seen media, both social and professional, chew over the onstage dramas, pump out memes and ...
Venezuela's opposition denounced the sentencing of politician Leopoldo Lopez to nearly 14 years in jail as a tyrannical move by the unpopular ...
More than a year before Pope Francis urged Europe's Catholics to take in Syrian refugees, a priest in Brazil marshalled the support of his ...
MADRID: Spanish police have found the body of US tourist Denise Pikka Thiem who went missing in April as she was walking the Camino de Santiago ...
NEW DELHI: At least 82 people were killed at a restaurant in central India on Saturday when a cooking gas cylinder exploded and triggered a ...
Ooredoo’s Chief New Business Officer Sheikh Nasser bin Hamad bin Nasser Al Thani speaking at Soccerex. DOHA: Qatar is building ...
Visitors inspect Falcon City section at the exhibition of Global Cityscape 2015 at Dubai International Convention and Exhibition Centre ...
By Satish Kanady DOHA: FTSE Russel the global leader in indexing has upgraded Qatari market to Secondary Emerging Market. Following ...
Indonesia listed on Sunday four sukuk valued at Dh22 billion - the largest ever carried out by a sovereign issuer on Nasdaq Dubai - as Dubai ...
Riyadh--Saudi petrochemicals giant SABIC on Sunday posted a 39 percent decline in net profits in the first quarter of 2015 compared ...
US bank shares were outperformers in the first six months of 2015 as Wall Street assumed the Federal Reserve rate hikes would lead to a ...
NEW YORK: Twelve major banks have tentatively agreed to pay $1.87 billion to settle allegations that they colluded to fix prices and lock out ...
China on Sunday unveiled broad reform guidelines for state-owned companies aimed at making them more globally competitive and increasing transparency ...
The US fears that Russia may decide to use military force in Syria. At the same time, governments in Washington and Moscow have been ...
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RAMALLAH: Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Sunday condemned an attack by Israeli authorities at the flashpoint Al-Aqsa mosque compound in ...
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AL-ABER: Forces loyal to Yemen's exiled president backed by a Saudi-led coalition launched a major offensive against Iran-backed ...
By Andrea Peterson and Brian Fung Apple's latest accessory is a return to the written word — not so much a stylus as a digital ...
FIFA president Sepp Blatter sold off television rights for the 2010 and 2014 World Cups to disgraced former FIFA vice-president Jack Warner ...
DENVER: A former Denver radio personality has filed a lawsuit against singer Taylor Swift saying he lost his job after being accused of ...
American Airlines accidently sent the wrong plane across the ocean from Los Angeles to Hawaii, a company spokesman confirmed to AFP Sunday.In the ...
Nintendo will celebrate the 30th anniversary of Super Mario, one of the best-known characters in video game history, at an event in Tokyo Sunday ...
Madeline Stuart is a beautiful, bubbly red head who at 18 is already a professional model with a handbag named after her. What is remarkable is that ...
The OPEC oil cartel on Monday trimmed its forecast for global oil demand next year as emerging markets, which have been the motor of world growth in ...
DOHA: At least eight to 10 banks from the GCC countries have applied for licence to operate in Qatar and they are likely to get approval ...
Doha: Qatar Stock Exchange index dropped 195.74 points or 1.65 percent yesterday when it closed at 11657.27 points. The market ...
European stocks mostly dropped on Monday, with investors cautious ahead of the US Federal Reserve's key interest rate meeting this week.Focus was ...
Qatar and Indonesia have decided to "reactivate" the $1bn Joint Infrastructure Fund , which is expected to fuel growth in infrastructure ...
According to economists countries are considered as rich if citizens in these nations earn enough to support all of their needs. These ...
US stocks fell early Monday ahead of a keenly anticipated Federal Reserve meeting later this week that could result in the first interest rate hike ...
Toshiba on Monday reported a first-quarter loss of $102 million after sales fell to a two-and-half-year low, in a fresh blow to the Japanese ...
Shanghai tumbled at the end of a volatile day of trade Monday following another round of disappointing Chinese data, while regional investors were ...
Malaysia will inject $4.6 billion to bolster its stock market and will spend millions more dollars on infrastructure projects, Prime Minister Najib ...
French group AccorHotels announced Monday it will become the first international hotel group to operate in Iran as the Islamic Republic opens up to ...
From ridiculing warlords to poking fun at the political elite, a crop of covertly run Afghan satirical outlets are resonating widely with ...
Two days after a crane collapse killed 107 people at Makkah's Grand Mosque in Saudi Arabia, the region's governor on Sunday filed an ...
Nearly four years after the death of Steve Jobs, the legacy of the iconic Apple co-founder continues to be debated in books and on film. Jobs ...
RIYADH: The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia announced that Eid Al-Adha will start on Thursday September 24 as the Zul Hijjah moon was not sighted ...
Computers do not noticeably improve school pupils' academic results and can even hamper performance, an OECD report said Tuesday that looked at the ...
Researchers fitted a man who has been paralyzed for more than a decade with an experimental prosthetic hand that lets him "feel" sensations, the US ...
A Spanish judge Monday charged a man with killing a US woman on a pilgrims' hiking trail as authorities sought to identify a body thought to be hers, ...
Apple said Monday that pre-orders for its new iPhones set for release this month are on a pace to top last year's record for new handsets."Customer ...
Japanese videogame giant Nintendo said on Monday it has appointed Tatsumi Kimishima as its new president two months after its chief executive died ...
RIYADH: Saudi Arabian banks' financial cushion and the government's commitment to keep spending should enable them to weather a prolonged slump ...
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H E Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani Prime Minister and Interior Minister; H E Jassim Seif Ahmed Al Sulaiti Minister of ...
DUBAI: The Saudi Council of Ministers granted a license for Qatar National Bank to open a branch inside the Kingdom the official SPA news ...
Facebook, pressed for years by users to add a "dislike" button, says it is working on the feature and will be testing it soon."We've finally heard ...
Hewlett-Packard said Tuesday its upcoming corporate split will lead to job losses of 25,000 to 30,000.The losses are seen as the US tech giant splits ...
European stocks climbed Tuesday as downbeat US data on the eve of a Federal Reserve meeting was seen by investors as dimming the likelihood of an ...
FRANKFURT: BMW CEO Harald Krueger fainted during a press briefing at the IAA auto show in Frankfurt forcing the German carmaker to halt the ...
TORONTO: Mayor John Tory says Toronto will be a great venue for the Olympics one day. Just not in 2024. Tory said Tuesday that Canada's ...
A Kuwaiti court sentenced seven men to death on Tuesday, five of them in absentia, for their roles in a deadly Shia mosque bombing claimed by ...
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MAARIB Yemen: Yemeni loyalist forces backed by the Saudi-led Arab coalition said they were advancing Tuesday in a key province east of Sanaa on ...
A lack of energy is one of the top five complaints to doctors nationwide. However it's been estimated that 66 percent of people who visit their ...
Antibacterial hand soaps containing a chemical flagged as potentially dangerous are not much better at killing germs than regular suds, researchers ...
South Korean carmaker Kia, a unit of Hyundai, expects to see record sales in Europe this year, helping to make up for a drop in sales in China, its ...
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She wore the crown - briefly - 32 years ago, but Vanessa Williams got her moment of Miss America redemption Sunday night.Sam Haskell, ...
LONDON: Agatha Christie fans have descended on her hometown of Torquay on the English Riviera for the 125th anniversary of the murder master's ...
OSLO: A Muslim environmentalist originally from Pakistan could become Oslo's next mayor after his party became kingmaker in the Norwegian ...
SEOUL: A day after threatening long-range rocket launches North Korea declared Tuesday that it has upgraded and restarted all of its atomic ...
MEXICO CITY: Eight Mexicans were killed in an apparently mistaken aerial bombing of a tourist convoy by Egypt's army on Sunday a Mexican ...
TRIPOLI: The Libyan branch of Daesh has released a video purportedly showing the execution of a Tunisian for spying on behalf of Libya's ...
PARIS: French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo is courting controversy again by running cartoons deriding the response of predominantly ...
Oil prices rose in European trading, aided by a surprise fall in US stocks, according to an industry estimate, but gains were capped ahead of the ...
Dollar borrowing in Saudi Arabia has surged seven-fold this year as the kingdom's companies switch out of increasingly expensive local ...
Abu Dhabi's non-oil merchandise trade rose 15.7 per cent year on year in the second quarter to Dh42.4 billion said Statistics Centre-Abu ...
Qatar has begun construction work at the site where the 2022 World Cup opening and final matches will be played, tournament officials said in ...
GCC economies are expected to be less affected by plunging oil prices due to higher output in 2015 a report has revealed. Also there would ...
European telecoms giant Altice, run by Franco-Israeli media magnate Patrick Drahi, is to buy the number-four US cable operator Cablevision for $17.7 ...
Shanghai led most Asian shares lower yesterday as China's economic woes keep investors on edge, while Japan's Nikkei gave up early gains and ...
Chinese shares fell for a fourth straight session yesterday on concern over a slowing economy, weighing on emerging market stocks overall, ...
The global metrology services market is expected to be worth $824mn by 2020, said the Gulf Organisation for Industrial Consulting , ...
The Nissan Patrol, described by the Japanese automaker as the "Hero of All Terrains in Life", has set a Guinness World Records title for the ...
At least 22 Greece-bound migrants drowned yesterday when their boat sank off Turkey, officials said, as police blocked hundreds of others ...
Syria's President Bashar al-Assad answers questions during an interview with al-Manar's journalist Amro Nassef in Damascus Syria in ...
BEIRUT: Syrian President Bashar Assad has blamed Europe's refugee crisis on Western support for 'terrorists' as people fleeing his country's ...
Drinking coffee before bedtime disrupts the body's internal clock, making it harder to get to sleep on time and more challenging to wake up in the ...
A Malawian teacher suspected of attempting to sell an albino schoolgirl for $10,000 was arrested Tuesday, police said, as the country battles ...
The adopted daughter of a Philippine film star will today announce a run for the presidency, and analysts say she could ride her father's ...
New Delhi authorities have rejected for a second time Uber's request to operate in India's capital, the latest blow for the taxi firm seeking ...
Hungary plans to build a fence to keep migrants out along part of its border with Romania in addition to the barrier being erected along the ....jpg)
A Cincinnati film commission has announced that singer and actress Mariah Carey will be filming a Christmas movie in the region.WCPO-TV ...
COPENHAGEN: Award-winning singer actor and heartthrob Justin Timberlake will star in 'Trolls' a DreamWorks animated musical about the ...
Spanish clothes giant Inditex, owner of the Zara high street brand, said Wednesday that sales and profits have soared this year as it opens more ...
US online giant Amazon announced Wednesday that members of its Prime subscription program would be eligible for discounted digital access to The ...
The US Federal Reserve's decision to hold interest rates steady exposed a gulf in global stocks Friday, with European shares slumping and emerging ...
A top iPhone ad-blocking application was pulled from the App Store on Friday by its creator, amid a surge in interest in new programs to thwart ...
The Federal Reserve's decision to delay raising interest rates mainly because of uncertainties about China's economy is bothering a number of ...
German luxury automaker Mercedes-Benz said Friday it would invest $1.3 billion to expand and upgrade SUV production at its Alabama ...
US auto workers won their first raise in a decade in a deal with Fiat Chrysler's US subsidiary that will be used as a template for talks with General ...
Palestinians clashed yesterday with Israeli security forces in Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank after Hamas called for a "day of rage" ...
Tony Fernandes, Group CEO of Asia's largest and most successful budget airline AirAsia, suggested at a conference in Bangkok on September 15 ...
At least 85 people were killed in South Sudan when an oil tanker that had crashed exploded as people were scooping up the fuel, a presidential ...
Brazil's opposition parties have filed a request in Congress to impeach President Dilma Rousseff for breaking fiscal rules by allegedly ...
The Emmy Awards will celebrate the best of the hundreds of television shows flooding US airwaves, in what many critics have called the small screen's ...
Munich taps the keg Saturday on its Oktoberfest, the world's biggest beer festival with six million revellers expected, just as the German city ...
Once the preserve of the rich and famous, New York high fashion is now more than ever entertainment for the world at large, with catwalk shows ...
Havana has received a rush makeover ahead of Pope Francis's arrival in Cuba on Saturday with newly paved streets, a renovated cathedral, repainted ...
A new study of deceased NFL players found 96 percent of those tested suffered from brain disease, it was reported on Friday, fueling fresh fears ...
Few things are so closely tied with Germany's national identity as the automobile. But changes in demographics, consumer behaviour and new ...
Captains of Australian industry have a lengthy wishlist for new Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull but also strong hopes the former tech entrepreneur ...
Moody's cut France's sovereign debt rating one notch to Aa2 on Friday, saying the country will struggle with slow growth and a high debt burden for ...
The US tax authority has told Coca-Cola that it owes $3.3 billion in taxes from 2007-2009, but the soft drink giant said Friday it was fighting the ...
The connected car may be catching everyone's imagination at this year's IAA auto show. But the new technology also brings with it new dangers, such ...
Democratic presidential candidates have slammed Donald Trump for failing to challenge a questioner who wrongly claimed President Barack Obama ...
More than 20 countries are waiting to join the China-initiated Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank , its designated president said Saturday as ...
Austrian Chancellor Werner Faymann and German Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel on Saturday called for United Nations countries to contribute an extra ...
US Secretary of State John Kerry said Saturday that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad must step down, but not necessarily immediately upon ...
Television veterans and newcomers will battle for glory Sunday at the Emmy Awards, which could see history made by a black actress -- and possible ...
Good luck getting a table these days at Atelier, a trendy Havana restaurant where four charter flights of American Catholics packed the dining room ....jpg)
Forbes Middle East unveiled the names of its Most Powerful Arab Women for 2015 at a glittering awards ceremony last week.The event ...
Ukraine has launched a criminal probe into wine-tasting by Russian President Vladimir Putin and ex-Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi after they ...
Twenty rescue operations Saturday picked up over 4,500 people off the Libyan coast, according to the Italian coastguard, which was ...
Thailand is ready to provide its expertise in the fields of agriculture and aquaculture, including hydroponics, to support Qatar's food ....jpg)
As a celebrity brand ambassador it is your duty to attend landmark events for the marque you have chosen to represent. It is for this ...
At least 55 militants were killed when Turkish warplanes hit Kurdistan Workers Party camps in northern Iraq overnight, security sources ....jpg)
LOW LEVELS OF physical activity, weaker physical fitness and obesity may lead to arterial stiffness, a sign of cardiovascular diseases, ....jpg)
PRACTICING YOGA IMPROVES physical and mental wellbeing of people living with arthritis, a painful joint disorder for which there is ....jpg)
A long time ago, when I was supposed to be a good girl and not watching 'corrupting' Hindi television shows, I used to be a bad girl, ...
Microsoft has begun sending out slightly mysterious invitations to media outlets to attend a launch event in New York on October 6. "We ...
NEW YORK: Megan Fox will guest star in a recurring role next season on 'New Girl.' The popular actress will play a gorgeous pharmaceutical ...
As he recovers in a children's shelter in eastern India, 17-year-old Ganita Munda is haunted by the sound of his family's screams as a witch-hunting ...
Bold and prone to experimentation, British fashion designer Jonathan Anderson proved his worth on Saturday with an eye-popping catwalk show at London ...
Dancing to the throbbing beat of sacred drums, the congregation circles a man lying face-down on the floor paying thanks to Babalu Aye, a deity in ...
Bright orange flames flare upwards from a pencil-thin chimney at the Port Harcourt Refining Company, sending thick black smoke into the white clouds ...
Truckers are warning of the threat of significant costs to the road haulage industry as European nations reimpose long-abandoned border controls to ...
Data shows Spain's economy recovering, but tell that to Javier Pichel: this summer he packed and left for the only place he could find a decent job ...
Greece's election hung on a knife-edge Saturday as radical former premier Alexis Tsipras retook a slight lead in the final hours of a tight race ...
San Francisco: In the fast-moving world of Silicon Valley Twitter’s search for a new chief executive is moving at a snail’s ...
Israel plans to bring in 20,000 Chinese construction workers to help build new apartments as part of efforts to lower housing costs, Prime Minister ....jpg)
David Beckham finds the rumour of him being the next James Bond funny."I saw that the other day and I laughed many times about it," Beckham ...
Militant football fans are on a roll in the Middle East, Europe and Southeast Asia. Fans in Turkey and Egypt have defeated legal efforts ...
The African Export-Import Bank inaugurated its first regional headquarters in Egypt on Sunday in the presence of a number ...
Misr Italia is currently negotiating with the Egyptian government over obtaining 500 acres of land in 6th of October City, according to ...
Oil producing Arab states are under pressure by low oil prices, and a foreseeable opening up of Iran on the world oil markets.Developing ...
Sinai-based militant group "State of Sinai" claimed Sunday, in a statement circulated on affiliated social media accounts, the killing ...
The border guards in the second field army, in cooperation with military engineers, discovered and destroyed 12 underground tunnels in ...
Chicago: Jason Day continued his march to try and claim the world number one ranking stretching his lead to six shots after the third ...
George Clooney changes his schedule to suit his wife Amal Clooney as her work is less flexible than his. "When he proposed, the deal was ....jpg)
In the beginning there was total darkness, the silent immensity of the night. And there was a boy born with a timid blue eyes and a ....jpg)
T.I. is setting the record straight: The rapper says he's still working with Iggy Azalea, despite reports claiming their business ....jpg)
Having had her divorce to on-off partner Rick Salomon being finalised in April this year, actress Pamela Anderson is auctioning off the ...
Oompah bands push their brass instruments to the limit as a group of locals sporting lederhosen and dirndl dresses raise their beer steins to loud ...
Greek leftist leader Alexis Tsipras has won the general election, picking up between 33 and 35 percent of the vote, the latest estimates showed ...
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang urged reforms Sunday of inefficient state-owned enterprises as his government tries to restore confidence in its slowing ...
Nigeria's oil firm NNPC said Sunday it had signed a deal with a consortium of local and foreign lenders to develop 36 oil wells that would also boost ...
The tomb of legendary boy pharaoh Tutankhamun in Egypt's Valley of the Kings will close from October for restorations, the antiquities ministry said ...
Apple acknowledged Monday that malicious code had found a way into some of its popular Chinese mobile apps, raising security concerns as the US tech ...
Comments from top Federal Reserve officials suggesting an interest rate hike is still on this year pushed the dollar and Asian stocks higher on ...
A week ago, the world woke up to an exceptional image, a beautiful young lady elegantly posing with her veil. The image in itself was ...
German auto giant Volkswagen's shares plummeted nearly 20 percent Monday as investigations spread into revelations that hundreds of thousands of its ....jpg)
Former players from England and Scotland's most successful teams, Manchester United, Liverpool, Rangers and Celtic will head to Dubai this ...
Britain's finance chief George Osborne will urge closer business ties with China as he visits the country's commercial hub Shanghai on Tuesday, ...
Senior officials from the world's two biggest democracies, India and the United States, launched a high-level "strategic and commercial dialog" on ...
Leadership at Bank of America has been girding for a tight vote on Tuesday expected to determine whether chief executive Brian Moynihan holds on to ....jpg)
A U2 concert at Stockholm's Globe Arena was cancelled on Sunday evening after a gunman was believed to be in the crowd, according to police ...
The Dutch government is to help acquire two rare Rembrandt paintings for 160 million euros from a private collector and bring them ...
France's data protection watchdog rejected Monday an appeal by Google against a decision ordering the Internet giant to comply with users' requests ...
Hundreds of thousands of pilgrims from around the world on Tuesday began moving from the holy city of Mecca to nearby Mina for the start of the hajj, ...
US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter on Monday encouraged women troops to participate in groups inspired by "Lean In," the best-selling female ...
British fashion heavyweight Burberry Prorsum summoned a biker spirit as it presented the Spring/Summer 2016 collection at London Fashion Week.Models ...
Three people convicted over a nationwide salmonella outbreak have been sentenced to tough sentences of up to 28 years in prison, the US Justice ...
South Korean officials summoned Volkswagen representatives to discuss emissions tests after the German auto giant was accused of cheating on US air ...
Weary Greece braced for more painful austerity Monday as Alexis Tsipras was sworn in as prime minister with a mandate to drive through unpopular ...
The US branch of France's Alstom is in line to win a big piece of US railroad Amtrak's $2.5 billion next-generation high-speed rail project, Senator ....jpg)
Director Kiran Rao is elated with the success of her actor-husband Aamir Khan and says he takes too many risks which fortunately have paid ...
In the final episode of "Mad Men," Don Draper appears to have come up with the perfect ad for Coca-Cola.On Sunday, actor Jon Hamm - who has ...
Hedge funds slashed their bets on falling oil prices leaving them the most bullish on US crude futures in two months. Money managers' ...
It's not just another iPhone launch. This time, Apple is pushing not only a new device, but what it says is a new relationship with its customers.By ...
NEW YORK: Janet Jackson renowned US music star and sister of the late 'king of pop' Michael Jackson seems to be toning down her raunchy act ...
Phew!!! You can still sing "Happy Birthday" and not risk a lawsuit.A federal judge in Los Angeles ruled on Tuesday that belting out the tune in ...
ISTANBUL: A Turkish cop missed his own wedding party after being denied permission to leave his station in the southeast due to PKK terror ...
After decades of flocking to traditional livestock markets ahead of Eid, breeders in India are now heading online to haggle a good price for their ...
Fatima Kadumy's weapons of resistance include stuffed squash and yoghurt with garlic -- for her, food is just as powerful as stones or petrol ...
Mumbai's world-renowned tiffin service is no longer the preserve of loyal housewives cooking up generations-old family dishes to be delivered to ...
Sunset colours, comfortable cuts, flowing silhouettes, and lace with a pinch of provocation: these were the key trends that emerged from London ...
Diddy is said to be working on a long-awaited album but, even without his music, he was the top-earning rapper of the past year.Releasing its annual ...
The Routard travel guide that has led generations of French travellers through foreign lands has published a special version to help refugees ...
Two million white-clad Muslims from across the globe began the hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia Tuesday, in one of the world's largest annual ...
"Alarming" rates of smoking, alcohol consumption and obesity in Europe could set back progress in reducing premature mortality, the World Health ...
Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton unveiled a plan Tuesday to limit prescription medicine costs, challenging the US pharmaceutical ...
Ahmed and Mohamed are both married with children but still live with their mother, unable to afford one of the hundreds of thousands of homes sitting ...
Wearing an expression of intense concentration, Myanmar garment worker Htet Myat Nyein stitches jackets bound for wealthy foreign high streets, part ...
A key measure of manufacturing in the world's second largest economy fell to a new six-and-a-half-year low in September, financial publisher Caixin ...
Thousands of unionised workers at South Korea's top automaker Hyundai Motor staged a partial walkout on Wednesday over a festering wage dispute, a ...
Affable Oxford-trained economist, Euclid Tsakalotos, who was re-appointed Greece's finance minister, is a New Left pro-European who sees Greece's ...
Russia agreed to resume gas supplies to Ukraine over the winter under a deal clinched late Friday with the European Union, capping months of ...
A labour rights group marked the launch of Apple's latest iPhone Friday with a report accusing one of the smartphone giant's Chinese suppliers of ...
South Korean carmaker Hyundai announced a recall of 470,000 Sonatas in the United States on Friday to replace engines that could have metal debris ...
Embattled carmaker Volkswagen tapped Porsche chief Matthias Mueller Friday to steer it out of the wreckage of a widening scandal over pollution test ...
BlackBerry announced plans Friday to sell an Android-powered smartphone, in the latest reboot effort from the faded star of the sector.The Canadian ...
On the search for what it perceives to be "high-value" tourists, the Philippine Department of Tourism is setting its sights on new ...
Bahraini stocks are among the cheapest in the world. That hasn't stopped the value of trades dropping as low as an elementary school teacher's ...
On a bustling street in China's southern boomtown of Shenzhen, more than 30 stores carrying Apple Inc's iconic white logos peddle pre-orders ...
A British man who wanted to "take a holiday from being human" is sharing his experiences after spending time in the Swiss Alps -- living as a ...
Platinum, used in the production of catalytic converters, crashed this week to the lowest price in 6.5 years on the back of Volkswagen's pollution ...
Wall Street stocks dropped for the week despite some improving US data as worries ranging from a slowing Chinese economy to the Volkswagen emissions ...
Authorities will check whether 39,890 Volkswagen diesel cars sold in Mexico comply with emission rules, even though they were no rigged to cheat ...
The charity foundation of multi-billionaire Microsoft founder Bill Gates has sued Petrobras and accounting giant PwC's Brazil arm over investment ...
Credit rating agency Standard & Poor's on Friday declared Ukraine's sovereign debt to be in "selective default" because of the war-torn nation's ...
Tesla chief executive Elon Musk on Friday called for fossil fuel-powered cars "to be tested at random," as German giant Volkswagen's worldwide ...
Around 2.8 million Volkswagen vehicles in Germany are fitted with devices that can cheat emissions tests, Transport Minister Alexander Dobrindt told ...
The US economy sped along at a peppy 3.9 percent pace in the second quarter, faster than originally thought, the Commerce Department announced ...
Matthias Mueller, head of luxury sportscar maker Porsche, looks set to take the steering wheel at scandal-hit Volkswagen, replacing Martin Winterkorn ...
Growth of loans to the private sector in the euro area, a gauge of economic health, is picking up speed, albeit very slowly, European Central Bank ...
NEW YORK: Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates have thrown their weight and resources behind the goal of ...
An investment of $97-184 billion could make life-saving radiotherapy accessible to most people who need it by 2035 and save ...
Moody's has maintained its deep junk "Caa3" credit rating for Greek government debt, but has upgraded its outlook following recent political ...
MAKKAH: The Secretariat of the Holy Capital has begun sending short text messages to generate awareness among pilgrims about the municipal ...
RIYADH: Expatriates here joined Saudis in celebrating Eid Al-Adha in their own traditional style. Despite difference in their race and color ...
JEDDAH: The Astronomy Society of Jeddah said that the skies above Saudi Arabia would witness a complete lunar eclipse before sunrise on Monday ...
Vu Thi Thoan's family has been making papier mache masks, part of traditional Vietnamese celebrations for the mid-autumn festival, for over four ...
Indonesian teacher Nina Ramadhaniah hopes for "blessings from Allah" by opening a sharia bank account -- the sort of pious customer the world's ...
Norwegian designer Peter Dundas spearheaded a youthful revolution in Milan on Saturday, laying out his new vision for Roberto Cavalli as other top ...
Up-and-coming Israeli designer Daizy Shely says she makes clothes for women like her who believe that fashion should make you dream.On the basis of ...
The Netherlands have requested information on a large number of Swiss bank accounts held by residents of its country in connection with a tax probe, ...
The EU decided to change its diesel car emission tests to prevent the sort of rigging used by German auto giant Volkswagen after discrepancies in the ...
The Asian Development Bank is to double its annual lending for climate change adaptation to $6 billion by 2020, the Philippines-based lender said.The ...
Through streets strewn with rubbish where laundry lines hang from shabby apartment blocks, the tantalising smell of grilled kebabs lures patrons from ...
The company behind a chatty Japanese humanoid named Pepper has felt the need to remind customers who purchase the robots not to engage in sex with ...
In a colorful truck painted with flowers, chef Luis Castillejos serves tlayudas -- a toasted corn tortilla topped with shredded beef, avocado, cheese ...
RIYADH: When it comes to Haj the Saudi Armed Forces is not behind in doing its own share to help Hajis perform pilgrimage during the ...
A bottle of 1915 Krug champagne went under the hammer for $116,375 in New York, one of just four left in the cellars of the sparkling drink ...
Saudi Arabia deployed large numbers of special forces yesterday as pilgrims performed the final rituals of a Haj marred by double tragedy, ...
The number of tourists arriving to Egypt during the first half of 2015 increased by 8.2% to total 4.8m, the Central Agency for ...
France said Sunday that it would ramp up foreign assistance, pumping in an extra four billion euros per year starting in ...
Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff on Sunday promised big cuts in greenhouse gas emissions by 2025.Using 2005 as the baseline level, the reduction ...
World media is speculating probability of life and flowing water on Mars after US space agency Nasa announced assembling of experts at its ...
The BBC won a prestigious Online News Association award for public service journalism Saturday for its use of the chat application WhatsApp to ...
Nine individuals identified by the Ministry of Interior as armed Muslim Brotherhood members were killed by Egyptian security forces ...
The Ministry of Foreign Trade and Industry is preparing a five-year strategy targeting 1.5% in annual industrial growth, Minister of ...
The electoral coalition known as "List of Egypt" has threatened to withdraw from the upcoming parliamentary elections, after a legal ...
FIFA announces the dates for a 2022 World Cup in Qatar, but mysteriously cancels press conference at the last minute. As expected, given ...
Paris staged a car-free day yesterday, with large parts of the increasingly polluted French capital taken over by cyclists, joggers and ...
Iraq has agreed to set up a cell increasing intelligence coordination with Russia, Syria and Iran in the fight against the Islamic State ...
Saudi Arabia firmly rejected Iran's criticism of its handling of the Haj pilgrimage on Saturday after Tehran demanded an inquiry into a ...
BERLIN: People crammed into boats and trekking across borders have become the dominant images of Europe's migrant crisis. In the shadows ...
BEIRUT: The extremist Daesh group has closed playgrounds in a Syrian city because they were being used as a meeting place for unrelated men and ...
Brazilian court has accused international football star, Neymar, of evading millions of dollars in taxes. Now the Barcelona forward ...
Britain's opposition Labour Party will partly back the government's goal of achieving a budget surplus within five years but will oppose cuts ...
Two teenagers were arrested on Sunday over a blaze at a London mosque which claims to be the largest in western Europe.Ten fire trucks were ...
LIMA: Prosecutors announced they have reopened a money laundering investigation against Peru's first lady Nadine Heredia. Heredia the wife of ...
World leaders accustomed to fine dining had a surprise on their plates Sunday at the United Nations -- trash.Chefs cooked up a lunch made entirely of ...
Swiss competition authorities said Monday they were investigating UBS, HSBC, Deutsche Bank and four other banks on suspicion of price fixing in the ...
An uptick in US economic growth increased expectations the Federal Reserve will hike US interest rates by the end of the year, providing more support ...
Sierra Leone began a second 42-day countdown to becoming Ebola-free on Sunday as it discharged its last two known patients and lifted its quarantine ...
World oil prices dropped on Monday in the wake of further disappointing data out of China, a key consumer of commoditiesUS benchmark West Texas ...
Qatar plans to invest $35 billion over the next five years in the United States, as the energy-rich Gulf state diversifies its global stakes, its ....jpg)
> Minister of Oil and Minister of State for National Assembly Affairs Ali Al-Omair stressed that Kuwait is keenness on ...
Resources firms led by mining giant Glencore headed a sell-off in Asian markets Tuesday following painful losses across Europe and New York as fears ...
Yahoo notified US regulators that it is proceeding with plans to spin off its multi-billion-dollar stake in Alibaba despite the unanswered question ...
Skoda, the Czech carmaker within the Volkswagen group, said Monday that over a million cars were fitted with pollution cheating software to dupe ...
Alcoa, the largest US aluminum company, said Monday it would split itself into two companies as it battles lower metals prices and seeks to maximize ...
Apple said Monday it sold 13 million of its new iPhones over the weekend, in a record-breaking launch for the latest model of its iconic ...
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> The European Union stressed here Monday that Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad cannot be part of any future government in ...
New clashes broke out Monday between Palestinians and Israeli police who stormed Jerusalem's flashpoint Al-Aqsa mosque compound, as an ...
A local official and residents said at least 27 people, mostly women or children, were killed yesterday in an air strike on a wedding party in ...
The BPG Group has celebrated the opening of its new office headquarters with an exhibition of 140 of the most significant tweets from Sheikh ...
The Doha Institute for Graduate Studies recently held a new faculty welcome day, which it dubbed "Hayakum", hosting close to 40 new ...
MAKKAH: Three days after the tragic stampede in Mina during this year's Haj the whereabouts of dozens of pilgrims both from the Kingdom and ...
European equities sank on Monday, as more disappointing Chinese data and downbeat broker comment weighed on the mining sector, with London-listed ...
Volkswagen's top-of-the-range automaker Audi said Monday that 2.1 million of its diesel cars worldwide are fitted with the sophisticated software ....jpg)
When you see animal prints at Versace, Pucci and Cavalli, you are not surprised. But when Bottega Veneta goes leopard, you start to think. ....jpg)
Vin Diesel is promising fans of the "Fast & Furious" franchise three last rides. Diesel wrote Sunday on Facebook that he plans to produce a ....jpg)
Arguments between star couple David and Victoria Beckham are reportedly threatening their marriage.According to party-goers, the pair took ...
Adrian Hernandez says he can't remember a year as dry as 2015, which has nearly cost him his farm and turned him from a climate change skeptic into a ...
Oil-services companies Halliburton and Baker Hughes announced Monday they plan to sell additional businesses to win support from US antitrust ...
Royal Dutch Shell said Monday it was halting its search for oil off the Alaskan coast, with environmentalists claiming a huge victory in their battle ...
Gulf bourses were narrowly mixed as oil prices stayed low on Monday while Egypt's stock market climbed on the back of buying by foreign ...
JEDDAH: Weak oil prices and global equity prices hit Gulf stock markets on Tuesday with Saudi Arabia and Qatar dropping the most as they ...
CAIRO: Egypt aims to generate around 98.5 billion Egyptian pounds of additional revenue this financial year by ...
Staff involved in rigging pollution tests on Volkswagen cars "acted criminally" and must take personal responsibility, a board member of the German ...
Fiat Chrysler significantly under-reported the number of deaths and injuries which occurred in its vehicles, US safety regulators said Tuesday.The ...
Google unveiled two new smartphones Tuesday for its Nexus line of devices aimed at the high end of the market dominated by Apple and Samsung.The ...
German media giant Axel Springer said Tuesday it has agreed to buy the US website Business Insider for around 300 million euros , two ...
European stock markets were steadier on Tuesday after opening the week with heavy losses, while the share price of mining giant Glencore enjoyed a ...
A group of Al Jazeera journalists and employees convicted in absentia by Egypt's courts announced yesterday that they were in the process of ...
Electricity workers carry out repairs in the Lebanese village of Aita al-Shaab BEIRUT: Dozens of protesters blocked access to ...
Technology bellwether Microsoft will launch its new Office 2016 suite in the UAE on Wednesday promising to redefine the way users become ...
NEW YORK/JEDDAH: Foreign Minister Adel Al-Jubeir has accused Iran of fomenting regional strife by supporting terrorist groups. Responding to ...
UNITED NATIONS United States: US President Barack Obama said Tuesday that Syrian President Bashar Assad must go if the Daesh is to be defeated ...
Residents of Wahijah village said missiles hit two tents at the wedding celebration Sanaa:The death toll from an alleged air strike ...
CALAIS France: A 20-year-old Iraqi was found dead on Tuesday in a lorry near the French port of Calais crushed by pallets as he tried to ...
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BEIJING: China has punished 24 officials for laziness exemplified by failure to spend government funds delays to projects and sitting on ...
The Google Doodle of the planet Mars holding a glass of water has been spreading smiles all over the internet. While some think its super ...
FIFA imposed a lifetime ban on one of its most notorious former leaders on Tuesday amid calls for an emergency task force to be sent in to ...
LOS ANGELES: Paul Walker's daughter sued Porsche for wrongful death Monday claiming the sports car that her father was in when he was killed ...
KATMANDU: Cable TV operators in Nepal blocked 42 Indian channels on Tuesday in protest against what they call an unofficial 'blockade of goods' ...
Finland's opposition on Tuesday blasted the government's plans to drastically cut the budget for the country's much-praised education system as part ...
Children whose mothers smoke during pregnancy -- and even those born into smokers' homes -- are nearly twice as likely to develop behavioural ...
Asian stocks recovered slightly Wednesday from a mass sell-off in the previous session, with emerging currencies ending a tough quarter on a high but ...
Oil prices eased on Wednesday after the previous day's modest rebound and ahead of US energy stockpiles data offering an insight into crude demand ...
recent General Authority for Investment report has outlined the details of establishing a free zone in Minya.The free zone, which ....jpg)
By Satish Kanady DOHA: Qatari stocks climbed yesterday rebounding at the end of the worst quarter of the year. Powered by banking sector ...
atar's economy is estimated to have grown 4.8% year-on-year in the second quarter of 2015 mainly on strong double-digit ...
Anglo-Dutch oil giant Shell says it has halted crude exports from a key terminal in southern Nigeria because of a pipeline leak. The suspension ...
A slight improvement in an official gauge of Chinese factory activity gave a boost to investor confidence Thursday, rallying Asian equities and ...
With a partnership to make one of Google's flagship Nexus smartphones, Chinese tech giant Huawei is gaining new prominence which could help its ...
Technology titans Microsoft and Google announced that they have agreed to end all patent infringement litigation against each other.Legal battles ...
German auto giant Volkswagen shifted up a gear Wednesday in its plans to recall millions of cars fitted with pollution-cheating software as it ...
France's first air strike on the Islamic State group in Syria killed at least 30 jihadists, including 12 child soldiers, a monitoring group ...
The Palestinians raised their flag at the UN on Wednesday for the first time as president Mahmud Abbas called on the world body to grant them ...
Bahraini security forces have discovered a large bomb-making factory and arrested a number of suspects linked to Iran's Revolutionary Guards, ....jpg)
Dubai will undergo a galactic makeover during the next two weeks as shooting begins on the next installment of the popular sci-fi ...
GAZA CITY: Muammar Quider was set to marry but he reached his breaking point as he dealt with the unique pressures of life in the Gaza Strip. ...
A mob killed a man in northern India over rumours that he butchered a cow, unleashing violence that police yesterday blamed on tension fuelled ...
Britain will attempt to carry out its first womb transplants after a clinical trial enabling 10 women to undergo the procedure was approved, ...
The Iranian foreign minister's reported handshake with US President Barack Obama triggered chants of 'Death to America' in Tehran's parliament ...
LUXEMBOURG: Sportswear giant Lacoste won EU court backing on Wednesday to block a Polish competitor from snapping up a variant of the ...
TORONTO: There are so many reasons for Kate Winslet to feel great about the new 'Steve Jobs' movie that it doesn't matter that critics panned ...
LOS ANGELES: The on-again off-again girlfriend of US actor Jim Carrey has died at her California home of an apparent suicide police said ...
In a feminist restaurant housed in a theatre, seven immigrant female chefs are bringing a taste of their homelands to Londoners, whilst earning ...
A massive ancient tomb recently opened in northern Greece was likely a monument to Hephaestion, the close companion of Alexander the Great, experts ...
Oil prices fell Friday on weaker global growth concerns triggered by a weak US jobs report, reversing earlier gains as a hurricane risked threatening ...
More than 20 lawsuits have been filed in the United States accusing large banks of rigging the US Treasury bond market in a similar fashion to other ...
Air France on Friday unveiled details of its alternative restructuring plan, including 2,900 job cuts, retiring 14 long-haul planes and reducing ...
ABHA: There has been a 48 percent rise in women seeking khula divorces from their husbands this Islamic year compared to the previous year ...
DUBAI: Middle East fund managers favor UAE stock markets over other bourses by a large margin as the region struggles with low oil prices and an ...
The US job market faltered in September and hiring in prior months was slower than thought, the Labor Department said Friday in a report pointing to ...
RIYADH: The Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice has been cracking down on people smoking shisha in public ...
Standard & Poor's raised Spain's credit rating by one notch to 'BBB+' on Friday, citing government economic reforms that have boosted economic ...
OAKLAND: Steve Kerr is stepping aside from his job as coach of the NBA champion Golden State Warriors to focus on his recovery from two back ...
RIYADH: Saudi female nurse Areej Al-Qahtani who attended to an injured man during a shooting at Al-Riyadh Mall Wednesday was rewarded with a job ...
BERLIN: Germany's wind power generation by September surpassed last year's total thanks to favorable weather conditions and an expansion of wind ...
Adding to a raft of investigations worldwide, Paris prosecutors have launched a preliminary investigation into possible fraud over the ...
European stocks shrugged off disappointing US data, rallying to close higher Friday as slower job creation was seen pushing back the timing of a US ...
Germany celebrates 25 years Saturday since its historic reunification just as a record influx of migrants and a massive cheating scam at iconic ...
Pro-democracy protesters have retreated from the streets of Hong Kong but education is increasingly becoming a political battleground as students and ...
A Volkswagen shareholder has filed what is believed to be the first suit against the embattled car company for damages suffered when the company's ...
Wall Street stocks fell sharply early Friday after the September employment report showed the US economy added just 142,000 jobs last month.About 30 ...
T-Mobile's chief executive has expressed outrage over a breach at a credit monitoring service that exposed private data from 15 million customers of ...
Petty graft plagues Tunisia's economy, nearly five years after state corruption triggered the fall of president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, partly due ...
Etihad Airways has won the Airline of the Year title at the Travel Trade Gazette awards in the UK. The awards ceremony was held in London. ...
JEDDAH: The Kingdom's recent moves in the oil industry are sending a strong message to the world about its commitment to preserving its market ...
Ten Palestinians were wounded by Israeli fire in the West Bank on Saturday during a raid by troops hunting the murderers of a Jewish settler ...
Emiratis went to polls on Saturday to fill the elected seats on a government advisory body but despite a broadening of the franchise some ...
A Jordanian parliamentarian's son died carrying out a suicide attack claimed by the Islamic State militant group in Iraq this week, Jordanian ...
Bahrain has submitted a complaint to the UN denouncing Iranian "interference" in its internal affairs, the BNA news agency said yesterday. The ...
A 34-year-old Emirati allegedly assaulted her maid with an iron bar and locked her in the balcony for two days without giving her ...
I came to Dubai to make a living and support my widowed mother. It was on November 18 1959 that I landed in Dubai by sea.I was just 18 ...
NEW YORK: Saudi Arabia has reiterated that those whose hands are stained with the blood of the Syrian people have no place in a new Syria. ...
LONDON: Pakistan Army chief General Raheel Sharif has said that his country wold not allow 'even a shadow' of Daesh and termed the group a ...
BEIRUT: At least 12 Daesh members have been killed in Russia's first airstrikes on the terrorist faction's main Syrian bastion a monitoring ...
JERUSALEM: Israel's military deployed hundreds of troops in the West Bank on Friday a day after a drive-by shooting by suspected gunmen killed a ...
MADRID: Spanish judges on Friday jailed 11 militants for membership in a gang linked to Daesh extremists that recruited fighters for suicide ...
NEW YORK: Score one for the selfie stick: Cindy Crawford believes those photos of you by you can help boost self-image. 'It's empowering for ...
DHAKA: A Japanese citizen was shot dead by gunmen in a northern Bangladesh town on Saturday police said days after an Italian aid worker was ...
LONDON: Gold jumped 2 percent on Friday after US payrolls data came in much weaker than expected denting expectations that the US Federal ...
CAIRO: The recent decision to ban female staff from wearing the full face veil aims to put an end to student complaints of 'poor communication' ...
KABUL: A suspected US air strike on a hospital in the Afghan city of Kunduz Saturday left nine MSF staff dead in a bombardment the charity said ...
Bucking the fashion show stereotype of tall, willowy models, Paris Fashion Week was treated Friday to a parade of women of restricted growth ...
Guns, jewelry and guitars may not immediately seem the most obvious items to sell together in one shop.But such is the way of life in Roseburg, ...
After powerful FIFA sponsors demanded his immediate resignation, a key question surrounded Sepp Blatter on Saturday: can the sleaze-tainted president ...
No need to make peace in the Middle East, resolve one of science's great mysteries or pen a masterpiece: the easiest way to get yourself a Nobel ...
The gas-rich United Arab Emirates will invest $35 billion in clean energy by 2021 as it seeks to reduce its dependence on fossil fuels following ...
Asian equity markets opened higher on Monday after a weak US jobs report fuelled speculation that the world's number one economy isn't ready for an ...
The consolidated net profit for Orascom Construction Industries reached EGP 789.6m during the first quarter of 2015, the company ...
Qatar's largest leisure, entertainment and shopping complex, Mall of Qatar has signed a leasing agreement with M.H. Alshaya Co., one of the ...
Dubai Holding's business group Dubai Holding Commercial Operations Group recorded a 24 percent increase in its net profit to around ...
DUBAI: Abu Dhabi Water & Electricity Authority is in talks with banks about issuing a project bond as early as this year to ....jpg)
> The retreat in the exchange rate of the dollar was due to disappointing statistics regarding the job market in the US last ...
Palestine is a headache Saudi King Salman doesn't need as he confronts rare demands from members of his ruling family that he and his ....jpg)
Israeli occupation police on Sunday banned Palestinians from entering the old city in East Jerusalem for two days, after two attacks ...
Air strikes by suspected Russian jets hit targets around the town of Talbiseh in western Syria on Sunday, residents and a group which monitors ...
In the Old City of Jerusalem, both Palestinians and Jews were talking yesterday about fear and the prospect of a new Intifada or uprising. The ...
CAIRO: Russia's intervention in Syria will curtail the spread of terrorism and help deal a fatal blow to Daesh in the war-torn country Egypt's ...
Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday dismissed the Islamic State group's claim to have killed two foreigners, saying police ...
A Catholic bishop has demanded an apology from President Benigno Aquino over the "dirty dancing" incident at the recent birthday party of a ...
LONDON: Daniel Craig has redefined the role of Bond as a symbol of masculinity in the modern world. In an interview with Esquire Magazine about ...
ADEN: Yemeni Prime Minister Khaled Bahah has warned Houthi terrorists that there is no place in the country for more adventures. He also vowed ...
ISTANBUL: A Turkish woman was killed and her male partner badly wounded in an apparent double suicide bid on Istanbul's best known shopping ...
LOS ANGELES: The music publishing company that has been collecting royalties on the song 'Happy Birthday To You' for years does not hold a valid ...
Stepping into the Bald Eagle Recreation Center in Washington is to step out of a neighborhood better known for street violence, armed robbery and ...
A week of Nobel prize announcements kicks off Monday with the medicine prize, while the most closely-watched award, the Nobel Peace Prize, is seen ...
Controversial ride-sharing service Uber faces a crackdown by governments around the world and protests by angry taxi drivers, but the company insists ...
Angela Merkel began a mission Monday to clear the path for German companies keen to do business in India, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi looks to ...
Gold fell for a fourth day after US consumer confidence unexpectedly rose building the case for an interest rate increase this year. The ...
DOHA: Qatar’s trade surplus fell by 53 percent to QR43.3bn in second quarter of 2015 from a year ago driven by lower ...
Abu Dhabi: The United Arab Emirates will hike the retail price of petrol by 24 percent but prices will still be low by international ...
RIYADH: Saudi-based Almarai company has announced to issue a new ‘Senior Sukuk’ of SR2bn to raise capital for ...
British energy giant BP will pay a record $20.8 billion to settle civil claims for damages stemming from the deadly 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, US ...
DOHA: The GCC industrial base has witnessed a major expansion over the past five years with the total number of its manufacturing ...
Movie and television studio Lionsgate is reportedly in advanced talks to merge with the movie channel Starz, a deal that would further cement the ...
Argentina repaid $5.9 billion of its debt Monday in keeping with its repayment schedule, though a longstanding dispute with US hedge funds ...
Europe's main stock markets closed sharply higher Monday as investors saw the US Fed holding off on a quick interest rate hike, with London's ...
Pharmaceuticals company Pfizer plans to add a new liquid production line and a warehouse with investments worth EGP 100m in the upcoming ...
DOHA: Qatar Stock Exchange index dropped 148.47 points or 1.28 percent on Tuesday when it closed at 11415.09 points. The market ....jpg)
> Number of people infected with cholera in Iraq has risen to 878, the Iraqi Ministry of Health announced on Monday, however it ...
In the Old City of Jerusalem, both Palestinians and Jews were talking yesterday about fear and the prospect of a new Intifada or uprising. The ...
Islamic State extremists have blown up the famous Arch of Triumph in the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra, the country's head of antiquities ...
Russian military jets carried out strikes on nine Islamic State sites in Syria over the past 24 hours, the defence ministry in Moscow said ...
WASHINGTON: Republican US presidential frontrunner Donald Trump said he would like to "sit back" and watch as Russia continues ...
LAHORE Pakistan: Pakistan on Tuesday hanged a man who said he was 15 when he was arrested for a murder he did not commit in the latest ...
By Caitlin Dewey Facebook is finally working on a feature that users have wanted for years: a "dislike" button that will let ...
The authorities in Casablanca have pulled the plug on Morocco's first ever beer festival, claiming "non-compliance" by the organisers with the ...
Some 60 million people across sub-Saharan Africa are already going hungry and the situation could deteriorate dramatically as climate phenomena hike ...
Twitter ended its drawn-out search for a new CEO on Monday, putting co-founder Jack Dorsey officially back in the saddle as the social media service ...
Oil prices on Wednesday extended a rally on hopes a global supply glut could be easing, boosting Asian energy shares, while a broadly upbeat outlook ....jpg)
Across the GCC, public pension funds amount to US$397 billion, representing nearly a quarter of GDP and US$15,000 per national.This is ...
Dubai: GCC banks are expected to issue $43 billion of Basel III compliant debt by 2019 in order to improve the quantity and quality of ...
RIYADH: Abdul Lateef Al-Asheikh municipal and rural affairs minister has awarded 156 sanitation and public improvement projects worth SR1.17 ...
Samsung flagged a nearly 80 percent jump in quarterly profit Wednesday, as sales of chips and displays offset stiff competition in smartphones from ...
The Ministry of Development Planning and Statistics has released preliminary figures of the value of exports of domestic goods, ...
Dubai: Non-oil private sector growth in the UAE remained robust in September driven by higher output and new orders. The overall growth ...
Facebook and other Internet giants could be barred from sending European citizens' personal information to the US after the EU's top court on Tuesday ...
Toyota on Tuesday unveiled a car that can drive itself along a highway, the latest foray by a major manufacturer into the world of automated ...
Some 218 prisoners have been pardoned by a presidential decree to commemorate the 6th of October War, the Ministry of Interior announced ....jpg)
The weather on Wednesday and Thursday is expected to be relatively cold and partly cloudy to cloudy with a chance for light rain in ...
Dubai is making waves on the tourism news radar yet again this time literally. On Tuesday Dubai Tourism posted a tweet saying "Titanic ...
ABHA: More and more young Saudi women are found involved in blackmailing men and extorting money with some even boasting about their 'successes' ...
JEDDAH: There was a significant upswing in the value of awarded contracts in Saudi Arabia during the second quarter of 2015 as it reached SR82.8 ...
BRUSSELS: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan appeared to mock European Union overtures for help with its migration crisis as he arrived for ....jpg)
Looking out nervously from her pink headscarf, Malaysian single Siti Aisha chats with a man she has never met, but who could become her husband ...
> The Nobel Prize in Physics 2015 has been awarded to Takaaki Kajita in Japan and Arthur B. McDonald in Canada, for their key ...
At Volkswagen, political connections come already fitted.In part, it's due to Volkswagen's iconic role as a symbol of West Germany's economic ...
Aden: A hotel in Yemen's second city of Aden where Prime Minister Khaled Bahah was staying with members of the government was on fire ...
SEOUL: FIFA presidential contender Chung Mong-joon said Tuesday he is facing a 19-year suspension by the ethics committee of the world football ...
JEDDAH: In one of the most heinous crimes reported recently a 31-year-old Saudi father shot and killed his four-year-old daughter and ...
Microsoft unveiled its first Windows 10 smartphones Tuesday as it launched a series of new gadgets in a bid to win a bigger share of the competitive ...
Google is set to invest in secure messaging start up Symphony, primarily used by major financial entities and valued at $650 million, the Wall Street ...
Waning expectations of an early rise in US interest rates helped higher-yielding currencies advance against the dollar again Wednesday.The Indonesian ...
The total volume of foreign investments in the UAE at present a regional base for over 500 international companies exceeded $100 ...
HONG KONG: Saudi Aramco is in talks to acquire a stake in a China National Petroleum Corp. refinery as well as retail assets people familiar ...
JEDDAH: Stronger challenges facing Saudi Arabian banks are likely to be reflected in third-quarter results as earnings are hit by weak stocks ...
Saudi tycoon Prince Alwaleed bin Talal and his Kingdom Holding Company announced Wednesday they have increased their stake in Twitter Inc to become ...
Egypt's foreign reserves decreased by $1.76bn of their value in September, reaching $16.334bn, compared to $18.096bn in August, the ...
JEDDAH: Major Middle East stock markets rose on Wednesday as a leap in oil prices boosted petrochemical and energy-related shares across the ...
Rich nations have stepped up their climate aid for poorer nations, paying $62 billion last year, approaching a $100-billion annual ...
Europe's main stock markets climbed Wednesday, extending its winning streak to a fourth straight session, as shares of the world's major brewers rise ...
The number of confirmed cases of cholera in Iraq has risen to 1,201, the health ministry said Wednesday of an outbreak that started along the ....jpg)
> The Palestinian Red Crescent Society reported that 272 Palestinians were injured by Israeli troop's gunfire in the West ....jpg)
TEHRAN: Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Wednesday banned any further negotiations between Iran and the United States putting the ...
DAMASCUS: Russian warships in the Caspian Sea fired cruise missiles as Syrian government troops launched a ground offensive Wednesday in central ...
JEDDAH: A Saudi man who had just completed the Haj and become a father earlier this year was one of the two people killed in a failed attempt to ...
JEDDAH: Tweeters on social media sites circulated a video clip showing a man most probably a citizen harassing his housemaid. Users and ...
NEW YORK: Beyonce Jay Z Kanye West Pharrell Williams and Rihanna have teamed up to sue a Paris clothing retailer they say has been 'brazenly' ...
NEW YORK: Oil prices seesawed in volatile trading on Wednesday barely hanging onto a third day of gains after government data showing a large US ...
The new chief of embattled carmaker Volkswagen said the recall of diesel cars affected by the pollution cheating scandal could start by January and ...
Global oil prices hit multi-month peaks Friday on the back of the struggling US dollar and increasing geopolitical turmoil in the crude-rich Middle ...
Twitter will lay off employees next week as freshly-returned chief Jack Dorsey pushes for a leaner operation focused on winning users, tech news ...
Fiat Chrysler Automobiles is planning a US stock debut for Ferrari that values the luxury Italian sports carmaker at nearly $10 billion, according to ...
Air France resumed negotiations with pilots' unions on Friday for the first time since one of its executives had his shirt torn off by an angry mob ...
Israelis are deeply unnerved in the midst of a spate of stabbings that have brought back memories of previous Palestinian uprisings, but say ...
Saudi Arabia has summoned the Czech ambassador over a translation of British writer Salman Rushdie's controversial book "Satanic Verses", ...
World leaders urged Libya's warring parties yesterday to sign a proposed peace deal installing a national unity government, after a cool ...
Warplanes from the Saudi-led coalition raided positions of the Iran-backed Shia insurgents east of the rebel-held capital yesterday, military ...
Israeli troops shot dead six Palestinians in protests in Gaza and a knife-wielding Jewish man wounded four Arabs in southern Israel yesterday ...
A student armed with a handgun killed another student in a "confrontation" at an Arizona university early yesterday that also left three ...
A 12-year-old jaguar brought to New Delhi zoo on a "breeding loan" is being sent back after he was found too fat to mate, officials said ...
BEIJING: Research published in the medical journal The Lancet says one in three of all the young men in China are likely to die from tobacco but ...
Global health groups accused Ukraine on Friday of being critically late and ineffective in responding to Europe's first polio outbreak since 2010.The ...
A company with global plans to pull carbon from thin air to make fuel, while tackling climate change, opened a pilot plant in this remote western ...
Washington's use of its de facto veto at the International Monetary Fund to block reforms giving emerging countries a greater say is jeopardizing the ...
Damage from the gargantuan corruption scandal centered on Brazilian state oil company Petrobras could amount to as much as 20 billion reais <$5.3 ...
Development banks including the World Bank have pledged an additional $15 billion a year by 2020 to fight climate change, taking the world closer to ...
A US hedge fund is threatening to sue Peru for payment of defaulted debts issued by its former military regime, sources said Friday, with one ...
A Spanish court Friday ruled Coca Cola does not have to give workers from a shut-down factory their bottling jobs back as long as it maintains their ...
Volkswagen stock rose Friday despite the massive global pollution cheating scandal engulfing the group, sparking speculation over a "mystery" buyer ...
Cash-strapped Greece loses up to 20 billion euros a year to tax evasion and smuggling, and more than a million people and businesses are under ...
Finance ministers from the world's leading economies gave the green light Friday to a new plan to crack down on tax evasion by multi-national ...
Europe's major stock markets advanced Friday after gains across Asia thanks to growing hints that US interest rates will not rise until next ...
HE the Assistant Foreign Minister for International Co-operation Affairs Sheikh Mohamed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim al-Thani has unveiled a ...
The GCC's $400 billion public pension provision is likely to undergo reforms in the coming years as the current system may find it ...
The textile industry will be making headlines today as the second edition of the two-day International Textile Fair Dubai kicks off ...
Qatar National Bank-Alahli acquired about 7.95% of the total loans granted by the banks operating in the Egyptian banking ...
Lusail Cityis under construction north of Doha. According to an analysis released by QNB Group these projects include the new USD40bn ...
The Old Cairo Misdemeanour upheld on Saturday the prison sentence handed to TV presenter Islam El-Beheiry.Last May, the court handed a ...
By Gleb Gorodyankin MOSCOW: Hungary has increased oil imports from Iraq's Kurdistan region at the expense of Russian crude in a ...
Amman: The Jordanian parliament Saturday accused Israel of "state terrorism" against the Palestinian people after its forces ...
Dubai-based developer Buroj Property Development said on Saturday it plans to invest 4.3 billion to build a luxury tourist ...
For economists, who often disagree with one another and get their forecasts wrong, the idea of a Nobel Prize for economics remains controversial ...
Mobile Internet sites face a new threat as millions download ad-blockers to their phones and tablets, removing pesky adverts but potentially wiping ....jpg)
One surprising film that captured the national zeitgeist recently was a sly thriller called The Gift. It burrows into the national psyche to ...
Nasa has outlined the many challenges that remain before humans can set foot on Mars, calling the problems "solvable" but setting no firm date ...
Ankara: At least 86 people were killed on Saturday in twin explosions targeting a peace rally in the Turkish capital Ankara the health ...
Police in action after villagers vandalised properties and resorted to arson in Mainpuri district. NEW DELHI: Indian police have ...
While it's not exactly the "dislike" button many Facebook users have clamoured for the social giant has launched a limited test of ...
Despite global economic problems the stock markets of many countries have been on a tear. Which markets are seeing the biggest gains ...
ISTANBUL: A newspaper close to an Islamic cleric foe of Tayyip Erdogan said its editor had been remanded in custody ahead of trial on charges of ...
DOHA: Qatar's oil minister said on Sunday he saw signs of an oil price rise in 2016 because of a recovery in the global economy and ...
OPEC is confident that the oil market will be "more balanced" next year as non-OPEC production has contracted and global demand is increasing, the ...
JEDDAH: The National Commercial Bank said its net income for the nine months of 2015 reached SR6.963 billion compared to SR6.830 billion ....jpg)
Dubai-based developer Buroj Property Development said it plans to invest $4.8 billion to build a luxury tourist resort near Sarajevo, ...
DUBAI: Lufthansa will launch its premium economy service into the Middle East later this month it said aiming to go head-to-head on quality with ...
RIYADH: A plethora of bilateral agreements between the Kingdom and France worth billions of riyals will be signed in Riyadh during the 2nd ...
It's a win-win relationship: asylum seekers battling boredom in Sicily as they wait for their applications to be processed volunteer to keep elderly ...
In America, there are no laws to force media to follow government party-line narrative or version of the story, unlike Egypt. This is ...
The "No to Religious Parties" campaign group announced it collected 1.25m signatures at a press conference it held Sunday in Downtown ...
Washington:Republican US presidential frontrunner Donald Trump branded Angela Merkel's welcoming of migrants to Germany ...
By Maria Tsvetkova and Christian Lowe MOSCOW: President Vladimir Putin has taken a risk by launching air strikes against Islamists in ...
By Ahmed Rasheed BAGHDAD: Several senior figures from Islamic State were killed in an air strike while meeting in a town in western Iraq ...
The campaign is inspired by the wildly popular "Humans of New York" series which since 2010 has amassed over 15.5 million Facebook ...
BEIRUT: Thousands of Lebanese rallied at the presidential palace outside Beirut on Sunday in a show of support for Christian politician Michel ...
ANKARA: Turkey is targeting Daesh in investigations of a double suicide bombing in Ankara that killed up to 128 people officials said on Sunday ...
GAZA CITY: An Israeli airstrike in Gaza killed a pregnant Palestinian woman and her toddler drawing a warning Sunday from Hamas as unrest spun ...
JEDDAH: A mother-daughter duo has been arrested for their role in the SR5 million jewelry theft. Col. Atti bin Attiyah Al-Qarashi spokesman of ...
Haneen, who has spent most of her life in orphanages, says she used to stay weeks locked up in herself, aimlessly eating, watching TV and sleeping ....jpg)
> The Iranian Majlis ratified on Sunday the nuclear agreement reached by Iran and the P5+1 last July.The deal was ...
Selahattin Demirtas center and Figen Yuksekdag left co-leaders of the pro Kurdish Democratic Party of Peoples hold carnations in ...
SAN FRANCISCO: President Barack Obama poked a little fun at rapper Kanye West on Saturday for saying he planned to run for the White House and ...
MALE Maldives: Maldivian President Abdulla Yameen on Sunday warned India's foreign minister against external interference in the islands' ...
US auto giant Ford will invest nearly $2bn on research and development in China, it said yesterday, despite falling sales in the world's ...
Facebook said Monday that it will begin testing a shopping tab for its mobile app as it works to ramp up advertising and online commerce ...
Symphony, a financial industry messaging startup, announced Monday that it has raised $100 million in a new round of funding from backers that ...
China's Communist rulers will gather later this month, state media said yesterday, to set a course for the world's second-largest economy over ...
Turkey has lowered its economic growth forecasts for the next three years and painted a gloomier picture of the outlook for inflation, as ...
The slowdown of China and expectation of higher interest rates in the US are causing increased volatility in global financial markets. We ...
Paris:Mobile Internet sites face a new threat as millions download ad-blockers to their phones and tablets removing pesky adverts but ....jpg)
Justin Bieber has apparently shared on Instagram a preview of a new song off his upcoming album Purpose.The Canadian pop-star on Sunday ...
Little-known Indonesian writers will take centre stage at the world's largest book fair this week, led by trailblazing women tackling taboos in their ...
Candles and languid electro-jazz set the scene for a romantic rendezvous at a north London bar, but the couple sitting face-to-face can use only ...
On the outskirts of China's financial capital, members of the "Shanghai Dream" acrobatic troupe practise for up to 10 hours a day to perfect their ...
No one has ever woken up alive in Airbnb's latest rental offer, but then again, no one has ever spent the night alongside six million dead Parisians ...
A New Zealand man was charged with blackmail on Tuesday after allegedly threatening to poison baby formula in a bid to extort money from the ...
Chinese imports slumped nearly 18 percent last month, official figures showed on Tuesday, highlighting the task facing the country's leaders as ...
Behold Barbie and Ken: she is all lovely and smiling, and he is a trim, tanned stud if ever there was one. They are the cult doll duo of the last ...
Dell said Monday it was buying EMC, the world's largest data-storage provider, for $67 billion in a record tech tie-up to accelerate its move into ...
The international credit rating agency Standard and Poor's on Monday cut the long-term debt rating of German auto giant Volkswagen in the wake of the ...
In a monthly report the Opec forecast the world would need 30.82 million barrels per day from the group next year up 510000 bpd from the ...
By Andrew Torchia DUBAI: Major Middle East stock markets rose on Wednesday as a leap in oil prices boosted petrochemical and ...
Dubai:Abu Dhabi's Etihad Airways said Tuesday it has signed a 10-year technology services agreement worth approximately $700 million ...
RIYADH: Arab National Bank reported a net profit of $632 million for the first nine months of 2015 compared to $599 million for the same ...
France on Tuesday announced a series of deals worth 10 billion euros with Saudi Arabia, reinforcing growing ties between the two ...
Qatar Business Incubation Centre kicked off the fourth wave of its LeanStartup Programme on October 4 with 42 participants from 29 ...
German auto giant Volkswagen announced Tuesday it would slash one billion euros off its annual investment budget and push ahead with its drive to ...
Israel's most notorious football fan group, La Familia, known for its militant racism against Palestinians, Arabs and Muslims, has put ...
The Islamic State group vowed yesterday to attack Russia and defeat it, as Moscow announced it had intensified its air campaign against ...
PRAGUE: A Czech human rights official said Tuesday conditions at a local detention centre for refugees including children were worse ...
A 39-year-old British manager admitted in court that he grew marijuana at his place for personal use. The manager identified as F.H. is ...
LONDON: Palestinian pop star Mohammad Assaf attended the London Film Festival premiere of 'The Idol' the film inspired by his rise to fame on ...
BEIRUT : The Daesh group's spokesman confirmed on Tuesday the killing of the terrorist organization's second in command in a US air strike ...
Football legend Pele said yesterday he had no intention to head the sport's governing body FIFA, that is engulfed by a crisis that has led to ...
CAIRO: Egypt's revenue from the Suez Canal rose to $462.1 million in August from $437.7 million in July the Suez Canal Authority's ...
CAIRO: An Egyptian court on Monday ruled that former president Hosni Mubarak's two sons could be released from prison while awaiting an appeal ...
LOS ANGELES: Hollywood is planning a movie about Volkswagen's emissions-cheating scandal with Leonardo DiCaprio who has long championed ...
MUMBAI: A homeless Indian man who had been pronounced dead woke up on an autopsy table shocking hospital staff who were about to begin a ...
Mega-merger fever is back seven years after the financial crisis, with the blockbuster buyout of British brewer SABMiller by Budweiser-maker ...
Venezuela has announced that oil producing countries will meet in Vienna next week to discuss stabilizing oil prices.President Nicolas Maduro said ...
EU regulators on Wednesday cleared Intel, the world's biggest chipmaker, to buy US firm Altera for $16.7 billion in one of the largest ever Silicon ...
Canada's Brookfield Infrastructure Partners' planned US$6.6 billion purchase of Australian ports and rail operator Asciano hit a snag Thursday with a ...
Streaming television giant Netflix said Wednesday its global membership grew to 69.17 million as it gears for further expansion.But Netflix's ...
Malware that stole bank codes and other data worth at least $10 million in the US alone has been smashed through a coordinated effort with Britain ...
MUMBAI: An Indian man who shocked hospital staff when he woke up on an autopsy table just before a post-mortem was about to begin has died ...
NEW YRK: Twitter Inc. said it appointed former Google executive Omid Kordestani as its executive chairman. Twitter's shares were up 1 percent ....jpg)
Iran's parliament has approved a deal on its nuclear program agreed with six world powers, state media said.The deal was passed with ...
Twitter said Tuesday it will cut 8% of its workforce, which is 336 employees.The move is part of the company's restructuring by new ...
Washington:US President Barack Obama will welcome his South Korean counterpart to the White House Friday hoping to cement close ties amid ...
Barcelona:Catalonia's leader Artur Mas goes to court on Thursday charged with breaking the law by organising a vote on whether his ...
Sierra Leone has not recorded a single new case of Ebola in the past four weeks, the authorities said, keeping the west African country on course to ...
New York is a city of extreme inequality, where people in the poorest neighborhood of Brooklyn die 11 years earlier than those living around Wall ...
Antioxidant supplements that are supposed to boost health and slow ageing could in fact spur the spread of melanoma, the deadliest type of skin ...
A protein that appears to be key in the development of Alzheimer's disease has been identified by scientists who say the discovery could provide a ...
The Ebola virus can linger in survivors for many months, as in the case of British nurse Pauline Cafferkey, who has had a serious relapse almost a ...
Australia Thursday approved a controversial Indian-backed project to build one of the world's biggest coal mines despite conservationists' fears it ...
The Indonesian rupiah and Malaysian ringgit led an emerging market currency surge against the dollar in Asia Thursday, while stock markets also ...
The US Federal Trade Commission said Wednesday that it had joined an investigation with other government agencies into the Volkswagen ...
Digital payments startup Square, founded by Twitter chief Jack Dorsey, announced it has filed with US regulators for a stock market offering to raise ...
Resurgent worries over China's slowdown sent stocks lower, only for them to recover later Wednesday as disappointing data out of the United States ...
General Electric reported higher third-quarter industrial profits Friday despite a big hit to the petroleum business as it offered a generally upbeat ...
Google's colossal project to digitize the world's books does not violate copyright law, a US appeals court ruled Friday, affirming a 2013 decision ...
England's High Court ruled Friday that the ride-sharing smartphone app Uber does not infringe a law on the use of taximeters to calculate fares.Uber ...
Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba on Friday made a multi-billion-dollar offer to buy the outstanding shares of online video company Youku Tudou -- the ...
Oscar Munoz, named chief executive of United Continental Holdings just one month ago, has been hospitalized, the company said Friday.The Wall Street ...
Nestle said Friday that laboratory tests ordered by an Indian court had found its popular Maggi noodles were safe to eat, paving the way for their ...
Turkey and Saudi Arabia on Thursday warned Russia over the consequences of its intervention in Syria, with Ankara telling Moscow its bombing ...
Syria's armed forces advanced south of the second city of Aleppo on Friday in a fresh ground offensive backed by Russian warplanes, a ...
A Qatar Airways office on the premises of the human resources department of the Ministry of Municipality and Urban Planning has issued ...
A masterpiece of the American pop art movement hits the auction block in New York next month, expected to set a new record for artist Roy ...
Australia Saturday announced plans to legalise the growing of cannabis for medicinal purposes, saying those suffering debilitating illnesses deserved ...
World markets pushed higher Friday on increasing hopes that the US Federal Reserve would put back an interest rate hike in reaction to a stream of ...
A US jury declared that Apple owes $234 million in damages for infringing on mobile chip technology patented by University of Wisconsin ...
Greece's parliament narrowly adopted further reforms demanded by the country's international creditors in return for further bailout funds.A majority ...
The company behind online dating services Tinder, Match and OkCupid notified US regulators that it plans to look for love from investors by going ...
Daily fantasy sports companies suffered another blow this week as authorities in Nevada deemed them gambling enterprises and ordered them to suspend ...
The outlook for Russia's recession-hit economy remains weak, as it struggles with international sanctions and weak oil prices, ratings agency ...
Visitors to the Frankfurt Book Fair are greeted by images of aromatic spices, mouth-watering desserts and beaming chefs as cookbooks, once a niche ...
US industrial production fell for a second straight month in September, as manufacturing declined and mining was hit by cutbacks amid declining ...
Ten of the world's leading oil and gas companies vowed Friday to help fight climate change, notably by shifting towards cleaner natural gas, but ...
The pound's rally may continue next week, having strengthened against both the euro and dollar amid speculation monetary policy in both the US ...
GFH Capital the subsidiary of GFH Financial Group Saturday announced that it has agreed to acquire an Industrial Real Estate portfolio in the ...
TUNIS: Tunisia expects economic growth to recover next year after slowing almost to a halt in 2015 when two attacks nearly wrecked the tourism ...
The world is awash in crude, but big oil companies are lining up to develop new fields in Iran even as they slash spending and abandon ...
Syrian regime forces edged forward in the northern province of Aleppo on Saturday with air cover from Russian warplanes, but faced fierce ...
Saudi Shias vowed Saturday to continue commemorations of Ashura, among the holiest occasions for their faith, even after a gunman killed five ...
One party-the banned Muslim Brotherhood-will be conspicuously absent from ballot papers today when Egypt's voters head to the polls for ...
JEDDAH: Labor law amendments that come into force today will help fight unemployment among citizens said Labor Minister Mufrej ...
As the 13-year-old Palestinian boy lay bleeding on the ground, after being shot for allegedly stabbing two Israelis, a man standing nearby ...
At least six people, including four from a single family, have been killed in flash floods caused by heavy rains hitting Oman, the sultanate's ...
Iraqi forces defused booby traps and hunted down holdout militants in the strategic Baiji area yesterday as part of their biggest advance ...
ABERDEEN: The leader of the Scottish National Party pledged Saturday to fight to keep Britain in the European Union as pressure mounts on the ...
DUBAI: A whopping 80 percent of the engineers working in the Gulf countries are foreigners. "We are currently working to scrutinize the degrees ....jpg)
Say goodbye to Miami and New Orleans. No matter what we do to curb global warming, these and other beloved US cities will sink below rising ...
WASHINGTON: Republican White House hopefuls Donald Trump and Jeb Bush locked horns after frontrunner Trump implied that former president George ...
JEDDAH: The Saudi-led military action against the Houthis has averted a civil war one that would have changed the demographics of not only Yemen ...
LONDON: England's High Court has ruled that the ride-sharing smartphone app Uber does not infringe a law on the use of taximeters to calculate ...
Saudi petrochemicals giant SABIC, the Middle East's largest listed company, said Sunday its net profit in the third quarter dropped 9.4 percent due ...
With the expected completion of Phase 3 of the Ooredoo fibre roll-out next year, Qatar will be number one worldwide in terms of fibre ...
Part of the services provided by a local exchange house has been closed by a Doha court order following its conviction in a money laundering ...
China's economy grew at its weakest pace since the global financial crisis in July-September, official data showed Monday, fuelling speculation ...
The volume initial public offering achieved in the first half of 2015 has approached EGP 5bn, head of the Egyptian Stock Market ....jpg)
Those last few rounds at the bar and the resulting hangover costs more than the price of some Advil. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and ...
Scandal-plagued Deutsche Bank, Germany's biggest lender, Sunday announced a major business and management shake-up that would "fundamentally change" ...
An elderly woman raised her voice in the polling station asking: "Where is the 'For the Love of Egypt' list" The judge answered it's ...
Three portraits of former Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin are on display in the centre of Donetsk, the rebel capital of eastern Ukraine, as the ...
It's miserable and raining outside as a few hundred tired migrants mill around a damp underpass at Vienna's main train station waiting to continue ...
Egyptian renowned writer Gamal El-Ghitani died Sunday after being a coma since August.El-Ghitani stands as one of Egypt's literature ....jpg)
> Sanafi Al Nasr, a senior leader of a group of Al Qaeda veterans sometimes referred to as the Khorasan Group was killed by a ....jpg)
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> Israeli forces killed a Palestinian after he opened fire at people at the main bus station in Beersheba, southern Palestine, on ...
By Mohammed Mukhashaf ADEN: A battalion of Sudanese troops arrived in Yemen's southern port city of Aden on Saturday military ...
DAMASCUS: Trucks carrying food and aid deliveries entered three Syria towns on Sunday nearly one month after a ceasefire agreement was ...
JEDDAH: Eyewitnesses to the attack in Saihat on Friday recalled the chaos that ensued after the lone gunman opened fire on worshippers killing ....jpg)
Elections are not mysterious events subject to the whimsy of unpredictable candidates and voters. They're actually highly predictable, with a ...
KANO Nigeria: Nigerian soldiers shot dead a suspected suicide bomber outside a military base in the northeast on Sunday detonating ...
Plans to build two next-generation nuclear reactors at Hinkley Point in southwest England are stalled at the crossroads of ambitions by Britain, ...
The persistent pay gap between women and men in the United States -- right up to Hollywood stars -- is emerging as a 2016 campaign issue, but experts ...
Oil prices slid Monday on data revealing that China's economy posted its slowest growth for more than six years, reinforcing concerns about weak ...
Mannai Corporation has posted a net profit of QR379mn for the nine-month period that ended on September 30 on a total turnover of QR4.4bn. ...
DUBAI: Thomson Reuters a leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionalshas released the quarterly investment banking ...
JEDDAH: Saudi Electricity Company has signed a SR4-billion contract to deliver electrical services for housing projects ...
> Telecommunication company Zain-Bahrain said Monday it recorded 3.4 million Bahraini Dinars in net ...
JEDDAH: Saudi Aramco said that it foiled a fraud attempt involving scammers pretending to work for India's state-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corp. ...
FRANKFURT: Two-thirds of Germans still believe Volkswagen builds 'outstanding' cars despite a high-profile emissions-test cheating scandal that ...
Amazon on Monday renewed its criticism of a New York Times investigation of the US online giant's workplace, saying the newspaper ignored and omitted ...
The fast-growing Islamic finance industry is set to slow down next year over the sharp fall in oil revenues and rapid regulatory changes, Standard ...
Controversial pharma company Valeant signaled Monday it expects to dispose of a business associated with large drug price increases and foresees much ...
Nervous investors dumped high-yielding, risky assets on Tuesday on fears about the global economy, with the Indonesian rupiah and Malaysian ringgit ...
Senior negotiators on a huge transatlantic trade treaty opened new talks in Miami Monday aiming to close some differences on key issues between the ...
Mohsen Adballah Ibrahim al Charekh the highest ranking leader of the network of veteranal-Qaidaoperatives called the ....jpg)
Former US Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger, has written to President Obama with what The Wall Street Journal calls "a clear ....jpg)
> Coalition military forces continued to attack the group known as ISIL, conducting one airstrike in Syria and 17 strikes in ....jpg)
> Four refugees were killed and 10 others wounded in an explosion that struck a Syrian refugee camp northeast of Lebanon, said ....jpg)
> Minister of Information and Minister of State for Youth Affairs Sheikh Salman Sabah Salem Al-Humoud Al-Sabah on Monday blasted ...
DAMASCUS Syria: Government forces advanced Monday under the cover of Russian airstrikes toward an air base besieged by the Daesh group in ...
JEDDAH: Women workers will be fined SR1000 if they are caught without their head cover in office under new labor laws introduced this week a ...
> German Interior Ministry spokesman said Monday the country's security services keep "a close watch" on the activities of the ...
Oil prices fell Tuesday, but not as sharply as a day earlier, as markets looked ahead to more indications of world crude demand levels amid high ...
Qatar's Ezdan Holding has raised $500mn through a Shariah-compliant loan which will be used to fund its expansion plans, the main arranger of ...
JEDDAH: Saudi Arabia's stock market fell on Monday after disappointing third-quarter earnings at several companies while Egypt rebounded from ...
US tech brand Apple topped Interbrand's ranking of the world's most valuable brands in terms of market value. The brand's worth was ...
About 45% of users in the Middle East encountered malwares in the local networks, and through USBs and storage drives in the third ...
A projected long-term drop in oil prices will drive fiscal reforms in energy-dependent Gulf states and spur public borrowing, Moody's Investor ...
Chairman and Managing Director of Qatar International Islamic Bank HE Sheikh Dr. Khalid Bin Thani Bin Abdullah Al-Thani ...
Foreign shareholders can now hold up to 49% in Nakilat listed on the Qatar Stock Exchange.Qatar Central Securities Depository has ...
Ferrari, the inimitable Italian luxury sports car maker, garnered a rich $10 billion valuation on Wall Street Tuesday as its initial public offering ...
A French court on Tuesday fined football club Paris Saint-Germain and sports giant Nike more than five million euros after finding them guilty ...
Yum Brands, the owner of KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell, announced Tuesday it is splitting off its $6.9 billion China business into a separate ...
The Russian military’s recent involvement in the Syrian conflict beginning on September 30 surprised many military ...
Preliminary results of the first phase of the parliamentary elections were announced by judges, following the vote count that started in ...
Four Daesh militants were killed in a coalition air strike in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul.A security source said four military ...
Al khalij Commercial Bank has announced its financial results for the third quarter of 2015, reporting a net profit of QR ...
FIFA has confirmed that it will hold a special congress to elect a new president early next year. It is not clear whether the suspended ...
Paris: France was on Monday left red-faced after an Algerian minister was searched at a Paris airport with the foreign ministry ...
Islamabad: A Christian woman on death row for blasphemy has been put in isolation over fears of attacks by vigilantes enraged over a ...
LONDON: The 59th edition of the London Film Festival concluded Sunday with the European premiere of the Danny Boyle-directed biopic 'Steve ...
Toyota said Wednesday it was recalling 6.5 million vehicles worldwide over a power window glitch that presented a fire risk, the latest in a string ...
The dog-walking drones and flying cars of Marty McFly's fictional 21st century are still the stuff of sci-fi in real-life 2015 -- but savvy brands ...
Al-Wad Street used to be one of the busiest within the walls of Jerusalem's Old City, but today the narrow alley is almost empty except for Israeli ...
Gulf economies need to adjust to the "new reality" of oil prices expected to remain low for some time, the International Monetary Fund says, ....jpg)
Qatar Gas Transport Company Wednesday announced a 9% increase in its net profit to QR 756.3 Million for the nine-month period ...
A Doha Criminal Court has ordered a local commercial company to pay a fine of QR1mn after being convicted of smuggling a large quantity of ...
Dubai-based developer Buroj Property Development said on Saturday it plans to invest 4.3 billion to build a luxury tourist ...
Global computer disk drive leader Western Digital announced Wednesday that it will pay $19 billion for flash memory specialist SanDisk, the latest ...
The legendary Italian racing car Ferrari brought its trademark roar to Wall Street Wednesday and fans followed suit, its shares easily overtaking the ...
Coca-Cola reported lower third-quarter earnings Wednesday in results dented by the strong dollar and lower soda volumes in the critical North ...
The European Union ordered Starbucks and Fiat on Wednesday to each repay up to 30 million euros in back taxes in a landmark tax avoidance case ...
Honda said Wednesday it would put a commercialised self-driving car on the road by 2020, challenging rivals Toyota and Nissan which are also betting ....jpg)
Israeli occupation forces early on Wednesday arrested a teenage Palestinian girl near the illegal settlement of Yitzhar in southern ...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has stirred controversy by suggesting the then head of the Muslim community in Jerusalem gave Hitler ...
Syria's embattled President Bashar al-Assad has made a surprise visit to Moscow in his first known trip overseas since his country's conflict ...
Bahrain yesterday charged 24 people with forming a cell of the Islamic State group, plotting suicide attacks and recruiting fighters for the ...
Kuwait signed 2.5bn euros worth of military fixed and provisional deals led by the purchase of 24 Airbus-built Caracal helicopters, ...
Ahmed Mohamed, the 14-year-old clock-making teenager from Texas, United States, is the latest student to accept a scholarship to Qatar ...
RIYADH: Iran has a history of using the Haj for political purposes and is doing it again with the Mina stampede according to a senior Shoura ...
Nearly one in 10 adults smokes marijuana in the US, a rate that has more than doubled in the past decade as laws and attitudes about pot relax, ...
Toy maker Lego on Wednesday warned it may be unable to deliver all European orders in the run-up to Christmas due to strong demand, meaning some ...
YouTube on Wednesday announced a new paid-subscription service that would eliminate advertisements as the video service behemoth looks to better tap ...
Facebook shares lifted Friday to an all-time high, crossing $100 for the first time, during a rally in the technology sector on Wall Street.Shares in ...
Vice Media is readying plans to launch a US TV network, and a dozen in Europe next year, as the fast-growing digital video news network moves in on ...
Toshiba is preparing to sell its image sensor operations to Sony in a deal estimated at around $165 million, reports said Saturday.The reported deal ...
As American tech giants extend their global reach, fears are growing on their side of the Atlantic over trade barriers some see as "digital ...
No one at the US tax agency will be charged in a two-year-old investigation stemming from allegations the agency improperly targeted conservative ...
US electric carmaker Tesla Motors sold more than 3,000 cars in China, the world's biggest auto market, in the first nine months of this year, it said ...
Facebook billionaire Mark Zuckerberg and his doctor wife on Friday revealed plans to start a private school in a hardscrabble Silicon Valley town, ...
Financial information giant Thomson Reuters on Friday reported a jump in profits, helped by cost-cutting even as revenues slumped due to a strong ...
A substantial shrinkage in income from investments led Qatar Industrial Manufacturing Company report a 5% decline in net profit to ...
Backed by US special operations forces, Kurdish troops stormed an Islamic State prison in Iraq early Thursday, freeing 70 hostages in a ...
Qatar Airways will acquire some 11 new aircraft over the next two months, Group Chief Executive Akbar al-Baker has said. These include the ...
Local doctors told Aida Abdulla her chest pain was an infection, arthritis or muscle strain. But when she travelled to a hospital in Khartoum months ...
A California specialty drugmaker is offering a $1 rival to a prescription drug solely supplied by Turing Pharmaceuticals, whose 5,000 percent price ...
Venezuela's ambassador to the United Nations, Rafael Ramirez, on Friday slammed a US investigation into alleged corruption under his watch at state ...
US stocks rose early Friday after China cut benchmark interest rates and Microsoft and other technology giants reported strong earnings.About 45 ...
Swedish appliances manufacturer Electrolux on Friday posted higher than expected third quarter operating profit on strong North American and European ...
US consumer products giant Procter & Gamble reported better-than-expected profits Friday, but lowered its current fiscal 2016 sales forecast due ...
Shares jumped in Sweden's Volvo on Friday after the world's second-biggest truckmaker unveiled a doubling of third quarter net profits.Net profit ...
Eurozone economic activity accelerated in October, a key business survey showed on Friday, in one of the best performances in four years which ...
An extremely rare and fully operational Nazi Enigma machine from World War II has sold for $365,000 in New York, setting a new record at auction, ...
NEW YORK: Oil fell on Friday erasing early gains as traders dismissed a rate cut by China to focus on a surging dollar and weaker spot prices ...
US Secretary of State John Kerry said Saturday that Israel has agreed on steps to calm tensions over Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa mosque, at the centre ...
Maritza Alameda saw no future in Puerto Rico, so she and her family moved to Florida, joining what has become a mass exodus as migration from the ...
Qatar National Bank forecasted in its weekly financial analysis that oil prices will stabilise around an average of USD55.0 ...
Africa's flourishing Ethiopian Airlines is clear -- the future lies in Asia and it plans to hit that point home by putting Chinese crew members on ...
German automaker Daimler has donated more than 600,000 euros to help the German Red Cross find suitable housing for the ...
Leading member of the Al-Nour Party Mahmoud Maatouk, who was the party's candidate for the parliamentary elections in Qena, announced ...
The Ministry of Religious Endowments has closed the mosque and the shrine of Imam Hussain for three days, from Thursday to Saturday, to ...
Israel lifted age restrictions for the main weekly prayers at Jerusalem's flashpoint Al-Aqsa mosque compound Friday, in an apparent bid to ...
Joint operations between Syrian and Russian forces are achieving "big results," Syria's parliament chief told a visiting Russian parliamentary ...
Malaysia's international reserves totaled $94.1 billion as on Oct. 15, up from two weeks earlier, the central bank said in a statement. ...
British singer Adele on Friday released a melancholic ballad from her hotly-anticipated new album due out on November 20, breaking a four-year ....jpg)
SHAH RUKH KHAN feels an actor has to deal with every kind of situation. "Awkward weird strange uncomfortable. Actors have to do what they ...
Catholic bishops on Saturday wrapped up a divisive synod by approving a compromise report reflecting a stalemate in the battle between the Church's ...
Waiting for a flight at New Delhi's Indira Gandhi airport, law student Shweta Toppo explains why she mostly flies IndiGo, the upstart budget airline ...
Real Madrid inflicted Celta Vigo's first defeat of the season to move three points clear at the top of La Liga thanks to a 3-1 win at Balaidos ....jpg)
RANDY BLYTHE FACED up to 10 years in a foreign prison for a crime he didn't believe he had committed. The easy road would be to never ...
Kuwaiti telecoms giant Zain said Sunday its net profits fell sharply in the third quarter and in the first nine months of 2015 due to conflict in ...
Germany should make it easier for refugees to find work, even if it means giving them part-time work and low-paid jobs, the head of European airplane ...
MIAMI: Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump dismissed polls that show him trailing Dr. Ben Carson in Iowa calling the retired ...
The European Union's top environmental official warned his colleagues that automakers were rigging European emissions tests in 2013, long before the ...
The European commissioner for the euro told Athens it has "no time to lose" in carrying out reforms its international creditors have demanded in ...
A total of 30 militants of the Islamic State group were killed in air strikes and clashes withIraqi security forces on ...
Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov has said his country would follow suit if Germany and other European states decide ...
Qatar Exchange index lost 187.25 points this week when the bourse closed Thursday afternoon at 11,584.83 points.Trading value ...
Washington: The US Department of State announced today that Washington on Monday will host Qatari-US talks between the two countries' ...
CAIRO: Rumor has it that Naglaa Fathi has tried to commit suicide over her daughter's illness reported Al Quds Al Arabi. The Egyptian ...
MUSCAT: Frankfurt Germany is set to become one of the first destinations for Oman Air's iconic new Boeing 787 Dreamliners when they enter ...
JEDDAH: Saudi Arabia and the UAE jointly account for over 45 percent of the UHNW population in the Middle East a new ...
Shatrughan Sinha Patna: BJP MP Shatrughan Sinha on Sunday accused the party leadership of sidelining him in the assembly elections in ...
By Nivedita Hyderabad: For over two decades the magic of his acting persona and charm has regaled Bollywood buffs and the saga ...
China's Communist leaders gathered on Monday to plan the country's course for the next five years, official media reported, as the world's second ...
"The Martian" regained the top spot on the North American box office charts over the weekend, dethroning spooky children's flick "Goosebumps," ...
The Federal Reserve is expected to again delay raising interest rates when it begins a two-day policy meeting on Tuesday amid more signs of lethargy ...
At Rio de Janeiro's famed Churrascaria Palace restaurant, the sizzling of steaks, the swish of carving knives and sighs of satisfied diners drowned ...
Embattled Japanese electronics giant Sharp on Monday warned it was on track to lose nearly $700 million in the half-year through September owing to a ....jpg)
Daniel Craig makes his fourth appearance as James Bond in "Spectre", which premieres on Monday, but his time as 007 may be nearing an end ...
Wal-Mart is actively looking at the possibility of using drones to make deliveries to US customers, a spokesman said, following the lead of Amazon ...
UEFA executive committee agreed Monday unanimously to support its Secretary-General Gianni Infantino, as a candidate for the ....jpg)
> The European Union welcomed Monday the invitation by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to the Yemeni government and parties ...
The Police College took part in the three-day Qatar International College Fair, held under the theme "Diversity to stimulate creativity ...
The invalidation of an agreement that allows personal data to flow between Europe and the US has prodded officials to search for a new ...
After the US-Italian car giant brought a 10-percent stake of the legendary racing car brand to Wall Street last week, it has now ...
The head of the International Energy Agency said Monday that ample supplies of oil in the world market would extend into the middle of next year, ...
General Motors and the United Auto Workers reached a tentative agreement on a new four-year labor deal Sunday, only minutes before a midnight strike ...
Two Turkish policemen and seven Islamic State suspects were killed yesterday in a shootout that has further rattled the increasingly polarised ...
Hunters in Florida over the weekend killed some 300 black bears as part of a controversial programme allowing sportsmen to track and kill the ...
In good years, Vittorio Di Cesare's tours of Jerusalem's holy sites for November and December are booked up well in advance. This year, he doesn't ...
One of the world's top meat exporters Australia Tuesday ridiculed a landmark UN report linking sausages and ham to cancer, saying it was "a farce" to ...
The UN's International Agency for Research on Cancer warned Monday that processed meats like sausages and ham cause bowel cancer, and red meat ...
US President Barack Obama won Indonesia's endorsement for a contentious trans-Pacific trade deal Monday, with the president of Southeast Asia's ...
The number of registered unemployed in France recorded in September its biggest monthly drop since the global economic crisis began in 2007, data ...
France sharply criticised on Monday the years it has taken the EU to implement auto pollution tests that are to replace the easily riggable lab tests ...
Europe's major stock markets mostly fell Monday in subdued deals, but Frankfurt eked out slender gains on better-than-expected business ...
French automaker PSA Peugeot Citroen on Monday reported a 3.2 percent boost in year-on-year sales in the third quarter despite China's sputtering ...
Buoyed by record-low borrowing costs, a Hong Kong housing boom has seen prices more than double in six years, making it one of the world's most ...
Syria's oil, gas and mineral resource industries have suffered losses totalling more than $50 billion since the country's conflict erupted in 2011, ...
The death toll from acrid haze blanketing parts of Indonesia has climbed to 19, a minister said on Wednesday, almost double the previous figure as ...
US drugstore chain Walgreens Boots Alliance announced Tuesday it would take over rival Rite Aid to strengthen its position as the country's ...
Japan's Bridgestone Corporation, the world's largest tire maker and car service company is buying automobile parts and repair company ...
Luxury hotels In Paris have taken a beating this year, with the Charlie Hebdo attacks scaring off visitors and websites like Airbnb stealing away ...
Some New York shopkeepers worry that a boom in artisanal meat could be on the skids over heightened cancer fears, but well-heeled customers say they ...
The US embargo on Cuba, which the UN General Assembly formally condemned Tuesday, is not about international politics for Elizabeth Navarro. As far ...
The Tokyo Motor Show kicked off Wednesday with a focus on cars that drive themselves, eco-friendly technologies, and a concept vehicle with ...
Germany's transportation minister said that US officials have complained about Volkswagen's cooperation over the past few months amid a global ...
Apple said Tuesday that surging iPhone sales helped propel a sharp rise in quarterly profits, as the tech giant delivered a record 48 million of the ...
European Commission head Jean-Claude Juncker on Tuesday offered some leeway on strict EU budget rules for member states struggling to cope with the ...
Volkswagen's luxury brand Bentley has recalled 27,640 cars worldwide because of potentially faulty battery cable connections, a Bentley spokesman ...
Defence Secretary Ashton Carter yesterday said the United States will ramp up attacks on Islamic State militants in Syria and Iraq, with ...
Alfardan Automobiles, the official MINI importer in Qatar, has announced a 34% year-on-year sales increase for the brand in the first nine ...
An Israeli court on Tuesday upheld a conviction of Islamic cleric Raed Salah and jailed him for 11 months for inciting violence over ....jpg)
What's in a number, you ask Plenty if you go by internationally recognised, India-based Numerologist Sanjay B Jumaani. The man credited ....jpg)
You might spot a celebrity this week in the UAE.Hollywood star Brad Pitt took time away from his family and wife Angelina Jolie to film his ....jpg)
Lupita Nyong'o will take her passion project Eclipsed all the way to Broadway, with the play - written by Danai Gurira, the playwright who ....jpg)
Enrique Iglesias is giving a helping hand to children dealing with emergencies after an accident with a drone led to him having ....jpg)
Vidya Balan will don the avatar of a coolie for upcoming television show Mission Sapne.The series will show a celebrity living a commoner's ...
The Federal Reserve is expected to again put off raising interest rates Wednesday as it keeps a cautious eye on how the sluggish global economy ...
A high-ranking Polish Catholic priest who was sacked after he came out as gay has accused the Vatican of making the lives of homosexuals "a hell", in ...
Germany's Deutsche Bank said it will not pay dividends in 2015 and 2016 as it seeks to cut costs as part of a major business and management ...
South Korea's Samsung Electronics pulled out of an extended earnings dive Thursday, reporting a nearly 30 percent surge in third-quarter net profit ...
US retail giants fanned controversy Wednesday by selling an Israeli soldier's Halloween costume for children and an "Arab" nose that civil liberties ...
With long strained US-Cuban relations on the mend, Michigan State University has become the first US school offering medical students routine ...
Goldman Sachs was fined $50 million for violating restrictions on ex-regulator employees and improperly distributing confidential regulatory ...
Smart, the small car unit of German automaker Daimler, has failed in its attempts to get workers in eastern France to work longer hours in exchange ...
The Egyptian public has been subjected to the largest act of blackmail and deception carried out by the media apparatus in the country's ...
Egypt dropped 19 spots in the World Bank's 'Doing Business' ranking in 2016, to 131 from 126 in 2015, among 188 countries included in ...
Oman's Minister Responsible for Foreign Affairs Yusuf bin Alawi bin Abdallah on Wednesday met U.N. special envoy to Syria Staffan de ...
The growing industry of cryotherapy, which exposes the body to very cold temperatures, is coming under scrutiny in the United States after a woman ...
People who are married are more likely to bounce back after heart surgery than those who are divorced, separated or widowed, US researchers said ...
Japan's factory output unexpectedly rebounded in September, data showed Thursday, tempering expectations the central bank would unleash more stimulus ...
The wide US income gap lives on after retirement as chief executives' retirement assets dwarf the nest eggs of ordinary workers, according to a study ...
Banner earnings from Apple, a big drugstore merger and another twist in the Federal Reserve's message on interest rates highlighted a week that ...
Britain's The Sun newspaper will get rid of almost the entire paywall on its website next month just two years after installing it, the company said ...
Porsche said it would recall close to 60,000 vehicles worldwide due to risks of engine leaks.The luxury arm of beleaguered auto giant Volkswagen said ...
The Nobel Prize awarded in 1963 to a Cambridge professor for his revolutionary work on the central nervous system has sold at auction for nearly ...
International Airlines Group, owner of British Airways and Iberia, upgraded its annual guidance on Friday as growing passenger numbers and lower fuel ...
Katinka Hosszu will be among the stars to watch at the upcoming World Cup in Doha. RIGHT: Tyler Clary of USA in action. Doha: A ...
ISTANBUL: A prominent Syrian activist who worked to expose Daesh atrocities in the war-torn country was found dead along with a friend in the ...
A migrant holds a baby as refugees and migrants arrive at the Greek island of Lesbos after crossing the Aegean sea from Turkey By Steve ...
Frenchman Vincent Vallee was crowned the world champion chocolate maker in Paris on Friday, beating top chocolatiers from around the globe in a ...
Church of Norway bishops said Friday that they were unanimously in favour of allowing gay couples to marry in religious ceremonies, a hot-button ...
Russia on Friday opened a major new museum on the horrors of the Soviet gulag labour camp system but President Vladimir Putin blanked the day ...
One of Britain's most prestigious art institutions installed an old car Friday as a collection point for Lego donations, after the toy company ...
The US Senate passed a two-year budget deal Friday that avoids a potentially drastic debt default -- a compromise legislative effort that President ...
The US Securities and Exchange Commission has passed rules to allow smaller companies to sell securities through crowdfunding platforms while giving ...
The International Monetary Fund on Friday urged the Federal Reserve to be cautious on raising rates, warning that tightening too fast could force it ...
A US judge on Friday accepted the priority repayment claims of hundreds more Argentine bondholders who did not join a huge debt restructuring.The ...
The Republican National Committee told NBC Friday it was suspending their broadcast partnership after the US network's cable news subsidiary was ...
Valeant Pharmaceuticals said Friday it was cutting ties with mail-order pharmacy Philidor RX, which will shut down operations as soon as possible, ...
Denmark's Noma, voted the world's best restaurant four times, said Friday that reservations for its 10-week pop-up eatery in Sydney had sold out in ...
European stock markets fell Friday afternoon as many investors cashed in gains after a bumper month for equities and digested uninspiring company ...
Finnish telecoms group Nokia on Friday announced it had inked a slew of deals worth a billion dollars to sell equipment and ...
Brig Engineer Muhammad Abdullah Al Maliki and Faisal bin Fahad Al Thani exchanging the signed documents. Doha: Maersk Oil Qatar is the ...
Two of Europe's largest airlines have decided to avoid flying over the Sinai peninsula while they wait for clarity on what caused a Russian ....jpg)
Jerry Heller, former manager of American hip hop group N.W.A., has filed a defamation suit over "Straight Outta Compton", claiming that the ...
Ferrari have defended their use of a veto to block plans for a price ceiling for Formula One engines and gearboxes, according to team boss Maurizio ...
Qatar's population which showed a growth of approximately 160,000 in the one year between September 30, 2014 and September 30, 2015 consisted ...
RIYADH: Rectors of higher education in the Gulf Cooperation Council recently discussed the possibility of allowing GCC citizens to study at ...
Richie McCaw and his All Black stars clear up the locker room after each game in a gesture that might horrify multi-millionaire footballers.It is ...
Irina Semyonova said her friend Natasha last called her from the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh to say she'd bought her a present of ...
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro personally ordered opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez's arrest to take him out of the "political game," said ...
Shell is inviting all university students in Qatar to participate in the "Shell Ideas360" competition, an event that encourages students ...
The National Robot Olympiad will go a long way in generating interest in science, research and technology among the country's children, ...
A refrigerated truck is towed and escorted by police along a highway near Neusiedl am See Austria on 27 August 2015 Sofia: Some 130 ...
The cry of roosters drowns out the roar of engines beneath a Bangkok flyover as all eyes are trained on two sparring birds, a bloody, high stakes ...
Nigeria looks set to unbundle a long-awaited oil law to speed up its passage through parliament, potentially unlocking billions of dollars in frozen ...
A flood of cheap money is financing the biggest boom in mega-mergers and takeovers since the 2008 global financial crisis.But analysts warn that ...
In Mozambique's bars and street stalls, the tipple of choice nowadays is a cold "Impala" -- a beer made from cassava rather than barley that is fast ...
Activity in China's vast manufacturing sector shrank for the third month in a row in October, officials said Sunday, adding to fears that growth in ...
Japan Post is set to make its long-awaited market debut after the year's biggest share sale, in what some see as a test of Tokyo's bid to shake up ...
China raised the central rate for its yuan currency by the largest amount in a decade on Monday, officials and reports said, just three months after ...
Construction work has begun in Bahrain to build Britain's first permanent military base in the Middle East since it 1971, amid security ...
Germany's second biggest banking group Commerzbank said Sunday that its chief executive Martin Blessing had declined to stay on at the helm beyond ...
Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal's Kingdom Holding Company announced Sunday the sale of its almost 30-percent share in a press group that ...
PARIS: A flood of cheap money is financing the biggest boom in mega-mergers and takeovers since the 2008 global financial crisis. But analysts ...
Israel's economy minister resigned on Sunday, opening the way for the government to greenlight a multibillion dollar gas deal with US energy giant ...
Iran's supreme leader dismissed Sunday the chances of foreign countries bartering a deal over Syria's future, suggesting they should focus on ...
The veteran Franco-Tunisian author Hedi Kaddour is the favourite to win France's top literary award, the Goncourt, when it is announced on Tuesday, ...
Australian banking giant Westpac on Monday posted a six percent rise in full-year net profit to a record Aus$8.01 billion with ...
HSBC saw pre-tax profit surge 32 percent year-on-year in the third quarter on the back of lower fines, the banking giant announced Monday, but ...
With his armoured 4x4 parked at the entrance of an abandoned gold mine shaft in South Africa, the security guard armed with a gun and a bullet proof ...
China's first big passenger plane rolled off the assembly line on Monday as the Asian giant seeks to develop its own aviation sector and challenge ...
Volkswagen will negotiate a settlement with Brazilian justice officials for allegedly allowing the torture and detention of employees opposed to ...
New York City's giant Halloween Parade brought thousands to the streets to celebrate the ghoulish and spooky -- from Donald Trump to witches; from ...
A Russian airliner that crashed in Egypt broke up "in the air" strewing fragments across a wide area, an expert said yesterday as ...
Leading sports and entertainment network beIN, marking its 12th anniversary, has announced an expansion of its platform through the launch of ...
HH the Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani attended a ceremony to mark the 19th anniversary of Al Jazeera Media Network, which was held at ...
Apartments in Stockholm cost around $6350 per square metre on a par with London's $6750. Stockholm: House buyers in Sweden have ...
A lower court in Kuwait on Monday sentenced five men to 10 years in jail each for raising funds for the Islamic State jihadist group.Three of ...
The Turkish lira and stocks soared on Monday after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's Justice and Development Party was returned to power in a ...
Ireland aims to become the latest European nation to introduce supervised heroin injecting rooms in a radical overhaul of its approach to substance ...
Kia has announced it has been ranked 74th on Interbrand's 2015 list of 100 Best Global Brands. The international brand consultancy featured ...
The all-new GTS version of Porsche's compact SUV Macan is available for order, Porsche Centre Doha of Al Boraq Automobiles announced ....jpg)
> President Barack Obama on Monday signed into law the bipartisan, two-year budget agreement that passed the US Congress last ....jpg)
Pop star Justin Bieber says he almost turned his back on his music career after people started to view him as a reality TV star due to his ...
Mary Helen Abbott, 77, paints her lips bright pink, still smokes the occasional cigarette, keeps up on all the gossip at the retirement home and ...
Darth Vader's distinctive helmet-headed silhouette swoops in to seize control of a spaceship, but this is not the movies -- instead his movements are ...
US video game producer Activision Blizzard has announced that it is buying King Digital Entertainment, best known for its "Candy Crush Saga" mobile ...
Asia-focused British bank Standard Chartered said Tuesday it would axe 15,000 jobs and raise $5.1 billion in capital after posting a "disappointing" ...
Australia's central bank Tuesday held interest rates at a record low 2.0 percent, but kept the door open for further easing as the economy slows on ...
The flagship World Golf Championships-HSBC Champions will stay in China for the next five years with an increased prize fund of $9.5 million, ...
EU countries are still failing to tackle tax avoidance practices despite vowing to shut down loopholes after the LuxLeaks scandal one year ago, a ...
Japan's Nissan on Monday raised its full-year forecasts, citing new model rollouts along with upbeat sales in North America and Europe that offset ...
The Russian airline whose Airbus plane crashed in Egypt killing all 224 people on board has a chequered history including another fatal accident and ...
Commerzbank, Germany's second biggest lender, said Monday that profits were down in the third quarter, but it still planned to pay out a dividend to ...
A strike at Brazil's state owned oil giant Petrobras has reduced crude production by more than 20 percent, a union leader said Tuesday.The company ...
US teenagers average more than six and a half hours a day in front of screens, from televisions to tablets, with pre-teens lagging close behind, a ...
's launched on Wednesday a high-end brand named after its sedan as it looks to expand its presence in the fast-growing luxury auto market., which ...
The World Bank agreed to raise Egypt's portfolio from $5.5bn to $6bn, increasing the bank's commitment to support a number of projects ...
Madrid: Spain's jobless total rose for a third straight month in October to 4.18 million the employment ministry said on Tuesday. ...
Swedish retail giant H&M on Tuesday signed an agreement promising better labour rights for 1.6 million garment workers at its suppliers' ...
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi dismissed claims that militant groups in Sinai were able to target the Russian Metrojet plane, ...
The new 2016 Ford Explorer, which offers more technologies than previous models to enhance the driving experience, has arrived in Qatar.New ...
Shell was on Tuesday accused of making false claims about the extent of its oil spill clean-up operations in Nigeria and urged to take more action to ...
Workers assembling a Porsche Cayenne model on the production line of the German luxury carmaker Porsche plant a Vokswagen brand in Leipzig ....jpg)
South Korean singer Psy is set to release his first album for more than three years, with the Gangnam Style star vowing a return "to his ...
Perched above a lush chasm in the mountains of southern Colombia sits a towering gray basilica where both victims and fighters caught up in the ...
As an army of labourers churns out limestone bricks, archeologist Prashantha Mandawala reflects on the ambitious task of restoring Sri Lanka's ...
An unlikely group is leading the legal battle to break Mexico's marijuana ban: Two attorneys, an accountant and a social activist with no interest in ...
French anti-tank missiles, Swedish jets and American assault rifles -- Western governments have criticised Thailand's junta for toppling democracy ...
Takata shares plunged a fifth Wednesday after top client Honda dumped it as an airbag parts supplier and US regulators slapped it with a record fine, ...
Japan Post skyrocketed on its trading debut Wednesday after the biggest initial public offering this year, lifting hopes that privatising what is ...
Shoppers flocked to US car dealerships in October, with most automakers reporting strong sales gains on Tuesday, but the emissions scandal plaguing ....bmp)
> Saudi Minister of Finance Dr. Ibrahim bin Abdulaziz Al-Assaf has confirmed the Saudi economy ability to overcome the stage of ...
> Jazeera Airways Group recorded Wednesday a 2.4 percent rise in net profits for the quarter, bringing its nine-month net profit ...
Mexico's Supreme Court opened the door to recreational use of marijuana in a landmark ruling, giving a group of activists permission to grow and ...
German banking giant Deutsche Bank will pay $258 million in fines for doing business with US-sanctioned countries like Iran and Syria, US regulators ...
US online travel booking giant Expedia said Wednesday it agreed to acquire the vacation marketplace HomeAway for $3.9 billion.The deal comes weeks ...
When Oxana's sailor father left his home in 's Black Sea port of in September, he just said he would be going to "the Mediterranean Sea".But the ...
The chief of state-owned Kuwait Petroleum Corp has refused to carry out the oil minister's decision to swap the CEOs of two subsidiaries, ....jpg)
Antonio Banderas doesn't want children with his girlfriend Nicole Kimpel as of now.The Desperado star began dating Kimpel last year but the ....jpg)
Filipino boxing legend Manny Pacquiao was received warmly by fans and supporters upon his arrival in the UAE on Monday night.His first time ...
A text written for a 10-year-old child and signed by Abraham Lincoln just weeks before he was assassinated sold in New York on Wednesday for $2.2 ...
Shares in crisis-hit autoparts maker Takata plunged again on Thursday, losing a quarter of their value and deepening the loss caused by fatal faults ...
Authorities are investigating the chairman of China Southern Airlines, the country's biggest carrier, for "severe violations of discipline", ...
Troubled Japanese conglomerate Toshiba is expected to announce a whopping loss of 90 billion yen for the six months to September as it ...
Kraft Heinz said Wednesday it would close seven manufacturing facilities in North America and cut 2,600 jobs as it streamlines following the merger ...
The United States formally rejected Wednesday a request from the Canadian company that wants to build the Keystone XL pipeline for a pause in the US ...
Embattled Volkswagen's credit rating was cut by Moody's on Wednesday as the toll on the German automaker grew over its cheating on emissions.Moody's ...
The European vintage for 2015 should be of "a very high quality" after a year marked by clement weather and succesful harvests, wine growers said ...
Fans of Tokyo's soon-to-be demolished Hotel Okura are getting a chance to purchase memorabilia from the sixties-era modernist masterpiece, which has ...
Drug overdoses have reached epidemic levels in the United States where they are the leading cause of injury deaths, surpassing car accidents and ...
Fifteen-year-old Ousseina's dream of becoming a nurse is already over. "For me, school's finished," said the frail teenager who sells eggs by a ...
"Fantastic Four" was not so fantastic for 21st Century Fox, as a weak performance by the superhero film dragged on the earnings of ...
An Asian collector splurged nearly $43 million on an Amadeo Modigliani painting in New York, scooping the top prize in an otherwise lackluster ...
Energy-rich Turkmenistan's leader has ordered the start of construction on a pipeline carrying gas from the former Soviet state to India, Pakistan ...
Black box data from the Russian plane that crashed in Egypt last week indicates it was hit by a bomb, sources said, before an Egypt-led probe ...
The United States is ready to provide Ukraine with the third loan of $1 billion should Kiev continue its efforts fighting corruption ...
Toyota Motor said Friday it would invest 1 billion dollars to establish a new company in the United States with a focus on artificial ....jpg)
Will Smith, one of the first mainstream rappers who has since become an Oscar-nominated actor, is returning to music with a tour.Smith has ...
Qatar Airways took delivery of its 24th and 25th Boeing 787 Dreamliners recently in a ceremony at Boeing's production facility in ...
The Islamic State group released 37 Syrian Christians Saturday, most of them women, who were among more than 200 people kidnapped in February, ....jpg)
It's our most iconic landmark. The Burj Khalifa has put the UAE on the map in more ways than one. The world's tallest building has been ...
Huge blue and pink diamonds, the star attractions at major jewel auctions in Geneva in the coming days, are expected to fetch tens of millions of ...
The United States said yesterday it was stepping up security screenings of US-bound flights from some Middle East airports as a precaution ...
Indian actress Kareena Kapoor Khan recently inaugurated Malabar Gold & Diamonds' 140th outlet on Hamdan Street, Abu Dhabi, in the presence of ....jpg)
IT MAY HAVE been Puff Daddy's birthday, but the music mogul gave out the gifts: The rapper released free music on Wednesday.Puff Daddy, ....jpg)
After Quentin Tarantino was slammed by the National Association of Police Organizations for his protests on police brutality, Jamie Foxx ...
Since Rokhsar Azamee began driving the streets of Kabul last year, she has endured condescension, ridicule, and even threats to her life with some ...
The major legacy television companies are struggling to find the formula to stem the loss of customers to Internet rivals like Netflix, Amazon and ...
A unique Patek Philippe stainless steel watch fetched a record $7.3 million when it went under the hammer in Geneva Saturday, with the proceeds going ...
China recorded its highest trade surplus on record last month, official data showed Sunday, as plunging imports highlighted the country's continued ...
Mohammed Mansour worries that the Russian tourists at his hotel could be the last for some time after Moscow stopped flights to Egypt over the ...
Infra-red scanning of King Tutankhamun's tomb could support a British archeologist's theory that Queen Nefertiti -- or another ancient Egyptian royal ...
Autoparts maker Takata faced a further blow on Saturday, after carmaker Nissan followed Toyota and Honda in deciding to cease its use of the ...
International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde warned Sunday that global energy prices could remain low for years and urged Gulf countries to ...
South Korean tech behemoth Samsung Electronics Co. became the top smartphone seller in five major regions of the world in the third ...
Luxury Swiss watchmaker TAG Heuer will next week launch a smartwatch aimed at taking on the Apple Watch, but with an asking price of $15,000, the ...
JEDDAH: A woman terror convict is repenting that she made the wrong decision of joining the Al-Qaeda terror group which she said always misled ...
The Swiss luxury hotel chain Kempinski is pressing criminal charges against its former president and chief executive Reto Wittwer, who is suspected ...
Apple has defeated a class action lawsuit from its California store employees seeking back pay for the time taken to undergo checks of their bags ...
> At least 17 civilians were killed and dozens of others wounded when Russian warplanes pounded Idlib and Aleppo governorates in ...
Toshiba said Saturday it sued five former executives for damages over their alleged roles in a huge accounting scandal, as it announced a deep ...
Alibaba Group Holding agreed to buy video service Youku Tudou in a deal said to be valued at $4.8bn in total, as billionaire Jack Ma seeks to ...
Taking the bus or train to work may be even healthier than walking, according to a new study published Sunday by the American Heart ....jpg)
John Herbst, a former U.S. diplomat, wasn't trying to flatter his German hosts when he took a dig at Washington late last month - he was just ....jpg)
Special occasions in India centre around food, especially festivities like Diwali when more than anything else people bask in warmth and ....jpg)
Dubai's VIP Room will again be hosting its pop-up night club for the third year running at the 2015 Formula 1 Race from November 27 to ...
South Korea ranked high in fiscal health among members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development . The OECD ....jpg)
Angelina Jolie says it was good working with her star husband Brad Pitt on their latest film By The Sea, but it wasnt easy.Comparing the ...
A forecast-busting surge in US jobs last month sent the dollar surging against emerging market currencies Monday while more weak trade data out of ...
An Australian environmental group Monday launched a new legal challenge to a huge, India-backed coal mine, saying the government's recent re-approval ...
Latvia's airBaltic will be the first airline to operate Bombardier's CS300 plane commercially in about a year's time, the Canadian manufacturer said ...
Global warming could elevate disease, ravage crops and push 100 million more people into poverty without action to prevent it, the World Bank warned ...
The Dubai Airshow took off Sunday to a slow start with a record low in sales expected as the Gulf's main airlines have already placed large orders ...
French Prime Minister Manuel Valls said Sunday he was opposed to a full merger of Renault and Nissan, but wanted to "preserve the alliance", ...
Leading crude oil exporter Saudi Arabia warned on Monday of a supply crisis after massive energy investments were cancelled because of the sharp ...
Jose Mourinho enters the international break with his future as Chelsea manager under closer scrutiny than ever before following his team's ...
The world's biggest banks must bolster their cash reserves by up to 1.1 trillion euros as protection against any future financial ...
Emirates could issue a conventional or Islamic bond in 2016 to raise as much as $1 billion to be used to fund around ....jpg)
Salman Khan has essayed a romantic hero in umpteen films, but the actor, who makes his female fans go weak in the knees, says he never felt ...
A Belgian court on Monday gave Facebook 48 hours to stop tracking Internet users who do not have accounts with the US social media giant, or risk ....jpg)
Russia and Iran have signed a contract under which Moscow will supply Tehran with S-300 surface-to-air missile systems.Sergei ...
Volkswagen is expected to offer cash to owners of diesel cars in the United States this week as it steps up an effort to recover some ...
Venus Williams will return to the top 10 in the rankings for the first time in half a decade as the 35-year-old defeated an opponent a dozen ...
A more aggressive approach to lowering blood pressure could help millions of people over age 50, according to the results of a major US study ...
An Asia-Pacific summit next week should not discuss rising tensions in the South China Sea, Beijing said Tuesday, after a regional defence ministers' ...
Brazilian authorities have halted operations at an iron ore mine where the collapse of a waste reservoir triggered a deadly mudslide, the latest blow ...
A further slowdown in Chinese inflation compounded worries about the world's number-two economy Tuesday, adding to selling pressure in Asian markets ...
Japan said Tuesday its current account surplus more than quadrupled in the six months to September thanks to an improving trade picture and buoyant ...
Eurozone finance ministers told Greece on Monday to deliver overdue reforms in order to unlock two billion euros from its bailout as tensions ...
At home her son still calls her daddy, at work she dresses in a masculine style, but this Chinese person has a "little secret" -- she was born male, ...
Nestle's hugely popular Maggi noodles returned Monday to shelves in India five months after the government banned them over lead levels, in one of ...
Narendra Modi will begin his first visit to Britain as Indian prime minister on Thursday, seeking to boost investment in his booming country and win ...
A Chinese collector snapped up a sensuous Modigliani nude for $170.4 million in New York, setting a new world record price at auction for the Italian ...
The head of the International Monetary Fund said Tuesday that the global slump in oil prices was a "splendid wake-up call" for energy-producing ...
The big screen shows live data of gross merchandise volume of the 2015 Tmall Global Shopping Festival Wednesday Last year it took 38 ...
A spectacular pink diamond, the largest of its kind to ever appear at auction, sold for $28.5 million on Tuesday, narrowly ...
The European Central Bank has been hit by new lawsuits from German eurosceptic politicians over its vast bond-buying programme, several sources said ....jpg)
OLIVIA CULPO, WINNER of Miss USA and Miss Universe in 2012, is in Dubai this week for a series of fashion, beauty and lifestyle events from ....jpg)
TALK SHOW QUEEN Oprah Winfrey has expressed disagreement with people who put down the Jenner-Kardashian family for being "famous for ...
A Lucian Freud portrait of the ex-husband of Britain's Duchess of Cornwall, Andrew Parker Bowles, sold for $34.89 million in New York, Christie's ...
Some obese children as young as eight show significant signs of heart disease, according to research presented Tuesday at a major US cardiology ...
Always envious Got a non-existent social life and struggle to concentrate All this might be down to Facebook if you believe a study showing those who ...
Electronic ads were affected by the negative impacts of the dollar price increase against the Egyptian pound. Facebook ads were among ....jpg)
The stunning actress, a Bond Girl and Oscar winner , is among celebdom's most vocal diabetes awareness ....jpg)
JOHNNY DEPP SAYS he can barely bring himself to look at his own performances on the big screen."I hate watching myself on screen. I can't ...
An unexpected Netflix outage temporarily stymied unspecified numbers of members trying to stream television shows in the United States, Mexico and ...
The EU misspent 6.3 billion euros in 2014, the bloc's financial watchdog said on Tuesday, urging Brussels to take a "wholly new ...
The Chinese collector who bought a sensuous Modigliani nude for $170.4 million in New York is former taxi driver turned tycoon Liu Yiqian, who has ...
China's trade with African states has grown about ten times in the last decade, with the total value likely to hit 300 billion US ...
Russia announced yesterday that it has agreed to push on with a deal to deliver S-300 missile systems to Iran after Moscow halted an earlier ....jpg)
When 19-year-old Essena O'Neill called Instagram 'dishonest' and quit the platform after crying in a two-minute long video on YouTube, she ...
Global Telecom reports revealed that they has lost about $32m during the third quarter of 2015, a 13.4% loss compared to Q2, but ...
Savings certificates offered by Banque Misr with a yield of 12.5% increased to attract EGP ���‹3.4bn on Tuesday, according to an ...
Arab and South American leaders converged on Saudi Arabia on Tuesday for a summit aiming to strengthen ties between the geographically distant ...
Shoppers spent around $9 billion in the first 12 hours of China's "Singles Day" sale on Wednesday, e-commerce giant Alibaba said, in the world's ...
Fed up with record-low interest rates, a growing number of Germany's avid savers are throwing caution to the wind and allowing themselves to be lured ...
Japan's first passenger jet made its maiden test flight Wednesday, a landmark in a decade-long programme to launch the plane aimed at competing with ...
French company Alstom said Tuesday it has won a 3-billion-euro contract under which it will open a factory in India to supply the ...
The G20 group of major economies spend $452 billion per year supporting fossil fuel industries, despite their primary role in causing climate change, ...
Italy's top bank UniCredit announced Wednesday it would cut its staff by 18,200 within two years to save 1.6 billion euros .A third of ...
The Mitsubishi Regional Jet , Japan's first jetliner in half a century, made its maiden test flight Wednesday at an airport in ...
An Apple manager has apologised to six teenagers of African descent after staff kicked them out of an Australian store citing concerns they "might ...
Lufthansa scrapped 930 more flights on Wednesday, grounding 100,000 passengers after a court allowed cabin staff to press on with a strike that is ...
Carlsberg said Wednesday it was cutting 2,000 white-collar jobs as the Danish brewing giant tries to come to grips with a shrinking Russian beer ....jpg)
RELEASING HOUSE MUSIC records since the early nineties, Kerri Chandler comes from a long line of jazz and soul musicians.Known for hits ....jpg)
Strings founding members Bilal Maqsood and Faisal Kapadia began their journey to prominence in Karachi. They soon enjoyed growing ....jpg)
FOR MANY OF us, there's nothing more satisfying than curling up with a good book. Especially if the book is about secrets and The Black ....jpg)
WITH SO MANY theatre activities and movie production from across the world, Dubai is perhaps the right place for a global acting academy. ...
A British aid worker faces jail for trying to smuggle a young girl from a French migrant camp into Britain, triggering a flood of support ....jpg)
KATE HUDSON IS the latest actress with advice to share on health and wellness.Dey Street Books announced on Tuesday that it is publishing ....jpg)
SOME LIT UP, others were pretty - and patriotic - in pink and still more burst forth like fireworks.Yes, Tuesday was Victoria's Secret ...
The state of New York will raise the minimum wage for all of its state employees to 15 dollars an hour, Governor Andrew Cuomo said ...
The latest "Call of Duty" video game boasted an opening weekend that blew away any other game, film, book or music debut this year, the company ...
It may look little more than blackboard scrawls to the untrained eye, but a Cy Twombly work fetched $70.53 million in New York, setting a new auction ...
E-commerce giant Alibaba said Thursday that Chinese and international consumers spent more than $14 billion in the world's biggest online shopping ...
Australia's jobless rate dropped to a better-than-expected 5.9 percent in October, data showed Thursday, lowering expectations that the central bank ...
France has sold an iconic neoclassical palace with a large park in the heart of Vienna to Qatar following a belt-tightening drive.The French embassy ...
Paris: "This time it's war" declared the Le Parisien daily as France's media reacted with horror but determination ...
The United States fined French energy and transport giant Alstom SA $772 million for bribing government officials in Indonesia, Egypt and several ...
A Brazilian court on Friday froze 300 million reais from the accounts of Samarco, operator of an iron ore mine where a dam burst killed ...
Google playfully posted a photo of a motorcycle cop pulling over one of it self-driving cars on Thursday for riding along at a cautious pace."Driving ...
SAN FRANCISCO: Facebook users in France were able to send vanishing missives with its smartphone Messenger application ramping up the challenge ...
Taxi drivers blocked a central street in Montevideo on Friday to prevent ride-sharing service Uber from training new drivers as it seeks to roll out ...
Drugmaker Mylan lost its bid Friday to take over Ireland-based Perrigo after it failed to get enough support from shareholders in its hostile $35 ...
US mini-camera maker GoPro, which gained notoriety and a devoted following of extreme sports enthusiasts, on Thursday ended the stock market trading ...
DOHA: With plans to plant at least nine types of new date palm trees Qatar aims to be self-sufficient in date production sooner rather ...
Amman: Jordan's bank deposits increased 6.5% to 32.24 Billion dinars for the period ended September 30 compared with 30.261 Billion ...
France was rocked by multiple near simultaneous attacks on entertainment sites around Paris on Friday evening and French media said at ...
JEDDAH: The Al-Matar branch municipality closed down a Pizza Hut restaurant in Al-Bawadi neighborhood in Jeddah after an inspection team found ...
LONDON: The world is awash with oil having built record stockpiles in recent months and slowing demand growth combined with resilient non-OPEC ...
PARIS: At least 100 people died in a popular Paris concert hall where attackers seized hostages Friday an official said one of at least six ...
LONDON: British Airways found itself under attack from fans of Sachin Tendulkar on Friday after the Indian cricket great complained on Twitter ...
Moscow: Russian aviation authorities have banned Egypt Air from flying into the country one of Moscow's airports said Friday with Russian ...
Poor European growth data and fears that US consumer spending has stalled ahead of the Christmas season sent global shares sharply lower on Friday.US ...
China on Saturday welcomed backing from IMF experts that the yuan should be included in its reserve currencies, saying the move would strengthen the ...
Airbus on Friday announced a deal with Portuguese carrier TAP for 53 long- and medium-haul new generation neo jets, with a catalogue value of $8.5 ...
China will double the deposit required for investors to borrow funds to trade stocks –- known as margin trading -- the Shanghai stock exchange said ...
NEW YORK: Once squeaky clean and baby-faced teen stars Justin Bieber and One Direction have quickly discovered the harsh realities of living in ...
Cable and wire maker Ducab said it won $130 million orders from oil and gas firms in Abu Dhabi and Kuwait. During the year the company ...
A total of 129 people have died in the Paris terrorist attacks, prosecutor Francois Molins said. Another 352 people have been injured, ...
PARIS: The Eiffel Tower will be closed indefinitely following the wave of deadly attacks in Paris the iconic landmark's operator said on ...
The World Bank Board of Executive Directors approved US$225 million in financing to improve road sector management in Bolivia. The ....jpg)
Madonna says she does not enjoy socialising much as her life revolves mostly around her family.The 57-year-old also shared that she leads a ...
Perhaps everything's bigger in America, as the old saw goes, but when it comes to mobile phone calls and data usage, US consumers are certainly ....jpg)
Lithium ion batteries power a wide range of electronics, including electric cars. But researchers say it's unlikely to be the battery of the ...
It is almost impossible to write about an incident that involves the loss of human life without first expressing grief and condolences ...
While hundreds of Russians were leaving Sharm El-Sheikh, other Russians spotted in the city confirmed their plans to continue working in ...
Responding to a campaign initiated by the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism, hotels in Sharm El-Sheikh applied a 25% discount rate on their ...
Suez Canal traffic data from 6 € 12 November revealed that 338 ships transited the canal with a total load of 19,388m tonnes, compared ...
Top Russian airline Aeroflot will suspend flights to and from Egypt from 1 December 2015 to 27 March 2016, the company's press service ...
Egyptian security forces reportedly arrested a young groom, Badr Al-Gamal, during his wedding celebrations in the Al-Mamoura district of ...
The "Islamic State" militant group claimed responsibility for the attacks that killed dozens in Paris on Friday.The group said in ...
Three Israeli reconnaissance warplanes violated Lebanon's airspace and executed circular maneuvers over the south, West Bekaa, Riyak, ...
U.S. authorities said there is no known threat to the American homeland in the wake of the deadly terror attacks in Paris, but cities ...
New vehicles cost more in Qatar than in other GCC countries, according to a vast majority of respondents in a new official survey.More than ...
Some 1,400 youth and other individuals benefited from Qatar Red Crescent Society's series of lectures and training on first-aid for the ...
semi-secret life sciences lab, and a general commitment to supporting medical research. Google's venture into the world of biotechnology ....jpg)
ONCE UPON A time, prehistoric man looked up at the sky and observed day turn into night. Then there were sundials, water clocks and ....jpg)
Singer Gwen Stefani says she would consider her new album a "break-up record".The Voice coach - who announced her split from Gavin Rossdale ....jpg)
HER PERSONAL LIFE is always under public scrutiny, be it her relationship status or marriage plans, but Anushka Sharma says she doesn't ....jpg)
Serena Williams is the top tennis player in the world and an emerging fashion designer. But she still needs something to do in that down ...
Topless, with slogans scrawled on their bare skin, feminist protesters in Rio made a colorful sight Saturday, yet their worries about horrific ...