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SUBHASH K JHA BECKET” beckons Bollywood once again. The immortal French play by Jean Anouilh was furnished with a sensitive renewability by Hrishikesh Mukherjee in the 1973 movie Namak Haraam and th…

IANS SUPERMODEL Naomi Campbell is reportedly planning a huge birthday party for businessman boyfriend Vladislav Doronin in India. Doronin turns 50 on November 7. Campbell is said to have invited gue…

REUTERS ELLEN DeGeneres, an American entertainer received the highest US award for achievement in comedy on Monday. Receiving the Mark Twain Prize for American Humour at the Kennedy Centre, the nati…

IAN SPELLING NYT SYNDICATE JIMMY Smits is killing it on the FX series Sons of Anarchy. That should surprise no one, given that he’s a fine actor and a bit of a chameleon. Yet it seemed strange, even…

REUTERS BERNE RODRIGO PALACIO snatched an 88th minute win for Inter Milan over Partizan Belgrade in the Europa League on Thursday while Lazio were on the wrong end of some late drama in a 1-1 draw a…

AP SAN FRANCISCO MADISON BUMGARNER allowed just two hits over seven innings as the San Francisco Giants beat the Detroit Tigers 2- 0 on Thursday to take a 2-0 World Series lead. Gregor Blanco’s sing…

AFP GENEVA NO ONE will replace Lance Armstrong as winner of the Tour de France from 1999- 2005 after the American was stripped of the titles for doping, the International Cycling Union (UCI) said on…

AP GREATER NOIDA (INDIA) SEBASTIAN VETTEL showed he has the pace to win a fourth straight Formula One race and pad his thin championship lead by setting the fastest time in Friday’s practices for th…

TAIPEI Taiwan’s HTC Corp enjoyed three golden years as the first company to make smartphones based on Google’s Android software. Now, it is struggling to halt a slide in sales and keep its status as…

REUTERS MADRID AN emergency cash injection from Europe is set to trigger more takeovers in Spain’s shrinking financial sector, leaving around 10 banks compared with more than 40 just three years ago…

REUTERS NEW YORK CONSUMER sentiment rose to its highest level in five years in October as Americans were more upbeat about prospects for the economy and their own finances, a survey released on Frid…

REUTERS WASHINGTON ECONOMIC growth picked up in the third quarter as a late burst in consumer spending offset the first cutbacks in investment in more than a year by cautious businesses. Gross domes…

QNA DOHA THE Emir His Highness Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al Thani received well-wishers at Al Wajbah palace on the occasion of Eid Al Adha on Friday. HH the Emir received sheikhs, ministers, Advisory…

RAMY SALAMA DOHA RESIDENTS who plan to spend a lot of time outdoors during the Eid Al Adha holidays may benefit from the new weather application (or ‘app’) released by Qatar’s Meteorological (MET) D…

CATHERINE W GICHUKI DOHA A SPECIAL interactive exhibition for the Eid Al Adha holidays, showcasing exhibits dating back to a thousand years of scientific and cultural achievements of Islamic civilis…

TRIBUNE NEWS NETWORK DOHA A GRADUATION ceremony for Qatari officers and noncommissioned officers was held at Singapore’s Civil Defence Academy headquarters on Friday. A total of 30 Qatari graduates …

SANTHOSH CHANDRAN DOHA MORE than 10,000 faithful, including women and children, turned out in large numbers to offer their Eid Al Adha prayers at various Eidgahs on Friday. The gatherings in most pl…

REUTERS JERUSALEM PRIME Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s tie-up with farright coalition partner Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman could backfire by eroding their lead ahead of Israel’s Jan. 22 ballot,…

AFP DAMASCUS OUTBURSTS of fighting threatened to undermine a fragile ceasefire that took effect in Syria on Friday after President Bashar al Assad’s regime and the main rebel force agreed to down ar…

REUTERS TRIPOLI HOURS after taking control of Bani Walid, a former stronghold of Moamer Qadhafi, Libyan militias from the rival city of Misrata fired ferociously at its empty public buildings. Fight…

SANTHOSH CHANDRAN DOHA THE special Eid al Adha spread laid on in many Doha homes had the favourite chicken dishes missing thanks to a massive shortage of fresh chickens in the market on the first da…

REUTERS BEIRUT A POWERFUL car bomb exploded in Damascus on Friday and forces loyal to Bashar al Assad clashed with rebels across Syria as a truce intended to mark the Eid al Adha holiday unravelled …

In Favour Of Rich GORE VIDAL, the recently demised American writer, once famously quipped that the US economic system is "free enterprise for the poor and socialism for the rich". Since th…