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 Japan and China have more of the world's best restaurants than anywhere else, according to the La Liste ranking, which will be published next ... 'We are in danger': French Army translators left behind to Taliban
 The Taliban have tried to kill Zainullah, a former translator for the French Army, twice already, he says, warning that the insurgents have expanded ... Indonesia's 'Niqab Squad' takes aim at face veil prejudice
Riding a horse or nailing an archery target is tough at the best of times -- it's even harder when you're wearing a niqab.But that isn't about to ... Istanbul anglers keep up tradition despite stocks alarm
 After half a century of fishing, 65-year-old Fuat, a retired Turkish civil servant, is nostalgic for the good old days when the Bosphorus Strait in ... Pink diamond sells for over $32 mn in Hong Kong
 An enormous oval diamond named the "Pink Promise" was sold Tuesday for an eye-watering US$32.16 million at auction in Hong Kong.The 14.93-carat pink ... Iraqis throng to Picasso in Baghdad
 Picasso, Dali, Miro, Chagall... names that are instantly recognisable in the international art world. Now works by these masters are being exhibited ... Graveyard an unlikely dorm as Myanmar Catholics flock to pope
 As dawn breaks, Zaw Ba stirs from a night's sleep tucked among tombstones in a Yangon churchyard -- the only place left to camp as Catholics stream ... Australia's 'compassionate' Victoria first to legalise euthanasia
 An Australian state Wednesday became the first in the country to legalise assisted dying, or euthanasia, with lawmakers voting to allow terminally ... For Gabon's sickly uranium miners, a long quest for compensation
 "We are all sick. It's our health, and we are being conned," Moise Massala says angrily.The 82-year-old is a retired geochemist who used to work in a ... Venezuela's Maduro says he could stop oil sales to US
 Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro floated the idea Tuesday of cutting off oil sales to the United States, which buys almost half its output.Never ... Brazil's economy firms, shifting political landscape ahead of polls
 After a torrid couple of years, Brazil's battered economy is expected to confirm signs of recovery this week, shifting the ground under the already ... Small Catalan companies tempted to relocate
 Small Catalan firms are moving their headquarters outside of the region or setting up parallel companies to skirt a boycott of goods from Catalonia ... Amount of soft loans allocated for construction of bread plants in Azerbaijan revealed
 By So far, the National Fund for Entrepreneurship Support of Azerbaijan has allocated soft loans worth 54 million manats for ... Energy Charter holding its forum in Ashgabat
 By The 28th session of the Energy Charter Conference kicked off in Ashgabat on November 29, a source familiar with the event's organization ... Azerbaijan to join first meeting of ombudsmen of Turkic-speaking countries
 By The first meeting of ombudsmen of Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Northern Cyprus will be held in Ankara, ... Kazakhstan presents plan on development until 2025
 By The Kazakh Government has submitted a strategic plan for development of Kazakhstan until 2025. The plan describes how the life of citizens ... Amount of funds saved within SOCAR Polymer project revealed
 Baku, Azerbaijan, Nov. 29 By Maksim Tsurkov � Trend: About $100 million were saved as part of implementation of the SOCAR Polymer ... Final investment decision on SOCAR GPC project to be made in mid-2018
 Baku, Azerbaijan, Nov. 29 Trend: A Final Investment Decision on the project of SOCAR GPC, gas processing and petrochemical ... PM: NATO didn't provide necessary support to Turkey
 Baku, Azerbaijan, Nov. 29 By Rufiz Hafizoglu � Trend: NATO did not provide the necessary support to Turkey in the military sphere, ... Japan, China dominate list of world's top restaurants
Japan and China have more of the world's best restaurants than anywhere else, according to the La Liste ranking, which will be published next ... Merkel scolds ally to shield coalition talks
 German Chancellor Angela Merkel scolded a minister yesterday in a bid to shield talks on forming a coalition government from a dispute between ... N Korea says new ICBM puts US mainland within range of nuclear weapons
 * Kim Jong Un declares North Korea a nuclear power * New Hwasong-15 missile can reach all US: N Korea * Missile lands in Japan exclusive ... Chinese teacher used needles to 'discipline' children: police
 A Beijing kindergarten teacher used sewing needles to punish children for not sleeping, police said, but other abuse claims have been rejected ... Facebook AI removes terror posts even before flagged
 IANS San Francisco, Using Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning techniques, Facebook is successfully removing all ... Moore suggest his allegations are reminiscent of Russian probe
 GOP Alabama Senate runner Roy Moore suggested that allegations of misconduct made against him bare resemblance to the probe conducted by Robert Mueller ... Ex-security adviser Flynn might be under investigation by Muller
 Based on a letter sent to BuzzFeed News from the agency, an inquiry is suspected to be in place against Michael Flyn, Ex-White House national security ... Azerbaijani currency rates for November 29
 Baku, Azerbaijan, Nov. 29 Trend: The official exchange rate of US dollar and euro to Azerbaijani manat for Nov. 29 was set at ... Iran, Turkey never this close
 Tehran, Iran, November 26 By Mehdi Sepahvand - Trend: Turkish Minister Economy of Nihat Zeybekci on November 26 met with Iranian ... Azerbaijani currency rates for November 29 (UPDATE)
 Details added Baku, Azerbaijan, Nov. 29 Trend: The official exchange rate of US dollar and euro ... Kuwait- KFH set to participate in World Islamic Banking Conference - Confab to be held in Bahrain from December 4-6
KUWAIT CITY, Nov 28: Kuwait Finance House to participate in the 24th Annual World Islamic Banking Conference themed 'Drivers of ... Kuwait stocks index dips as trading turns anemic - Markaz sheds 15 fils KFH gains KUWAIT CITY, Nov 28: Kuwait stocks swung lower on Tuesday after treading water in the previous session. The bourse dipped 44.65 pts to ... Kuwait- EQUATE highlights Gulf's role as vital contributor to global petchem industry - 'Petrochemical producers contribute over 142 mln tons annually': CEO
 DUBAI, Nov 28: EQUATE Group, a global producer of petrochemicals, sponsored the 12th annual Gulf Petrochemicals & Chemicals Association ... AFC to maintain format of ACL despite Gulf crisis BANGKOK, Nov 28, : Matches between clubs from Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar will continue to be played on a ... Kuwait- Jay-Z leads with '8 nominations' - Swift reigns
 NEW YORK, Nov 28, : Jay-Z is the leader of the 2018 Grammy Award nominations in a year where the top four categories are heavily ... 'Get Out', 'Call' top Gotham Awards - Indian court rejects bid to stop 'Padmavati' release
 NEW YORK, Nov 28, : The 27th annual Gotham Awards appeared headed for a sweep for Jordan Peele's social thriller 'Get Out,' but the ... Mobile radars to monitor seven Qatar roads (Wednesday, November 29)
 The Peninsula Online Mobile radars are in place at sevenspots in Qatar to ensure that no traffic violations occur on the roads. It is ... Qatar- Aspire Zone Foundation named Best Arab Sports Organisation
 The Peninsula Aspire Zone Foundation was named the Best Sports Organisation 2017 by the General Secretariat and Experts Committee ... UAE- Output cut extension likely at Opec meet
 The oil price, which has climbed to its highest level in two years above $63 a barrel, is expected to get a further fillip following a ... UAE- Police cut a 5-tonne cake to start celebrations
 Celebrating the UAE National Day in a 'gigantic, sweet style', UAE PRO Association, in collaboration with the Dubai Police, cut a ... UAE- Ahead of VAT, auto dealers brace for last hurrah
 Although there is no denying the headwinds that hit the UAE's automobile sector in 2017, the year also witnessed the market changing tracks ... UAE- 82-year-old Emirati woman honoured for charity work
 Eighty-two-year-old Fatima Ali Ibrahim, an Emirati woman from Sharjah, was among the 46 Emirati philanthropists recognised at the UAE ... UAE- Caparol showcases ETICS technology at The Big 5
 Caparol Paints, a global leader in the paints industry, are showcasing their new unique fire resistant and super-efficient non-combustible ... Weather update: Would it be pleasant over the long UAE National Day weekend
 UAE residents can plan a trip outdoors over the weekend as the weather will be pleasant in the country. National Centre of Meteorology and ... |
After that left more than and , my home country of Mexico faces huge challenges in recovery. According to official estimates, the ...
Amazon on Wednesday an overhauled version of the Oasis e-reader. Compared to the previous version, which was launched in early 2016, the ...
By Azerbaijani delegation, headed by the country's Finance Minister Samir Sharifov, left for Washington to attend the annual meetings of the ...
Washington- The US Supreme Court on Tuesday quashed an appeal that had blocked a now-expired version of Donald Trump's anti-immigration ...
Gucci will go fur-free next year and auction off all of its remaining animal fur items, the Italian fashion house's president and CEO Marco Bizzarri ...
The German government on Wednesday gave a substantial lift to its economic growth forecast for 2017, saying it now expects 2.0 percent expansion ...
Britain's consumers and businesses are holding back from spending owing to uncertainty surrounding Brexit negotiations, the country's finance ...
Picasso's mansion on the French Riviera -- where his last wife tragically shot herself -- is expected to be sold for more than 20 million euros <$24 ...
Uber's Indian rival Ola said Wednesday it has raised $1.1 billion from investors led by Tencent, the first time the Chinese tech giant has put money ...
The little footbridge near Justin Rakatoarivony's home is submerged in a murky green liquid the texture of sewage.But he has no choice but to cross ...
A 23-year-old construction worker on Tokyo's Olympic Stadium killed himself due to overwork, his family's lawyer said on Wednesday, the latest in a ...
Tokyo's benchmark stock index closed at a more than two-decade high Wednesday, as the Japanese market rides a global equities rally with its US ...
Top Japanese automakers said Wednesday they were scrambling to assess the quality of their vehicles that used products from Kobe Steel, which has ...
The euro held gains Wednesday after Catalonia's leader stepped back from the brink in a standoff with Spain over independence while Asian markets ...
The last Leonardo Da Vinci painting still in the hands of a private collector will go under the hammer next month in New York, the Christie's auction ...
EUR/USD The EUR/USD pair broke out to the upside during the trading session on Tuesday, slicing through the 1.18 level. Now that we are ...
President Donald Trump is expected to announce new restrictions on travel to the United States as his ban on visitors from six Muslim-majority countries ...
President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi laid the first stone of the New Administrative Capital project in East Cairo, with an area of 170,000 ...
Muscat- During the seventh Oman Health Exhibition, the Turkey Pavilion attracted everyone's attention with their commitment towards ...
Fog and mist engulfed several parts of the country on Thursday morning according to tweets by the National Centre of Meteorology and ...
The Dubai Court of Appeals has cleared a woman chemist of the charge of smuggling drugs for trafficking; quashing a primary ruling that had ...
AMMAN � Muslims have been living in Poland for more than six centuries and are well integrated into society, while effectively contributing ...
Life for the people of St. Helena will change forever Saturday when the first regular commercial flight from the outside world touches down on the ...
The International Monetary Fund and the Spanish government warned Friday the country's economic growth could be dealt a blow if Catalonia's drive to ...
Japan's Kobe Steel admitted Friday that a snowballing falsified data scandal had affected around 500 customers, more than twice as many as initially ...
Facebook on Friday announced a new feature to make it easier for users to order meals from nearby restaurants and service providers without leaving ...
The anti-corruption association Sherpa called Friday for former French foreign minister Laurent Fabius to be questioned over payments made by cement ...
Fela Kuti was known as "the King of Afrobeat". Krizbeatz calls himself "the King of AfroDance", the Nigerian music that has got millions dancing ...
The leaders of Canada and Mexico stuck to their upbeat view on the future of the North American Free Trade Agreement on Thursday, despite US ...
Asian investors headed into the weekend cautiously upbeat on Friday after US traders took a breather from their recent run of records while ...
Benedito de Souza scoops back sand hiding a nest of baby giant Amazon River turtles that he had covered over weeks ago to hide from predators. ...
Years of struggle for Germany's second-ranked airline Air Berlin appeared on their final stretch Thursday, as airborne behemoth Lufthansa announced ...
The United States said Thursday that it was pulling out of the UN's culture and education body, accusing it of "anti-Israel bias" in a move that ...
South Africa's Supreme Court of Appeal has dismissed President Jacob Zuma's and the National Prosecuting Authority's against an earlier ...
When looking at the vs. iPhone 7 vs. iPhone 6s, it's easy to get a little confused about the differences between Apple's flagship smartphones. ...
By Kamila Aliyeva Turkey is not ruling out the idea of EU membership despite the escalation of tensions between Ankara and Brussels. Not ...
PESHAWAR, 13 October: US President Donald Trump Thursday termed the operation by Pakistan security forces for release of a hostage ...
Baku, Azerbaijan, Oct. 13 Trend: An agreement on opening of direct flights between Baku and Sophia has been reached in ...
Baku, Azerbaijan, Oct. 13 By Khalid Kazimov � Trend: The Iranian and Russian navies are expected to stage joint drills in the ...
Finance Minister Amr El-Garhy is scheduled to meet on Thursday�with leading investment fund leaders with total assets under management ...
French former culture minister Audrey Azoulay was named to head the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation ...
Uber has ordered an appeal against London authorities' decision to reject its licensing to work in London.The process of the appeal might take months, and ...
Kwon Oh-hyun, one of three co-chief executives of Samsun Electronics, has resigned due to "unprecedented crisis."Mr Kwon stated: "As we are confronted with ...
> ROME, Oct 13 -- The State of Kuwait has achieved highest positions in terms of food security on both Arab and global ...
Iraqi forces yesterday retook positions controlled by Kurdish peshmerga fighters since 2014 in the oil-rich province of Kirkuk amid a bitter ...
Bringing the healing touch of traditional Indian systems of medicine to Dubai, the emirate is all set to host the first international ...
PESHAWAR, 14 October: Pakistan defeated Sri Lanka by 83 runs in the first match of the five-match ODI series in Dubai on Friday and ...
Britain's Vauxhall cars, which was this summer taken over by French automaker PSA, is planning to cut 400 jobs at one of its factories by the end of ...
Finance chiefs from around the world were warned Thursday to get their houses in order while the global economy is strong and to be ready for ...
The Weinstein Company is exploring a sale or shutdown as it reels from the fallout of allegations of serial sexual misconduct by its ousted ...
Spain warned Friday it could lower its forecast for next year's economic growth if Catalonia's separatist challenge persists, as concern mounts over ...
Ukraine said on Friday it was banning a new Russian banknote showing an image of the Crimean peninsula that the Kremlin annexed in 2014.The ...
French finance minister Bruno Le Maire called Thursday for the European Union to become a cohesive whole, as unified and ambitious as the United ...
Paris city authorities said Thursday they aimed to phase out the use of diesel cars by the time the French capital hosts the Olympics in 2024, and ...
Samsung heir Lee Jae-Yong was back in court Thursday to appeal his five-year sentence for bribing South Korea's ousted president Park Geun-Hye, with ...
Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday unveiled a new Oculus virtual reality headset untethered from computers as part of a vision to bring the ...
Procter & Gamble claimed victory Tuesday in a closely-watched proxy battle over the future of the consumer products giant, but its activist-fund ...
Donald Trump warned his Canadian counterpart Wednesday that "tough" talks to rework a North American free trade deal could fail, in another round of ...
With the range having been released, many people will be keen to see the results of an iPhone 8 vs comparison. Certainly there will be many ...
Baku, Azerbaijan, Oct. 13 By Rufiz Hafizoglu � Trend: The state of emergency, introduced in Turkey on July 20, 2016 following a ...
French President Emmanuel Macron is considering visiting Iran after speaking by phone with his Iranian counterpart in the wake of US ...
The CEO of Samsung Electronics Kwon Oh-Hyun resigned Friday, saying the South Korean tech giant was facing an "unprecedented crisis", even as it ...
Turkish Airlines recorded 81.5% load factor in September 2017, the highest in the last five years, according to a statement. Traffic ...
The biggest game of the La Liga season so far is shrouded in political tension as Barcelona visit Atletico Madrid on Saturday in their ...
A Thomas Meunier brace gave Paris Saint-Germain a hard-fought 2-1 win at Dijon in Ligue 1 on Saturday after the hosts thought they'd ...
Juventus' stranglehold on the Serie A title for six straight seasons looks at risk of being broken. The Bianconeri were beaten by Lazio ...
FB's Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg says the company is devoted to helping US congressional investigators to publicly release the political ads ...
Islamic State is on the verge of defeat in Syria's Raqqa and the city may finally be cleared of the jihadists on Saturday or Sunday, the Syrian Kurdish YPG ...
> KUWAIT, Oct 14 -- The price of Kuwaiti crude oil went up 65 cents Friday to settle at USD 54.12 per barrel, compared to ...
The State of Qatar stressed the importance of strengthening co-ordinated regional and international co-operation and increasing investment in ...
Strong winds and high seas are expected in offshore areas today, the Qatar Met department has said. Northwesterly winds will blow at 12-22 ...
Technical analysis of the QSE index The Index managed to close in the green and gained 2.58% from the week before; it has been down for the ...
Ramallah: The Israeli occupation forces arrested Saturday three Palestinians in Jenin, north of the occupied West Bank. Local sources ...
An assistant manager, who hails from Ghana, has been sentenced to six months in jail for using his brother's French passport when trying to ...
GAZA/CAIRO � Rival Palestinian factions Hamas and Fateh signed a reconciliation deal on Thursday after Hamas agreed to hand over ...
Asian markets rose on Monday, building on last week's gains as investors tracked another positive lead from Wall Street, although the dollar was ...
The European Central Bank expects a pickup in inflation even though wages have remained weak during the current economic recovery, its vice ...
Airbus CEO Tom Enders told a German newspaper he was prepared to step down if he was "no longer part of the solution", as the aircraft manufacturer ...
The head of Germany's powerful BDI industry federation warned companies Thursday to prepare for a "very hard Brexit", pointing to persistent ...
Italian mountaineer Reinhold Messner is perhaps one of the world's last great adventurers: he has conquered the planet's highest peaks, crossed ...
A futuristic Dutch family car that not only uses the sun as power but supplies energy back to the grid was hailed as "the future" Sunday as the World ...
Large contracts for Boeing and General Electric in Iran, while not under direct threat, face significant new uncertainties following President Donald ...
The latest reports on the forthcoming Samsung product range suggest that there will be a 3D camera. It seems that this is new feature of the ...
Docker has raised about $62 million of a $75 million late-stage funding round, per an SEC filing. The company, which provides a software ...
The US-led international coalition against the terrorists will not allow foreign Daesh militants to leave the Syrian city of Raqqa, ...
Russian President Vladimir Putin said that it is necessary to strive for the situation when the rivalry between states does not ...
While Morocco will not be affected by hurricane Ophelia, the wild windstorm roars to a category 3 and is expected to head to the ...
The European Union congratulated Moroccan-French Audrey Azoulay on her election as new Director General of ."/> ...
By: DailyForex.com Gold Gold markets rallied significantly during the week, breaking above the $1300 level. We had also clear the top of ...
TEHRAN � Iranian Minister of Economic Affairs and Finance Masoud Karbasian in separate meetings with his Afghan and Indian ...
Military courts will no longer be handling protest cases, according to a verdict issued Saturday by the Egyptian Constitutional Court. ...
Egypt said Saturday it is following with concern the announcement of the new US strategy towards Iran. According to a statement from the ...
Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont called for calm yesterday, less than 24 hours ahead of a deadline from Spain's central government for him to ...
AMMAN � Intangible cultural heritage is considered an important aspect of Jordanian cultural identity and an essential value ...
DAMASCUS � Syrian troops and allied forces captured the city of Mayadeen from the Daesh terror group on Saturday, state media said, in the ...
US President Donald Trump's latest bid to impose travel restrictions on citizens from eight countries entering the US has suffered a ...
Baku, Azerbaijan, Oct. 17 By Gulgiz Muradova - Trend: Polish President Andrzej Duda may pay an official visit to Azerbaijan next ...
Talking Points: - Carves Near-Term Range as Recovery Sputters Ahead of September-High . - Subdued U.K. Household Earnings to Fuel ...
Kirkuk, Iraq: Iraqi forces seized the Kirkuk governor's office, key military sites and an oil field as they swept across the disputed ...
AA TRENTON, Ont.: Twelve thousand faculty members at colleges in Canada went on strike Monday, affecting more than 500,000 students. At ...
Australia all-rounder Glenn Maxwell is well known for his batting pyrotechnics but hopes a defensive tweak to his technique can be key to ...
In a blow to former Indian pacer S. Sreesanth, a division bench of the Kerala High Court on Tuesday upheld the appeal made by the national ...
Harry Kane is an admitted follower of Cristiano Ronaldo's stratospheric stats as he pursues the Portuguese's status as the best in the ...
Four-times world champions Italy were drawn against Sweden on Tuesday in their two-legged playoff for a place at next year's World Cup. ...
Leicester City sacked manager Craig Shakespeare on Tuesday after just four months in charge of the former Premier League champions, British ...
Jose Mourinho expects to match former Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson and continue his career until he is 70, although he insists ...
Move over Johnny Depp or Angelina Jolie. Today's kids no longer want to be Hollywood movie stars. Instead the world of online video beckons.And ...
Airbus will take a majority stake in Bombardier's marquee C-Series airliner programme, the companies announced Monday, as the Canadian firm battled ...
German carmaker Daimler is recalling more than a million vehicles, including Mercedes, due to a problem with the airbags, a company spokesman was ...
A film industry group representing thousands of workers on Monday began expulsion proceedings against Harvey Weinstein, in the latest industry action ...
British budget airline easyJet and German carrier Lufthansa both said Monday they have submitted offers for parts of Italy's ailing Alitalia.The ...
Striking autoworkers began returning to work Monday at a General Motors plant in Canada following a month-long work stoppage over job security, ...
Netflix said Monday it added some five million new subscribers over the past three months as profits doubled, in a quarterly update that sent shares ...
Tesla Motors, which recently missed its production target on the high-profile "Model 3," has dismissed hundreds of employees following annual ...
The US Supreme Court announced Monday it will hear a landmark privacy case which sees the Trump administration up against computing giant ...
Nearly 200 organisations and individuals from around the world urged the International Labour Organization Monday to stop taking money from tobacco ...
The Weinstein Company announced Monday that Colony Capital had agreed to provide the scandal-plagued studio with financing and that the two parties ...
In an attempt to obtain more users, Netflix's debts are getting bigger, leaving no room for any mistake as it tries to establish the biggest video ...
The leaders of numerous countries have congratulated Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev on the State Independence day, October 18. ...
HE the Minister of Education and Higher Education Dr Mohamed Abdul Wahed Ali al-Hammadi stressed that the recognition of the academically ...
The 11th meeting of the major donors group for Syria will open in Doha today under the chairmanship of the UN Secretary-General's Humanitarian ...
Jerusalem: Israel's government decided Tuesday not to negotiate with a Palestinian unity government that includes Hamas if the Islamist ...
It's that time of the year again. Diwali is upon us. While South Indians celebrate "Deepavali" with murukku and legiyam, North Indians ...
A serious flaw in the Wi-Fi network security protocol - used in routers at home or office - has left almost every user at risk of data ...
When it comes to high-end jewellery, diamond enthusiasts at the second day of the Dubai Diamond Conference 2017, were treated to the sight ...
The 15th edition of biennial Dubai Airshow, to be held next month, is set to eclipse its previous edition as both Airbus and Boeing are ...
A delegation of senior American officials arrived in Ankara on Monday for talks aimed at ending the row between Turkey and the United States which ...
Mercedes-Benz is recalling 400,000 UK cars owing to a fault that may deploy an airbag by error, the company said on Monday.A statement issued by the ...
Many of us have experienced the effects of sleep deprivation: feeling tired and cranky, or finding it hard to concentrate. Sleep is more ...
It's more than three weeks since the alert level on Bali's Mount Agung was . An eruption was and thousands of people were evacuated, but ...
A surrounding the adequacy of a sentence handed down in an incest case over whether Victoria's sentencing regime is too lenient. The ...
As dawn washes over Bondi Beach, you can see the surfers beyond the break, gently rising and falling on their boards. They gather like ...
This article is one in a series, , in the lead-up to the in Melbourne on October 19 and 20. Large health inequalities in Australia. ...
The Institute of Public Affairs has released a , arguing that ' have ...
Paris is the economic hub of France, generating , and the city has served as the birthplace of . Despite its attractiveness, however, ...
Two months after Hurricane Harvey submerged much of metropolitan Houston, recovery is under way across the city. Residents and ...
When Oct. 1 on concertgoers in Las Vegas, killing 59, the city became the unfortunate host of the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. ...
Almost all parties agree that the health care system in the U.S., which is responsible for about , is badly broken. Soaring costs, low ...
In a trial of a new drug to cure cancer, 44 percent of 50 patients achieved remission after treatment. Without the drug, only 32 percent ...
self-destructing statuses are in the works; the company has even confirmed that it started testing them this week. / Pixabay The Facebook ...
Google has updated the phishing tools in Chrome by adding predictive phishing protection, personalizing Security Checkup and enabling it to ...
Ukrainians have taken advantage of the visa-free regime during their travel to the European Union 7.5 million times, Prime Minister Volodymyr ...
The United States Department of the Treasury will assist Ukraine in conducting the reform of the State Fiscal Service. The press service of ...
It was a pleasant night in September and many Edmonton residents, knowing the long winter was just around the corner, didn't want to ...
> BEIRUT, Oct 18 -- Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri on Wednesday voiced his gratitude to Speaker of Kuwait's ...
Wall Street stocks surged to fresh records Friday and boosted other equity markets after US lawmakers took a key step toward enacting the tax reform ...
Malaysia Airlines on Friday named veteran senior executive Izham Ismail as its new CEO after his predecessor's shock departure dealt a fresh blow to ...
European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker said Friday he will "do everything" to secure a deal with the South American trade bloc Mercosur by the ...
Wall Street frowned on earnings Friday from Procter & Gamble that showed continued sluggishness in overall sales and another drop in grooming due ...
Tech giants including Google, Facebook and Twitter will come under pressure in Italy this week to go further and faster in helping G7 powers tackle ...
It may not get the same affection lavished on "Iron Man" or "Captain America," but the "Thor" franchise looks set to complete a record year for ...
OPEC secretary general Mohammed Barkindo welcomed Thursday the rebalancing of the world oil market, hinting the cartel would likely renew its ...
Testing and consumer surveys show electric vehicles are more reliable than internal combustion automobiles, the head of automotive testing for ...
Global stock markets were pressured Thursday as a weeks-long rally on Wall Street showed signs of fatigue, while worries about the Catalan political ...
Africa must double its spending on infrastructure over the coming years, the Infrastructure Consortium for Africa said on Thursday, warning ...
Facebook announced Thursday initiatives to help struggling news organizations gain paid subscribers, following a similar move unveiled earlier this ...
Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, Oct. 21 By Huseyn Hasanov � Trend: The delegation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan was ...
Sales of existing US homes rose in September compared with August, but remained relatively tepid due to limited housing supply and high prices, the ...
The United States does not intend to disrupt European business deals with Iran, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said in comments published ...
Equities across the globe got a boost yesterday from US lawmakers taking a step towards enacting the tax reform plan sought by President ...
Singapore Airlines Ltd said yesterday it will finalise an order for 39 Boeing Co aircraft worth $13.8bn at list prices when Singaporean Prime ...
New Zealand reminded currency traders this week of the power of politics to roil financial markets. The challenge is to figure out which world ...
Property, overseas investments and shadow-banking products have all been targeted by China's campaign to curb financial risks over the past ...
On the 30th anniversary of the 1987 stock market crash, US stocks are at a record high and investors are concerned that steep valuations may ...
The expiration of what was supposed to be the last ultimatum from Madrid to Barcelona has come and gone for Catalan President Carles ...
The 10-storey building may look like a hotel, but it is thought to be the world's biggest large-scale house-share, offering modest rooms and ...
Pollution kills at least 9mn people and costs trillions of dollars every year, according to the most comprehensive global analysis to date, ...
A between Palestine's two main political parties, Hamas and Fatah, is the first successful attempt to bring the two sides together in ...
Baku, Azerbaijan, Oct. 20 By Rufiz Hafizoglu � Trend: The Turkish Armed Forces are thoroughly monitoring the events in northern ...
The Islamic State group's defeat in its Syrian bastion of Raqqa was a "historic" achievement, the US-backed force that led the months-long ...
* Iraqi forces reach the edge of Kurdistan region * Top Shia cleric urges protection of Kurds * Sides accuse each other of using Western ...
Strong buying on the last day was of no avail to the Qatar Stock Exchange, which settled 170 points lower last week that saw Doha outline its ...
By Mark Kennedy / Associated Press You might expect a lot of glamorous footage of Demi Lovato in the new YouTube-exclusive documentary ...
Former England and Manchester United legend Rio Ferdinand has said that countryman Harry Kane can be spoken of in the same sentence as ...
While Chinese President Xi Jinping and his cohorts chart the nation's future at their leadership conclave in Beijing, his citizen army of ...
The birthday of twins Karen and Kelly Junior will always be tinged by sadness as it also marks the day their mother died in childbirth -- a tragic ...
After prayers at the Chantelle Abbey in Allier, central France, a marketing meeting between the abbey's nuns and their employees discusses the latest ...
"Finally in Bangui, and without incident," said Evelin Bokassa, a truck driver from the Central African Republic who has just arrived in the ...
In its heyday in the 1980s, more than a thousand brokers dressed in signature red blazers made deals on the trading floor of the Hong Kong Stock ...
More than 1.1 billion people worldwide officially don't exist -- going about their daily lives without proof of identity.The issue leaves a ...
The head of the World Health Organization said Saturday that he was "rethinking" his decision to name Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe a goodwill ...
Forty years after his "oil pool" sculpture became the centrepiece of Tehran's first-ever modern art museum, its Japanese creator returned for its ...
Iraq said it hiked southern oil production by 200,000 barrels per day on Saturday to compensate for a halt in pumping in Kirkuk province because of ...
Glorified during the Soviet era but denounced at the fall of the USSR, the 1917 Russian revolution is now taught in schools with a neutrality the ...
Russia expects that Turkey will cancel complicated rules for import of Russian agricultural produce in response to the decision ...
According to the agriculture ministry, in order to maintain stable market prices, the government is buying about 370,000 tons of rice produced this year.It ...
According to industry source, Samsung is anticipating TV sales to increase profits, as sales of its expensive product are stable. The sources say that ...
During One America, the beneficial concert for hurricane victims on Saturday, former President George W. Bush has honored his father who is former ...
The Chinese company said that its shipments of mobile phones were over 100m units, up 19% annual in Q1-3.CEO of Huawei's consumer business group said that ...
On Friday, Sen. Lindsey Graham advised that since the war on terrorism is growing tenser, Americans ought to expect a higher rate of military operations in ...
BAGHDAD, Oct 21, : The global oil market is improving and stabilising as oil exporting nations are fully complying with an agreement ...
KUWAIT CITY, Oct 21: The US Embassy in Kuwait organized a Fun Run/Walk at Boulevard, Salmiya on Saturday. Below is the speech delivered by US ...
Prostate cancer is the most common cancer among men in Qatar, followed by colorectal cancer, according to information released by the Ministry ...
For the first time, Northwestern University in Qatar is offering applicants an opportunity to apply for non-binding early action ...
The Communications Regulatory Authority has participated in the World Telecommunication Development Conference , organised by ...
Two surveys on Qatar Genome Programme have found widespread willingness among the local population to participate in the initiative, ...
Qatar Industrial Manufacturing Company's mixed-use development, Abraj Al Tahwiliya, is set to be a vibrant new addition to Doha's ...
More than 80 students have been honoured by Texas A & M University at Qatar for academic distinction in the fall 2016 and spring 2017 ...
The Qatar National Robot Olympiad 2017, which yesterday involved over 500 students from elementary, junior high and senior high schools ...
The draft law that seeks to protect national products and combat practices that may harm them in international trade would boost national ...
Maharat Qatar program was launched by leading energy group Shell in cooperation with College of North Atlantic Qatar with aims at developing youth ...
The 9th installment of the "Housing and Car Grants" program has been announced by Alwaleed Philanthropies , chaired by Saudi billionaire Prince ...
Tycoon James Packer Monday said plans for gaming empire Crown to expand into the lucrative Japanese market were "off the table" as the company ...
One-month-old Sahar, her ribs protruding under translucent skin, breathed her last on Sunday in Syria's Eastern Ghouta, where a crushing regime siege ...
The head of the World Health Organization on Sunday reversed his decision to name Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe as a goodwill ambassador, ...
They once dreamt of becoming engineers, teachers or other professionals, but for tens of thousands of Syrian students those hopes were cut short by ...
I could tell you where I work, but then I'd have to kill you. OK, not really; that seems extreme. But I might blindfold you if I took ...
Middle East tensions. Russian soldiers in Crimea. Western nations' warships in the Black Sea. Those descriptions sound like Russia's ...
Conservatives have been seething since 2013 over what they say was an unfair and imbalanced effort by the IRS to scrutinize ...
Baku, Azerbaijan, Oct. 23 By Leman Zeynalova � Trend: Mr. Ghulam M. Isaczai, UN Resident Coordinator and UNDP Resident ...
Baku, Azerbaijan, Oct. 23 By Khalid Kazimov � Trend: Iran has launched a long-awaited national scheme to curb the huge and growing ...
Rabat � The African diplomatic corps in Rabat has distanced itself from the verbal blunders of the Algerian Minister of Foreign ...
The dollar extended last week's gains in Asian trade Monday on hopes for Donald Trump's tax-cut plans, while Tokyo chalked up a record winning streak ...
Tesla has reached an agreement with Shanghai authorities that would make it the first foreign automaker to build its own plant in China, putting it ...
Rabat � Moroccan midfielder scored a masterpiece goal against West Bromwich Albion.�Boufal scored a late goal against opponent, ...
Rabat � On October 1, tension mounted in the northern Spanish region of Catalonia as intervened to stop a referendum on independence ...
Muscat- To accelerate the usage of electric vehicles in the Middle East, an EV road trip is being organised across Oman and the UAE ...
> AMMAN, Oct 22 -- Jordanian King Abdullah II said Sunday it is of crucial importance to build a stable, secure and united ...
CASABLANCA, Morocco � A 1,200-kilometre round bus trip taking about 22 hours: that is the weekly grind faced by families of activists ...
right" > AMMAN � HRH Prince Ali, president of the Jordan Football Association and also president of the West Asia Federation, on Thursday ...
AMMAN � His Majesty King Abdullah and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Sunday held a meeting at Al Husseiniya Palace that focused on ...
Armenia plans to increase teaching Russian in schools in a move that has sparked widespread concerns that Moscow's influence is growing in the ...
Tzako Waiapi remembers perfectly the day he first stumbled across white men while hunting in the Amazon rainforest: within months nearly everyone he ...
From a car that wants to be your friend to another that burns off the fat: here are five hot vehicles on display at the Tokyo Motor Show.The biannual ...
People with heart trouble who take blood-thinning medication to avoid strokes may also significantly reduce their risk of dementia, a study published ...
Levels of glyphosate, a controversial chemical found in herbicides, markedly increased in the bodies of a sample population over two decades, a study ...
Financial details of some of the world's richest people are set to be published after a Bermuda-based offshore firm suffered a data breach, a British ...
The smell of gunpowder still lingered in Madrid's Prado museum Tuesday, just hours after China's Cai Guo-Qiang, famed for his explosive art, put the ...
The death toll from Madagascar's plague outbreak has reached 124, officials said Tuesday, as they cautiously welcomed a slowdown in infections.The ...
A trove of Marcel Proust's correspondence is to be digitized and put online for free, with the first batch of letters timed to coincide with the ...
Russia is taking steps to regulate cryptocurrencies, as the value of virtual currencies such as bitcoin soars and their use in the real world ...
McDonald's reported a jump in third-quarter profit Tuesday, boosted by better sales in key markets and a one-time infusion of funds from ...
Energy poverty is a surprisingly common problem in Canada, with vulnerable communities most harshly affected by cut-offs when they fall ...
Will Australia's National Broadband Network's face damaging competition from the upcoming 5G network NBN Co CEO Bill Morrow . ...
Eating lunch in Italy's Bolgheri wine country, it is not hard to understand why the number of international visitors to this bucolic corner of ...
The Abu Dhabi airport road towards Suweihan will be partially closed for two days from this Thursday for repair works. The Abu Dhabi ...
Deep in Indonesia's easternmost province, a group of birdwatchers wait in earnest hoping to glimpse the renowned birds-of-paradise. Once plentiful in ...
Asian markets were largely muted Thursday, tracking a retreat on Wall Street as fears over the progress of US President Donald Trump's tax cut plans ...
Gambling giant Crown has strongly refuted allegations by an Australian politician of machine tampering and serious misconduct at one of its flagship ...
President Donald Trump on Wednesday called Fed chair Janet Yellen "very impressive," as his choice for a possible successor loomed."I have it down to ...
More than a third of adults in China suffer from high blood pressure, but only one in 20 are able effectively to manage their condition, according to ...
ANZ Bank posted a 12 percent jump in annual net profit Thursday, with the lender saying it was continuing to make progress as the benefits of a ...
Amazon stretched its delivery arm inside homes Wednesday with a smart lock and camera combination that also signaled a move into home ...
President Donald Trump is poised to meet with top advisers and officially declare the opioid crisis in the United States a "national emergency," he ...
A top US poker player lost his high-stakes court battle at London's Supreme Court on Wednesday, with judges ruling Phil Ivey's tactic to win £7.7 ...
A malware attack that hit a Ukrainian international airport and Russian media outlets had almost 200 other targets in those countries and other ...
Statistics Canada has released from the 2016 census that shows more than any other G8 country, Canada is a nation of immigrants. One in ...
If you've ever seen a ghost, you have something in common with . But while there's evidence that , the apparitions we see tend to ...
Baku, Azerbaijan, Oct. 26 By Ali Mustafayev � Trend: Kazakh "Air Astana" company plans to launch additional number of flights in ...
Secretary General of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe Thomas Greminger will pay his first official visit ...
A tool for rehabilitating criminals or simply a way of granting special favours In Iceland, a law that allows a murderer to become a lawyer or a ...
In Madagascar, ceremonies in which families exhume the remains of dead relatives, rewrap them in fresh cloth and dance with the corpses are a sacred ...
Repeated quality scandals, stiff foreign competition and lagging technology have knocked Japan's auto giants off pole position but analysts say the ...
Rabat � The so-called Islamic State <> has released a Photoshopped poster of Argentina's key striker as a�threat to carry out ...
Rabat � The continues to depend on the . However, is directly impacting . Depending on the degree of rainfall, the growth varies ...
Rabat - An "elevator pitch," or "elevator speech" as well as an "elevator ...
Rabat � Algeria's Prime Minister has supported drug trafficking claims made against by his Minister of Foreign Affairs, . Ouyahya ...
> DOHA, Oct 25 -- Means of promoting military cooperation topped a meeting held between Qatari Amir Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad ...
> KUWAIT, Oct 25 -- Minister of Justice and Minister of State for National Assembly Affairs Dr. Faleh Al-Azab said ...
His Highness the Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani met with Russian Defence Minister Sergey Shoygu and his accompanying delegation at his ...
Vodafone Qatar has posted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation of QR236mn for the six-month period up to ...
AMMAN � Her Majesty Queen Rania on Tuesday made a surprise visit to the northern Rabahiya coeducational secondary school in Amman, where she ...
Mexican state oil company Pemex said Friday it posted a loss of $5.3 billion in the third quarter as output took a hit from two earthquakes and ...
Acclaimed filmmaker Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu will be awarded a special Oscar for his virtual reality installation that focuses on the plight of ...
Merck shares tumbled Friday after reporting a quarterly loss due to the effects of a major cyberattack and costs connected to a drug joint venture ...
Shares of CVS Health tumbled Friday with other drugstore chains following a report it could acquire insurer Aetna to fortify itself against a ...
Venezuela's state oil company, which controls the world's largest crude reserves, said Friday it had begun paying $842 million in partial repayment ...
Doctors in India have successfully separated conjoined twin boys who were attached at the skull in a marathon surgical procedure that lasted more ...
British Airways parent group IAG on Friday forecast a 20-percent jump in operating profit this year thanks to rising demand and falling costs.IAG ...
Subaru said Friday it allowed uncertified staff to do inspections on some vehicles for more than three decades, becoming the latest Japanese firm ...
Seated onstage at a museum near Chicago, Adina Sella talks about her life as a Holocaust survivor.A group of young school kids is entranced -- all ...
The United States wants Pakistan to move quickly to show good faith in supporting efforts to counter militants operating in Afghanistan and ...
Billionaire populist Andrej Babis has signalled that he will try to govern alone, after emerging as the clear winner of national elections a ...
DPA/Madrid Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy sacked the government in Catalonia and called new elections after authorities in the region ...
Indonesia will probably post a smaller fiscal deficit this year than initially expected, partly due to under-spending by the government, while ...
The US House of Representatives helped pave the way for deep tax cuts sought by President Donald Trump and Republican leaders, but barely ...
Profits for China's industrial powerhouses surged the most in nearly six years in September as a government crackdown on air pollution ...
A policeman was killed and 8 others injured in a roadside bombing in Bahrain on Friday, Xinxua reported. The Interior Ministry ...
His Highness the Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani has sent a written message to the Secretary-General of the Central American Integration ...
For Dubai-based Indian national businessman Babu Sivasankaran, the first-edition of Pooram in Dubai was an event where he reminisced his ...
The Dubai Police are implementing a package of security programmes to look into the future of crime, including an electronic system for ...
Pugs are the new fashion must-have in Britain, with owners, in love with their saggy faces and big eyes, even taking them for cocktails and afternoon ...
Growing up at the court of tsar Nicholas II, Tatiana Botkina's childhood was one of splendour.But like so many others whose lives were torn apart by ...
Chinese billionaires are boasting about their Marxist bonafides. The Communist Party is tightening its grip on state-owned companies. And foreign ...
By Trend Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan held a telephone conversation with the head of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin, Turkish ...
By Trend Over the past 24 hours, Armenia's armed forces have 126 times violated the ceasefire along the line of contact between Azerbaijani ...
By Trend A decision to create Astana International Exchange JSC of the Astana International Financial Center has been made within the ...
North Korea has conducted mass evacuation drills in towns across the country as possible ‘preparation for war,' it was reported on ...
Baku, Azerbaijan, Oct. 29 By Nigar Guliyeva � Trend: A decision to create Astana International Exchange JSC of the Astana ...
Investors including Japan's SoftBank and Google-parent Alphabet are fueling a drive to a ride-sharing future, betting on startups such as industry ...
Apple will let you unlock the iPhone X with your face -- a move likely to bring facial recognition to the masses, along with concerns over how the ...
Weeks of gruelling testimonies at an inquiry in South Africa have tried to answer an unfathomable question -- how authorities allowed 141 ...
According to public broadcaster NRK, Tesla will establish a charging station in Norway in 2017, which will be the biggest in Europe. NRK said that people ...
In the north Brazilian town of Humaita, additional troops and federal police have been set out following the incident of burning down a number of offices ...
After the scandal of a pedophile overthrew the coalition, Iceland's chief centre-right party appears to be prepared to stay in the prime in a snap ...
A list of 33 endangered species were voted for extra protection, including chimpanzees, leopards and giraffes, by a UN-backed wildlife conference held in ...
Tehran, Iran, October 28 By Mehdi Sepahvand - Trend: Iran is developing a visa-free health tourism center in its southwestern ...
The Peninsula The State of Qatar, on behalf of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation , stressed the need to compel Israel to ...
By Sachin Kumar�| The Peninsula Iran's biggest confectionery company, which is also one of the biggest in the Middle East, is planning to ...
The Peninsula Ooredoo Group is committed to leading the way on data experience across its footprint, focusing on maintaining agility to ...
The Peninsula Beirut:For the first time in Lebanon, customers can send international money transfers anytime and anywhere that is ...
Eating disorders are on the rise, particularly among young women and teenagers, and parents must keep an eye out for the warning signs ...
The Rohingya boys and girls shrieked with delight as the clowns juggled hoops and somersaulted, their red-nosed antics provoking a sound rarely heard ...
Iranian environmentalists have mobilised to protect the world's last Asiatic cheetahs, estimated to number just 50 and faced with the threats of ...
The crammed basement bar heaves with laughter as the young comedians take to the microphone, riffing on daily life in austerity-slammed Greece.This ...
The Australian state of Queensland, home to the Great Barrier Reef, has called a snap election that is set to test support for both the populist ...
Long one of the country's favorite seafoods, Chile's macha clam has become a victim of its own popularity, with over-exploitation forcing authorities ...
Tashkent, Uzbekistan, Oct. 12 By Diana Aliyeva � Trend: The sub-surface metro circle line being built in Uzbekistan's Tashkent ...
Tehran, Iran, October 29 By Mehdi Sepahvand - Trend: The Iranian Ministry of ICT has set up a special committee to regulate the ...
Chanting 'Don't be fooled, Catalonia is Spain! and waving Catalan, Spanish and European Union flags, hundreds of thousands of people rallied ...
A recent study has suggested that global dietary instructions should stop preventing people from consuming too many fats, in order to decrease the ...
Brooklyn Muslim Mosque has celebrated its 110th year anniversary in Astoria, New York City, last week.It is basically America's oldest Muslim association ...
In some areas of central and northern Europe, violent storms have caused destruction which led to the death of more than five people in Germany, Poland and ...
On Sunday morning, a Twitter outburst was initiated by President Trump which its theme was the "guilt" of Hillary Clinton and the opposition Democratic ...
Storm hit Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic, have led to the death of 3 people and a badly injured one, as the troops working hard to overcome the ...
A search team of Norway has located the wreckage of a Russian Mi-8 civilian helicopter, which smashed into the sea carrying 8 people in the Arctic ...
Baku, Azerbaijan, Oct. 30 Trend: The official exchange rate of US dollar and euro to Azerbaijani manat for Oct. 30 was set at ...
Details added Baku, Azerbaijan, Oct. 30 Trend: The official exchange rate of US dollar and euro ...
UAE Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Dr Anwar Mohammad Gargash on Sunday ridiculed Qatar's attempt to take the Gulf crisis to the ...
Natalia Siam's acting and modelling career was just picking up when bullies from her Dubai school pushed and shoved her down a flight of ...
Dubai's real estate market continues to witness development of high-end properties, as shown by the latest project that has been launched ...
Dubai is moving fast into the future. The Roads and Transport Authority will soon conduct a pioneering test for autonomous vehicles ...
The first National Cyber Security Index based on Dead Cult is launched by a specialist in cyber defense & cyber intelligence, UAE-based ISnSC R&D.Being the ...
A consortium of international consultants was signed up by Oman Power and Water Procurement Company for a large-scale solar project coming up in the ...
Banana Island Resort Doha by Anantara is embracing visitors to its Balance Wellness Center to help its guests start the fall season.Guests from all over ...
South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics logged a record profit of 11.2 trillion won -- $10.0 billion -- in the July to September period, it said ...
New York has been usurped as America's premiere gastronomic destination, at least in terms of the Michelin Guide's celebrated three-star ranking.The ...
SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket Monday carrying a South Korean communications satellite to boost broadband coverage for southeast Asia and the ...
France unveiled a billion-euro plan Monday to shake up its flagging universities that includes steps towards academic selection -- long a taboo issue ...
In sunglasses and jumpsuits, a crew of European test astronauts is laying the groundwork for a Mars simulation in the barren expanse of the Omani ...
Spain notched up vigorous growth in the third quarter, prior to the current Catalan crisis, official data showed on Monday.Spain's gross domestic ...
Figure 1: World population since 1800 and projections up to 2100. Gilles Pison, based on United Nations data, In 1800 the world's ...
Five hundred years ago, on the eve of All Saints Day, 1517, an obscure professor and cleric at an upstart university in Electoral Saxony ...
The events of recent weeks have marked the point of absolute contrast between the world's two most important countries and their ...
This article is the fourth in the series, a collaboration between The Conversation, the and the . To mark the awarding of the to the ...
Hear the word psychopath and most of us think of violent, dominant men. There are lots of male psychopathic monsters from movies to ...
For almost 100 years, the Aboriginal people of the Kutjungka Region in southeast Kimberley, Western Australia, have reported through ...
Rabat � Anti-independence protesters gathered in the thousands�on Sunday�in central Barcelona to call for Spanish unity, after the ...
Nearly 150 years after the Franco-Prussian War prompted artists to flee Paris, the works of Claude Monet and other Impressionists in London are to go ...
President Trump's effort to ban transgender individuals from the military has been obstructed for the time being by US federal judge. The District Judge, ...
If you died 200 years ago in America, your family would wash and dress your body and place it in a bed surrounded by candles to dampen ...
Rabat � The Boycott Divestment Sanctions <> movement in Palestine has denounced arrests against its activists in who contested the ...
Rabat � Moroccan flag carrier will reinforce its and line with three additional flights. The new flights will be served, for ...
Muscat- Petroleum Development Oman has received the first 'Made in Oman' electric submersible pump system for its oil ...
Business- Bank Sohar's strategy for achieving sustainable growth paid off rich dividends with its financial results showing a distinct ...
Qatar has expressed its strong condemnation of the attack on a police station in Kunduz province in northern Afghanistan, which resulted in a ...
AMMAN � The Syrian army, supported by Russian jets and Iranian-backed militias, escalated bombing on Sunday of areas of the Syrian city of ...
It was just 67 words written in a faraway country a century ago, but it shaped their lives, Israelis and Palestinians say.Thursday marks the 100th ...
Amsterdam will enforce a new ban on 'beer-bikes' this week after years of complaints by locals about rowdy tourists getting drunk and disorderly ...
Belgium on Tuesday charged two men over the 2015 attack on a high-speed train bound for Paris in which an Islamic State group extremist shot and ...
Pope Francis has confessed he sometimes nods off while praying and claims saints too have been known to grab some holy shut-eye."When I pray, ...
The once teeming Jewish area of Moroccan tourist gem Marrakesh is seeing its fortunes revived as visitors including many from Israel flock to ...
ExxonMobil will spend $300 million to upgrade eight US chemical facilities and resolve allegations it spewed excess emissions of benzene and other ...
US internet giants go before Congress on Tuesday with new data showing the success of Russian fake news operations, the day after bombshell ...
Baku, Azerbaijan, Oct. 31 By Nigar Guliyeva � Trend: Doing Business 2018 report ranks Georgia on 9th place among world's 190 ...
The Uzbek national suspected of ramming a truck over pedestrians and bike riders in New York City Tuesday, killing eight, left a note ...
Cyberattacks on Canadian government computers by what a minister described Tuesday as gangsters, rogue states and "geeks in basements" are on the ...
Talking Points: China's Caixin manufacturing snapshot came in exactly as the markets expected This was a better showing than Tuesday's official ...
President Tayyip Erdogan filed a criminal complaint against a prominent opposition lawmaker yesterday, one of Erdogan's lawyers said, after ...
A Chechen volunteer soldier who was accused of plotting to kill Russian President Vladimir Putin was wounded and his wife killed on Monday ...
President Emmanuel Macron defended new security legislation yesterday, saying that religious militants still posed a serious threat to France ...
By Ken Thomas & Catherine Lucey / Associated Press WASHINGTON: One day before the big reveal, President Donald Trump intensified his ...
Assailed by mounting criticism from frustrated fans, Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp needs to mastermind a sustained challenge in the ...
Kurzawa scored an unlikely hat-trick as Paris Saint-Germain powered into the last 16 of the Champions League on Tuesday with a 5-0 rout of ...
KUWAIT CITY, Oct 31: An Iranian man was arrested in Bneid A-Qar area for theft when he tried to rob a Kuwaiti lady at knife point. A security ...
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a move that makes history, Qatar Airways announced yesterday that it is
the first airline ever to fly the state-of-the-art Airbus A350 to ...
South African President Jacob Zuma met in Pretoria yesterday with Qatar's Minister of State for Defence Affairs HE Dr Khalid bin Mohamed ...
The visit of Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni to Qatar today will focus on enhancing the economic and commercial co-operation between ...
The Peninsula MES Indian School won the overall championship in boys' and girls' categories in the CBSE Qatar Cluster Volleyball ...
Temperatures continue to dip in UAE and it could touch 15.8C in the mountainous region of Jebel Jais, according to the update by NCMS. It ...
A traditional parade known as a "second line" was held in New Orleans Wednesday in memory of the American entertainer Fats Domino, who died last week ...
Up to 6,000 jobs will be axed in a major restructure at National Australia Bank, the lender said Thursday after posting Aus$5.28 billion 
U2 on Wednesday unveiled details of the rock superstars' 14th studio album, describing it as a collection of "intimate letters" written as if they ...
The Russian-led effort to spread misinformation and sow discord ahead of the 2016 US election also used the social network Instagram, parent company ...
People who show signs of inflammation in middle age are more likely to suffer from brain shrinkage later in life, a possible precursor to dementia or ...
Facebook on Wednesday reported profits leapt on booming revenue from online ads in the third quarter, topping investor forecasts and buoying shares ...
A landmark skyscraper owned by Hong Kong's richest man Li Ka-shing has sold for a record price of more than $5 billion, the company confirmed ...
The American automobile market offered a mixed picture in October, with some companies maintaining a sales upswing thanks to hurricane recovery, ...
The Dutch Red Cross offered its "deep apologies" Wednesday for failing to do enough to protect and help Jews during World War II, after being sharply ...
Multiple people were shot on Wednesday inside a Walmart in a Denver suburb in the U.S. state of Colorado, Xinxua reported citing local ...
Syria's grinding conflict has brought bitterness to producers of the country's renowned Middle Eastern sweets, but after years of struggle they say ...
Deep in the Amazon rainforest, it's that time again -- beer o'clock.Members of the tiny, remote Waiapi tribe in Brazil's eastern Amazon raise ...
Three and a half years before Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space, a dog called Laika was in 1957 the first living creature ...
The Bank of England is expected Thursday to deliver its first interest rate increase in more than a decade as it fends off Brexit-induced high ...
Dele Alli condemned Champions League holders Real Madrid to a horrendous Wembley debut with two goals as Tottenham Hotspur reached the last ...
Sergio Aguero, fresh from becoming the top scorer in the 137-year history of Manchester City, said he would be giving away his historic ...
According to a US official, North Korea, after it initiated its first ICBM less than six months ago, is operating on a developed edition of its existing ...
Stating that his conduct might have "fallen short" of the UK military expected values, Sir Michael Fallon, Defence Secretary signed his resignation. The ...
AMMAN —AlGhad— An opinion survey by Strategic Studies Centre at the University of Jordan , published earlier today, ...
RAMTHA —AlGhad— President of the Jordan University for Science and Technology Professor Omar Jarrah told AlGhad ...
The Peninsula Students at Northwestern University-Qatar ran a live news programme in its state-of-art Newsroom in the presence of ...
The Peninsula The Cabinet approved the draft law on regulating car parking, yesterday in its regular meeting which was chaired by Prime ...
The Dubai Police have helped an Asian man living in the US connect with his father, who stays in Dubai. The worried son had called the ...
The Dubai Police have closed 10,000 social media accounts involved in cybercrimes since the start of 2017. It recorded 83 threat and ...
As the gates opened to the region's largest, most-awaited family entertainment and cultural event of the year - Global Village - today, the ...
It's not just UAE residents who'll be waving the country's flag with pride today. Emirati tour guide Mohammed Ali is on a mission to get ...
Did you receive a message on your WhatsApp saying that you can win a US$500 Ikea gift voucher as the company is marking its 75th ...
President His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan has directed to allow the children of Emirati women to take part in official ...
German sweets maker Haribo said it had launched an internal investigation after a TV documentary alleged Brazilian workers supplying ingredients for ...
The West African state of Niger has ordered the closure of 14 privately-run health establishments after inspectors uncovered "alarming" failings, ...
Cuba's foreign minister on Thursday accused anyone claiming attacks took place against US diplomats in Havana of "deliberately lying," echoing ...
An unexpected gust of cool air greets visitors to the new archives centre in Tiznit in the mountains of southern Morocco, even without ...
The vital and booming US services sector saw record growth in October, and the data point to continued strength in the months ahead, according to a ...
The French-Dutch airline Air France-KLM said Friday that a "robust" business environment and "solid" traffic gave earnings a lift in the third ...
Canadian government has introduced sanctions against 30 Russian citizens, the Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Friday, TASS ...
Venezuela on Friday called foreign creditors to a November 13 meeting in Caracas aiming to restructure its estimated $150 billion debt, as the ...
A top Google executive has said the US internet giant has to do more to crack down on illegal content and misinformation, after American firms were ...
Former Catalan president Carles Puigdemont, who left Spain for Belgium after his government was sacked following a declaration of ...
Chancellor Angela Merkel expressed confidence yesterday that three party groups trying to form a new German government can reach a coalition ...
Pakistan's ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif appeared in court yesterday, a day after returning from overseas to face corruption ...
The Philippines yesterday defended its graft-fighting efforts in a bid to convince the United States to continue providing development ...
A
rogue Twitter employee managed to silence Donald Trump's favourite
communications tool for 11 minutes, drawing mocking praise from ...
US job growth accelerated in October after hurricane-related disruptions in the prior month, but a sharp retreat in annual wage gains and ...
Cost cutting and new models such as the Arteon fastback should continue to boost Volkswagen's main car brand in the fourth ...
The global smartphone market has momentum going into the year-end holiday shopping season, according to preliminary figures released ...
A mass killing in New York perpetrated by a citizen of Uzbekistan is reviving fevered speculation about the dangers of Islamist-inspired ...
Amado Boudou, who had been former Argentine president Cristina Fernandez's economy minister and vice president, was arrested on corruption ...
London: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Friday that the threat posed by Iran to its Middle Eastern neighbours was driving ...
QNA Paris: Qatar's Minister of Education and Higher Education H E Dr. Mohammed bin Abdul Wahid Al Hammadi, met here yesterday, on the ...
Following the negotiations between Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, ...
LG Electronics has announced the release of its brand new Multi V 5 Variable Refrigerant Flow solution designed to offer exceptional ...
Manchester City playmaker Kevin De Bruyne is enjoying playing under manager Pep Guardiola and credits the Spaniard's tactics for helping ...
Aromas of orange blossom, almond and coconut waft from the northern Jordan shop of Mazen Obeido, a 42-year-old Syrian who never imagined he would ...
Since she was "buried" under the dead and dying at the Bataclan concert hall, Laura Leveque has "carried 130 corpses" on her shoulders."So I may as ...
More than 40,000 spectators, giant screens, players glued to their keyboards and more than $1 million prize money for the winners: welcome to the ...
The challenge haunts classical music: how do orchestras rejuvenate aging audiences Pondering the question, conductor David Bernard asked something ...
The Red Cross has uncovered several cases of fraud by officials during efforts to combat the Ebola outbreak that struck West Africa in 2014-2016, ...
Saudi Arabia arrested 11 princes, including a prominent billionaire, and dozens of current and former ministers, reports said, in a sweeping ...
US wireless operators Sprint and T-Mobile announced Saturday they had called off merger talks after failing to clinch mutually agreeable terms, ...
US President Donald Trump on Saturday urged Saudi Arabia to choose Wall Street as a venue for the initial public offerings of shares of oil giant ...
Shares of Qualcomm jumped nearly 13 percent Friday after unconfirmed media reports said rival computer chip giant Broadcom may make an unsolicited ...
Half a century after breaking unwritten rules to run the Boston Marathon in an otherwise all-male pack, Kathrine Switzer will race again Sunday in ...
Saudi Arabia arrested 10 princes and dozens of former government ministers on Saturday, reports said, in a major purge immediately after an ...
US President Donald Trump said after landing in Asia for his longest official foreign trip, he believed the improvement of the US ...
Chicago- Barack and Michelle Obama Tuesday launched a youth leadership summit with an accent on social service, with Britain's Prince Harry ...
Seoul- South Korea will not develop atomic weapons of its own despite the threat from the nuclear-armed North, President Moon Jae-In ...
London- The British government came under pressure on Wednesday to publish papers detailing the potential impact of Brexit, after MPs ...
Hanoi- At least 27 people have died and nearly two dozen are missing after Typhoon Damrey barrelled into Vietnam, authorities said Sunday, ...
Washington- US President Donald Trump on Saturday urged Saudi Arabia to choose Wall Street as a venue for the initial public offering of ...
Washington- The only certain way to locate and secure all North Korea's nuclear weapons sites would be via a US ground invasion, the ...
Associated Press SELANGOR: Prince Charles began his first visit to Malaysia on Friday by touring a museum of Islamic art and meeting with ...
Countries shouldn't undervalue American resolution, President Trump insisted as he arrived in Japan as a start of his Asian tour. He vowed to guarantee the ...
Washington- President Donald Trump on Wednesday vowed a battery of tough measures to curb immigration after a deadly terror attack in New ...
The Peninsula Kerala Piravi Day was marked at Doha Modern Indian School with a splendid school assembly promoting love for Kerala and its ...
The Peninsula Abu Issa Holding celebrated the launching of Cole Haan, Internationally renowned accessories and lifestyle brand's, latest ...
London has offered its expertise to Qatar in developing and implementing appropriate standards in cyber security, according to Conrad Prince, ...
Australian banking giant Westpac posted a seven percent jump in annual net profit Monday, helped by a fall in bad and doubtful debts with the lender ...
Alfardan Automobiles, the official BMW Group importer in Qatar, held a weekend extravaganza in which customers were invited to the BMW and ...
Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar formally welcomed its new dean, Michael Trick, at an installation ceremony at its Education City ...
Aamal Trading and Distribution, a subsidiary of Aamal Company, has officially launched a Bridgestone Fleet Point centre in Doha, bringing for ...
HE the Prime Minister and Minister of Interior Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa al-Thani met Turkey's Minister of Transport, Maritime ...
HE the Minister of State for Defence Affairs Dr Khalid bin Mohamed al-Attiyah holding talks with Turkish Defence Minister Nurettin Canikli ...
Al Khaliji is participating in Qatar Central Bank's fourth Information Security Conference for the Financial Sector as one of the event's ...
Non-oil activity in the UAE accelerated in October, supported by a surge in new export orders and a gain in output as firms became more ...
Montreal this week celebrates Leonard Cohen, its native son whose sage and spiritual songwriting impacted generations. But the singer, who died one ...
Afghanistan's first graduates in women's studies donned caps and gowns on Sunday to collect their unusual qualifications in the patriarchal country. ...
US business schools are beefing up training in the software that underlies digital currency bitcoin, a technology expected to be a game changer in ...
Five days after the worst attack on New York since September 11, 2001, the city stages a show of defiance Sunday, when 2.5 million people will pack ...
In the shadow of the Imam Hamza mosque in the region of the ancient kingdom of Babylon, a carpet market that was once bustling is now almost ...
At Vietnam's Old Flames market, curious customers peruse love letters and pick through perfumes, candles and clothes -- relics from failed ...
Shares in Kingdom Holding, 95 percent of which is owned by billionaire Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal, dived 9.9 percent as the Saudi stock exchange ...
> KUWAIT, Nov 6 -- Kuwait National Assembly Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanim met in his office on Monday the Consultant of the ...
The Peninsula Prime Minister and Interior Minister H E Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani with Minister of Internal Security ...
The General Directorate of Residency and Foreigners Affairs - Dubai has opened a new smart Amer centre to allow residents ...
BEIRUT � A car bombing by the Daesh terror group killed at least 75 displaced civilians who had fled fighting in eastern Syria, a monitor ...
ROME � Five migrants, including one young child, died on Monday as result of a 'violent, reckless' and 'illegal' intervention by Libya's ...
BAGHDAD � Iraq's supreme federal court ruled on Monday that no region or province can secede, strengthening the government's hand as it ...
Paralympic fencer Beatrice Vio is a veritable sports icon in Italy, a model of courage whose battle against disease, infectious enthusiasm and ...
An American Democrat made history on Tuesday by becoming Virginia's -- and possibly the nation's -- first openly transgender state delegate, winning ...
Like many young people, 29-year-old student L.L. loves his cell phone. So much so, in fact, that his studies, his work and even his personal ...
Saudi Arabia sought to reassure investors on Tuesday that a sweeping anti-corruption purge would not affect businesses, including those with ties to ...
Uber's recently-installed chief laid out a moral creed for the controversy-battered ride-sharing firm Tuesday, urging employees to "do the right ...
Women who get intra-uterine devices for birth control appear to face a dramatically lower risk of getting cervical cancer, the third most ...
The United States on Tuesday unveiled criminal charges against five people accused of involvement in a bribery scheme to help British defense giant ...
Twitter announced Tuesday it would double the limit for tweets to 280 characters in a bid to draw in more users and boost engagement at the social ...
Baku, Azerbaijan, Nov. 8 Trend: A solemn ceremony on the production of two billion tons of oil in Azerbaijan is underway at the ...
Tehran, Iran, November 8 By Mehdi Sepahvand � Trend: Over the first six months of the current Iranian fiscal year 
Baku, Azerbaijan, Nov. 8 By Nigar Guliyeva - Trend: Federica Mogherini, the High Representative of the European Union for foreign ...
Baku, Azerbaijan, Nov. 8 Trend: The official exchange rate of US dollar and euro to Azerbaijani manat for Nov. 8 was set at 1.7003 ...
Baku, Azerbaijan, Nov. 8 Trend: Over the past 24 hours, Armenia's armed forces have 130 times violated the ceasefire along the ...
Baku, Azerbaijan, Nov. 8 By Rufiz Hafizoglu � Trend: A truck and a car with pilots and flight attendants have collided at the ...
Baku, Azerbaijan, Nov. 8 By Rufiz Hafizoglu � Trend: The Samsun Carsamba Airport in Turkey's Samsun province resumed activity on ...
Chinese investors' penchant for Hong Kong real estate is well-known and as they take aim at the city's most prestigious buildings and office space, ...
More than a decade in the making, the Louvre Abu Dhabi opens its doors on Wednesday, bringing the famed name to the Arab world for the first time.The ...
Details added Baku, Azerbaijan, Nov. 8 Trend: The official exchange rate of US dollar and euro ...
Baku, Azerbaijan, Nov. 8 By Rufiz Hafizoglu � Trend: Turkey and Iran have agreed to hold a joint military operation against the ...
Ooredoo is seeing strong demand in security solutions for the banking and finance sector on the back of the Information Security Conference ...
His Highness the Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani met yesterday at the Emiri Diwan with Omani Interior Minister Sayyid Hamoud bin Faisal ...
Texas A & M University at Qatar has unveiled a new display in recognition of the campus's valued partners in industry and community in ...
His Highness the Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani was interviewed by the famous TV host Charlie Rose for his 60 Minutes show aired by CBS ...
QNA Qatar Development Bank signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Tawar Mall yesterday aiming to support and encourage ...
The Peninsula Over 200 health experts and researchers in Doha, the region and beyond attended the Fourth International Congress on ...
Tehran: Iran on Tuesday dismissed accusations by Saudi Arabia's crown prince that it had launched a "direct military aggression" after a ...
BEIRUT: Iranian President Hassan Rouhani called Lebanese President Michel Aoun on Tuesday to discuss developments after the Lebanese prime ...
Ticket prices for entering the Dubai Safari and the Dubai Frame, two of Dubai's most awaited landmarks, have been announced. Entry ...
Minister of Economy Sultan bin Saeed Al Mansouri said that the UAE and the Maldives were having good economic and commercial ties. The ...
Leon Chen looks frazzled as he shepherds a group of Chinese tourists through the Galeries Lafayette department store in Paris, past stands stacked ...
Troubled Japanese conglomerate Toshiba said Thursday it logged a net loss of $436 million for the fiscal first half, as it moves to complete the ...
Facebook is trying to combat "revenge porn" by encouraging users in Australia to submit their nude photos to a pilot project designed to prevent ...
Women who are treated for a kind of breast cancer that is fueled by the hormone estrogen face a substantial risk of the cancer returning, even 20 ...
Asia-Pacific ministers struggled Thursday to agree on a joint statement on free trade in a rare wrangle over a usually routine document as US ...
Uber on Wednesday unveiled a partnership with NASA that will see it develop flying taxis priced competitively with standard Uber journeys.It also ...
With its warm colours and toy-filled rooms, the Biobab nursery looks just like any other, but this is daycare with a difference.Located in the ...
A government-funded IVF programme that aims to help save India's shrinking Parsi community from extinction is delivering bundles of joy and ...
Tokyo resumed its surge on Thursday, leading a broad Asia rally following another record close on Wall Street, while investors are keeping tabs on a ...
It's the most sought after invitation in the celebrity universe -- and on Wednesday, Amal Clooney, Rihanna and Donatella Versace were named co-chairs ...
Baku, Azerbaijan, Nov.9 By Leman Zeynalova � Trend: OPEC forecasts Azerbaijan's oil production to be stable by 2040 at 0.7-0.8 ...
Baku, Azerbaijan, Nov.10 By Nigar Guliyeva � Trend: S&P Global Ratings has revised its outlook on ForteBank JSC to positive from ...
Wo Cloud, the first public cloud platform co-founded by Alibaba Cloud, and China Unicom, one of the largest state-owned telecommunications ...
The Egyptian national team and English Liverpool's winger Mohamed Salah has outperformed Real Madrid's Portuguese Cristiano Ronaldo in ...
Talking Points: RBNZ leaves rate at 1.75%, sees official cash rate rising in Q2 2019 versus Q3 prior The appreciated nicely, closing at a ...
Talking Points: Japan's trade balance and current account data were mixed, but exports did improve The anti-risk Yen probably seemed less ...
Talking Points: China's Consumer Price Index just beat forecasts in October The Producer Price measure did so more robustly But the rose only ...
HE the Minister of Development Planning and Statistics Saleh Mohamed Salem al-Nabit holding talks with the Minister of Interior of Pakistan ...
By Azerbaijan is participating as an observer in the 'Eastern Mediterranean 2017 military exercises in Turkey, the Turkish media reports. ...
By Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has sharply criticized Saudi Arabia over its alleged support for terrorism and causing 'hostility among ...
AMMAN —AlGhad— His Royal Highness Crown Prince Hussein visited the Civil Defence Department on Wednesday to check ...
AMMAN —AlGhad— The Houses of Parliament are scheduled to reconvene next Sunday, after His Majesty King Abdullah II ...
After an ambitious ten-year journey, Louvre Abu Dhabi, the new historical landmark of the UAE Capital, is ready to welcome its first public ...
The Federal Authority for Identity and Citizenship has denied changes in Emirates ID fees for services it offers. The authority issued a ...
French President Emmanuel Macron will be joining Arab leaders to inaugurate the new Louvre Abu Dhabi in the capital of the United Arab ...
Rahil Iqbal sugarcoats nothing: "Business is finished."The 64-year-old of Pakistani origin says sales have plummeted at his California clothing ...
Love it or loathe it, America's avocado craze shows no sign of fizzling out, but fans of the Mexican staple may not realize they can thank the NAFTA ...
Iconic American industrial behemoth General Electric, which has lost investor confidence amid bad investment decisions, is preparing to slice up its ...
Police in the US state of Delaware are poised to deploy "smart" cameras in cruisers to help authorities detect a vehicle carrying a fugitive, missing ...
The Louvre Abu Dhabi opened its doors to the public on Saturday, drawing thousands of visitors as cosmopolitan as the United Arab Emirates itself, a ...
The sequined curtains of Barcelona's Bagdad nightclub have seen a few sights in their 40 years -- from red-lit sex shows to burlesque troupers ...
Under a massive glass roof, the ultramodern new train station in Lodz, a central city in Poland, already appears ready to welcome visitors for a 2022 ...
With Hollywood roiled by mounting sexual misconduct allegations, studios are monitoring Kevin Spacey's removal from his latest movie as a bold but ...
At least six people were killed and four others injured on Saturday when a passenger bus hit a hearse in the state of Zacatecas in ...
Baku, Azerbaijan, Nov. 12 By Maksim Tsurkov � Trend: The agreement on the common aviation space between the European Union ...
The United States and Russia are able to cooperate despite frictions over many issues, a high-ranked official of the US State ...
President Donald Trump said China is taking advantage of American workers and American companies with unfair trade practices, but he blamed ...
The presidents of France and Germany reaffirmed on Friday the friendship between the former European rivals as they opened a joint war museum ...
Russian President Vladimir Putin said yesterday that Russia would respond in kind to what he said were Washington's measures to restrict the ...
Global monetary policy is likely to remain accommodative in 2018 and the risk of tighter policy to global growth is low, QNB has said in an ...
Strike partners Antoine Griezmann and Olivier Giroud scored as France began its World Cup warmup programme with a comfortable 2-0 home win ...
A high-level Saudi Arabian delegation will visit Pakistan by the end of this month to explore investment opportunities in the ...
The United States military said Saturday it has carried out a new drone strike against the al-Shabab extremist group in Somalia, ...
The
Saudi-led coalition's easing of its blockade on famine-threatened Yemen
is 'a step in the right direction but does not go far enough, ...
Hamad Medical Corporation's diabetes clinics receive more than 3,000 patients each month, the corporation revealed. The National ...
Bahrain said an explosion which caused a fire at its main oil pipeline on Friday was caused by "terrorist" sabotage. "The incident was an ...
The Saudi-led coalition's easing of its blockade on famine-threatened Yemen is "a step in the right direction" but does not go far enough, the ...
Jerusalem:The Israeli army said it had shot down a Russian-made Syrian drone carrying out a reconnaissance mission over the ...
Now, you can clear immigration at the Dubai International airport in just five seconds thanks to a new face-recognition facility. ...
Robots finally find a place in the UAE job market, replacing humans in customer care services. On Saturday, the Dubai Electricity and ...
As a high-speed train rattled past their heads, amateur Dutch winemakers were busy gathering the last of the season's grapes under a warm autumn sun ...
Scandal hit ride-sharing company Uber on Sunday announced a deal to sell a stake to Japan's SoftBank, as the firm looks to turn a new page ahead of ...
When it comes to the herbicide dicamba, farmers in the southern state of Arkansas are not lacking for strong opinions. "Farmers need it desperately," ...
The pound sank against its major peers on Monday as British Prime Minister Theresa May's future looks increasingly uncertain, while Asian equities ...
A fire destroyed a 2,000-year-old mural and much of the vestiges of an archaeological site in northern Peru on Sunday, the director of the Tumbas ...
Scanning the maze of pipes and valves sprouting from one of Brazil's pioneering deep Atlantic oil platforms, Lucas Azevedo doesn't mince words."We're ...
Former Uber CEO Travis Kalanick and an influential investor in the ride-sharing company have resolved a feud that will clear the path for Japan's ...
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro insisted on Sunday that his cash-strapped country would "never" default, as he prepared to meet with creditors in ...
An 6.5 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Costa Rica on Sunday night, the US Geological Survey said, reports. The ...
Baku, Azerbaijan, Nov. 13 By Nigar Guliyeva - Trend: The turnover of the North-Kazakhstan region with three Russian regions ...
It was not long after then US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton visited Myanmar in late 2011 that a new donor darling was born. Sanctions ...
Get the Asia AM Digest every day before Tokyo equity markets open ! The British Pound is facing broad-based selling pressure at the start of ...
As Germany's Christian Democratic Union and its Bavarian sister
party, the Christian Social Union , seek to form an ...
right" > Dallas Maverick's Dennis Smith Jr. in action against Washington Wizard's Bradley Beal during their NBA game in Washington, DC, on ...
Baku, Azerbaijan, Nov. 13 By Nigar Guliyeva - Trend: The United Arab Emirates voiced interest in joining the Russia-Kazakhstan ...
Fifty One East, Qatar's leading department store, held Bridal Lounge's grand opening ceremony on Saturday in the presence of New York Fashion ...
The Peninsula Online Mobile radars are in place at five spots in Qatar to ensure that no traffic violations occur on the roads. It is ...
By Mohammad Shoeb / The Peninsula The Minister of Energy and Industry H E Dr Mohammed bin Saleh Al Sada said the government is harnessing ...
Emirates, the world's largest international airline, today announced a $15.1 billion commitment for 40 Boeing 787-10 ...
AMMAN � Minister of Planning Imad Fakhoury and executive member of the German Development Bank Joachim Nagel on Sunday signed the ...
DUBAI, Nov 13, : Kuwait's Aviation Lease and Finance Company has completed the purchase of 20 Boeing 737 Max aircrafts worth ...
Millennial fans strongly back the pro-gay marriage stance taken by major Australian sporting bodies, saying it will help keep sports relevant for ...
Huddling against a hillside in northern Morocco is a tourist town famed for the striking blue of its buildings, and now the mayor is mixing in ...
Italy's failure to qualify for the World Cup for the first time in 60 years was greeted by a mixture of disbelief, dismay and resigned disappointment ...
Indian fishermen unload their morning catch as sari-clad women carrying buckets on their heads walk past street art that has transformed one of ...
Asian markets mostly fell on Tuesday following a tepid lead from Wall Street, while investors await movement on stalled US tax cuts with fears ...
Uber's tieup with Japanese tech giant SoftBank suggests the ridesharing giant is set to come of age in the business world, but it still faces a long ...
American group Mattel unveiled its first ever hijab-wearing Barbie doll Monday in honor of US Olympic fencer Ibtihaj Muhammad, who in 2016 became the ...
US regulators hit banking giant Credit Suisse with a $135 million fine to resolve allegations its traders manipulated foreign exchange prices, New ...
US senators agreed Monday on legislation to reduce the regulatory burden on small banks, reforming rules established in the wake of the 2008 ...
Google was facing a broad investigation into its business practices Monday, with American officials planning to examine how the internet giant ...
Uncertainty over the NAFTA trade agreement poses a risk to economic growth in Mexico, the International Monetary Fund said Monday as US, Mexican and ...
High blood pressure was redefined Monday by the American Heart Association, which said the disease should be treated sooner, when it reaches 130/80, ...
Baku, Azerbaijan, Nov. 14 Trend: The official exchange rate of US dollar and euro to Azerbaijani manat for Nov. 14 was set at ...
HEART CITY : The Third National Saffron Flower Festival was held in western Herat province on Monday, with officials ...
Christie's kicked off the fall auction season in New York on Monday a Vincent Van Gogh leading the way at $81.3 million with robust sales of ...
Muscat- Oman's first Children's Public Library was officially inaugurated under the auspices of H H Sayyid Haitham bin Tariq al Said, ...
As China gets ready to allow foreign banks to take majority stakes in local securities joint ventures, Goldman Sachs Group Inc has been ...
LONDON � The dollar slipped to its lowest this month against the yen on Thursday, pressured by talk of possible delays to US President ...
Rabat � In Morocco, more than two million people aged 25 and older are , 50 percent of whom are women, said. In a statement ...
Bitcoin halted a two-day slump as speculators saw a 29% plunge from its record high as possibly an excessive response to a technology upgrade ...
> ABU DHABI, 13th November, 2017 -- Despite the positive outlook for the international oil industry, there is an urgent ...
The Ministry of Infrastructure Development is building a major bridge in Sharjah's Al Beda area at a cost of Dh200 million. The major ...
The grisly beheading of nine young people lured by a suspected serial killer after tweeting suicidal thoughts has sparked debate about the use of ...
When Richard Sherman became the latest high-profile NFL star to suffer a season-ending injury in Seattle's bruising victory over Arizona last week, ...
"We've got plans to export to the United States," grinned Luca Tooley who co-owns the Zwakala craft brewery in South Africa's northeastern Limpopo ...
From streetside stalls dishing out one dollar bowls of braised pork rice to upscale eateries tucked away in quiet alleyways, Michelin inspectors are ...
At the foot of the famed UNESCO-listed Casbah district in Algiers, the Ketchaoua Mosque has had a tumultuous past that, at one point, saw it turned ...
Australians voted decisively in favour of allowing same-sex couples to marry, sparking joyous celebrations Wednesday across the country even though ...
Asian energy firms extended a global sell-off Wednesday, dragging regional equity markets, as oil prices continued to tumble on the back of warnings ...
Wall Street's top regulator is punishing fewer companies and imposing smaller fines, bringing penalties and cases in the latest fiscal year to the ...
Global wealth has grown by more than a quarter in the decade since the financial crisis, but the spread is far from even, a study published Tuesday ...
An experimental patch that delivers a high dose of peanut protein has shown promise in reducing allergic reactions in children and adults, ...
French investigators searched the offices of French-Swiss cement maker Lafarge Tuesday, the company said, as part of an enquiry into financial links ...
By VTB Group completed the transaction for the purchase of 99.99 percent of shares of OJSC VTB Bank , says a message posted on ...
The U19 Challenger Trophy, which traditionally is played between three Indian teams, will have a fourth entrant this year as the Indian ...
Baku, Azerbaijan, Nov. 15 Trend: The official exchange rate of US dollar and euro to Azerbaijani manat for Nov. 15 was set at ...
AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The Italian government on Tuesday granted 4.3 million Euros to Afghanistan to fight polio in the country and ...
Oil fell by more than $1 in morning trading in New York after the International Energy Agency reported that recent increases in the oil price ...
The small European island of Malta in the recent past quietly opened its doors to Islamic banking and finance in an attempt to take on ...
China now has more high-performance supercomputers than ever before, again besting the United States in global rankings, a supercomputer ...
By Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has thanked for the global expressions of sympathy after a powerful earthquake hit a large ...
Officials with the U.S. National Security Council arrived in Israel on Tuesday to discuss with their Israeli counterparts the recent ...
With the defeat of the self-styled Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant , Al-Qaeda is most likely to emerge stronger than ...
MANAMAH —AlGhad— His Majesty King Abdullah II arrived in Manamah, to discuss with the Bahraini Monarch, Hamad bin Eisa Al ...
His Highness the Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani has sent a written message to Bulgarian President Rumen Radev. Ambassador of Qatar to ...
With the winter season gradually setting in, the lowest temperatures recorded in the UAE today was 11.5 degree Celsius at Raknah. ...
US broadcasting giant CBS is the new owner of Australia's third-largest commercial television network, the station's administrators said Thursday, ...
The "Raj Pink", the largest Fancy Intense Pink diamond in the world, failed to sell at auction, despite being the highlight of a Sotheby's sale of ...
A woman playing trumpet in a salsa band in traditionally macho South America is a rare thing. It's rarer still when that woman is Dutch. Since ...
The echo of Koranic verse from a religious school in Senegal's Saint-Louis is familiar, but just metres down the beach classes have fallen silent in ...
Near the stone ruins of the home where he says he lived as a boy, Yacoub Odeh laments that his native village on Jerusalem's hillside may soon be ...
Nepal's musical heritage is enjoying a revival as young musicians fuse the sounds of traditional instruments once at risk of disappearing with lyrics ...
We now know who to blame for Jo Nesbo scaring the living daylights out of millions of readers with his blood-drenched crime thrillers."When I was a ...
There's one room at the Sheno primary school in rural Ethiopia that's different from all the others, starting with the sign over the door reading: ...
A 500-year-old work of art -- believed to be by Leonardo da Vinci and depicting Jesus Christ -- sold in New York on Wednesday for $450.3 million, ...
Pussy Riot, the Russian art collective who became the nemesis of President Vladimir Putin after performing a punk protest in a cathedral, are taking ...
If the crisis-stricken Venezuelan government manages to scrape together funds to make payments on its delinquent bonds, that would change the default ...
Fairies, brides in black and hand-knit dolls take the runway in Dubai this week for the fifth Arab Fashion Week, a five-day affair focussed on ...
Activist investor Nelson Peltz' battle for a Procter & Gamble board seat was suddenly revived Wednesday after an updated shareholder vote count ...
Scientists have found a genetic mutation in the Amish people of the midwestern United States that appears to make them live 10 years longer than ...
In some ways, Naples is really two cities in one. By day, it's a city of such beauty and character that it's often used as a . But by ...
By Kamila Aliyeva Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey signed an agreement on the creation of the Lapis Lazuli transport ...
Baku, Azerbaijan, Nov. 16 By Samir Ali � Trend: More than 130 houses were damaged as a result of the earthquake in Azerbaijan's ...
Meet Firefox Quantum browser: 2x faster and 30% less memory 15 Nov 2017 Google Chrome has always been the go-to search engine for the ...
Rabat - The Moroccan national football team is set to play five friendly games before heading to Russia for the 2018 World Cup. ...
European wheat exports are buckling under the weight of Russia's record harvest. The world's top shipper is proving a fierce competitor as ...
Global green bond deals will top the $100 billion mark today and hit a new record, putting them on track to reach $130 billion by the end ...
Criticism was directed at the firm that has energy investments in Myanmar worth a multibillion dollar, US oil giant Chevron, for its association with a ...
Ask pretty much anyone � whether terrorists, politicians , dinner party guests, or religious leaders � and the one thing ...
Male, November 15 : Two Maldivian men charged with terrorism were planning to carry out a suicide attack in the capital ...
Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, Nov. 15 By Huseyn Hasanov - Trend Turkmen Foreign Minister Rashid Meredov held meetings with his ...
The tremors of the growing era of ‘fake news' felt across the globe were the focus of a special conversation at Northwestern University ...
The Peninsula Careem, a ride-hailing service in the Middle East and North Africa, recently provided its captains in Qatar with the ...
Dubai - The economic visions announced by the GCC governments will increase competition among the regional countries, diversify their ...
The King Abdul Aziz City for Science and Technology exhibited its combat drone Saqr 1 at the Dubai Airshow 2017.The drone flies at an average ...
Shanghai police have ruled out foul play and cast doubt on allegations that overwork contributed to the death of a 14-year-old Russian model after ...
Spray-painted in murals, wielded on anti-war banners, and even once hung as a tapestry at the United Nations, Pablo Picasso's "Guernica" might be the ...
From crouching over a small hole with a sheet for privacy to defecating in the open air, for millions of people in the Democratic Republic of Congo ...
Poland will build a museum focused on life and death in the infamous World War II-era Warsaw Ghetto, where Nazi Germany imprisoned nearly 500,000 ...
By Trend The Southern Gas Corridor project plays an important role in ensuring the energy security of Europe, Maros Shefovic, Vice President ...
Regional branches of Zimbabwe's ruling Zanu-PF party have joined growing calls for President Robert Mugabe to resign. War veterans ...
Baku, Azerbaijan, Nov. 18 Trend: Over the past 24 hours, Armenia's armed forces have 123 times violated the ceasefire along the ...
WASHINGTON - The United States Congress on Thursday passed a $700 billion annual defense budget, authorising $4.9 billion for ...
Japanese rail operator apologizes after train leaves 20 seconds early 17 Nov 2017 Japan is synonymous with efficiency, punctuality, ...
Financial markets are likely to remain at the mercy of US politics despite a flurry of speeches from key central bankers and several big-splash ...
IANS Kolkata: French celluloid venture "Los Perros" directed by Marcela Said won the award for the best film in the International ...
The Argentine navy confirmed that a submarine which was last located off the coast of Patagonia of at least 250 miles has been off radar for 48 hours, the ...
By US President Donald Trump will continue to look for ways to work with Russia, White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders said during a press ...
Baku, Azerbaijan, Nov. 17 By Maksim Tsurkov � Trend: OPEC oil basket's price stood at $59.98 per barrel on Nov. 16, which is $0.19 ...
The noose is slowly but surely tightening on the Sharif faction in Pakistan. Evidence of that came this week as an against Pakistan's ...
The recent lifting of the moratorium on Qatar's North Field and the strategic goal to raise liquefaction capacity by almost 30% to reach 100 ...
BEIRUT: Saad al-Hariri, who resigned from his post as Lebanon's prime minister two weeks ago from Saudi Arabia, said on Friday he has been ...
The month of the Dubai Fitness Challenge is coming to an end, but the admiration and motivation it created within residents towards ...
Whipping winds and 20-foot waves in the South Atlantic continued to hinder a frantic search for an Argentine submarine with 44 crew members on ...
The star-studded, super-hyped Victoria's Secret lingerie show hits the catwalk in Shanghai on Monday, the first time the US brand is holding its ...
Swimming with wild dolphins is something most can only dream of, and jumping into pools with captive animals has become increasingly controversial ...
Representatives of Morocco's religious minorities on Saturday urged the government to clarify the law on freedom of worship in Morocco, where Islam ...
By Pakistan intends to purchase 150,000 tons of coal per year from Uzbekistan as soon as the modernization of the Uzbek Shargunkumir JSC ...
PESHAWAR, 18 November: Minister for Interior Ahsan Iqbal on Saturday ordered the administration to give protestors blocking the ...
About 600 migrants from Africa have been rescued near the Spanish coast in the last two days, according to a sea rescue patrol, ...
Seven best smartphones with 6GB RAM 18 Nov 2017 With smartphone technology progressing at unprecedented rates, several smartphone ...
IANS San Francisco: Google Maps has updated driving, navigation, transit and explore maps to highlight information that the company ...
Many British businesses have become cautious as they try to gauge the impact of the country's 2019 departure from the European Union. But ...
Prince Charles, the Prince of Wales, has stepped forward to comment on Caribbean hurricanes, he explained the resulting demolition as "utterly ...
Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of the United Arab Emirates , ...
KUWAIT CITY, Nov 18: The Misdemeanor Court fined a Kuwaiti citizen KD 3,000 for insulting another citizen on Instagram. The court referred ...
AMMAN — Saudi Arabia Saturday summoned its ambassador to Germany home over remarks by German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel ...
The share of assistance from Qatar has exceeded the official development assistance of developed countries in the North, as Qatar's ...
The Peninsula Minister of Culture and Sports H E Salah bin Ghanem Al Ali paid a visit to Russia from November 15 to 17 at an invitation ...
An Emirati businessman, Ahmed Al Marzuoqi, 23; has won the bid to own the exclusive Abu Dhabi number 2 plate for a whopping Dh10 million. ...
A mute Syrian boy, using just body movements, gives a harrowing description of life under the Islamic State group in Syria.A crowd gathers of ...
It's November 22, 2028 and Sarah, a young mother, gives her two children a kiss goodbye before buckling them into the driverless car that will bring ...
The fight for some of the most prized spoils of Brexit comes to a climax on Monday when 27 EU states pick the new host cities for two London-based ...
In the battle against the car, space-starved Singapore has deployed road tolls, massive spending on public transport, and a licence fee that bumps ...
Asian markets turned lower on Monday as the correction that has hit global equities moved into another week, while the euro faced fresh pressure ...
It might have scored top of the North American box office, but "Justice League" didn't have the super opening weekend predicted, falling short of ...
Thousands of people marched, danced and celebrated in Rio de Janeiro's gay pride parade on Sunday, packing Copacabana Beach despite the ...
Tens of thousands of runners Sunday choked through smog for the Delhi half marathon, ignoring dire health warnings from doctors who fought for the ...
By Trend's interview with Ambassador of France to Azerbaijan Aurelia Bouchez Question: How do you assess the current state of the ...
New Delhi, November 19 : Controversies surrounding Sanjay Leela Bhansali's historical film Padmavati refuses to die down. ...
Baku, Azerbaijan, Nov.20 By Nigar Guliyeva � Trend: The National Bank for Foreign Economic Activity of Uzbekistan was granted the ...
KABUL - President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani said that the Afghan government has taken necessary steps to reach a peace deal with ...
Somalilandsun- Misgivings about fraud in the just concluded Somaliland presidential elections has led to some citizens petitioning the ...
Rabat � The 2nd edition of the will be held on Nov. 27-28 in Marrakech, with the participation of more than 400 top-level ...
The scale of financing via the bond market has shown signs of steadily increasing following de-leveraging reform last year, said Zhu Haibin, ...
Talking Points: The is struggling in early trade Germany has been without a Federal government since elections on September 24 Coalition talks ...
Rabat -�Following the stampede that occurred on Sunday, King Mohammed VI "gave his high instructions to the competent authorities to ...
The coming days and weeks could prove to be decisive for the fate of the Syria's opposition forces. Wednesday marks the start of ...
Leading Palestinian political factions are to gather tomorrow in Cairo to push ahead with reconciliation efforts, despite fundamental disputes ...
By Fazeena Saleem / The Peninsula As the National Primary Health Care Strategy 2013-2018 draws to a close, at least 80 percent of its ...
Abu Dhabi Police has broken the Guinness Book of World Record for the largest 'Youth Circle' tackling internet security and cybercrime on ...
AMMAN � Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi and his Egyptian counterpart Sameh Shoukry on Saturday discussed regional developments and the ...
With wide boulevards, fashionable shopping and a Roman-style amphitheatre, the newly built Palestinian city of Rawabi is the culmination of a ...
Saudi authorities said Monday they had detected an "advanced" cyber attack targeting the kingdom, in a fresh attempt by hackers to disrupt government ...
Expanding bike lanes, handing out free helmets and making lessons free: New York is making great strides in encouraging pedal power at the expense of ...
When Xiaoxiong and her lesbian lover wanted to hide their relationship from their parents, they decided to find men willing to marry them. They had a ...
Canberra Tuesday welcomed as "very touching" the scrapping of a planned French wind farm on the site of a World War I battlefield where thousands of ...
Tokyo's Nikkei led a rally across Asian markets on Tuesday, boosted by a weaker yen while traders took heart from a healthy run on Wall Street, ...
US central bank chief Janet Yellen announced Monday she will leave the Federal Reserve in February once her successor as chair is sworn in. The ...
Charlie Rose, one of America's most respected broadcasters, an award-winning television host and interviewer, was suspended Monday after eight women ...
Swedish carmaker Volvo Cars said Monday it has signed an agreement to supply "tens of thousands" of self-driving cars to Uber, as the ride-sharing ...
The US government filed suit to block AT&T's merger with Time Warner, setting up a the biggest antitrust court clash in decades over the $85 ...
US authorities arrested two officials representing a Chinese energy company in a multi-year, multimillion dollar bribery scheme in Africa, with some ...
By Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has signed a decree making changes to the "Decree on Approval of New Composition of the ...
Colombo, Nov 20 -�Sri Lankan Prime Minister, Ranil Wickremesinghe, on Monday appeared before a special Presidential Commission ...
Baku, Azerbaijan, Nov. 21 By Rufiz Hafizoglu � Trend: Istanbul will host the 10th meeting of the Asian Parliamentary Assembly, ...
A Turkish central bank intervention failed to prevent the lira from tumbling to a new a low against the US dollar of 3.92 on Monday. ...
> BRUSSELS, Nov 20 -- EU High Representative Federica Mogherini met the State Counsellor of Myanmar Aung San Suu Kyi on ...
His Highness the Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani held yesterday evening a telephone conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin. ...
North Korea may conduct additional missile tests this year to polish up its long-range missile technology and ramp up the threat against the ...
Three Filipino inmates at a Sharjah prison have converted to Islam. According to the Sharjah Reformatory and Punitive Establishments ...
At least eight people were killed Monday by an intensified rebel mortar shelling on residential areas in the capital Damascus, ...
Defending champion Assarain moved to the top of table with a four-wicket win over Enhance CT while Passage to India claimed its first ...
> AMMAN, 20th November, 2017 -- Mattar Saif Sulaiman Al Shamsi, UAE Ambassador to Jordan, met with Prince Hamzah bin Al ...
The auto renewal service for business licences, launched by Dubai Economy to enhance ease of business and competitiveness in the emirate, ...
Delegates from the United States, Mexico and Canada on Tuesday wrapped up a fifth round of talks on renegotiating the North American Free Trade ...
The United States on Tuesday imposed import duties on ripe Spanish olives, saying preliminary findings indicated they were subject to unfair ...
Meg Whitman, one of the most prominent women in Silicon Valley and a onetime candidate for California governor, announced Tuesday she was stepping ...
Dutch chemical giant and leading global paint maker AkzoNobel said Tuesday it had ditched merger talks with US rival Axalta which would have blended ...
The 51-nation tuna fisheries body for the Atlantic and Mediterranean boosted quotas for highly prized bluefin despite scientific findings that doing ...
ByKeetie Roelen Being poor is a highly shameful experience, degrading one's dignity and sense of self-worth. While the manifestations and ...
One Ukrainian soldier was killed in the anti-terrorist operation zone in eastern Ukraine over the past day. Ukrainian Defense ...
Baku, Azerbaijan, Nov. 22 By Rufiz Hafizoglu � Trend: Unknown people have opened fire in a cafe in Istanbul, the Turkish media ...
Chinese financials soared in Hong Kong overnight, led by insurers Ping An and China Pacific Insurance , in response to new Chinese ...
The US government filed suit Monday to block AT & T's merger with Time Warner, setting up the biggest antitrust court clash in decades over ...
The sky seems to be the limit for Chinese online shopping portal Taobao, which auctioned off two Boeing 747 jumbo jets on Tuesday for ...
Robert Mugabe who reigned over Zimbabwe for 37 years has resigned as president after once insisting that "only God" can remove him. His resignation ...
Public opinionon the streets of Muscat How did you celebrate National Day What according to you is the best way to celebrate the ...
KUWAIT CITY, Nov 21: The Criminal Court has set Dec 18 to deliver the verdict in a State Security case involving a lawyer accused of joining ...
Iraqi President Fuad Masum is seen during a press conference in Kuwait on Monday KUWAIT CITY, Nov 21, : Iraqi President Fuad Masum ...
Qatar's progress and development over the years did not go well with the
neighbouring Gulf states and the resulting envy triggered the ...
Tunis: Tunisia will continue with a package of painful economic policies, Prime Minister Youssef Chahed said yesterday, despite resistance ...
The youth must be equipped with coding and algorithm skills to operate Artificial Intelligence technologies that already occupy big part of ...
Diversification has put the Dubai economy on road to progress and the emirate will outperform the rest of the Gulf countries by sustaining ...
The only pointer of what lies inside the stone storehouse within the grounds of the prison is a printed note pasted to an old grey door."This is to ...
A boatload of tourists in the far eastern Russian Arctic thought they were seeing clumps of ice on the shore, before the jaw-dropping realisation ...
Facebook on Wednesday said it will help people see if they liked or followed posts considered part of a Russian effort to meddle with last year's US ...
Malaysian Indian musicians bang drums on a stage shrouded in smoke, singing in Tamil, as dancers wearing shimmering gold outfits adorned with peacock ...
The dollar struggled Thursday in Asia following the previous day's losses as dovish Federal Reserve minutes rowed back expectations for US interest ...
Shareholders unhappy with the plunge in the value of shares in Altice plan to sue the French and US telecoms firm, which said Wednesday it is the ...
Health Canada said Wednesday it is considering regulating the popular pain killer tramadol as an opioid, after seeing a spike in prescriptions over ...
They were supposed to bring about an energy revolution -- but the popularity of LED lights is driving an increase in light pollution worldwide, with ...
Abnormal proteins involved in the brain-destroying Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease , a human form of "mad cow" disease, are detectable in the skin, ...
By NATO is committed to support Azerbaijan in defense reform, a NATO official told Trend ahead of a meeting of the North Atlantic Council ...
MARDAN: Residents of Mardan city on Wednesday set up protest camp at college chowk to force the government to construct a family park ...
Baku, Azerbaijan, Nov. 23 Trend: The official exchange rate of US dollar and euro to Azerbaijani manat for Nov. 23 was set at ...
Android devices covertly send location data to Google 22 Nov 2017 An investigation by Quartz has revealed that Google receives cell ...
North Korea condemned its US terror listing as a 'serious provocation yesterday, warning that sanctions would never force it to abandon its ...
ISTANBUL:Russia has the power to solve the decades-long Karabakh dispute between Azerbaijan and Armenia, Turkish president said Wednesday. ...
President Trump called for NFL to "get tough and smart" over the national anthem protest since it is "killing" the league.Athletes who kneel for the anthem ...
At least 50 people were killed at a mosque in northeastern Nigeria on Tuesday by a suicide bomber, in what is considered the biggest mass killing this year ...
Baku, Azerbaijan, Nov. 22 By Fatih Karimov � Trend: Iran's President Hassan Rouhani said ...
Baku, Azerbaijan, Nov. 22 By Rufiz Hafizoglu � Trend: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani ...
Muscat- Oman's first budget airline, Salam Air, starts its flights to Doha, Qatar, operating five weekly flights from Muscat International ...
> KUWAIT, Nov 22 -- Boursa Kuwait ended Wednesday's trading with mixed boards. The benchmark was down by 2.7 points to ...
As the finale of Qatar Foundation 's Stars of Science TV show
approaches, this season's four finalists Ahmad Nabeel, Fouad ...
A draft law on the Permanent Residency Law, which would allow beneficiaries to undertake commercial activities and own residential and ...
His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai received the 'Order of ...
It has been closed to visitors for a decade with few noticing. But, when McDonald's announced it would demolish "Store No. 1," a small midwestern US ...
This weekend marks the 75th anniversary of the premiere of "Casablanca," a timeless story of love, loss and redemption many consider to be the ...
US President Donald Trump on Friday appointed White House budget director Mick Mulvaney to head a financial watchdog that the administration has ...
S&P Global Ratings lowered South Africa's credit rating further into "junk" territory on Friday, citing the country's deteriorating public ...
Gas exporting countries, grappling with collapsed global markets, on Friday called for a "fair price" for the commodity after a summit in Bolivia.The ...
Venezuela's state-owned oil firm PDVSA said Friday it has started to repay $233 million in interest on two bonds nearing default, days before the end ...
British Prime Minister Theresa May has called on European leaders to remain "open-eyed" to Russia's threat, according to Sky News. ...
Islamabad, November 25 : Hours after his release from house arrest, Jamaat-ud-Dawa chief Hafiz Saeed made a scathing attack ...
LANDI KOTAL, 24 November: Security forces on Friday defused a magnet bomb attached to a motorcar carrying local journalists here, ...
Baku, Azerbaijan, Nov. 25 By Nigar Guliyeva � Trend: In Kazakhstan, the money supply, or all money in the economy, decreased by ...
Tehran, Iran, November 25 By Mehdi Sepahvand � Trend: The experience of harsh years of sanctions has put spatial planning and ...
Kiran trainer aircraft crashes in Telangana, pilot safe 24 Nov 2017 An Indian Air Force trainer aircraft crashed in Telangana's Siddipet ...
Abdelilah Benkirane, Head of the PJD party By Sana Elouazi Rabat � After many attempts to elevate Arabic's status over other ...
The Bank of England will publish stress test results for seven of Britain's major banks on Tuesday, which will put the spotlight on Royal Bank ...
QNA Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister H E Sheikh Mohamed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani met separately in London with Britain's ...
Baku, Azerbaijan, Nov. 24 Trend: President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev has expressed condolences to his Egyptian counterpart Abdel ...
WASHINGTON - US president Donald Trump on Thursday said that everyone in the United States is talking about the progress the US ...
By Sana Elouazi Rabat � Following the of conspiracy against the throne made against by the lawyer for the detained Hirak Rif ...
China has been leading the charge in drone technologies as well as military application, with a slew of paramilitary or military stealth ...
His shock resignation and mysterious stay in Saudi Arabia had sparked fears of chaos but Prime Minister Saad Hariri's homecoming appears to ...
Jawhara Jewellery concluded its successful participation at the 21st edition of Dubai International Jewellery Show , which started on ...
Rainbow flags flowed through the streets of Hong Kong Saturday during the city's annual pride parade, as LGBT activists criticised authorities for ...
Two of Italy's most famous cheeses, Parmesan and Grana Padano, are being produced with milk from emaciated, sometimes lame cows kept permanently ...
By Trend The Mejlis of Turkmenistan ratified the agreement on transit and transport cooperation on Saturday, ...
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has commemorated the victims of the Holodomor of 1932-1933 in Ukraine, the press service of the head of ...
The bitcoin price has achieved a new all-time high for the second time this week at $8,668, with strong momentum led by Japan and ...
Most of the Afghan masses often woke up to the news of violence against women, giving an inauspicious start of the week for the women ...
By Sana Elouazi Rabat - Many doubts have recently hovered over a possible visit by King Mohammed VI to C�te d'Ivoire. This has ...
Donald Trump was 'incorrect, Time magazine said, when he claimed yesterday to have taken a 'pass on an interview and 'major photo shoot ...
President Mauricio Macri has ordered an inquiry to 'know the truth about what happened to Argentina's missing submarine, the San Juan, which ...
Cristiano Ronaldo's first La Liga goal for over a month ensured Real Madrid closed the gap on La Liga leaders Barcelona to seven points by ...
Former Borussia Dortmund player Naldo sealed Schalke's thrilling four-goal fightback against his old club with a 94th-minute header that ...
A Quartz investigation discovered that smartphones with Android software are able to gather locations date and sent them to Google, even with the location ...
A boat carrying more than 100 illegal immigrants on Saturday drowned off the Libyan western town of Garrabulli, killing 31 migrants, ...
Armed clashes broke out on Saturday between a Libyan security force and gunmen in the western city of Khoms, killing five people, ...
Rabat - King Mohammed VI has sent a message of condolences to Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi following the tragic terrorist ...
Muscat- Hyundai has shown the road forward towards an electric future at Dubai International Motor Show 2017, with all three versions of ...
AMMAN — A slight rise in temperatures is expected today, where pleasant conditions prevail in the hilly areas and the Jordan ...
AMMAN —AlGhad— A young man, 23 years old, committed suicide today, Saturday, inside his parents' house in Rabia, West ...
AMMAN —AlGhad— The Minister of Education, Dr Omar Razzaz, via Twitter, denied issuing a ban on teaching evolutionary ...
Al Khalij Commercial Bank , as part of its Qatar National Day celebrations this year, is offering qualified employees a ...
Thousands of students who ran up unpayable debts at for-profit schools are anxiously waiting to see if US President Donald Trump's administration ...
He shows off some of Milan's most sumptuous frescoes to tourists, but Syrian Mohamed Hamadi also does more than that -- he reaches out to visitors ...
Pampered heroes during communist times, Albania's weightlifters now train in a rundown hall, hoping to improve their image at the upcoming World ...
Smoking kills an average 1,200 Americans daily, US tobacco companies admitted Sunday in court-ordered "corrective statements" published in ...
By Turkmenistan is ready to use the East-West internal gas pipeline to supply its energy resources to international markets through the ...
Baku, Azerbaijan, Nov. 27 Trend: Over the past 24 hours, Armenia's armed forces have 118 times violated the ceasefire along the ...
A shooting reportedly took place at the Galleria at Crystal Run mall, located in the Wallkill town, at 15:15 local time [20:15 GMT], ...
AT News Report-KABUL: The government of India is to donate 2.87 million dollars to the ministry of transport, Indian embassy to Kabul ...
The National Development and Reform Commission released the Thirteenth Five-Year Plan for the Chinese Railway, with the aim of operating a ...
Get the Asia AM Digest every day before Tokyo equity markets open ! European currencies outperformed on Friday, with the leading the way ...
The UK Labour Party is consulting a hedge fund that is betting against Britain's currency and says the economy may need an International ...
THE HAGUE � UN judges on Wednesday sentenced former Bosnian Serbian commander Ratko Mladic to life imprisonment after finding him guilty of ...
> DOHA, Nov 26 -- The Kuwait National Petroleum Company on Sunday received the GSAS Gold Certificate for green ...
Qatar
Airways has announced that it has renewed its sponsorship as official
airline partner of Orbis UK for a further three years. Orbis is ...
QNA Qatar General Organization for Standardization has joined the membership of the Standards and Metrology Institute for the Islamic ...
Surplus Stores has opened its doors to the public with its ground-breaking wholesale concept that redefines the wholesale business and is ...
US President Donald Trump told his Turkish counterpart that the United States will no longer supply arms to People's Protection Units Syrian Kurdish ...
Asian traders shifted cautiously on Tuesday with Chinese stocks coming under renewed pressure, while concerns grew about the future of the ...
With oil prices nudging steadily higher, market expectations are for crude-pumping countries to prolong their deal to curb output at a meeting at ...
The European Union will on Monday attempt to determine the future of glyphosate, a controversial weedkiller hugely relied on by farmers but which ...
EU countries broke months of deadlock on Monday when they voted to renew the licence for the controversial weedkiller glyphosate for five years after ...
Tumblr founder and chief David Karp on Monday announced he is leaving the nearly 11-year-old blogging platform -- with his departure coming in the ...
As the holidays approach, a Vancouver company said Monday it is struggling to meet the demand for its novel marijuana advent calendars -- even though ...
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on Monday defended a controversial arms sale to Saudi Arabia which Amnesty International said should be scrapped ...
The Keystone pipeline will resume oil deliveries on Tuesday after being shut down because of a leak in South Dakota, its operator TransCanada ...
Facebook on Monday said stepping up the use of artificial intelligence to identify members of the leading social network who may be thinking of ...
Two of Canada's leading newspaper groups, Postmedia and Torstar, announced Monday a swap of 41 newspapers -- 34 of which will be shut down.No money ...
By The official exchange rate of US dollar and euro to Azerbaijani manat for November 28 was set at 1.7001 manats and 2.0239 manats, ...
Tehran, Iran, November 26 By Mehdi Sepahvand - Trend: Gas power plants are going to be promising sites for investment in Iran, ...
Baku, Azerbaijan, Nov. 28 By Nigar Guliyeva � Trend: Uzbekistan will soon establish air communication with Afghanistan. The ...
Baku, Azerbaijan, Nov. 28 By Rufiz Hafizoglu � Trend: The Turkish Air Force attacked the positions of Kurdistan Workers' Party ...
The airport in Bali will remain closed for a second day as a volcano on the Indonesian island continued to rumble, prompting more ...
At least 17 people were killed and 28 others injured in a suicide bombing in Baghdad, on Monday, the National Iraqi News Agency ...
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang made clear Monday that China would keep pouring billions of euros into central and eastern Europe despite EU concerns, as ...
Eurozone stocks closed lower yesterday as the euro remained strong amid hopes that German Chancellor Angela Merkel is close to forming a ...
Australiasealed a dominant 10-wicket victory over England before lunch on day five of the series-opening Ashes Test on Monday, having ...
Kylian Mbappe had a return to Monaco to forget, despite his Paris Saint-Germain team winning 2-1 Sunday in the principality to boost its ...
An Emirati man was sentenced to three years in jail on Monday by the Court of First Instance which found him guilty of raping his Uzbek ...
Juan Orlando Hernandez, Honduran President has ordered several exit polls to announce himself victorious in a proposal for a second term in the Central ...
Officials reported an incident in Central California where a truck smashed into a house leading to the death of an eleven year old boy and a ...
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister raised alarm on Monday of an "apocalyptic" state of affair on the Korean peninsula.According to a report by Tass News ...
Baku, Azerbaijan, Nov. 27 By Ilhama Isabalayeva � Trend: Azerbaijani citizens are not recommended to go on vacation to Egypt after ...
KUWAIT CITY, Nov 27: A 26-year-old Kuwaiti female teacher has filed a complaint with the Fintas Police Station accusing a 9-year-old Kuwaiti ...
The supermoon will appear in the Qatar sky on Sunday, December 3, Qatar Calendar House has said. Qatar residents do not need any ...
Doha Bank recently held its monthly ‘Employee Recognition Awards' ceremony to recognise outstanding employees. Doha Bank CEO Dr R ...
Ooredoo has announced that new plans have been added to its popular Home Broadband service to cater to the increasing needs of its customers ...
Russia proposed a two-day ceasefire yesterday in the last major rebel stronghold near the Syrian capital Damascus, where warplanes killed at ...
The Roads and Transport Authority on Monday announced the business hours of its services in Dubai during Prophet Muhammad's birthday ...
Passengers arriving at Abu Dhabi International Airport can get tourist visas within 15 to 30 minutes, authorities have announced. A new ...
After it topped the list of electric power companies in the Arab countries by market value which reached at the end of September 2017 at about USD26.5 ...
The scourge of the opioid crisis in the United States kills 90 Americans every day, but beyond the human toll it also handicaps the US economy, ...
Going to the office isn't what it used to be. As more workers shift to on-demand and "gig" employment, the workplace has changed, and no company has ...
Buddhist monks chant next to a pink coffin where Dollar's small body is nestled amongst flowers -- a $600 final farewell for the Shih Tzu at a ...
Tens of thousands of people have protested in Tel Aviv against what they say is corruption within the government and the slow pace of investigations ...
At Melt Bakery, a hole in the wall that sells ice cream sandwiches in New York's upscale Manhattan neighborhood, you can pay for your guilty pleasure ...
About a hundred activists occupied an Apple store in the French capital Saturday, demanding that the US technology giant pay billions of euros the EU ...
The mournful drone of bagpipes resounded and motorists moved aside as the funeral procession for a slain detective marched through Baltimore this ...
Shervin Pishevar, one of Silicon Valley's most powerful venture capitalists, has denied claims by several women of sexual harassment, saying he is ...
The Philippines is prepared for a "worst-case scenario" following warnings that an anti-dengue vaccine administered to thousands of children may ...
Naples' art of pizza twirling is a candidate to join UNESCO's list of "intangible heritage" next week along with a wealth of other cultural treasures ...
Tashkent, Uzbekistan, Dec. 2 By Diana Aliyeva � Trend: Heads of local self-government bodies of Uzbekistan were given the right to ...
Afghan security forces counter-offensive left at least 18 militants and two policemen dead in the country's eastern province of ...
Emergency services officials in the Czech capital say four people were injured when a footbridge that crosses the Vltava River ...
Cyclone Ockhi: 200 trapped fishermen rescued; many yet to return 02 Dec 2017 It's not the first-time that Kerala's fishermen have seen a ...
These are the undisputed queens of Bollywood! 03 Dec 2017 Bollywood is probably the biggest example of women empowerment. While the ...
Rabat � Moroccan international midfielder has once again expressed his hope to rejoin the Moroccan team football team after the ...
Detailing a battle for press freedom at the height of the Watergate scandal, Steven Spielberg's new movie "The Post" echoes loudly ...
Qatar-based Naseem Al Rabeeh Medical Centre has announced that it has received the Rose of Paracelsus Award, which recognises exemplary ...
HE the Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohamed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani participating in the Rome 2017 MED conference ...
LONDON � The University of Oxford, the oldest university in the English speaking world, is planning to sell its first bond in the coming ...
> AMMAN, Dec 2 -- Jordanian King Abdullah II met with African leaders and US Secretary of Defense James Mattis, who were ...
> RAMALLAH, Dec 2 -- Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah on Saturday warned against "grave consequences" if US ...
The Doha International Family Institute , a member of Qatar Foundation , has concluded its Expert Group Meeting titled ...
He reminded the audience that His Highness the Emir had urged citizens and residents not to insult others and commended them for the high ...
PARIS/BAGHDAD: French President Emmanuel Macron on Saturday called on Iraq to dismantle all militias, including the government-sanctioned, ...
The Peninsula The Doha International Center for Interfaith Dialogue yesterday organised the 8th Community Round-Table Discussion ...
Roberto Firmino scored twice as Liverpool continued their recent fine run with a 5-1 win away to Brighton and Hove Albion in the Premier ...
ROME � Iran on Thursday brushed off suggestions it should curb its reach in the Middle East and denied accusations of meddling, saying it ...
WASHINGTON � Over 400 US Marines involved in battling the Daesh terror group in Syria are being withdrawn as part of a cut in forces after ...
AMMAN � His Majesty King Abdullah and UK Prime Minister Theresa May on Thursday held talks at Al Husseiniya Palace, which focused on ...
Australian gambling giant Crown was hit with a class action Monday after 18 employees were arrested in China, alleging it did not give shareholders ...
Digital platforms like Facebook and Google will be at the centre of an Australian inquiry announced Monday examining their impact on competition in ...
Tokyo stocks opened flat on Monday after three days of gains, as cautious investors watched developments in the FBI probe into alleged Russian ...
Social media titan Facebook will open a new office in London on Monday that is set to be its biggest engineering hub outside America, the company has ...
US pharmacy chain CVS has agreed to buy medical insurer Aetna for around $69 billion, according to reports Sunday.The deal would see Aetna ...
Venezuela is creating a digital currency to combat a financial blockade by the United States, President Nicolas Maduro announced Sunday.It will be ...
It may not feature in Morocco's official tourism brochures but cannabis attracts thousands of visitors a year to the North African country.At a hotel ...
Businesses in Liberia's dual-currency economy are feeling the pinch as customers stay home and the exchange rate keeps climbing in the absence of a ...
Baku, Azerbaijan, Dec. 3 Trend: President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev and First Vice President Mehriban Aliyeva have congratulated ...
Split, Croatia, Dec. 3 By Zaur Mustafayev - Trend: The newly-elected president of the European Union of Gymnastics , Farid ...
Split, Croatia, Dec. 3 By Zaur Mustafayev - Trend: There will be a really good presidential board at the European Union of ...
The Afghan government has decided to issue visa-on-arrival for foreign investors and business people at the Hamid Karzai International Airport in ...
KABUL - Afghanistan's acting minister of interior affairs, Wais Ahmad Barmak, has said that the US forces are expected to stay ...
JALALABAD : Hundreds of residents of the eastern zone on Sunday held a gathering in Jalalabad, the capital of Nangarhar ...
: President Ashraf Ghani on Sunday said the of and other Islamic countries were united in stance against rebellions and ...
Look up at the sky! Supermoon shines big and bright 03 Dec 2017 Get ready to witness a rare lunar event tonight at around 9:30pm IST ...
Best smartphones 2017: iPhone X, Note8, OnePlus 5T and more! 03 Dec 2017 December is here and the year is already drawing to an end. ...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said yesterday that Turkey would not succumb to 'blackmail by the United States in the trial of a ...
HE the Minister of Transport and Communications Jassim Seif Ahmed al-Sulaiti yesterday participated in the inauguration ceremony of the first ...
DENPASAR, Indonesia � The airport on the Indonesian holiday island of Bali reopened on Wednesday as wind blew away ash spewed out by a ...
BERLIN � The European Union's chief Brexit negotiator told German industry on Wednesday that it was his responsibility to help European ...
We are approaching a time when you might be too scared to have your genome sequenced. Only last week, a into the privacy policies of ...
Baku, Azerbaijan, December 3 Trend: The death toll in an earthquake occurred in the Iranian western province has risen to 521, ...
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani inaugurated the first phase of the Chabahar port on the Gulf of Oman on Sunday. Situated on the Gulf of Oman in ...
Rabat - Policemen at the Casablanca Mohammed V Airport arrested, Saturday, a Brazilian national for his alleged involvement in an ...
> KUWAIT, Dec 3 -- First Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah said on ...
AMMAN � His Majesty King Abdullah on Saturday met with the presidents of a number of African countries and representatives of nations ...
AMMAN � 'Music is the universal language that connects people regardless of their nationality, religion, or the colour of their skin.' This ...
The US Food and Drug Administration has given the green light to Roche for its FoundationOne CDx personalised diagnostic cancer test, the Swiss group ...
Tech giants including Samsung and Tencent sank in Asian trade on Tuesday, tracking a sell-off in their US rivals and dragging most regional markets ...
Tech giants including Samsung and Tencent sank in Asian trade on Tuesday, tracking a sell-off in their US rivals and dragging most regional markets ...
China's digital economy accounts for nearly a third of gross domestic product, according to a report released at an annual cyberspace conference ...
CVS Health's proposed takeover of insurer Aetna is being pitched as a cost-effective antidote to the complex and at times frustrating American health ...
Eleven-year-old Syrian refugee Raghda Hasriyeh whacks a ball against the wall of a squash court as she practices in front of her parents in the ...
Facebook on Monday unveiled a version of its Messenger application for children, aimed at enabling kids under 12 to connect with others under ...
The US Securities and Exchange Commission said Monday its newly-created Cyber Unit shut down a digital currency investment scam, charging a company ...
Peregrine falcons are nature's fastest predators, and the way they swoop down on a target may one day inspire small, visually guided drones that can ...
Discovery Communications said Monday it would pay $70 million to boost its stake in its joint venture, the Oprah Winfrey Network television group, ...
By It is necessary to make room for private insurance companies in Azerbaijan's mandatory health insurance market, Andrei Tretyak, head of ...
By The official exchange rate of US dollar and euro to Azerbaijani manat for December 5 was set at 1.7001 manats and 2.018 manats, ...
Facebook is launching a new app called Messenger Kids, which allows children to use messaging software to chat with friends and ...
The ministers of foreign affairs of the Caspian "five" - Russia, Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan - Sergey Lavrov, Elmar ...
A 69-year-old Jacksonville man is facing a weapons charge after an investigation by multiple law enforcement agencies into a plan to ...
AIBAK : An explosives-laden vehicle was seized and two landmines detected and defused separately in northern Samangan ...
Rabat - In his latest great performances with his German club Schalke 04 in Germany's Bundesliga league, Moroccan-French midfielder ...
Current steps by Washington may not be enough to contain South Korean pressure to rebase US tactical weapons in the country or halt an ...
The Irish government has reached an agreement with Apple to start collecting the 13 billion euros owed by the tech giant, it announced ...
Talking Points: China's service sector PMI from Caixin came in at its highest since August This helped erase memories of a slightly ...
Rabat � Tailing the British , Morocco has scored the 11th in the MENA region and 97th out of 149 countries. The index measured each ...
AMMAN —AlGhad— His Majesty King Abdullah II met with the head editors of Jordanian newspapers today, Monday, alongside a ...
The Peninsula Online "Remember speed limits are a maximum, not a target" goes the tweet by Minister of Interior Qatar as they list down ...
By Sanaullah Ataullah�| The Peninsula Doha: An inclusive playground, first of its kind in the region, was opened at Al Legtaifiya Park ...
By Mohammed Osman | The Peninsula In its third edition, Sheikh Hamad Award for Translation and International Understanding 2017, ...
The Peninsula The fifth Ajyal Youth Film Festival presented by the Doha Film Institute yesterday announced the winners of its Ajyal ...
Sharjah Police are investigating the case of a 53-year-old Indian, identified as Sh. J, who fell to his death from the 10th floor of a ...
For many Indians and Pakistanis, and even Emiratis, veteran actor movie dialogues were something they grew up quoting. "Mere paas maa hai ...
Rabat � In a world full of human rights organizations and anti-slavery NGOs, the continued existence of slavery is still alarming. ...
2017-12-05"/> December 05, 2017 Reading ability among children aged 9-10 has fallen in the US, Canada, France and several other developed ...
> KUWAIT, Dec 5 -- The Gulf Cooperation Council Secretariat fully supports His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah ...
The Peninsula Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad A Thani received a written message from President of the State of Palestine, Mahmoud Abbas, ...
A 19-year-old Emirati has had his three-month jail term upheld by the Court of Appeals for sexually assaulting a 11-year-old boy. The ...
AMMAN � 'You are the Ministry of Volunteerism of Jordan. Your mentality and your attitude provide an example for society to create positive ...
From forced labour in Libya to a job as a founding member of an Italian fashion start-up, Bassirou has come a long way in two years, thanks to his ...
Bitcoin hit a fresh record of $14,000 Thursday as investors piled in, triggering a warning the cryptocurrency was "like a charging train with no ...
The International Monetary Fund on Thursday warned of brewing risks in China's banking system as it found dozens of crucial lenders needed to beef up ...
Slightly built and aged just 10, Rickson Falcao looks no match for the waves crashing onto Brazil's Atlantic coast, but within seconds of launching ...
Tokyo stocks rallied on Thursday after three days of losses, leading a cautious recovery in Asian markets with technology firms seeing some ...
A painting of Donald Trump morphed into Wonder Woman and defeating Rocket Man -- North Korea's Kim Jong-un -- is a star attraction at international ...
SpaceX confirmed Wednesday its CEO Elon Musk plans to blast his cherry red electric car off toward the Red Planet when the company's Falcon Heavy ...
Brazil's central bank on Wednesday cut the key interest rate to a record low of seven percent, about half of what it was a year ago.The 0.5 ...
A US court on Wednesday sentenced former Volkswagen executive Oliver Schmidt to seven years in prison for his role in the German automaker's ...
"Salvator Mundi," a painting of Christ by Leonardo Da Vinci recently sold for a record $450 million, is heading to the Louvre Abu Dhabi in a coup for ...
Lyft on Wednesday began rolling out self-driving cars with users of the smartphone-summoned ride service in Boston in a project with technology ...
By As major Iranian car producers are starting joint ventures with European and Asian partners, part makers in the country are hopeful that ...
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Inaugurating Chabahar Port early this week, Iranian President said he looked forward to "more engagement and unity" in the region, ...
People should conduct proper background checks before employing a foreign worker � as they could face a heavy fine for hiring an illegal ...
As of Wednesday, Macau residents can make renewal applications for their domestic workers at more than 40 locations. They can submit the ...
KUWAIT CITY, Dec 6: Global equities closed the month of November in the green with the MSCI All Country World Index up 1.8%. In the US, the ...
By Fazeena Saleem�| The Peninsula In a pioneering effort to know the origins of Doha, archaeologists have found that the Qatar was ...
England's Georgia Hall may have the Order of Merit done and dusted but there is still a lot to play for in the Omega Dubai Ladies Classic, ...
Bitcoin will make its debut on a major exchange Sunday, a landmark for the cryptocurrency that has generated enthusiasm among some investors and more ...
US regulators are gearing up for a vote on a plan which -- depending on your viewpoint -- would "restore internet freedom" or, alternatively, result ...
Britain could remain closely aligned with the rules of the European Union's single market under its initial withdrawal deal with Brussels, a move ...
The only bidder at an unusual auction on Saturday put down 140,000 euros and walked away the new owner of a small slice of German history: the ...
Under fire from the United States, wracked by disagreements over China and unable to kickstart stalled trade talks, the World Trade Organization ...
China's consumer inflation slowed more than expected in November and factory prices decelerated sharply, official data showed Saturday, as economic ...
America's media giants have seen this movie before: Big Tech enters an industry with piles of cash and new ways of doing business, devastating the ...
Apple is in talks to buy the popular song recognition app Shazam as the tech giant tries to compete with streaming leader Spotify, TechCrunch ...
A Salvadoran woman jailed for 30 years for a miscarriage deemed to be an illegal abortion on Friday pleaded for her freedom before a court revising ...
Songs Music Publishing, which holds copyrights to music by stars such as Lorde and Pharrell Williams, announced its sale Friday in the latest ...
By Trend One million 556 thousand Azerbaijanis visited Georgia in January-November 2017, the National Tourism Administration of Georgia ...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf chief Imran Khan on Saturday threatened to stage a sit-in in Islamabad if the federal government ...
Baku, Azerbaijan, Dec. 10 Trend: "Formula-1" shared on Twitter a video of the best overtaking in 2017. Maneuver was made by Daniel ...
KABUL - Addressing a local products expo in Kabul on Saturday, President Ashraf Ghani said government must support the local ...
Rabat � Morocco's Casablanca was ruled out on Saturday of the FIFA Club World Club competition after a 1-0 defeat against ...
Photo Credit: AC Milan Rabat � Italian giant club AC Milan continues to expand its presence in Africa. The club is set to launch a ...
By: Daoud Kuttab Somalilandsun In a matter of three weeks, the United States government has attacked the Palestinian people on three ...
Muscat- On Wednesday at the Grand Hyatt Muscat Hotel, Oman's biggest exhibitions and conferences organiser Omanexpo and real estate ...
A Sharjah student has won the top award at an Olympiad in Dubai for his humanoid robot. Fifty different innovative products, all designed ...
Most Asian markets rose Monday, tracking fresh records on Wall Street following forecast-busting US jobs data, as investors eyed the Federal ...
The World Trade Organization opened a conference Sunday under the cloud of US hostility to multilateral trade accords.The 164-member WTO is also ...
Cryptocurrency Bitcoin made its debut on a major bourse Sunday, opening at $15,000 per unit at the Chicago board options exchange. Around 23:20 GMT, ...
Dubai on Sunday adopted its 2018 budget foreseing expenditure of 56.6 million dirhams , a 19.5 percent increase over last year, ...
Qatar signed a multi-billion-dollar deal Sunday to buy 24 Typhoon fighters from Britain, its second major defence agreement this week, which comes ...
Kevin Martens Wong reels off sentences in Kristang, which is among several minority languages in Singapore enjoying a new lease of life after a ...
Same-sex couples hurried to declare plans to tie the knot on Saturday as Australia's new marriage equality law came into effect, with wedding ...
Party-goers and tourists love Berlin, the capital of techno and home to a vibrant art scene.But behind the trendy facade lies an overstretched ...
The US central bank is set to raise the benchmark interest rate this week, looking to get ahead of price increases that, though absent so far, are ...
Politicians are fond of but judging by the income of Australians, whether you are middle class depends on where you live. And where we ...
Do you wish you had more money Most people do. And even though people work hard to earn their money, many give some of it away, often ...
It is almost Christmas time, and the song ' keeps playing over and over. For me, the of this jingle are 'He knows if you've been bad ...
More than 300 militants across the southwestern Pakistani province of Balochistan have surrendered over the past few months, officials ...
Eight people have been killed in a fire in Haifeng County of south China's Guangdong Province, local authorities said Sunday, Xinhua ...
India vs Sri Lanka 1st ODI: 5 Talking points 10 Dec 2017 Team India has one of the best batting line-ups in the world but on Sunday they ...
Rabat ��The word "feminism" in Muslim countries often raises tensions. Many people believe that Muslim women cannot be both ...
HE the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of State for Defence Affairs Dr Khalid bin Mohamed al-Attiyah meeting yesterday with the UK's ...
I am often asked by investors to articulate my "philosophy" of real estate investing. Tough question. My ideal deal is one where it is ...
HE the Prime Minister and Minister of Interior Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa al-Thani met the British Secretary of State for Defence ...
QATAR | Official Emir condoles with Romanian president His Highness the Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani and His Highness the Deputy ...
Iraq's armed forces held a military parade in Baghdad yesterday to celebrate the victory announced by Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi over the ...
The Peninsula Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of State for Defence Affairs H E Dr Khalid bin Mohamed Al Attiyah met with UK Secretary ...
Who doesn't like to barbecue or sit by a bonfire in the UAE desert during winter Of the multitude of camping destinations, one just got ...
The long wait is finally over! Dubai Municipality has announced that Dubai Safari Park will open to the public on Tuesday, December 12. ...
Global stocks were mixed Monday, with major US indices ending at fresh records as bitcoin futures surged in their debut on a major exchange. The Dow and S & ...
Austria's far-right Freedom Party said Monday that a planned ban on smoking in all bars and restaurants due to come into force in mid-2018 will be ...
Dutch value-for-money retailer Kruidvat pulled some of its own-brand infant milk off the shelves Monday following an international recall by French baby milk ...
European aircraft giant Airbus will pay some 30 million reais in compensation to relatives of the 199 people killed in a 2007 air crash in Sao ...
US authorities are lifting the threat of prosecution against the British banking giant HSBC, five years after it admitted to widespread money laundering and ...
Half of middle-aged people who are normal weight and don't smoke or have diabetes may have clogged arteries, researchers said Thursday, urging stronger ...
The head of the first mainstream exchange to allow trading in bitcoin futures on Monday called on critics of the virtual currency to express their skepticism ...
Pregnant women struggling to bag a seat on the famously packed Tokyo subway could find their salvation in a new app connecting them with nearby passengers ...
The National Football League said Monday it was reviewing the league's concussion protocol after Houston Texans quarterback Tom Savage was allowed to play on ...
Young people spend a lot of time on social media. They're also more susceptible to , and . A number of studies have found associations ...
Facebook is trialling a new app in the United States. The standalone app is aimed at under-13s, who aren't currently eligible for a ...
Russian special services are taking measures to gain access to Mikheil Saakashvili and his arrested associate Severion Dangadze in the case on ...
Venezuela: Maduro bans opposition parties from contesting in 2018 elections 12 Dec 2017 Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has stated ...
Somalilandsun- The challenges that are ahead of the new president could be internal and external issues.However,let us state thatthe ...
Rabat � Electric cars are riding into the kingdom. After Renault and Peugeot, it is now 's turn to settle down in Morocco. With 50 ...
Rabat - Morocco signed Monday in Casablanca 26 industrial investment in the automotive sector with a total budget of MAD 13.78 ...
Rabat - King Mohammed VI will take part in the One Planet Summit on Tuesday, December 12, in Paris, announced the Ministry of the ...
Muscat- H E Gen Sultan bin Mohammed al Nuamani, Minister of the Royal Office received Gen Sir Nicholas Patrick Carter, Chief of General ...
Rabat � New York City authorities have said that a man attempted to detonate a pipe bomb in the on Monday "in a terror-related ...
Muscat- The Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency , a non-profit trade promotion organisation, representing the Commercial ...
With more than 1.5 million folks set to make their way into Downtown Dubai this New Year's Eve, visitors and residents are busy chalking up ...
A Kazakh boy born without legs has fulfilled his long-standing dream - visiting Dubai. Ali Turganbekov, 9, has had three simple dreams - ...
Run-over accidents killed seven people during the last 11 months, said a top official at the Sharjah Traffic Police. As many as 34,219 ...
An African woman has been charged in a Dubai court with physically assaulting a police officer who stopped her to check her ID. The Court ...
Three photographs have been shortlisted for 2017's , hosted by the National Portrait Gallery in London. But there is something out of ...
The United Nations Children's Fund says at least 400,000 children under 5 in Congo's troubled Kasai region are severely malnourished. ...
A 6.2-magnitude earthquake has hit eastern Iran on Wednesday, the European Mediterranean Seismological Centre reported. There ...
Major investors vowed Tuesday to move away from Earth-warming fossil fuels as world leaders met in Paris seeking to unlock new cash to save humanity from ...
Visitors to the 2020 Tokyo Olympics can expect to arrive at an airport "scattered" with robots to help them, an official said Tuesday as he unveiled seven new ...
Muscat- As delegated by His Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said, an Omani delegation led by Sayyid Asaad bin Tariq al Said, Deputy Prime ...
Non-resident Indians and Overseas Citizen of India cardholders must stay in India for over 182 days, in 12 months immediately ...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan met on Tuesday in Istanbul with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas ahead of an emergency ...
U.S. President and his daughter on Tuesday bid all who observe Hanukkah a happy holiday. "Wishing all of those celebrating #Hanukkah ...
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The Roads and Transport Authority in Dubai and the Dubai Police are planning to launch a scheme that will reduce the time of clearing ...
The Dubai Police have arrested an Asian man who was wanted for murders in his country for over 20 years, even though he tried to give cops ...
AMMAN � Three Jordanian youth have returned from Paris, where they took part in a two-week incubation programme that helped them develop a ...
AMMAN � Deputising for Her Majesty Queen Rania, Education Minister Omar Razzaz on Monday honoured the winners of the 2017 Queen Rania Award ...
With temperatures dipping below freezing in a northern Chinese village, a group of parka-clad women tried to stay warm as they played mahjong around a ...
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's reported move to ban words including "fetus," "diversity" and "transgender" in budget-related ...
In the run up to Christmas tourists from around the world flock to the Santa Claus Village, an amusement park in Finnish Lapland, where temperatures ...
Uber may be shredding business models for taxi firms the world over but it is struggling to make inroads in Japan, where risk-averse passengers prefer ...
Police were hunting for clues Saturday after the pharmaceutical billionaire Barry Sherman and his wife Honey were found dead in the basement of their ...
The good news for Marcelo Odebrecht, the tycoon at the center of Brazil's biggest ever corruption scandal, is he'll be out of prison Tuesday, in time ...
The blockbuster deal between Walt Disney Co. and 21st Century Fox could likely put US antitrust enforcers in an awkward position following the ...
The Boeing 747, the original jumbo jet that was the favorite American presidents and key to affordable mass market air travel in the United States, ...
A few years ago, Derek Hobbs could not find a job. He had three strikes against him: his age, 55, a criminal record, and a drug addiction that kept ...
As Latin America's biggest construction company, Odebrecht S.A. became a major player in Brazil's development at home and abroad -- until a huge ...
With the price of a bitcoin record highs of more than $10,000, more and more ordinary people consider investing in the cryptocurrency. ...
By Trend Saudi Arabian women will be able to drive trucks and motorcycles, officials have said three months after the kingdom announced a ...
By Trend Military units of the armed forces of Armenia violated ceasefire 119 times throughout the day, the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry said ...
HANGU: Minority community of Hangu district on Saturday slammed the assistant commissioner for preaching Islam to them and staged a ...
India's love for gold! Gold buying trends in the country 17 Dec 2017 The love for gold in India is not surprising. The country's love ...
Russia-Trump investigation: Trump lashes out at FBI, questions its integrity 03 Dec 2017 On December 3, President Trump posted a series ...
For decades, Western countries have been accused of interfering in China's internal affairs, but now the reverse�seems to be happening. ...
With one-third of the world's population living in India and China, the two countries are often compared because of their similar population ...
The United States may re-establish port-of-call exchanges in Taiwan for warships of both countries, a move that has brought a strong protest ...
British Prime Minister Theresa May has hit back at critics of her handling of Brexit, writing in the Sunday Telegraph that she had ...
By Trend At least 41 undocumented migrants were held on Saturday in Turkey's northwestern province of Kirklareli, according to security ...
By Trend At least 40,000 people gathered on Sunday morning at the National Monument to protest against US President Donald ...
Saudi Arabia: Women can now drive motorbikes, trucks 17 Dec 2017 Saudi Arabia has implemented some eventful liberal reforms in 2017, ...
Rabat � Shortly after stepped down as president of , Emmerson Mnangagwa, the newly appointed president has reiterated his country's ...
Muscat- Bank Muscat, the flagship financial services provider in the sultanate, as part of its 'Let's Do More' vision and commitment to ...
Thousands of delegates from South Africa's ruling ANC party hunkered down Sunday to choose their next leader in a vote widely seen as a ...
The Peninsula Qatar Airways hosted a private gala dinner with influential business leaders, industry experts and heads of commerce to ...
To ease traffic bottlenecks in Dubai, the main bridge on Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Street near Karama would be opened in January. This was ...
Where does gold, the precious metal coveted by mortals through the ages, come from How, where and when was it produced Last August, a ...
By Capital markets may become an additional catalyst for Azerbaijan's economic recovery, Vugar Namazov, chairman of the Executive Board at the ...
Colombo, Dec 17 - A grand mass wedding ceremony with the participation of 50 Chinese couples took place in the Sri Lankan ...
India vs Sri Lanka 3rd ODI: Records broken 17 Dec 2017 Shikhar Dhawan struck a brilliant 100* off just 84 balls to beat Lankans by ...
Six people have been confirmed dead as a result of heavy rains and floods overnight. Affected areas are Kaliyeka, Mchesi and Kawale ...
Opener Shikhar Dhawan's blazing century and a decisive spell by their wrist spinners powered India to a series-clinching eight-wicket win ...
NEW YORK � Wall Street stocks rose early on Wednesday ahead of an expected Federal Reserve interest rate increase and amid signs ...
NEW YORK � Wall Street stocks rose early on Wednesday ahead of an expected Federal Reserve interest rate increase and amid signs ...
By Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman called to review the economic relations of the Jewish state with Turkey following the statements ...
Egypt condemned on Sunday the suicide bombing attack against a Christian church in Pakistan that killed at least eight people and ...
Muscat- Mazda, the Japanese motor vehicle company with a rich manufacturing heritage dating back to 1920, continues to 'Celebrate Driving' ...
Muscat- Bank Sohar recently contributed to the Speciality Center For Autism for the second time, which comes under the bank's corporate ...
The Dubai Police recorded 581 traffic accidents in the last 24 hours caused by drivers who did not abide by safety measures during rain and ...
Residents in Karama, Bur Dubai and Mankhool have heaved a sigh of relief as the perennially congested roads connecting these three ...
Dubai Municipality denied accuracy of a video clip that shows burning potato chips. The Food Safety Department of Dubai Municipality ...
Traditional depression treatments like psychotherapy or medication might work better for some patients when doctors add a dose of music ...
Barry Sherman drove an old car and gave away tens of millions of dollars to charities while building Apotex into one of Canada's largest ...
German sausage makers head to court Tuesday to fight back against a record anti-trust fine for years of alleged price fixing in a sizzling scandal ...
Most Asian markets extended their winning streak Tuesday, taking a lead from fresh records on Wall Street where a long-awaited tax-cut bill is ...
Global stocks rallied Monday as a massive US tax cut plan neared final passage, lifting Wall Street to fresh records and boosting international ...
About three in every 100 people injured by rubber bullets died as a result, according to a review of recorded casualties published Tuesday, calling ...
With GPS-guided bombs, armed drones beaming footage via satellite and spy cameras scooping up intel from the heavens, America's military machine is ...
From Peter the Great's doublet to the wedding dress of the last tsar's wife Alexandra, Russia's renowned Hermitage museum has put on display ...
For decades the Rohingya have been denied recognition in Myanmar but the persecuted minority is close to securing a crucial symbol of their identity ...
Atlanta airport, the world's busiest, slowly returned to normal Monday after an 11-hour power outage caused by an underground fire stranded thousands ...
A Russian business delegation was in Damascus on Monday for talks with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on "major economic projects" for investment ...
Wildfires tearing across Southern California have forced thousands of residents to evacuate from their homes. Even more people fled ...
Wharton's Herbert Hovenkamp discusses his latest research on antitrust law. is a Wharton professor of legal studies and business ethics with ...
At least 81 people have been injured in massive protests against the upcoming pension cuts, Sputnik reported, citing El Observador ...
Eight miners were killed and at least three more were missing following a landslide Monday on the slopes of a volcano on the ...
By: Muse Jeeh, Somalilandsun-Following the successful transfer of power between the two presidents in Somaliland on December 13th, 2017, ...
Malawi's First Lady Professor Gertrude Mutharika on Sunday presided over the official opening of the newly constructed church for Kamuzu ...
By Rabson WOODWELL With 5 games to rubber stamp everything in the 2017 TNM Super League, the trio Premier Bet Wizards, Chitipa United, ...
London, Dec 19, 2017 AEST - Asiamet Resources Ltd <> MD Peter Bird Interview with ABN Newswire's Tim Mckinnon at Mines and ...
Talking Points: December RBA meeting minutes displayed confidence in unemployment and inflation going forward The Australian Dollar struggled ...
Baku, Azerbaijan, Dec. 18 Trend: Russia has to work on the Armenia-Azerbaijan Nagorno-Karabakh conflict more effectively, Russian ...
Doha on Mnoday witnessed a spectacular display of fireworks between 8pm and 8.10pm, which left onlookers mesmerised. The special fireworks ...
People's Republic of China's ambassador to the State of Qatar Li Chen has expressed his great appreciation for the distinguished role played ...
The Ministry of Defence and Qatar Armed Forces participated in yesterday's parade on the Doha Corniche as part of the 2017 Qatar National Day ...
By Sanaullah Ataullah�| The Peninsula Expressing love and gratitude to Qatar, Asian communities yesterday organised an array of colourful ...
When a British woman answered a knock on her door in London, the last person she would have expected was a Dubai Police officer. His ...
ALGIERS � A small Christmas market has opened in Algeria's capital, catering to a rising number of Christian African migrants as well as ...
BERLIN � Germany on Monday said its continued support for Iraq and the semi-autonomous Kurdistan Regional Government was contingent on ...
To overcome their reputation as high-cost destinations and woo back an ever dwindling number of skiers, Swiss Alpine resorts have this year launched ...
Afghan farmer Abdul Jalil Gulzar sits by a pile of raisins in the squat mud brick shed where generations of his family have dried their grape harvest. ...
The US Securities Exchange Commission on Tuesday suspended trading of a popular bitcoin related stock that has soared in recent weeks, citing concerns ...
Ryanair on Tuesday hailed a "positive and successful" meeting with pilots' representatives, following unprecedented talks as the Irish no-frills ...
Asian markets moved narrowly on Wednesday as investors take a breather from recent gains while keeping an eye on Capitol Hill as US lawmakers close in ...
The Republican-controlled US House of Representatives approved President Donald Trump's all-important tax code revamp Tuesday, but a late and ...
The US Senate was poised to approve a sweeping tax overhaul Tuesday, putting President Donald Trump on the brink of his first major legislative ...
The EU's top court will decide Wednesday if ride-hailing app Uber is an ordinary taxi company and should be regulated as such, in a decision that will ...
Germans believe no Christmas is complete without marzipan, the mouth-wateringtreat made of sugar and crushed almonds that dates back to the Middle ...
Teva, the world's largest generic drug company, refused Tuesday to reconsider a decision to close its Jerusalem plant despite pressure from Prime ...
Every year around this time we hear, 'No one is working the week of Christmas anyways' or 'It's dead this week'. This year decided to take a ...
Starting this week, Facebook will demote clickbait posts in order to reduce spam and encourage higher-quality content on the . Demoting ...
Chief Monitorof the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine Ertugrul Apakan expresses concern over the deteriorating security situation in ...
The Zaporizhzhia Regional State Administration and the Oriental Region of the Kingdom of Morocco signed an agreement on cooperation. One of the ...
Baku, Azerbaijan, Dec. 19 Trend: President Ilham Aliyev has received Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, who today ...
A 5.0-magnitude earthquake jolted Bayi District of Nyingchi City, southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region at 1:40 a.m. on Wednesday, ...
Baku, Azerbaijan, Dec.19 Trend: Three American legislators decided to offend Azerbaijan, a US military ally and vital ...
The support and sustainment services to be provided for Poland's F-16s includes aircraft maintenance; system upgrades; engine support; ...
A group of Oxford academics has written the below letter following the debate surrounding an article in The Times entitled 'Don't feel ...
Kuwait and Tajikistan are eager to bolster ties on all possible domains, especially within the economic sector, said Kuwait Chamber of ...
Katara the Cultural Village has awarded the artists and amateur photographers who took part in the recently held 7th Katara Traditional Dhow ...
Qatar and the rest of the northern hemisphere will experience the shortest day of the year tomorrow in a phenomenon that astronomers define as ...
Starting on 16 January 2018, citizens of UAE will be exempt from pre-entry visa to China. A Memorandum of Understanding was inked ...
A host of new rules have been introduced in Abu Dhabi for the benefit of residents using public transport. Now, children aged 10 years and ...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM � The Israeli military said it attacked a Hamas training compound in Gaza on Monday in response to alleged rocket strikes ...
PARIS � French President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday that Bashar Al Assad was the enemy of millions of his own people and in no position ...
North and South Korea are radically different societies, one ruled by the same family for decades and the other a freewheeling democracy and thrusting ...
The United Auto Workers chief on Wednesday blasted Ford's decision to send production of electric vehicles to Mexico, out of its home base in ...
German carrier Lufthansa hopes to win EU approval Thursday to snap up a slice of bankrupt Air Berlin's operations, after competition concerns forced ...
From restaurants with singing waitresses, to secluded traders in back alleys, North Korean businesses in Beijing face a precarious start to the New ...
Asian markets fell on Thursday as investors took a step back following recent gains after Donald Trump's tax reform bill finally passed through ...
The International Monetary Fund on Wednesday approved the third installment of a $12 billion, three-year loan for Egypt, bringing the total released ...
Donald Trump celebrated a "historic" victory Wednesday as the US Congress passed a massive Republican tax cut plan, handing the president his first ...
The sweeping tax cuts adopted Wednesday by US lawmakers while reducing rates on corporations, also aim to encourage multinational businesses to ...
An American woman has given birth to a healthy baby girl from an embryo that was frozen a quarter century ago, in what hospital officials say may be a ...
Some girls in Britain are forced to skip school each month because they cannot afford sanitary products, campaigners said Wednesday as they called for ...
On Monday, the government announced its third attempt to significantly reduce spending on higher education in the . It's ...
By Turkey will start issuing visas to US citizens only in January 2019, Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Hakan Cavusoglu said, the country's ...
By The penalties will be introduced towards importers who have not imported products into Uzbekistan in time, according to thelegal portal. ...
PESHAWAR, 20 December: Pakistan fast bowler Junaid Khan has been ruled out of the upcoming New Zealand tour starting next month due ...
iPhone and iPad introduced a novel way of interacting with computers: via easy-to-use applications, accessible in the highly curated ...
Is Apple doing something to slow down old iPhones 21 Dec 2017 Is your old iPhone/iPad slowing down If you want to upgrade to the ...
Noida jinx: Why are UP CMs so scared of Noida 21 Dec 2017 Since 1988, no UP CM has visited Noida in the fear of losing their ...
Cabinet Ministers have honoured a 20 year old lady boxer, Anish Bashir with MK 1 million cash for winning African Boxing Union ...
President Donald Trump stood yesterday on the brink of his first major legislative victory, with US lawmakers poised to give final approval to ...
A German-Russian man goes on trial Thursday, accused of carrying out a bomb attack on the Borussia Dortmund football team's bus in an ...
Muscat- Nafath Renewable Energy has launched the second edition of 'Mustadeem', an initiative aimed towards supporting renewable energy. ...
Muscat- Oman Air is demonstrating its support to Omani students by continuing to offer them an additional 20kg of free baggage on all ...
AMMAN/IRBID —AlGhad— Director of the Anti-Narcotics Department Anwar Taraweneh uncovered today, Wednesday, that the ...
> KUWAIT, Dec 20 -- Minister of Information Mohammad Al-Jabri directed on Wednesday all the ministry's sectors to harness ...
> DUBAI, Dec 20 -- Yousef Al-Abdulrazzaq, of Kuwait, won the Sharjah Grand Prix of the UIM-ABP Aquabike World Championship ...
HEC Paris has presented French ambassador Eric Chevallier with a token of appreciation for his support to HEC Paris' work in the region. ...
The World Innovation Summit for Education , a member of Qatar Foundation , recently participated in a panel discussion examining the ...
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in the Qatar Basketball League at the Al Gharafa Sports Club ...
The launch of Qatar Airways' daily direct flights to St Petersburg will further enhance QatariRussian relations as the airline sponsors the ...
The Peninsula As part of a series of road openings implemented in conjunction with National Day celebrations and before the end of year ...
The Peninsula Qatar Embassy in Turkey yesterday marked the National Day celebration with the participation of top Turkish officials and ...
New Year 2018 is just 10 days away, and people across the UAE are preparing to visit iconic landmarks to enjoy the festivities. Burj ...
After days of wet and unstable weather conditions, parts of the UAE woke up to a misty morning today. There has also been an increase in ...
Indian missions in the UAE have urged blue-collared workers to completely refrain from bringing medicines that are restricted in the UAE. ...
Volodymyr Korkosh steps on the accelerator and his jeep lurches forward, jumping through deep water-filled ditches. "We often come too late by just ...
As the poster child for the growing ranks of computer-generated currencies, bitcoin's recent stratospheric price rises have propelled it from the chat ...
A French seafood farmer is proposing lemon-flavoured oysters this holiday season, a delicacy he perfected after four years of trial-and-error ...
An artificial Christmas tree in the centre of Belgrade has been getting more jeers than cheers this holiday season -- given that its reported price ...
Singapore's Keppel Offshore & Marine Ltd. has agreed to pay $422 million in fines to the US, Brazil and Singapore to settle bribery cases ...
British toy retailer Hamleys opened its largest store in the world in Beijing on Saturday, just two days before Christmas as debate played out over ...
Bookstores are a go-to for the procrastinating gift-getter, a one-stop shop that has a little something for everyone. But there's a new kid on the ...
Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi and the rest of the world's top footballers may earn eye-popping salaries but the sums they make from long-running ...
The ghost players of Apollon Limassol have added a new twist to football's complex transfer lore and attracted the scrutiny of the sport's world ...
The Spanish stock market tumbled Friday after a victory for Catalan separatists in a snap poll, while London hit an intraday record before retreating. ...
PESHAWAR, 23 December: Central Ameer of Jamaat-e-Islami, Senator�SirajHaq has said it is the inefficiency of the federal government ...
Residents of Southern and Arizona were startled just after dusk on Friday when a strange white light which later turned out to be a ...
BLANTYRE--A 16 year old Ibra Umali was on Thursday killed on a road accident after being hit by a truck along Misesa Manje ...
WASHINGTON--Half a million residents of Malawi's capital city, Lilongwe, are set to benefit from improved water services and ...
Venezuela's leftist government may release 80 anti-government activists, and expel two senior diplomats from Canada and Brazil after criticism ...
England's players owed under-fire skipper Joe Root their utmost to turn the tables on dominant Australia in the showpiece Boxing Day Test in ...
Jurgen Klopp insisted he won't ditch his go-for-broke game plan after Liverpool blew a two-goal lead in their thrilling 3-3 draw at Arsenal. ...
Moscow has warned that Washington is encouraging 'new bloodshed in eastern Ukraine by its decision to provide the former Soviet nation with ...
Alphabet said on Thursday its executive chairman Eric Schmidt will step down in January, ending a 17-year-run in which he played a central ...
Barcelona took a huge step towards regaining the La Liga title as goals from Luis Suarez, Lionel Messi and Aleix Vidal beat bitter rivals ...
Qatar University has signed a memorandum of understanding with Qatar Post to establish co-operation in various areas related to the ...
His Highness the Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani arrived last night in Accra on an official visit to Ghana. The Emir and his ...
Vodafone has said it has delivered online safety workshops at 10 of Qatar's boys' and girls' schools. This comes as part of Vodafone's ...
Ten students from medical colleges in Oman, India, Pakistan, Lebanon and Palestine spent a week at Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar as ...
Shahid Amin Sheikh, general manager of United Bank Ltd , cutting a cake in the presence of staff members at a ceremony held to celebrate ...
Manchester City racked up a 17th consecutive Premier League victory after Sergio Aguero's 100th and 101st Etihad Stadium goals inspired a 4-0 ...
QNA Liverpool:Chelsea failed to make the most of their superiority as they were held to a 0-0 draw at Everton in the Premier League on ...
The Peninsula Ten students from medical colleges in five countries spent a week at Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar as part of ...
The Peninsula Qatar University signed a memorandum of understanding with Qatar Post to establish joint cooperation in various ...
Fog and mist continued to engulf most parts of the country on Sunday morning, causing flight delays and cancellations. The National Centre ...
Social networks are rife with rumours that Adnoc Distribution won't be accepting cash or credit payments at service stations from January ...
A 45-year-old firefighter, based in Ras Al Khaimah succumbed to fatal injuries he received while on duty. Sources with the RAK civil ...
Japan's unemployment rate in November dipped to its lowest level since November 1993, official data showed Tuesday, offering another sign that the ...
Once the mark of criminals or sex workers, for centuries tattoos have been stigmatised in China but the growing influence of celebrity culture is ...
Iraq's oil ministry on Sunday called for bids for the construction of a pipeline to allow oil exports to resume from the northern province of Kirkuk ...
China has shut down or revoked the licenses of 13,000 websites since 2015 for violating the country's internet rules, state media reported Sunday. ...
Why did you splurge on that new pair of shoes Or that pricey smartphone More and more advertisers are trying to tap into the unconscious to divine ...
Hit by Hurricane Irma and a citrus ailment known as "Yellow Dragon Disease," Florida orange growers are bracing for potentially the worst harvest in ...
The US economy may be basking in the warm glow of solid growth, but economists are nervously eyeing a trend in the bond market that could spell stormy ...
The Ukrainian people demonstrate to the whole world an amazing willpower, defending the independence of Ukraine. Ukrainian President Petro ...
Islamabad, December 25 : The mother and wife of Kulbhushan Jadhav, who is on death row,�met the alleged Indian spy in the ...
BARA, 25 December: The elders of Kamar Khel tribe of Bara, Khyber Agency, have expressed resentment over the political ...
Russia: Putin-critic Alexei Navalny nominated to contest in 2018 elections 26 Dec 2017 Prominent Russian opposition leader Alexei ...
Popularity of party drugs in India has increased manifold 26 Dec 2017 According to government data, use of synthetic party drugs have ...
Rabat � The appointed on Sunday to host the intergovernmental conference on international in 2018. The conference will see the ...
Shahid Khaqan Abbasi has become the first Pakistan prime minister to board a submarine in the open sea, as well as conducting diving and ...
The ruling Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz leadership may have
announced launching the 'movement for justice but the party rank and
file ...
Drilling for crude in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge may be just the start as President Donald Trump seeks to revive Alaska's beleaguered ...
Britain's Queen Elizabeth II praised the response of London and Manchester to horrific terror attacks this year, during her annual Christmas ...
Secretary-General of the World Tourism Organization Dr Taleb Rifai. MADRID, Dec 25, : Kuwait has huge cultural and tourism ...
KUWAIT CITY, Dec 25: Ministry of Finance is expecting the deficit in the budget for 2017/2018 to reach 4.6 percent without deduction of ten ...
KUWAIT CITY, Dec 25: Jahra Criminal Investigations teams are hunting for three masked men who attacked an Indian expatriate and robbed him, ...
> BAGHDAD, Dec 25 -- The Iraqi people are pinning high hopes on the international donors' conference to be hosted by the ...
Northwestern University in Qatar has announced three one-day masterclasses as part of its executive education programme in sport ...
Qatar has increased its direct imports of strategic goods from around the world to 97% in November compared to 82.8% in May, achieving great ...
It is expected to get cooler in the country as the Qatar Met department has said northerly winds in the coming days will be accompanied by a ...
HE the Prime Minister and Interior Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa al-Thani yesterday met the outgoing ambassador of Somalia ...
Iraqi oil minister Jabar al-Luaibi said yesterday he was optimistic there would be a balance between supply and demand by the first quarter of ...
Seattle Seahawks free safety Earl Thomas downplayed his request to Dallas Cowboys' coach Jason Garrett to 'come get me after Sunday's game at ...
UAE residents woke up to a foggy Christmas morning on Monday, with some calling it Dubai's very own version of 'a white Christmas'. ...
Across the world's cities, the over-reliance on speculative, developer-led urban renewal models is clear. This imbalance is now ...
By Trend Over the past 24 hours, Armenia's armed forces have 118 times violated the ceasefire along the line of contact between Azerbaijani ...
Baku, Azerbaijan, Dec.26 Trend: Today, the relations between Azerbaijan and Russia have reached the level of strategic ...
In a telephone conversation on Tuesday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson agreed to ...
Rabat � The Moroccan squad' performances has been fruitful this year. The are nominated for the prize of the 'Best Arab Team' at the ...
Muscat- Over 1,000 pieces of artefacts including the remains of 250 people have been discovered at a pre-Islamic mass burial site in ...
Talking Points: rise to levels unseen since mid-2015 as the sinks Gold prices find familiar support as Treasury bond yields fall alongside ...
Apple Inc looks like it's having a not-so Merry Christmas. Analysts lowered iPhone X shipment projections for the first quarter of next year, ...
Russia's finance ministry will more than double its purchases of foreign currency next year under the new fiscal mechanism aimed at limiting ...
South Korea predicted yesterday that North Korea would look to open negotiations with the United States next year in an optimistic outlook for ...
Britain's long-running debate over fox hunting has resurfaced over Christmas after a report that the government will ditch an election pledge ...
Harry Kane rounded off a sensational 2017 by scoring a record number of Premier League goals and hat-tricks in a calendar year, as well as ...
Rabat � In just eight months, Morocco's Agriculture Minister has managed to seize the title of Morocco's richest man from Moroccan ...
Muscat- H E Dr Ali bin Talib al Hinai, Undersecretary for Planning Affairs in the Ministry of Health chaired on Tuesday the second meeting ...
Muscat- The ninth edition of the Tour of Oman will see 18 teams from 12 countries. Last year's winner, Belgian Ben Hermans 
> KUWAIT, Dec 26 -- Minister of State for Youth Affairs Khaled Al-Roudhan has expressed strong confidence that the young ...
> BAGHDAD, Dec 26 -- Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar Al-Abadi has praised Kuwait's willingness to host a conference of global ...
> DUBAI, 26th December, 2017 -- The Vice President, Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai, His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin ...
AMMAN � Amman Chamber of Industry's exports during the first 11 months of this year dropped by 6.37 per cent compared to the same period of ...
ROME � Up to 10,000 people stranded in refugee camps and detention centres in Libya could be relocated to Europe in 2018, the Italian ...
The tech industry's image has already been tarnished this year by a slew of , mishaps, and scandals, including those involving big names like ...
The US Library of Congress has scaled back plans to archive every message ever sent on Twitter, sparking debate on the importance of social media in ...
5 Predictions for the Future of Investing The CFA Institute recently solicited video submissions about the future of global investing, an ...
Russia on Tuesday launched a rocket carrying Angosat-1, the first national telecoms satellite for Angola, from its Baikonur space pad, with rare use ...
Oil prices in New York jumped to a two-and-a-half year high Tuesday and briefly topped $60 a barrel due to a Libyan pipeline explosion and frigid ...
The past few weeks have seen a huge leap of progress when it comes to the iPhone . As security gets tighter and demand for unlocked devices ...
Many people shy away from owning investment real estate. They worry about the hassle and risk. [REITs] / Pixabay Tenants can sometimes call ...
It was another mixed year for , but some stellar titles still means that the best games are well worth looking at. Best Xbox One Games Of ...
The home speaker is becoming a fixture in living rooms all over the world, with the Amazon Echo perhaps being the most recognizable. This is ...
The Galaxy X, Galaxy S9, Galaxy Note 9 smartphone range will undoubtedly be one of the most important and prestigious in 2018. Samsung will be ...
By Over 14.149 million tons of crude steel was produced in Iran during the first eight months of the current fiscal year 
Kathmandu, December 27 : When the Left Alliance won a nearly two-thirds majority in the parliamentary and provincial elections ...
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1939 luxury Mercedes limousine used to carry Adolf Hitler around
Germany will be auctioned in the US state of Arizona next month — one ...
Nintendo is expecting to sell more than 20 million of its new "Switch" consoles in the next fiscal year, the firm's president said, with sales ...
"Here you're in the heart of precarious living," one of Gabon's first medical responders says in Kolo Ngoum, a grubby shanty suburb of Libreville that ...
He may be Ethiopia's biggest pop star but Teddy Afro hasn't held a concert in his country for years, some of his songs have been effectively banned, ...
Japanese factory output rose for the second straight month in November, according to official data released on Thursday, as the world's third-biggest ...
Asian markets rose for a second day on Thursday following gains on Wall Street, but with trading thin leading into the New Year break there was little ...
Dreadlocked university student Suhaib Attar clutches a can of spray paint as he sets to work on the latest gloomy corner of Jordan's capital that he ...
European shares were steady to slightly higher in thin holiday season trading on Wednesday, buoyed by a rise in commodity prices and a firmer showing ...
Two researchers in the Netherlands have raised doubts about a rare watercolour painting signed by Adolf Hitler, saying it appears more likely to be ...
Britons' purchasing power, which took a hit this year against the backdrop of Brexit, looks set to stagnate in 2018, according to a new study released ...
While wireless charging has yet to unseat traditional methods as the best way to top off your phone, the technology continues to advance. With ...
Uber and SoftBank announced a deal on Thursday allowing the Japanese tech titan to take a large stake in the US ridesharing giant, making a hefty cut ...
It's the largest property crime in US history: the three-decade-old theft of Rembrandt and Vermeer masterpieces from a Boston museum by thieves ...
Apple on Thursday apologized to its customers for slowing down performance of older iPhone models and said it would discount replacement batteries for ...
The dollar suffered fresh pressure on Friday as traders cash in the recent gains fuelled by Donald Trump's tax cuts, while most Asian equities were on ...
Russian specialists on Friday said they have restored communication with Angosat-1, the first national satellite it launched for Angola, days after ...
Daesh terrorist organisation has claimed responsibility for the blast in Russian city of St. Petersburg on Wednesday, making an ...
Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a law toughening criminal liability for recruiting to terrorist organizations up to life ...
Baku, Azerbaijan, Dec. 30 Trend: A magnitude 4.2 earthquake struck Iran, the Iranian Seismological Center said. The epicenter ...
At least 31 people have been injured in an explosion at a nightclub in northern Colombia after a grenade was allegedly thrown into the ...
Houston police confirmed Friday evening that three people, including the gunman, were killed in a shooting incident in southwest ...
Markets were ending 2017 in a party mood on Friday after a year in which a concerted pick-up in global growth boosted corporate profits and ...
After a banner year for US stocks, that saw the Dow hitting repeated records, Wall Street strategists predicted 2018 would see more moderate gains and ...
Shortages in Venezuela have now hit an essential part of traditional Christmas and New Year's meals, leaving frustrated citizens with a new holiday ...
The US government on Friday published proposed new regulations on offshore oil drilling that would reverse safeguards put in place following the ...
South Korea briefly seized and inspected a Hong Kong-registered ship in November for transferring oil products to a North Korean vessel and breaching ...
US oil prices finished above $60 a barrel for the first time since June 2015 after new data suggested American producers were being cautious about ...
Social media giants Facebook and Twitter are facing a deadline in Britain to cooperate with an inquiry into so-called fake news in the Brexit ...
Canadian aircraft manufacturer Bombardier on Friday announced the sale of 12 C Series aircraft to EgyptAir in a deal worth $1.1 billion. The company ...
The Houston Texans won't be disciplined over their handling of quarterback Tom Savage's concussion, but the "unacceptable" incident has sparked ...
At the stroke of midnight on January 1, pot lovers in California may raise a joint, instead of a glass of champagne. America's wealthiest state is ...
London's FTSE 100 surged to a new record intraday high on Friday, on a shortened final day of trading before the New Year break. London's benchmark ...
It is Albania's national symbol, but the eagle may soon only be found on the flag. The majestic bird is threatened with extinction due to widespread ...
South Korea briefly seized and inspected a Hong Kong-registered ship in November for transferring oil products to a North Korean vessel and breaching ...
China's manufacturing activity edged down in December, official data showed Sunday, but largely maintained momentum despite increased curbs on heavy ...
A bubble it is not: the organic movement is only slowly taking root in France's Champagne region, although its proponents believe environmentally ...
January 1 is Samad Alawi's birthday. It's also the birthday of his wife, his two sons, 32 of his friends and thousands of other Afghans -- a date ...
China has tightened rules on how much cash cardholders can withdraw overseas in a bid to clamp down on money laundering, terrorist financing and tax ...
Zambia's president Edgar Lungu has deployed the army to help combat a cholera outbreak that has claimed 41 lives in the capital Lusaka and affected ...
A Malaysian state plans to run a conversion therapy course aimed at transgender women, officials said Saturday, sparking alarm among LGBT activists in ...
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau promises a "progressive agenda" for Canada's G7 presidency in 2018, but talks may once again hit a snag over climate ...
Here's something we don't see very often. Apple has actually admitted to slowing old iPhones and even apologized for doing it. The company is ...
Wharton's Marissa Sharif discusses her research on the use of emergency reserves in goal setting. Anyone who has ever been on a diet or tried ...
In 1977, my wife, two-year-old son and I were living in the West African country of Nigeria. I was working with on an assignment from my UK ...
Conventional wisdom can be defined as ideas that are so accepted that they go unquestioned. Unfortunately, conventional wisdom is often wrong. ...
As we look toward the beginning of another year, talk of acronyms such as FANG and FAANG 
Egypt's criminal court sentenced former President Mohamed Morsi and his 18 supporters to three years in prison over insulting judges, ...
LONDON - One of Theresa May's key government advisers announced Friday he is quitting his role, making a stinging attack ...
There's a million things to love about Hamilton, the musical that has opened in London to reviews as glowing as those that greeted its debut ...
An Indian expat died of heart-attack after hearing the news of his mother's demise back home. Anil Kumar Gopinathan from Kerala worked at a ...
Rabat � While the separatist group commonly known as the has been eager to receive weapons from Algiers, the group's major supporter ...
AMMAN — His Majesty King Abdullah II, on Friday, sent a cable to Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Sisi, offering condolences ...
The Roads and Transport and Authority and the Dubai Police have announced the traffic plan around Burj Khalifa in anticipation of the ...
When the now 48-year-old Chilumala Chandrashekhar arrived in the UAE in May 2007 on a visit visa from India, his two children were 10 and 6 ...
Liverpool celebrated Virgil van Dijk's arrival at Anfield by coming from behind to beat Leicester City 2-1 thanks to Mohamed Salah's brace ...
GUATEMALA CITY � The United States did not pressure Guatemala into announcing it will move its embassy in Israel to occupied Jerusalem, the ...
DAMASCUS � Two mass graves containing dozens of bodies of civilians and Syrian troops killed by the Daesh terror group extremists have been ...
Wooded hillsides, craggy ridges and wheeling birds of prey are a world away from Hong Kong's famous skyscrapers but the city's country parks are a ...
Chinese factory activity accelerated in December, according to independent data released Tuesday, a positive indicator for the world's second-largest ...
Asian stocks mostly opened the year with gains on Tuesday as traders drift back to work after the festive break, with Hong Kong the standout ...
It's the first day that marijuana can be bought and sold legally in California, and store owner Nicole Salisbury's stock of pot edibles is already ...
As if losing a breast to cancer was not traumatic enough, Algerian mother-of-three Linda was then spurned by her husband for being "mutilated" and a ...
"Look at my spinach. That is the sand from the mine. The yellow one in the soil -- it's destroying everything," said Thabo Ngubane as he tended his ...
Fifty years ago, writers -- including Milan Kundera -- and a bizarre scandal helped spark a fleeting but heady spell of openness in communist ...
Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates introduced value-added tax from Monday, a first for the Gulf which has long prided itself on its tax-free, ...
A frigid North America closed out the world's New Year celebrations late Sunday, after a chilly Europe followed Asia and Australasia in nursing a ...
Wearing red lipstick and a pink sports bra, Nong Rose trades blows with her twin brother in a Thai boxing gym, preparing for a foreign debut that will ...
Around two million people prepared to welcome 2018 in freezing temperatures at New York's Times Square Sunday, surrounded by police under tight ...
Social media websites and online services, created to profit from connecting people and , have a deep and troubling dark side. Malicious ...
A 13-year-old girl died and 11 others were injured after a Greyhound bus traveling west from Green River slid off the right shoulder ...
Baku, Azerbaijan, Jan. 1 By Khalid Kazimov � Trend: A protester in the central province of Esfahan has fired bullets at police ...
KABUL - Civilians have paid a high price for these attacks as it has been mostly ordinary people who were killed and wounded in ...
iPhone battery slowdown controversy: How can Apple rebuild trust 02 Jan 2018 Apple is in the midst of a scandal over the deliberate ...
Samsung to reveal next Exynos chip on 4th January 02 Jan 2018 Samsung has announced that it'll launch its next generation Exynos chip on ...
Talking Points: China's Caixin Manufacturing PMI came in at 51.5, well ahead of expectations The sector turned in its strongest reading since ...
Two men were killed in an armed attack on a liquor store on Monday in al-Omrania, Giza, south of the Egyptian capital Cairo. ...
Rabat � and are no longer a safe haven for business owners. For the first time, the Gulf countries have introduced the Value Added ...
While millions of people were busy shopping for New Year's, counterterrorism officers all around the world had quite different concerns. With ...
KUWAIT CITY, Jan 1: Personnel from the General Department for Drugs Control, in cooperation with the Kuwaiti Coast Guard have 'seized' 250,000 ...
His Highness the Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, His Highness the Deputy Emir Sheikh Abdullah bin Hamad al-Thani and HE the Prime ...
Japanese social media reacted with a storm of outrage to a video by YouTube star Logan Paul showing a suicide victim in a forest near Mount Fuji, as ...
The legal cannabis sector is expected to generate $40 billion and more than 400,000 jobs by 2021 in the United States, according to a study released ...
Asian equities continued their positive start to the year on Wednesday following yet another record close on Wall Street, but the dollar faced further ...
US stocks opened 2018 in torrid fashion Tuesday, bidding the Nasdaq to its first close above 7,000 points, while European bourses were weighted down ...
A music publisher is seeking at least $1.6 billion from Spotify for alleged copyright violations, the latest lawsuit to hit the fast-growing streaming ...
Facebook accounts and telephone records can be used to pinpoint the best individuals to vaccinate to stop a disease outbreak in its tracks, ...
Human beings can spot a sick person, on a photo, a mere two hours after he or she was infected by a germ, researchers said Wednesday. Such an ...
Giving gadgets brains will be a hot theme at the Consumer Electronics Show set to open in Las Vegas, with device makers big and small touting hardware ...
She may have returned to publishing fiction after a two decade hiatus, but Indian writer Arundhati Roy says she has no plans to sheath her polemical ...
China will invest $1 billion in the construction of three 60-storey buildings at a mega-project near Sri Lanka's main port, Colombo said Tuesday, as ...
Sudanese Finance Minister Mohammed Osman al-Rikabi said on Tuesday that banks across the world are still wary of working with Khartoum despite the US ...
A recently filed suggests that Apple is developing an augmented reality iPhone. Augmented Reality iPhone With the recent release of the , ...
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Baku, Azerbaijan, Jan. 2 By Khalid Kazimov � Trend: Security forces have arrested at least 40 individuals in the northwestern ...
Baku, Azerbaijan, Jan. 2 By Khalid Kazimov � Trend: Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has highlighted the right of ...
Baku, Azerbaijan, Jan. 3 By Khalid Kazimov � Trend: Two bikers have fired bullets at the building of the governor office of Lanjan ...
The Fire Department of New York says 23 people, including a firefighter, are hurt following a Bronx blaze, ABC News reported. All of ...
At least 17 people have been killed after a group of armed assailants stormed a church in southern Nigeria and went on a shooting ...
Beijing has launched a common property rights pilot program for the elderly, aiming to develop the city's home-based care system for the aged, ...
Rabat � Five detainees of the, including Zefzafi�allegedly refused to appear before Casablanca's Appeal court on Tuesday, January 2, ...
> AMMAN, Jan 2 -- Jordan on Tuesday condemned the passage in the Israeli Knesset of a bill that requires a two-thirds ...
> NEW YORK, Jan 2 -- After the State of Kuwait officially took over as a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council ...
HE the Minister of Transport and Communications Jassim Seif Ahmed al-Sulaiti met Azerbaijan's ambassador to Qatar Dr Tofiq Abdullayev in Doha ...
Strong winds and high seas are expected in offshore areas today, the Qatar Met department has said. The wind speed in these ...
Al Jazeera has deplored attempts to tarnish its credibility through fake social media accounts. In a statement issued yesterday Al Jazeera ...
ROME � Migrant arrivals to Italy by sea fell by a third in 2017 compared to a year earlier, the interior ministry said on Sunday, as Libyan ...
GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories � Israeli aircraft attacked Hamas bases in Gaza early Tuesday in response to a rocket allegedly fired ...
Luxturna, a medication against hereditary degeneration of the retina that can lead to total blindness, will be sold for $850,000 in the United States, ...
Music sales grew at a robust pace for a third straight year in the United States in 2017 as listeners kept flocking to streaming outlets, an industry ...
Diplo and Mark Ronson, two DJs who have achieved wide success as producers, will premiere a new collaboration at New York's Governors Ball music ...
Iran's telecoms minister said on Wednesday that Telegram would only be unblocked if it removed "terrorist" content after the social media app was shut ...
Thomas Monson, who had headed the Mormon church since 2008, died at age 90 in the US state of Utah, the church announced. "With tender feelings we ...
Bosses at Britain's largest public companies will have on average made more money in the first four days of 2018 than typical workers earn annually, ...
Canadian telecommunications software company BlackBerry and China's web giant Baidu on Wednesday announced a partnership for autonomous and connected ...
Paris Saint-Germain are making the idea that football is part of the entertainment industry central to their strategy as they strive to become a ...
An Indian airline said Thursday it had grounded two pilots over allegations they had a fight and both briefly stormed out of the cockpit during a New ...
Chinese ride-hailing giant Didi Chuxing said on Thursday it had bought Brazil's 99 Taxis, opening another front in the Beijing-based company's global ...
The Peninsula Online Qatar Traffic Department has been taking various steps and initiatives to ensure speeding and related accidents do ...
A platform attached to the famous floating villa in Dubai - off Burj Al Arab - sank on Wednesdaydue to rough sea. According to an advisory ...
Two sleeping bags and "many blankets" are not enough to keep Jin Yang-Hun comfortable in the pup tent in which he lives just blocks from the White ...
Twitter announced Friday it would not block the accounts of world leaders even if their statements are "controversial," citing a need to promote a ...
The lobby group for some of the most powerful US tech firms said Friday it would join the legal challenge to the planned rollback of "net neutrality" ...
A little known pharmaceutical company in Florida has found itself in the eye of a storm following disclosures it raised the price of an old drug used ...
The Trump administration's decision to enforce federal anti-marijuana laws has sent shivers through users, medical patients and businesses encouraged ...
The US economy's job creation ability disappointed in December, despite solid hiring in manufacturing and construction, according to government data ...
The fierce reputation of Spanish Legion soldiers is being put to the test: too fat, some of them have been offered a weight-loss plan to save the ...
The 2018 global equity rally continued apace Friday, with Asian and European markets posting gains and Wall Street also grinding higher once again. ...
Germany's biggest lender Deutsche Bank said Friday it would report "a small full-year after-tax loss" for 2017, largely owing to changes in the US tax ...
US exports increased in November to their highest level on record, but imports rose faster, pushing the trade gap to its widest in nearly five years, ...
The US economy's job creation ability disappointed in December, despite solid hiring in manufacturing and construction, according to government data ...
A company linked to U2 frontman Bono has voluntarily paid 53,000 euros after an investigation into tax evasion in Lithuania, authorities said Friday. ...
A Cypriot court on Friday jailed a former Bank of Cyprus chief executive for two-and-a-half years after finding him guilty of market manipulation in ...
As tech giants race against the clock to fix major security flaws in microprocessors, many users are wondering what lurks behind unsettling names like ...
A Cypriot court on Friday jailed a former CEO of Bank of Cyprus after he was found guilty of market manipulation by deceiving shareholders in the ...
Amazon, Google and now Apple... as the list of digital giants hit by the "Spectre" and "Meltdown" computer security flaws grows longer, the race is on ...
"Gaming disorder" will be recognised as a disease later this year following expert consensus over the addictive risks associated with playing ...
The 2018 global equity rally continued apace Friday, with Asian and European markets picking up the baton from record-breaking Wall Street. Dealers ...
Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba has come under fire over its handling of user data in an episode that underscores growing concerns for privacy in the ...
The Philippines is investigating if the deaths of 14 children had any link to a dengue vaccine whose use the government has suspended due to health ...
British no-frills airline EasyJet announced Friday that it carried a record 81.6 million passengers in 2017, despite uncertainty surrounding Brexit. ...
A "debt clock" in Berlin, run by German tax lobbyists to shame the government into reining in spending, is falling for the first time in its 22-year ...
British lawmakers called on the government Friday to impose a charge on disposable coffee cups and set a target to recycle all of them by 2023 -- or ...
Elegant, tailored outfits are not reserved just for fashionistas in Italy -- couture for dogs is proving a hit with some Milan pet owners. Man's ...
From clampdowns to a warm embrace, regulators in Asia have taken very different approaches to dealing with the bitcoin phenomenon. Here are the ...
Hand-reared for their colour and beauty, koi carp have become an iconic symbol of Japan that can sell for hundreds of thousands of dollars and even ...
The central street in a small town in the foothills of the Carpathian Mountains in western Ukraine is buzzing with life. Crowds pack the pavements ...
Hackers have already begun targeting the Pyeongchang Olympic Games with malware-infected emails which may be aimed at stealing passwords or financial ...
French construction group Vinci Airports has been awarded a 1.5 billion euros 25-year concession to run Belgrade airport, Serbian Prime ...
Saudi Arabia announced Saturday it had boosted stipends and benefits for citizens to cushion the impact of economic reforms including the kingdom's ...
Toyota's former president Tatsuro Toyoda, who helped the Japanese auto giant establish a foothold in North America, has died at the age of 88, the ...
It was mocked for its wilting needles and bare branches, but Rome's Christmas tree has captured the hearts of locals and tourists alike and there are ...
Apple stock ticked slightly higher on Thursday as analysts begin to consider what 2018 might bring for Cupertino. One big factor this year is ...
Trump just got involved in market forecasting - no price target for S & P 500 but he does have one for the Dow Jones Industrial Average and its ...
By Trend Twenty-six anti-personnel and 140 anti-tank mines were found and defused Jan. 25-July 3, 2017 in the Jojug Marjanli village, which ...
HEART CITY : Authorities seized more than 800 kilograms of narcotics and arrested 336 individuals in connection with the ...
Authorities seeking illegally acquired antique artworks have searched the apartment and office of a prominent New York billionaire and philanthropist, ...
Mark it on your calendars: All three Ball brothers will be playing for the Los Angeles Lakers in 2020. So says LaVar Ball. While making yet ...
Jon Gruden will leave the ESPN commentary booth and return to the NFL coaching ranks for the longest and largest contract for any coach in ...
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Jose Mourinho intensified his war of words with Chelsea manager Antonio Conte in bizarre fashion after his team's FA Cup victory over Derby ...
Since across Iran last week, President Trump has not hesitated to make his opinions known, much to the chagrin of Iranian and other ...
Rabat � Casablanca's police dismantled a network of professional scammers, who used sophisticated equipment to replicate a total ...
> AMMAN, Jan 6 -- Jordanian King Abdullah II said Saturday it is necessary for Arab countries to build on international ...
Barcelona yesterday announced that they had agreed to sign Brazilian star Philippe Coutinho from Liverpool in a deal reported to be worth up ...
An unmarried couple who posted intimate photos of themselves on social media have been jailed for a year, overturning an Appeal Court ...
Are you stuck with money habits that are getting you nowhere When we make poor financial decisions daily, these end up becoming habits, ...
AMMAN � The micro Arab ministerial team tasked with following up on the repercussions of the US decision recognising Jerusalem as the ...
US astronaut John Young, who walked on the moon in 1972 and even smuggled a corned beef sandwich into orbit during a career that made him the ...
FA Cup holders Arsenal were sensationally dumped out of the competition by Nottingham Forest yesterday, joining Leeds United as big-name ...
Nathan Lyon was spinning Australia toward an emphatic victory in the final Ashes Test as beleaguered England unravelled on a torrid day in ...
SEOUL � North Korea reopened a long-closed border hotline with South Korea on Wednesday, hours after US President Donald Trump appeared to ...
PESHAWAR: The deputy commissioner of Kunar province of Afghanistan, who was kidnapped from Peshawar three months ago, has been ...
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Some lucky person in New Hampshire has won $560 million in a Powerball lottery, officials said Sunday, just two days after someone in Florida won a ...
Philippe Coutinho arrives at Barcelona bearing both his huge price tag and the legacy of the long line of Brazilian stars who have dazzled ...
Intel chief Brian Krzanich said Monday the impact of a recently discovered vulnerability in computer chips has been limited due to "remarkable" ...
Hyundai unveiled Monday a hydrogen fuel-cell powered vehicle aimed at showcasing its newest technologies, bucking the all-electric trend of most rival ...
A cute, table-top robot packed with digital smarts fell dumb on stage at an LG Electronics event touting "connected" lifestyles where machines obey ...
Asian markets mostly rose on Tuesday with Hong Kong edging up for an eleventh straight trading day as investors press on with a global rally that has ...
Rio's annual carnival is seen as a money-making extravaganza for the city. But evangelical Mayor Marcelo Crivella isn't a fan and slashed funding for ...
An off-the-beaten-path corner of Paraguay has become a tourist attraction this month as visitors flock to see a rare delight floating on a hidden ...
A sea of heaving, towel-waving humanity swarmed a black statue of a cross-bearing Jesus Christ in the Philippine capital Tuesday as the Catholic ...
Last month, Germany's foreign minister, Sigmar Gabriel, gave a big in Berlin on how to change foreign policy in the age of Donald Trump. ...
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North and South Korea have begun high-level talks, the first between the countries in two years, BBC News reported. The meeting ...
The Trump administration is preparing to unveil a series of trade actions targeting China and other economic competitors in the coming weeks, ...
With the long-running North Korean nuclear crisis simmering at its highest level in years, hopes are high that today's inter-Korean talks ...
Sony's family-oriented movie "Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle" roared into first place this weekend in North American theaters as horror film ...
South Korean telecom giant Samsung Electronics expects to post record operating profits of more than $14 billion in the fourth quarter, it said ...
A Google engineer who was fired after writing a memo defending the gender gap in Silicon Valley tech jobs as a matter of biology has sued his former ...
Muscat- Nissan has unveiled research that will enable vehicles to interpret signals from the driver's brain, redefining how people interact ...
Talking Points: The rose against most things Tuesday The BOJ made modest cuts to its bond buying operations However, the move was slightly ...
The Peninsula DOHA: Professor Daniel Brumberg, Co-Director of Democracy and Governance Studies at Georgetown University, addressed in his ...
Muscat- Petroleum Development Oman celebrated Oman Environment Day its Mina al Fahal headquarters in Muscat on Monday morning. The ...
Amman, Jan. 8 -- His Majesty King Abdullah II on Monday emphasized that ongoing fiscal and economic reforms should protect ...
> AMMAN, Jan 8 -- Jordan and the European Union on Monday agreed to work together on encouraging a two-state solution to ...
HE the Minister of Economy and Commerce, Sheikh Ahmed bin Jassim bin Mohamed al-Thani, holding talks with Pascal Lamy, the Inter-ministerial ...
CAIRO: Egypt will hold a presidential election in late March, authorities said on Monday, starting the countdown towards a likely second ...
An Asian was brought to justice and faced trial 10 years after committing a murder. The accused stabbed an Arab man 15 times and then ...
CATANIA, Italy � Ten migrants perished over the weekend and dozens are missing, including children, after their boat sank off the Libyan ...
China's factory inflation slowed to a 13-month low in December, official data showed Wednesday, a sign of continued fragility in the world's ...
The US oil industry has benefitted from the free trade pact with Canada and Mexico, and an industry representative on Tuesday urged the Trump ...
Donald Trump will take his populist message directly to the world's political and business elite later this month, becoming the first US president to ...
For the first time in many years, the World Bank's outlook for the global economy is better than expected rather than worse, with all regions seeing ...
The rally across Asia that welcomed in 2018 looked to have run out of steam on Wednesday with most markets slipping into the red on profit-taking but ...
Beauty startup Foreo is launching a "UFO" to make salon-style face mask treatments as much a part of people's days as brushing teeth. The young ...
In Nganda, a rural community in remote Senegal close to the Gambian border, restaurant owner Aissatou Tisse is carving out a reputation for tasty ...
At ground zero of Ukraine's Chernobyl tragedy, workers in orange vests are busy erecting hundreds of dark-coloured panels as the country gets ready to ...
Boeing reported record commercial plane deliveries for 2017 on Tuesday and said cargo and customer passenger trends continued to look strong for 2018. ...
A deal between Chinese smartphone maker Huawei and AT & T to sell smartphones in the United States has fallen apart, US business media reported ...
Europe's main stock markets advanced Tuesday, taking their lead from a stronger showing across much of Asia, and as investors digested new economic ...
By Rashid Shirinov Thanks to the rapid development of the tourism sector in today's world, any person can visit almost any spot on the planet ...
In 2014-2017, about 60 new general educational institutions were built in Ukraine. This is reported on the website of the Ukrainian ...
Guba, Azerbaijan, Jan. 9 By Samir Ali � Trend: The search for mountaineers who went missing in the mountainous area of ...
Baku, Azerbaijan, Jan. 9 By Farhad Daneshvar � Trend: A group of Iranian officials and experts have expressed concerns over ...
Tashkent, Uzbekistan, Jan. 9 By Mamed Dashdemirov � Trend: Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev exempted all foreign higher ...
An overheated iPhone battery injured a repairman in an Apple store in Zurich and prompted the evacuation of around 50 people from the ...
Some 200 members of one of Italy's most infamous mafia groups were arrested in an operation in Italy and Germany, police said on ...
Trump administration officials and allies are rallying to the president's defense, trying to contain the fallout from an explosive new ...
18 November 2017, Protesters call on Mugabe to resign while being placed on house arrest by Zimbabwean military By Nimi Princewill ...
Mohammad Baqir, 38, doesn't really know what Twitter is. He thinks it is something like Facebook. His daughters helped him create an account ...
Receive the DailyFX US AM Digest in your inbox every day before US equity markets open - The continues to claw back losses from its first week ...
Automakers in China face their weakest year of sales growth in at least two decades as a phasing out of tax cuts on smaller engine cars that ...
Tunisian police on Tuesday fired tear gas on protesters in the capital who were storming a Carrefour supermarket in an anti-government ...
Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai, on Tuesday attended the graduation ceremony of the 25th batch of ...
AMMAN � His Majesty King Abdullah and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi on Tuesday discussed on the phone bilateral relations and the ...
BEIRUT � Israeli jets and ground-to-ground missiles struck Syria early on Tuesday, Syria's army said, as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin ...
Facebook has settled a legal case involving naked photos posted on the social media platform of a Northern Irish teenager, the lawyer for the victim ...
Chinese tech giant Huawei faces a major setback in efforts to expand in the US smartphone market following renewed national security concerns, ...
A 78-year-old prelate is likely to play a key role this year in shaping the future of one of Africa's most important and volatile states. The man in ...
Asian markets saw further losses on Thursday, with Tokyo hit by a weaker dollar and Hong Kong coming off a 12-day surge, as the rally that greeted ...
Poland's parliament rejected proposals to ease strict abortion restrictions Wednesday, a year after tens of thousands of black-clad women flooded the ...
With their good looks and sharp moves, North Korea's female cheerleaders are a marked contrast to the regime's menacing nuclear ambitions. Dubbed ...
Bangkok's Wireless Road may soon live up to its name. Like many streets in the Thai capital, the thoroughfare is festooned with electrical and ...
A wide path gently curves underground revealing an undulating cavern, winning praise for both its unassuming architecture and its purpose, as Israel's ...
The dollar slumped on Wednesday following a report that China may slow or halt its purchases of US government bonds, with Wall Street stocks also ...
Japanese automakers Toyota and Mazda announced Wednesday they will build their $1.6 billion joint US manufacturing plant in Huntsville, Alabama. In ...
US immigration agents raided nearly 100 7-Eleven convenience stores around the country Wednesday, sending a warning to businesses not to hire illegal ...
Canada has launched a vast dispute against its southern neighbour before the World Trade Organization, accusing Washington of breaching dozens of ...
The environmental impact of plastic is finally receiving the attention it deserves. This is partly down to the BBC's highlighting the ...
In 2017, we saw the consolidation of China's power and influence globally, and of Communist Party leader Xi Jinping's power nationally. ...
A Brooklyn man responsible for a failed bombing attempt inside a New York subway passageway has been indicted on federal terrorism and ...
LONDON - The World Bank warned on Tuesday that a failure to reach a "smooth" deal for Britain to leave the European Union ...
15 dead, 100s injured in California mudslides; rescue operation on 11 Jan 2018 At least 15 people have reportedly died in Southern ...
Samsung Galaxy A8+ arrives in India with Rs. 32,990 price-tag! 11 Jan 2018 South Korean electronics giant Samsung has finally launched ...
A 35-year-old worker, who went berserk and attacked his supervisor with a stick, has been charged in the Court of First Instance with ...
Real Madrid coach Zinedine Zidane has said he does not want any new signings in the winter transfer window, despite trailing rivals and La ...
George Orwell warns us in his dystopian novel 1984 that authoritarianism begins with language. In the novel, 'newspeak' is language ...
U.S. airstrikes in Yemen late last year killed key leaders of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula , United States Central Command ...
KNPC refining capacity reaches 736,000 barrels per day KUWAIT CITY, Jan 10: A top government official has affirmed that the government has ...
AMMAN —AlGhad— The police arrested two of the assailants who attacked a deaf guy and took his money and laptop in Zarqa ...
Bitcoin may be the most famous cryptocurrency but, despite a dizzying rise, it's not the most lucrative one and far from alone in a universe that ...
A racism scandal at H & M is the latest indication of management problems at the Swedish clothing giant, once the darling of shoppers but now ...
Despite repeatedly vowing to reduce its energy dependency on Moscow, Europe is more reliant on Russian gas than ever before -- and there are few signs ...
Salvador Meza has been making guitars since he was a boy, but his leathery hands have never had to churn them out as fast as now -- thanks to the hit ...
Two decades ago, Fatima Nolasco walked over the border into the United States in search of a better life, going on to build a successful business, and ...
A salmonella scandal at French dairy group Lactalis has affected 83 countries, where 12 million boxes of powdered baby milk are being recalled, the ...
For decades, women like Rosalba Canon were banned from Colombia's emerald mines: men said they brought bad luck. Canon and others like her have ...
Defense Minister Raul Jungmann held talks in Brasilia with Boeing representatives to discuss partnerships with Brazilian aerospace conglomerate ...
Ed Sheeran's latest best-selling album is up against four debut offerings at this year's Brit Awards, including one by breakthrough pop star Dua Lipa, ...
Around 2,000 women gathered Saturday in front of the Polish parliament after lawmakers signalled they may further tighten access to abortions in the ...
Italian fashion house Dolce & Gabbana put on a show fit for a king Saturday with its regal-inspired men's range modelled by some of the scions of ...
Czech President Milos Zeman, who is seeking a second five-year term in a run-off vote later this month, has sown division with his strong anti-migrant ...
The iPhone X has a starting price of $999, which goes up to $1149 if you want the 256GB storage variant. Most gadgets were selling at during ...
, If 2018 pans out like some of the early commentary suggests then we're in for a rough year. If you believe the hype, then asset bubbles ...
Netflix, Inc. stock soared to yet another record high on Thursday amid buzz involving a comparison with Walt Disney Co ...
With iOS 11.2.5 beta 5 recently released, has posted official release notes as well as changelog details. Image source: iOS 11.2.5 beta 5 As ...
Iran's President Hassan Rouhani in a telephone conversation with Iran's Minister of Cooperative, Labor and Social Welfare Ali Rabiei ...
At least four school children died after a fishing boat carrying some 40 students capsized in the Arabian Sea off the coast of the ...
Hollywood actress Lindsay Lohan says that she is designing her own island, here and it will be called "Lohan Island". During her ...
Hamad Port yesterday announced the addition of a new service from South Korean shipping line Hyundai Merchant Marine to its growing ...
The Ministry of Health and Prevention has warned healthcare practitioners and community members about the risks involved in using ...
The number of traffic deaths on Dubai roads has decreased by 25.7 per cent in 2017, according to a top official of the Dubai Police. ...
The Dubai Police's anti-infiltration section arrested 34,881 people for various violations during the first nine months of the last year. ...
BASHIQA, Iraq � Northern Iraq's Yazidi community that suffered so terribly under the Daesh terror group persecution celebrated on Friday as ...
The Detroit auto show arrived Sunday with showman's flair, as the car industry tied its latest offerings to American nostalgia and Hollywood glamor. ...
Asian traders continued their blistering start to the year on Monday with most markets rising and Hong Kong within spitting distance of its record ...
Omani Mahmoud bin Yousef Temtemi found himself in a pastoral predicament this autumn -- his neighbour's flock of sheep had overrun his farm and ...
An icy wind blows the windmill's soaring sails, turning them quickly and cranking the large stone wheels inside in a time-honoured method of grinding ...
Shares in Japan's SoftBank Group soared nearly six percent Monday on reports it could list its mobile unit, potentially raising some $18 billion in ...
Ford will increase its investment in electrification, planning to spend $11 billion by 2022 to create hybrid and all-electric versions of its ...
French film star Catherine Deneuve said she stood by her signing an open letter in Le Monde this week bashing the #MeToo movement but apologised if ...
French film star Catherine Deneuve who touched off a worldwide feminist backlash over an open letter she had signed bashing the #MeToo movement ...
The billionaire family that owns Dutch clothing retailer C & A is on the brink of selling the chain to Chinese investors, a German media report said ...
The Detroit Auto Show shifted into full gear Sunday with international trade and tax cuts dominating the conversation, even as an optimistic industry ...
Bitcoin fever has hit the US real estate market, especially that of Florida, offering foreign investors a way to dodge currency controls at home and ...
Sony's family-oriented movie "Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle" staked out the top spot at the North American box office this holiday weekend, gripping ...
A Iranian oil tanker burst into flames from end to end and sank Sunday, eight days after a collision with a cargo ship off China, state ...
The Spanish press did not hold back in their criticism of a 'shattered Real Madrid, a team 'in crisis after their 1-0 home defeat at the hands ...
The search for survivors of the deadly mudslides in parts of California's Santa Barbara County continued yesterday even as hopes dwindled to ...
The Peninsula DOHA: Just Real Estate , the leading property service provider in Qatar, is offering an exciting investment ...
QNA Prime Minister and Interior Minister H E Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani met yesterday with Charge d'Affaires of the ...
KUWAIT CITY, Jan 14: An official document which has been released by the government says Kuwaitization begins with the Ministry of Finance, ...
Three years after the Swiss National Bank shocked currency markets by scrapping the franc's peg to the euro, it faces the toughest task of any ...
Tunisians yesterday marked seven years since the uprising that launched the Arab Spring, with fresh protests and some people expressing pride ...
Syrian troops have recaptured dozens of towns and villages from militant fighters, a monitor said yesterday, bringing them closer to a key ...
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Art lovers and culture fans have just one week left to visit the German Encounters exhibition, on show at the Garage Gallery at the Fire ...
Harry Kane became Tottenham's record scorer in the English Premier League by grabbing a second-half double in a 4-0 win over Everton on ...
The Ajman Police have arrested a 27-year-old man who took pictures and videos of last Saturday's group clash scene and posted them on ...
Asian markets mostly rose again on Tuesday with Hong Kong resuming a rally towards its record high while the dollar struggled to recover from further ...
Russians are drinking less than at any point since the fall of the Soviet Union, figures show, as a raft of government measures bear fruit and healthy ...
One of the most important strategic sites in Europe for the US military has come under threat from a rather unexpected enemy: a flock of sheep. It ...
The rugged men of northern Afghanistan raise their buzkashi horses to be warrior princes, ready for the savagery of polo with a headless carcass. ...
Paris men's fashion week starts late Tuesday with the industry shaken by claims that two star photographers sexually harassed male models. Peru-born ...
The chief executive of Daimler said Monday at the Detroit auto show that his company cannot currently guarantee it can meet tougher European CO2 ...
The British government held an emergency meeting of ministers on Monday evening over the implosion of construction-to-catering group Carillion, as ...
Women who started menstruating at the age of 11 or younger, or entered menopause before 47, face a higher risk of heart disease and stroke, according ...
Stifling a sneeze can rupture your throat, burst an ear drum, or pop a blood vessel in your brain, researchers warned Tuesday. Many people -- when ...
Car makers appealed to Americans' deep love of SUVs and trucks on Monday at the Detroit Auto Show, unveiling a host of choices from luxurious to ...
Smartphones may have become ubiquitous in France, but the country's language mavens hope there's still time to keep the word from becoming ensconced ...
Sergio Marchionne, CEO of Fiat Chrysler , swatted down speculation Monday that he might sell the group's popular Jeep brand and forecasted a ...
Strikes and protests hit Greece on Monday as parliament adopted controversial reforms demanded by the country's creditors, including curbs on ...
The French economy may have grown by nearly two percent last year, faster than the government's official forecast, French Finance Minister Bruno Le ...
By Vijay Tagore, Bangalore Mirror Bureau-You don't visit Afghanistan and come back without experiencing fear. Dean Jones is no ...
KUWAIT CITY, Jan 15 : Kuwait International Airport witnessed extreme congestion on Saturday afternoon, which resulted in frustration among the ...
Benjamin Netanyahu hailed a 'new era in ties with India yesterday as he signed a series of deals during the first visit by an Israeli prime ...
Ramallah, Palestinian Territories: Since taking office, US President Donald Trump has shown unfailing support for Israel in its conflict ...
Ramallah, Palestinian Territories: A Palestinian was shot dead during clashes with Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank on Monday, ...
The Peninsula Doha: National Car Company, sole agent of Mazda in Qatar, introduced the all-new 2018 Mazda 6, Mazda CX3 and Mazda CX9. The ...
Nestle said Tuesday it has agreed to sell its US candy business to Italy's Ferrero for CHF 2.7 billion in cash as the ...
Airbus got an early jump on rival Boeing for 2018 with news Tuesday that low-cost Mexican airline Volaris has ordered 80 of its popular A320 planes ...
A year ago Donald Trump ceded control of The Trump Organization to his adult sons, but refused to divest his assets, sparking a furious backlash from ...
Asian stocks started the day in the red on Wednesday with Hong Kong seeing profit-taking after the previous day's record close with energy firms hit ...
Two years ago, the General-Delegate of the Cannes Film Festival, Thierry Fremaux, was angry that journalists were Tweeting about movies even ...
Will 2018 be the year when the United Kingdom changes its mind about leaving the European Union Conventional wisdom says that stopping Brexit ...
Tens of thousands of German industrial workers downed tools yesterday in support of trade union IG Metall's demands for a 6% pay rise and a ...
The 14th edition of SteelFab 2018 began at Expo Centre Sharjah on Monday with more than 1,000 brands from 28 countries taking part in the ...
Real Madrid's 1-0 defeat by Villarreal in La Liga on Saturday was greeted by boos and jeers from the Santiago Bernabeu and plunged the ...
South Africa ground their way to 90-2 and a lead of 118 over India in the second Test on Monday, increasing the possibility that Virat ...
Block graphic aliens dropped down the window panes of a Tokyo skyscraper before being blasted into oblivion by enthusiastic gamers celebrating 40 ...
Once a stage for geopolitical dealmaking and host to the 20th century's most glamorous stars, the now-dilapidated yacht of late Yugoslav leader Josip ...
YouTube on Tuesday announced ramped-up rules regarding when it will run ads with videos as it scrambled to quell concerns by brands about being paired ...
As demand for batteries drives a surge in the price of cobalt, the Democratic Republic of Congo is gearing up to overhaul its mining regulations to ...
South Korea's trade deficit in kimchi, its proud traditional side dish of fermented cabbage, reached an all-time high last year as low-priced Chinese ...
South Africa is fighting to revive its frayed clothing industry, once a crucial provider of jobs in a country suffering from high unemployment, as a ...
This year's Detroit Auto Show has unfolded with the slick precision of a corporate infomercial, filled with sparkly new offerings, but little of the ...
For the technology phobic, the Einride T-Pod autonomous cargo truck could be the stuff of nightmares. It is an imposing sight, lacking a traditional ...
Ford on Tuesday projected 2017 earnings below the level expected by analysts and said results this year would be even lower. The second-biggest US ...
A Chinese credit ratings firm has downgraded US debt, citing the political "deficiencies" and "factional rivalries" of the United States. The move ...
The auto industry is famously male dominated, forcing women in the field to fight sexism, discrimination and unequal pay -- though woman car experts ...
Dirty money from eastern Europe is flowing through companies registered to nondescript properties across Scotland in a practice that has alarmed ...
The rally in Asian markets showed no signs of slowing on Thursday with most posting fresh gains and Hong Kong hitting new records as investors tracked ...
Media tycoon Rupert Murdoch, 86, has told his staff he is recuperating from a back injury suffered while sailing earlier this month and may spend ...
Wall Street shot past a fresh set of a milestones on Wednesday as irrepressible investor appetite returned US stocks to their steady stream of record ...
Budget carriers continued to push global air traffic to new record levels last year, the International Civil Aviation Organization said on ...
American businesses are upbeat about 2018, but more widespread difficulties finding workers are constraining growth for some firms, according to a ...
Apple announced Wednesday it would pay some $38 billion in taxes -- likely the largest payment of its kind -- on profits repatriated from overseas as ...
Rolls-Royce, the British maker of engines, announced further restructuring Wednesday that could result in the sale of its commercial marine business. ...
Terrorists and hate groups continue to get their propaganda onto social media platforms despite efforts by Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube to shut them ...
Donald Trump is flexing the United States' economic muscle in East Asia by introducing a web of new-generation bilateral trade deals to ...
Billionaire Wang Jianlin's Dalian Wanda Group Co is close to reaching an agreement to sell two Australian luxury property projects one in ...
China's fuel blending companies and independent refineries will bear the brunt of new tax rules that will close loopholes that allegedly ...
Bitcoin skidded a further 12% yesterday, marking an almost halving in value from its peak price, with investors spooked by fears regulators ...
Amman, 17 Jan. -- His Majesty King Abdullah II on Wednesday emphasized the need to speed up public sector reform without any ...
An Israeli military judge on Wednesday ordered a Palestinian teenager arrested after a viral video showed her hitting two Israeli soldiers ...
Ahli Bank has reported more than 1% year-on-year increase in net profit to QR639.7mn in 2017. The lender has recommended a total of 15% ...
A bottled water with Vitamin D will be available in the UAE supermarkets for those battling the sunshine vitamin deficiency. The orange ...
World No. 1 Dustin Johnson is looking to continue his recent winning form this week as the American gets set for Round 1 of Abu Dhabi HSBC ...
A hotel room automatically adjusting to the tastes of each guest, virtual reality headsets as brochures: the tourism sector is starting to embrace new ...
Paul Bocuse, one of the greatest French chefs of all time, died on Saturday aged 91 after a long battle with Parkinson's disease. Dubbed the "pope" ...
The woman appointed to try to reverse the world's lowest birth rates knows better than most why billion-dollar campaigns to encourage South Korea's ...
Aerospace company Rocket Lab said Sunday it had successfully fired a rocket into orbit for the first time from its New Zealand launch base. ...
They're wide-eyed, brightly coloured, and completely adorable. But can Japan's Olympic mascots bring in the cash, in a country where cuddly icons ...
US lawmakers will launch a last-ditch bid Sunday to end a budget impasse before hundreds of thousands of federal workers are forced to start the work ...
Having made the unlikely journey from prison and psychiatric hospital to the beating heart of London's art world, a charity helping artists considered ...
Practiced in rooms heated to 40 degrees Celsius , bikram yoga is no better for your health than other, cooler forms of the ...
John Galliano made a regal comeback to the Paris men's catwalk Friday with his first men's show for Margiela since he took over the brand three years ...
In Kinshasa, perhaps just one thing beats the cost of living -- and that's the cost of being dead. Since the start of the year, funerals have become ...
The black clouds hanging over the boats in Dutch ports Friday were not the remnants of wild winter gales, but harbingers of another devastating storm ...
Chanel designer Karl Lagerfeld dived into the brand's archives for his pretty-in-pink haute couture Paris show Tuesday, giving its founder Coco ...
Chain-smoking Indonesia is moving to stub out its booming e-cigarette sector, sparking criticism that the government is siding with giant tobacco ...
Ursula K. Le Guin, the award-winning US science fiction and fantasy author, and avowed feminist whose books have sold millions worldwide, has died, ...
Twitter bade farewell Tuesday to its number two executive Anthony Noto, who is taking a job heading internet age finance company SoFi. "I'm really ...
Cisse and Ibrahim have never seen snow before. After fleeing crisis-hit Libya by boat and making their way up Italy, the exhausted pair trudge in ...
European leaders take the stage at the Davos summit Wednesday, jostling to position themselves as a counterweight to US President Donald Trump before ...
Canada announced Tuesday it will sign on the Trans Pacific Partnership, moving to diversify its trade relationships as Canadian, US and Mexican ...
India and Canada rallied their pro-globalisation allies at the Davos business summit Tuesday as delegates braced for a potentially combative ...
Emboldened by an economy running at full steam, workers in other sectors of the German economy are following the call of the metalworkers' union for ...
EasyJet's revenue jumped more than 14 percent in its first quarter, the British no-frills airline said Tuesday, profiting in part from the collapse of ...
Former doctoral student Luo Qianqian was "amazed" that her sexual assault story went viral in China, inspiring other women to denounce rampant ...
French fishermen on Thursday blocked the port of Calais, preventing cross-Channel ferries arriving or departing, to demand a ban on electric pulse ...
US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on Thursday said he had no particular worry about the dollar's value "in the short term", a day after he sent the ...
German business morale soared to a fresh record high in January, a closely-watched survey said Thursday, as Europe's humming top economy kicks off the ...
Guinness-maker Diageo said Thursday that its net profit jumped by a third during its first half, largely thanks to an exceptional gain following US ...
The dollar took another beating on Thursday after two of Donald Trump's top cabinet members talked down the currency and hinted at a more belligerent ...
Authorities in eastern China have detained 11 investors after protests erupted over the collapse of the country's latest Ponzi scheme, dubbed "money ...
A euro at three-year highs against the dollar will have financial markets hanging on European Central Bank president Mario Draghi's lips Thursday, ...
Hundreds of thousands of sacks of powdered milk lie stacked on pallets in a warehouse on a nondescript industrial estate in eastern Belgium: part of a ...
Malaysia hiked interest rates on Thursday for the first time in more than three years, making it the latest country to tighten monetary policy as the ...
Most inhabitants of Madagascar thought the plague was a footnote of medical history until the disease dramatically returned last year, slaying more ...
As the Year of the Dog approaches, some shops run by the Chinese diaspora in Malaysia are keeping canine figurines hidden inside to avoid causing ...
When Japanese cook Kazunori Nakatani talks about his mentor Paul Bocuse, the legendary French chef who died last week, he still uses the present ...
Six top male BBC presenters agreed to take wage cuts Friday after the broadcaster's female China editor quit in protest over unequal pay. The six, ...
A Californian woman sued supermarket chain Walmart on Friday, accusing the company of implementing extra security measures on products marketed toward ...
France retained its "AA" credit rating despite its high and rising debt level, Fitch ratings agency said Friday. Fitch noted that persistent budget ...
The deaths of Canadian pharmaceutical tycoon Barry Sherman and his wife were "targeted" homicides, Toronto police ruled Friday after a six-week ...
BuzzFeed has struck an agreement with Chinese technology group Bytedance to distribute its content in China, a rare foray behind the "Great Firewall ...
Flu is sweeping the United States, killing at least 37 children as influenza sends the most people nationwide in search of medical care since the 2009 ...
Wall Street stocks returned to full-throttle rally mode Friday behind strong earnings from Intel and other companies, while the dollar resumed its ...
Jordan on Saturday increased the price of bread by up to 100 percent after lifting subsidies on the staple in a bid to redress its debt-riddled ...
T. Boone Pickens has long cast an outsized shadow in American business, but the 89-year-old oil industry stalwart recently faced a reckoning of sorts, ...
When Helga Weyhe began work at her beloved bookshop, the Red Army was on the march towards her east German town, Hitler still clung to power and ...
Estonia is looking to drag the euro into the crypto age -- and tame the volatility plaguing bitcoin and its peers -- by creating a digital token ...
Japan-based virtual currency exchange Coincheck said Sunday it will refund about $400 million to customers after hackers stole hundreds of millions of ...
The Federal Reserve likely will leave the benchmark US interest rate untouched next week, but economists say the changing composition of the policy ...
Billionaire Saudi Prince Al-Waleed was released on Saturday after nearly three months in detention, a business associate told AFP, as a sweeping ...
A cosmic event not seen in 36 years -- a rare "super blood blue moon" -- may be glimpsed January 31 in parts of western North America, Asia, the ...
Sky Brown is not your typical nine-year-old. Born to be wild, the freckly Japanese schoolgirl is already the world's youngest pro skateboarder, ...
Huddled together on a dusty racetrack, Saudi judges scrutinise pouty lips and shapely humps in a high-stakes camel beauty pageant mired in scandal ...
A rare Picasso painting on auction for the first time made its debut in Hong Kong at the start of a global tour on Tuesday and is expected to fetch ...
A Singapore eatery centred around the pungent tropical fruit durian has caught a whiff of success as patrons flock to the cafe in droves for a bite of ...
Internet giant Amazon on Monday opened its plant-packed "The Spheres" buildings in its home city of Seattle. The Spheres are the newest addition to ...
Hong Kong shares linked to troubled Chinese conglomerate Wanda surged 52 percent Tuesday after the company announced a $5.4-billion stake sale and ...
The Michelin guide allowed a top French restaurant to bow out of its listings Tuesday after its chef said he no longer wanted to cook under the "huge ...
Fluorescent wigs askew and leaving broken stiletto heels and a cloud of glitter in their wake, Myanmar drag queens pounded across the finish line and ...
Australia's Crown Casino said Monday it had finalised the sale of its interest in a Las Vegas site it had formerly earmarked for a casino. Crown's ...
The top three banks in the Netherlands have been targeted in multiple cyber attacks over the past week, blocking access to websites and internet ...
France's Sanofi announced Monday that it had reached a deal to acquire Belgian biotech firm Ablynx that values the firm at 3.9 billion euros <$4.8 ...
Facebook says it is banning all ads related to cryptocurrencies in an effort to fight scams. The social media giant said it is barring ads for ...
With a history dating back over three centuries, South Africa's world-renowned wine industry has long been the domain of generations of just a few ...
With his dashing looks, it's little wonder that 28-year-old tycoon Li Zeyan has wooed hundreds of thousands of women across China -- not bad for an ...
Google has pulled one of the world’s largest gay dating apps from the Indonesian version of its online store in response to government demands, ...
They were born thousands of kilometres apart but grew up together, skated together, and went to school together. When they take to the ice at the ...
Glass towers bristling on Hong Kong's skyline may be its most recognisable feature but the sight of yachts from the prestigious Volvo Ocean Race in ...
Asian stocks struggled Wednesday as traders tracked sharp Wall Street losses despite a major speech by US President Donald Trump extolling his ...
Hundreds of thousands of Hindus across Malaysia celebrated the annual Thaipusam festival on Wednesday, with many piercing their skin with hooks and ...
Nintendo hiked its annual net profit forecast by more than 40 percent Wednesday after its popular Switch console flew off shelves during the holiday ...
Japan's biggest messaging app Line said Wednesday it was launching a financial services spinoff to allow users to exchange and trade virtual ...
Nokia said Thursday that its net loss widened in 2017, but that underlying profits improved, enabling the Finnish mobile phone maker to raise its ...
Royal Dutch Shell said Thursday that profit after taxation almost tripled to just under $13 billion in 2017, energised by rising ...
German luxury carmaker Daimler on Thursday announced record profits for 2017 on the back of strong SUV and truck sales, but the results were ...
Global food conglomerate Nestle is in a battle with critics in tiny Osceola Township, Michigan where residents complain the Swiss company's water ...
A billion-dollar trial pitting Alphabet-owned autonomous driving unit Waymo against Uber starts Monday, in what could be a blockbuster case between ...
Jerome "Jay" Powell, the Republican former investment banker tapped by President Donald Trump to lead the US Federal Reserve, will take the reins of ...
Embattled Indian miner Adani's plans for a massive coal project in Australia has been dealt another blow after the government confirmed Sunday it ...
Rio de Janeiro's mayor came in for some colorful criticism Saturday at the biggest of scores of pre-carnival street parties that took over the city. ...
A baby who drank milk produced by the French dairy giant Lactalis has been diagnosed with salmonella in the Spanish Basque country, taking the number ...
"Africa Forever," reads the banner over the gate of a jail for young offenders in Casablanca hosting the finals of a football tournament in tandem ...
Literary cafes, poetry readings and pavement bookstalls -- Mosul's cultural scene is back in business, months after Iraqi forces ousted the Islamic ...
It lies hidden deep beneath Paris's bustling Gare de l'Est railway station, its sprawling subterranean rooms and sparse furniture pristinely preserved ...
Data showing strong job creation and wage gains in the United States fed expectations of interest rate hikes, sending the dollar and US bond yields ...
A growing number of big US credit-card issuers are deciding they don't want to finance a falling knife. JPMorgan Chase & Co, Bank of ...
Alexis Sanchez scored his first goal for Manchester United as Jose Mourinho's men took advantage of a rare slip-up from Manchester City to ...
Alfardan Premier Motors Co, the exclusive retailer of Jaguar Land Rover in Qatar, has announced the arrival of the 2018 Range Rover and Range ...
Dr Khaled Al Suwaidi embarked on his inspiring ultramarathon from Fujairah Terminals at 6am on Saturday, to support the fight against ...
Look at the larger picture. VAT may have curbed household spending, but rents are down and so is the cost of living. It's more affordable ...
Asian markets tumbled on Monday after US stocks were pummelled at the end of last week, with traders fretting that a surging US economy will lead to ...
Inside a giant igloo in a snowy Norwegian village, the sound of a horn rings out, warming the mood of a freezing audience, huddled together in -24 ...
Misuse of a powerful painkiller has spread like wildfire among schools in the west African state of Gabon, where teachers blame it for violent changes ...
Twenty thousand revellers, wearing masks and colourful period costumes, packed into St Mark's Square on Sunday for the "flight of the angel" marking ...
Riyadh's Ritz-Carlton will reopen on February 11, the hotel said Sunday, more than three months after it became a holding place of princes and ...
The European Commission will present by the end of March its plan for overhauling tax rules for internet giants, aimed at making them pay up in the ...
Some 50,000 homes in South Australia will receive solar panels and Tesla batteries, the state government announced Sunday, in a landmark plan to turn ...
Korea tops the list driven by cheap valuation and great earnings momentum China ranks second, driven by strong momentum in both price and ...
A total of 94 rockets were fired by the PYD/PKK terrorist group since the beginning of Turkey's Operation Olive Branch in Syria's ...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that the country's authorities have started the procedure of deportation of ...
Washington: King Abdullah II of Jordan said Sunday that the United States remains essential to any hope of a peaceful solution between ...
By Sidi Mohamed | The Peninsula DOHA: The three-day second RC aircraft festival, which concluded on Saturday at the Cultural Village ...
Parts of the UAE woke up to foggy, misty morning on Sunday. The weather department has predicted cloudy and hazy weather for rest of the ...
A taxi driver, who allegedly grabbed a 16-year-old American passenger's hand as she sat in the front seat, has been charged with sexual ...
Gonzalo Higuain scored a hat trick as Juventus swept past Sassuolo 7-0 on Sunday to strengthen its pursuit of a seventh straight Serie A ...
AMMAN � His Majesty King Abdullah has received from Prime Minister Hani Mulki a report that highlights the government's achievements in ...
AMMAN � The Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency has donated an array of medical supplies to UNRWA Amman North Camp Health ...
Mark Zuckerberg offered fresh self-criticism Monday, acknowledging making numerous mistakes in building the world's biggest social network as Facebook ...
Wall Street stocks plunged in chaotic trading on Monday, as the Dow's gains for 2018 were erased in a brutal pullback from months of stock market ...
Sony's "Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle" managed the rare feat this weekend of regaining the No. 1 spot in North American box offices on its seventh ...
Super Bowl 52 may have delivered one of the most thrilling finishes in recent years, but many Americans missed out, as it was the least watched NFL ...
Nearly two-thirds of multi-drug antibiotic cocktails sold in India between 2007 and 2012 were unapproved, said researchers Monday, warning such ...
The White House said Monday that President Donald Trump was focused on the long-term health of the economy, claiming the fundamentals were ...
Australia's central bank on Tuesday kept interest rates at a record low in its first meeting of the year, with inflation still soft and the outlook ...
South Korean President Moon Jae-in has made a good start to the New Year. Not only did he broker an agreement to bring North Korea to the ...
Gold prices inched down early on Monday on a firmer dollar after robust US jobs data late last week, but a fall in equities cushioned ...
US stocks plunged in highly volatile trading on Monday, with both the S & P 500 and Dow Industrials indices slumping more than 4.0 percent, ...
Harry Kane scored an injury-time penalty after missing from the spot late in normal time to rescue a 2-2 draw for Tottenham against ...
LONDON, Feb 5, : Iran urged Turkey on Monday to stop its military offensive in Syria, saying the operation in the northern Afrin ...
The Peninsula Online Qatar Traffic Department has been taking various steps and initiatives to ensure speeding and related accidents do ...
The Abu Dhabi Police have showcased an airbag concept that would protect school buses during accidents. The concept was showcased at the ...
There is a new offer that is entering the inboxes of many UAE residents' mobile phones. A congratulatory message proclaiming that they have ...
Tom Ford used his first fully-fledged men's runway show in New York on Tuesday to unveil a debut underpants collection, bathe a Manhattan landmark in ...
Facing lower ad revenue and lagging membership, ESPN will launch in the coming months a paying streaming service, Disney CEO Bob Iger said Tuesday. ...
China's
recently released GDP data for 2017 confirm it: the country's dramatic
rise, with the concomitant increase in its global economic ...
A shallow 6.4-magnitude earthquake rocked eastern Taiwan late on Tuesday, US geologists said, the latest in a string of quakes to have hit ...
Tehran: Iran's President Hassan Rouhani said Tuesday that negotiations on the country's missiles programme were out of the question. "We ...
Bitcoin briefly slid below $6,000 on Tuesday to its lowest point so far this year in a sell-off that has seen the cryptocurrency lose more ...
Daimler and automotive supplier Robert Bosch will start testing self-driving so-called robo-taxis in the next few months, senior executives ...
The number of competing offers to supply 1,300 railcars has increased to 13 international companies so far for the modernisation of ...
Over 70 organisations from Qatar are showcasing various career options
and opportunities for graduates from Hamad Bin Khalifa University ...
Two Iraqi Shia groups backed by Iran are demanding all US forces leave Iraq, opposing plans by Baghdad and Washington to retain some in ...
Moscow: The Russian Defense Ministry has asked Turkey for assistance in obtaining all debris of the Sukhoi-25 jet downed in Syria last ...
By Armstrong Vas / The Peninsula Doha: FIFA Referees Committee Chairman Pierluigi Collina hailed the outstanding facilities provided by ...
Twenty-two people were injured in a pile-up crash that involved 44 vehicles on the Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Street ...
Warner Bros. WorldT Abu Dhabi today offered a closer look at two of its six themed lands, Metropolis and Cartoon Junction, which will ...
Toms Arackal Mani, an Indian based in Bangalore became the lucky winner of $1 Million at the Dubai Duty Free Millennium draw. He has ...
The Syrian short narrative film "On the Roof of Damascus" was awarded as the Best Arab Film Award at Int'l Forum of Cinema against Terrorism in Erbil, ...
Wall Street's nosedive this week and a spike in market volatility, surprising as they were, do not threaten US economic momentum, according to ...
German auto giant Daimler has apologised to China again after sparking an outcry over an Instagram post by its luxury brand Mercedes-Benz quoting the ...
Chinese rap and hip hop seemed poised to break out after a wildly popular singing show bestowed fame and legitimacy on a musical scene that had ...
With its iconic giant tortoises, crested black iguanas, huge ocean manta rays and a veritable menagerie of other cool creatures, the Galapagos Islands ...
A spate of unprecedented protests against Iran's mandatory headscarves for women have been tiny in number, but have still reignited a debate that has ...
Life expectancy has been steadily improving in the UK for 110 years. Until now. A further million earlier deaths are now projected to ...
It seems Donald Trump's visit to France last summer made a big impression on him. Having seen the full pomp of a French military display ...
Cities across the US are locked in fierce competition to host Amazon's second headquarters � known as HQ2. This is a big race: seems to ...
Baku, Azerbaijan, Feb. 7 By Rufiz Hafizoglu � Trend: The Turkish Foreign Ministry considers Syria as an ally in the fight against ...
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi arrived in the capital of the United Arab of Emirates , Abu Dhabi, on Tuesday. Al-Sisi��s ...
Abu Dhabi, Feb. 7 -His Majesty King Abdullah on Wednesday held talks with Abu Dhabi Crown Prince, Deputy Supreme Commander of ...
Multiple accidents were reported across Dubai on Thursday morning, causing traffic congestion and tailbacks on major roads. Dubai Police ...
Dubai Airports has just made arrivals a lot easier with the rollout of 20 new smart gates in the arrivals area of Terminal 1. These new ...
Most Asian markets on Thursday struggled to get a firm footing after February's volatile start with traders spooked by heavy selling and warnings of ...
For one of the greatest women photographers of the last 40 years, Susan Meiselas had huge misgivings when she first picked up a camera. "I felt I ...
Ever tried to put a GPS real-time tracking collar on a five-tonne animal Well in Gabon conservationists have begun trying to use the devices on ...
Turkey has lost 17 soldiers in fierce clashes during the offensive in Syria��s Afrin region, according to international reports.Turkey ...
The Bank of Japan is to keep Haruhiko Kuroda at its helm until 2023 under government plans to retain him as a pillar of its pro-spending policy, ...
Bottega Veneta immersed New York Friday in the art of Italian living, transforming the American Stock Exchange Building into a chic home with a ...
Wall Street stocks ended a bruising week on a benign note courtesy of a late-session surge Friday, while equity markets in Europe and Asia fell ...
Lebanon Friday signed its first contract to drill for oil and gas off its coast with a consortium comprising energy giants Total, ENI and Novatek, ...
Italy's troubled bank Monte dei Paschi di Siena suffered an even deeper loss in 2017 despite being bailed out, according to information ...
European aircraft manufacturer Airbus on Friday said it had agreed to pay a fine of 81.25 million euros to end a German corruption probe ...
Waymo and Uber announced an agreement Friday in the blockbuster federal lawsuit over allegedly stolen trade secrets from the former Google ...
Wall Street stocks finished a topsy-turvy session solidly higher Friday, surging in the final hour of trading and lessening the losses in a brutal ...
By Gokhan Ergocun | Anadolu ANKARA: Turkey earned 1.46 billion Turkish liras in tolls from two bridges on the Istanbul ...
Islamabad, Feb.8 -- His Majesty King Abdullah on Thursday held talks with Pakistani Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi on ...
'Assistance provided by State is not strange to Iraqis' KUWAIT CITY, Feb 8, : The forthcoming conference in Kuwait, dubbed ...
Qatar is a melting pot for music, noted a renowned German pianist who will be performing with Qatar Philharmonic Orchestra at the ...
The 11th Al Khor Fly-In 2018 at Al Khor Airport opened on Friday. The two-day event is designed to encourage aviation enthusiasts. A range ...
The Peninsula DOHA: The monthly Katara Tech Forum, held on Wednesday at the Cultural Village Katara, gathered a large number of ...
The Peninsula DOHA: Following its overwhelming critical acclaim at major international film festivals including Cannes and Toronto, 2016 ...
The Peninsula Vienna: The Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency , Yukiya Amano, has praised the role of the ...
is imposing a self-funding programme to cover basic operational costs starting from Dh600 and going up to Dh1,200 for emergencies, ...
One of Dubai's real estate brokerages has announced that it will absorb the newly implemented 5 per cent VAT on the commission of all real ...
Sonny Colbrelli said that the final metres to the steep finish line at the Hatta Dam felt like infinity and was glad to win this one for ...
Bahrain-Merida's Sonny Colbrelli unleashed a brutal assault at the fag end to clinch the gruelling Dubai Municipality Stage, the fourth ...
Emaar Properties made $1.8 billion in profit and close to $5 billion in sales in 2017, the chairman of Dubai's largest listed developer ...
Germany will no longer lecture other European countries over their economies, the next finance minister of the eurozone's richest nation said on ...
Internet mogul Kim Dotcom's legal case returns to court in New Zealand Monday for what may be the Megaupload founder's final chance of avoiding ...
The world's leading oil companies published a bumper crop in profits last year as rising crude prices helped turn their fortunes around, but they ...
Christian Siriano, a plus-size diversity advocate and red carpet designer who has dressed leading Hollywood ladies and Michelle Obama, celebrated 10 ...
Fears of spreading yellow fever are behind the illegal killing of scores of monkeys in Rio de Janeiro, complicating efforts to fight the virus, ...
After years of reported behind-the-scenes friction, tensions between two "Sex and the City" stars erupted into public view Saturday. The star of the ...
Bolivia Oruro Carnival got under way Saturday with stunning costumes and parades, though the mood was dampened by the loss of 17 people killed in ...
Work stoppages in Italy by Ryanair employees and air traffic controllers caused minimal disruption on Saturday. Ryanair workers -- not including ...
Billionaire Alibaba co-founder Jack Ma foresees an Olympics that is better for fans and athletes and is more economical -- and hopes Beijing 2022 will ...
Amman, Feb. 10 --The Ministry of Education will announce results of the General Secondary Education Certificate Examination's ...
DUBAI, Feb 10, : Saudi women need not wear the abaya � the loose-fitting, full-length robes symbolic of religious faith � a senior ...
Jerusalem: Israel's military said Saturday Iran and Syria were "playing with fire" but that it was not seeking an escalation after a ...
The first Hindu temple in Abu Dhabi will come up on 55,000 square metres of land and the groundbreaking ceremony on Sunday will be a ...
Anger, anguish and offers of help poured in on Friday from Khaleej Times readers and members of the Sri Lankan community, including a ...
The world's next tallest hotel will open its door in Dubai on Monday, February 12. Located on the Sheikh Zayed Road near the Dubai ...
According to Al Ittihad newspaper, an abandoned suitcase was reported along the main road in Al Majaz areaon Wednesdayevening on February ...
Dubai's iconic Burj Khalifa will light up in the colours of the Indian flag tonight, according to Emaar. The Tricolour will be displayed ...
Fog covered Abu Dhabi, Al Ain, and others parts of the UAE on Saturday morning as Dubai woke up to cold misty morning. The visibility was ...
Valentine's Day is a crazy rush for Colombia, one of the biggest flower exporters in the world, resulting in huge demand for labor in greenhouses near ...
New York state sued Harvey Weinstein, his brother and their production company on Sunday for failing to protect employees from years of his alleged ...
The weightlifters on Iraq's national women's team train hard every day, both to bring home the medals and to help ease the financial burden of running ...
Asian markets mostly rose on Monday as investors cautiously edged back into buying after last week's global rout, with confidence lifted by a rally on ...
The latest volatility in global financial markets represents "necessary corrections", IMF chief Christine Lagarde said in Dubai on Sunday, in the wake ...
By Jennifer McDermott, 
Image Source: Ice Universe / Twitter Just weeks before its official unveiling, Samsung's Galaxy S9 has appeared on the ...
A disallowed Luis Suarez goal summed up a frustrating afternoon for Barcelona as the La Liga leaders dropped points for the second week ...
Amman, Feb. 11 --Jordan hosted on Sunday the 9th meeting of the Counter Daesh Finance Group with the aim of assessing ...
The Peninsula Doha: Qatar Chamber recently held a meeting with a delegation from the World Energy Cities Partnership , headed ...
The Peninsula DOHA: Hyundai Motor Company unveiled its first rendering of the upcoming All-New Santa Fe, showcasing a luxurious and ...
Ghulam Shabber's half century and excellent bowling performances from Mohammad Naveed, Imran Haider and Ahmed Raza was the highlight of ...
Al Ain FC, yet another Capital club, are in the fray for the AFC Champions League glory. Al Ain, the biggest ACL achievers from the UAE, ...
Two children were among five people who were killed after a fire broke out in their apartment in Sharjah at 3 am on Monday. The two ...
The Abu Dhabi Police have stepped up efforts to enforce the traffic law banning trucks and buses transporting labourers from using the ...
MGM China is opening its new multi-billion-dollar mega resort in Macau's glitzy Cotai strip on Tuesday following multiple delays and last minute ...
Could a plate of couscous warm up relations between wary North African nations A drive to win coveted UNESCO status for the dish could at least get ...
Thousands of websites around the world, including many operated by governments, have been infected by hackers using the sites' computing power to ...
A German court has found Facebook is breaching data protection rules with privacy settings that over-share by default and by requiring users to give ...
The EU should not "humiliate" Britain in Brexit negotiations, a French government spokesman said Monday, warning such an approach would strengthen ...
President Donald Trump threatened retaliatory measures against US trade partners Monday, accusing them of "getting away with murder." "We cannot ...
Rupert Murdoch's 21st Century Fox has vowed to preserve the editorial independence of Sky News in order to secure its takeover of pan-European TV ...
Snapchat's latest app redesign, aimed at broadening the appeal of the youth-oriented social network, sparked a backlash from many users complaining ...
People who wolf down their food could lose weight simply by chewing longer and pausing between bites, study results suggested Tuesday. Research ...
Former US first couple Barack and Michelle Obama unveiled their portraits at Washington's National Gallery Monday, two contrasting works by African ...
Israel has struck what it described as Iranian targets inside Syria in raids, in retaliation to the Friday downing of an Israeli F-16 ...
Kuwait City- Iraq needs $88.2 billion to rebuild after years of war against the Islamic State group, Planning Minister Salman al-Jumaili ...
Amman, Feb. 12 -Minister of Environment Yassin Al-Khayyat and U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans and International ...
FX Talking Points: - Oil Prices Snap Bearish Sequence, OPEC Sees Rebalanced Energy Market in 2018. - Hawkish BoE Rhetoric Fails to Prop Up ...
More than six Syrians were killed by an unprecedented wave of Israeli airstrikes in Syria on Saturday, a war monitor said.After an Israeli fighter jet ...
US intelligence chiefs said Tuesday that Russian attempts to meddle in US politics are continuing unabated -- and pose a threat to mid-term ...
The New York borough of Manhattan is richer and more populated than ever, but a growing number of businesses are closing their doors under the ...
For more than two decades, Cubans have used a unique dual currency system to protect a fragile economy, but with just weeks of his mandate remaining, ...
"Black Panther," the 18th release in the Marvel Cinematic Universe series and the latest of dozens of movies based on Marvel Comics characters, is ...
Japan's economy grew for the eighth straight quarter at the end of 2017, government data showed Wednesday, its longest period of expansion since the ...
Tokyo led most Asian markets lower on Wednesday, extending the previous day's losses while nervous investors await the release of key US inflation ...
Energy giant Woodside said Wednesday it was raising Aus$2.5 billion to fund the purchase of ExxonMobil's stake in an Australian ...
Chemicals used in food wrappers, non-stick pan coatings and clothing may boost body weight by interfering with metabolism, especially in women, US ...
Accused of profiting from a deadly opioid crisis ravaging middle class America, the maker of the world's best-selling pain medication went on the ...
A gleaming monument to the ambition and creativity of its age, the world's largest Victorian glasshouse will once again welcome visitors to see some ...
The U.S. military assistance to Ukraine should not be limited to the provision of Javelin anti-tank missiles. Senior Fellow at the American ...
President Donald Trump released his $4 trillion-plus budget plan today, which includes his long-awaited infrastructure project and seeks funding ...
Iraqi bonds and stocks held by specialist foreign investors tried to shake off extended torpor, as a donor conference convened in Kuwait to ...
A Dubai court has cleared an Omani man of charges of kidnapping and sexual abuse of a Filipino tourist. The Omani man allegedly forced the ...
Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho supports the use of the video assistant referee system despite the mixed response it has ...
A team of four engineers are inside a tightly secured room. They are covered in protective clothing and are working on a satellite model. ...
The Roads and Transport Authority in Dubai has installed new parking meters at Emirates Golf Club area near the Nakheel Metro ...
Rain has hit several parts of UAE late on Wednesday according to the latest updates by NCMS. Earlier, a dust storm covered several areas of ...
Sharjah Holding, a partnership between Majid Al Futtaim - Properties and Sharjah Asset Management, has launched the final batch of homes in ...
The UAE-based telecom giant Etisalat's 2017 profits marginally inched up to Dh8.444 billion as against Dh8.421 billion in the previous ...
Two of the five victims who suffocated to death in the Al Butina building fire died as they tried to escape from the 'emergency exit' ...
RIYADH � The Saudi public prosecutor's office said on Monday it will recruit women as investigators for the first time, as the kingdom seeks ...
French fashion brand Courreges said Wednesday the German designer Yolanda Zobel would be taking the reins of the label known for its 1960s futurist ...
The World Chess Federation has said that Swiss bank UBS will close its accounts "immediately" over the organisation president's alleged ...
Canadian tax authorities raided locations in Calgary, Toronto and Vancouver on Wednesday as part of a criminal investigation prompted by the Panama ...
Qualcomm said Wednesday its board would "promptly" consider a hostile $121 billion takeover bid by Singapore-based Broadcom following a meeting of top ...
Analysts said Wednesday that Europe's largest economy Germany will likely maintain or pick up its pace of growth this year, after booking a ...
US consumer inflation jumped sharply in the first month of 2018, the government reported Wednesday, spooking global stock markets amid concerns that ...
US President Donald Trump on Wednesday said that he had secured assurances from Prime Minister Shinzo Abe that Japan will invest more in the United ...
Stock markets see-sawed on Wednesday as volatility returned, sparked by surprisingly strong American consumer price data briefly rekindling ...
Hong Kong stocks were on course to end the Year of the Rooster leading a rally across Asian markets, extending a rebound Thursday from last week's ...
Marc Jacobs, the darling of US high-fashion, brought New York Fashion Week to a dramatic finale with show-stopping sharp hats, huge flourishes and ...
Cryptocurrency entrepreneurs have moved to Puerto Rico to build a crypto utopia � � where they plan to pay little in taxes. The crypto ...
Budget director Mick Mulvaney said Wednesday that he has seen estimates that a potential military parade requested by President Donald ...
It's gotten to the point where one might almost feel sorry for Donald Trump. While that 'almost reflects a gap too wide for Trump's opponents ...
Kuwait City:Governments from around the world on Wednesday pledged billions of dollars in loans and investment for the reconstruction of ...
Damascus: The Syrian government on Wednesday denied it possessed chemical weapons and branded the use of such arms "immoral and ...
The President, His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan has sent a cable of condolences to US President Donald Trump, following the ...
The UAE will now join the Windies, Ireland, the Netherlands and PNG in group A at the ICC Cricket World Cup Qualifier in Zimbabwe, whilst ...
The top 10 finalists in the Varkey Foundation's $1million Global Teacher Prize were announced in a special video by philanthropist Bill ...
Google has begun a new effort to block annoying ads on its Chrome browser, as part of an initiative aimed at improving the online advertising ...
The US Commerce Department on Friday recommended imposing heavy tariffs on China, Russia and other countries to counter a global glut in steel and ...
The Fitch ratings agency on Friday upgraded Greece's sovereign debt grade, citing budget surpluses, greater political stability and the growing ...
The US Commerce Department on Friday recommended imposing heavy tariffs on China, Russia and other countries to counter a global glut in steel and ...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki on Friday voiced disagreement over plans for a direct Russia-Germany gas ...
The Fitch ratings agency on Friday upgraded Greece's sovereign debt grade, citing budget surpluses, greater political stability and the growing ...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki on Friday voiced disagreement over plans for a direct Russia-Germany gas ...
Cyberattacks cost the United States between $57 billion and $109 billion in 2016, a White House report said Friday, warning of a "spillover" effect ...
Global stocks pushed higher on Friday as investors, getting over their panic attack triggered by the prospect of a steep rise in US interest rates, ...
An Israeli court has rescinded its own decision to force the biometric database of the country's citizens to share information with ...
China on Saturday warned it would take necessary measures to protect its interests if the US imposes tough trade sanctions against its steel and ...
KABUL : The United Arab Emirates has resumed its diplomatic mission in capital Kabul and the country is all set to ...
KUWAIT CITY, Feb 17: Chairman of Kuwait Engineers Society Eng Faisal Al-Attal expressed his disappointment about the large number of ...
By Sidi Mohamed�| The Peninsula DOHA: Lack of knowledge about health rules among workers in the food facilities is the main reason behind ...
By Mohammed Osman | The Peninsula DOHA: The second documentary exhibition of the annual Education Excellence Award in Katara is ...
Dubai Silicon Oasis was declared to be the location for Jaguar Land Rover Limited Middle East and North Africa new regional headquarter.The ...
Property investors from the Middle East remain participants of providing major interest in London, with Westminster politicians are in dispute over ...
Careem has declared RoundMenu to have been obtained, as it will launch within this month food delivery services test using the restaurant menu and ...
Jordanian people took to the streets on Friday protesting the governments' decision to impose higher taxes on commodities, including fuels, foodstuffs and ...
On Friday, Turkey and the United States agreed to "work togather" in Syria after a period of tensed realtions over Turkey's assaults on Afrin which raised ...
UAE residents can rejoice as winter in the country is not officially over. Residents who bemoaned rising temperatures over the past couple ...
What a year 2017 was for the US dollar. The currency showed new strength compared to its rivals, climbing peaks and crossing valleys. The ...
His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, on Sunday visited the ...
Crime drama "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri" captured five British Bafta film awards on Sunday, including best film, topping an emotionally ...
As the US kicked back for a long weekend, Disney's "Black Panther" got off to a superhero start in the North American box office, rocketing to the top ...
EU Economic Affairs Commissioner Pierre Moscovici said Sunday he does not expect a "perfect" accord on reforming the single currency at an EU summit ...
Japan logged a trade deficit in January, the first negative figure in eight months, as imports of fossil fuel overwhelmed the revenue from exports, ...
Asian stock markets edged up in thin holiday trade on Monday, with investors buoyed by gains on Wall Street despite ongoing concern about volatility. ...
Crime drama "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri" captured five British Bafta film awards on Sunday, including best film, topping an emotionally ...
French designer Roland Mouret launched his latest collection in London on Sunday, aligning with the #MeToo movement in a parade celebrating ...
It's her third Vienna ball of the season and Renate Drabek plans to dance until the small hours. Tango, waltz, rumba, boogie: her dance partner can't ...
Iran, greatest threat to world: Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu 19 Feb 2018 Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu warned Iran to "not test ...
America's booming crude production is bypassing its biggest storage hub. An enticing market for US crude exports, new pipelines increasing ...
By Raynald C Rivera�| The Peninsula DOHA: The 15th Doha Jewellery and Watches Exhibition , which opens on Wednesday, will be an ...
The UAE's top leaders have congratulated an Abu Dhabi royal on after he was injured in a helicopter crash in Yemen last year. Sheikh Zayed ...
The Department of Economic Development, DED, in Abu Dhabi shut down 15 commercial facilities in the emirate during the month of January due ...
Etisalathas been confirmed as the official telecoms partner of both Special Olympics IX MENA Games Abu Dhabi 2018 and Special Olympics ...
Master developer Nakheel has signed a contract for the construction of Deira Mall, its new shopping, dining and entertainment destination ...
Dubai is a shopper's paradise. There is nothing you cannot buy at a bargain price in the emirate. Malls in Dubai stock everything - right ...
An Emirati student has won the grand prize of the National Science, Technology and Innovation Festival, the Young Scientist Award, ...
Europe's major stock markets drifted lower Monday in a subdued start to the week, with volumes capped by holiday closures on Wall Street and some key ...
US fast-food chain KFC said Monday it had shut hundreds of UK stores as German delivery supplier DHL left them short of fowl and customers without ...
Five Central American nations are to sign a free trade deal with South Korea on Wednesday after more than two years of talks to ease tariffs and ...
Germany's biggest lender Deutsche Bank is letting hundreds of investment bankers go, Bloomberg News reported Monday, the latest round of deep cuts in ...
Bill Gates says he has paid more than $10 billion in taxes over a lifetime but billionaires like him should pay "significantly" more because they ...
Asian markets largely dipped Tuesday as holiday closures saw muted activity in Europe at the start of the week, with investors searching for trading ...
Saudi Arabia is set to host in March its first ever Arab Fashion Week, the Arab Fashion Council announced Monday, overturning decades of draconian ...
Israel has struck an "historic" contract for sales of billions of dollars' worth of natural gas to Egypt, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced ...
Qatar Foundation's ‘Innovation in Teaching Week', which aims to bring together lecturers and college deans within Education City to ...
Faster expansion in the manufacture of refined petroleum products, basic metals and food products helped Qatar industrials sector remain ...
ANKARA: The U.S. is using some minority groups as a tool in a bid to achieve its goals in Syria, Iran's Mehr news agency reported quoting ...
> DUBAI, 20th February, 2018 -- Emirates has announced that for the first time in Rafic Al Hariri International Airport's ...
> DUBAI, 20th February, 2018 -- Dubai's diverse and vibrant hospitality sector is forecast to experience strong, ...
> ABU DHABI, 20th February, 2018 -- The UAE has been announced as the Guest of Honour for the Riyadh International Book ...
A five-year extension contract of Emirates long-running shirt partnership with Arsenal Football Club has been signed.Dubai airline's deal with ...
London's stock market fell on Tuesday, underperforming stable eurozone indices, as traders pushed down share prices in banking giant HSBC and other ...
Bangladesh has agreed to sell a large stake in its stock exchange to a Chinese consortium, an official said Tuesday, rebuffing a rival bid from India ...
A UAE-based company has unveiled what it calls the world's first camel-based baby formula, an instant powder mix aimed mainly at infants allergic to ...
A cholera outbreak in Malawi described as "very difficult to contain" has claimed nine lives and affected a total of 541 people nationwide, health ...
Higher commodity prices helped global mining giant BHP report a first-half net profit of US$2.02 billion on Tuesday, but the result was weighed down ...
Electronics giant Sony announced a plan Tuesday to provide an AI-based ride-hailing system to Japanese cab companies, while another taxi firm said ...
Banking giant HSBC more than doubled pre-tax profit to $17.2 billion in 2017, it announced Tuesday, after a recovery drive to streamline its business ...
A wealthy Japanese man was granted "sole parent" rights to 13 children he fathered through Thai surrogate mothers, a Bangkok court ruled Tuesday, ...
An Israeli energy company has announced a $15bn deal to export natural gas to Egypt, highlighting the deepening strategic ties between ...
Doha Bank has hosted an event for its clients titled ‘Customer Advantage Doha Bank Your One-Stop-Shop Financial Service Provider' held ...
Former champions Al Sadd will have to be at their best when they meet Iran's Persepolis in their AFC Champions League Group C clash today at ...
The price of Kuwait's crude oil increased by 32 cents to settle at USD61.24 per barrel on Monday compared to USD60.92 pb on Thursday, according to ...
Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas will call on the world powers and international community at the UN Security Council on Tuesday to stand against Trump ...
Russian President Vladimir Putin has held a telephone conversation with his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan to discuss the situation in Syria. ...
A new arrival terminal equipped with smart self check-in kiosks and advanced parking facilities will be opened to passengers in April this ...
Many of us have been there - trying to take a full photo of Dubai's Burj Khalifa. Indeed, it is a huge challenge for both residents and ...
Abu Dhabi - Finance House, which is listed on Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange, announced the opening of its new branch in Mussafah industrial ...
If at first you don't succeed the saying goes and it proved fitting for Willian and Lionel Messi as both scored in an absorbing 1-1 draw ...
Motorists, if you have traffic fines to pay, just hurry up. A 50 per cent discount offered on traffic fines across the country will end in ...
Food security is a global concern and it requires international cooperation both from the public and private sectors as the population ...
The German Football League suffered a legal blow on Wednesday when a court in Bremen ruled that Bundesliga clubs should pay police costs for ...
Leicester City have paid the English Football League £3.1 million to settle a Financial Fair Play dispute, it was ...
Greece in April will present a reform-based growth plan to follow up on its expiring EU rescue bailout, the finance minister said in statements issued ...
Singapore-based Broadcom said Wednesday it was cutting its offer price for mobile chip maker Qualcomm in the wake of the US firm's increased bid for ...
The annual cost of cybercrime has hit $600 billion worldwide, fueled by growing sophistication of hackers and proliferation of criminal marketplaces ...
US sales of existing homes slumped in January, falling for the second straight month and posting the largest decline in three years amid a shortage of ...
Less than a third of KFC's outlets in Britain remained shut Wednesday afternoon, following a supply crisis that closed hundreds of its restaurants and ...
The devastating effect of Ebola on Liberia's fragile health system may have killed more people than the virus itself, a new study says, many of them ...
Recent reports by South Korean news media claim that the US will deploy attack drones to the Korean Peninsula in the next few months, ...
President Donald Trump during a meeting on Wednesday endorsed the idea of teachers in the United States carrying concealed guns and ...
Baku, Azerbaijan, Feb. 21 By Rufiz Hafizoglu � Trend: Spokesman for the Turkish Foreign Ministry Hami Aksoy has not ruled out the ...
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The Peninsula DOHA: Qatar Postal Services Company and the Turkish Postal Corporation have issued joint commemorative ...
The Peninsula DOHA: Hamad International Airport and Qatar Airways have successfully completed the International Air Transport ...
His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, today ...
Global stock markets were heading towards the weekend on a mostly positive note Friday, as fearful speculation on US rate hikes took a back burner. ...
A jump in US wage gains in January spooked financial markets, but the Federal Reserve in a report Friday seemed to tamp down concerns that the ...
Over 20,000 French farms could go bankrupt if the European Union concludes a major trade deal with four South American countries, France's biggest ...
The world's largest carmaker Volkswagen appeared back in racing form Friday, as its 2017 results revved back to levels not seen since before its ...
Google said Friday its digital assistant software would be available in more than 30 languages by the end of the years as it steps up its artificial ...
A Degas painting stolen from a museum in Marseille nine years ago has been found on a bus near Paris, the French culture minister said Friday. ...
US food conglomerate General Mills is adding dogs and cats to its portfolio, in an $8 billion deal to acquire natural pet food company Blue Buffalo, ...
Iran's civil aviation organisation has grounded ATR planes belonging to Aseman Airlines after one of them crashed this week with 66 people on board, ...
A court in Tanzania on Friday charged eight people with the murder of renowned conservationist Wayne Lotter who was shot dead in Dar es Salaam in ...
Germany's federal statistics authority on Friday revised down its reckoning of the country's government budget surplus in 2017, but the overshoot ...
The UN Security Council will vote on the Syria ceasefire resolution on Saturday at noon, Kuwait's Ambassador to the United Nations ...
An opposition politician was hacked to death at his home in central Tanzania on Thursday night, police said Friday, as his party described the ...