Showing posts from October 29, 2012

Everton rallies to hold Liverpool in derby clash

AFP LIVERPOOL LEON OSMAN and Steven Naismith scored the goals as Everton fought back from two goals down to draw 2-2 in an engaging Merseyside derby with Liverpool on Sunday. The visitors took an ea…

‘Blue Stand’ for handicapped fans at Al Sadd

RAAJIV TRIPATHI DOHA QATAR’S premier football club Al Sadd, which is leading the Qatar Stars League current season with five victories in as many matches, has made a pioneering contribution to corpo…

Serena beats Sharapova, wins third WTA Championships

AP ISTANBUL SERENA WILLIAMS beat Maria Sharapova 6-4, 6-3 on Sunday to win the WTA Championships for the third time and finish the year with another title, although not the top ranking. Williams end…

West wins second place in Moto2

TRIBUNE NEWS NETWORK DOHA ONLY one week after his podium finish at the wet Malaysian Grand Prix, QMMF Racing Team rider Anthony West continued his admirable form to take second place at his home Gra…

Italy renews ILVA steel mill’s licence, toughens terms

The Timbuktu Question UPFRONT I'd like to make clear that I am very pleased Mitt Romney got North Mali into the foreign policy debate - twice. He also, by the way, referred to it as "the no…

Nokia’s future hangs on Windows Phone 8 rollout

AP HELSINKI FOR Nokia, it comes down to this: Is Microsoft’s new phone software going to get it back in the smartphone race, or is it going to be too late? After being the top seller of cellphones i…

Sinopec profit falls 9% in Q3 on low China growth

REUTERS HONG KONG CHINA’S Sinopec, Asia’s largest refiner, posted a 9.4 percent fall in third-quarter profit after its petrochemical business swung to a loss due to the slowing Chinese economy, offs…

Consumers, farmers squeezed as grain giants tighten grip

REUTERS LONDON A GLOBAL race for grain trading power is putting more of the world’s vital cereals in the hands of fewer companies, with a string of recent acquisitions raising fears that consumers w…

Iran’s coal trade booms despite Western heat

REUTERS LONDON USING shadowy middle men, multiple bank accounts and a fleet of ghost ships, Iran’s coal trade is quietly booming as the Islamic Republic tries to sidestep Western sanctions and preve…

Gas import cut costs Israel $258 million a month

REUTERS JERUSALEM ISRAEL is losing one billion shekels ($258 million) each month it waits for natural gas to arrive from its recently discovered offshore fields, the chief executive of Ratio Oil Exp…

Fun-filled Eid activities at ‘1001 Inventions’ expo a big draw

CATHERINE W GICHUKI DOHA FUN-FILLED scientific and cultural Eid al Adha activities organised on the sidelines of the ongoing ‘1001 Inventions’ exhibition at the Museum of Islamic Art (MIA) Park has …

WISE selects 30 more for learning programme

JOSEPH VARGHESE DOHA WORLD Innovation Summit for Education (WISE) has selected 30 more outstanding young people for inclusion in the WISE Learners Voice Program (LVP). Aged between 18 and 25, the ne…

Rota eert vrijwilligers voor goede communautaire werk

TRIBUNE NEWS NETWORK DOHA volunteers who competed at Reach Out to Asia (Rota) activities attended the 6th annual Ramadan Project volunteer appreciation event in Doha recently. The event was held in …

Indian Envoy opens forum for Indian artists in Qatar

SANTHOSH CHANDRAN DOHA AN Indian artist forum called Visual artist Forum India (VAFI) was launched with a three-day painting workshop in Doha on Saturday. India's Ambassador in Qatar he Michel A…

QA, Access-It to host World Library meet

TRIBUNE NEWS NETWORK DOHA librarians and educators from more than 40 countries will come together at the five-day 41st Annual Conference of the International Association of School Librarianship host…

Pilgrims rush to complete the final Hajj rituals

AFP MINA Muslim pilgrims rushed to complete the last rituals of the annual hajj on Sunday as they are the devil stoning site in Saudi Arabia's Mina Valley on the penultimate day of the pilgrimag…

Conflicts remain in Syria, despite the UN-backed truce

AP BEIRUT SYRIAN warplanes and artillery hit the rebel suburbs East of Damascus, while rebel regime positions elsewhere near the capital on Sunday attacked, violence that marred the third day of wha…

Drone strikes kill 3 Qaida members in North Yemen

AFP SANAA suspected that us drone strikes killed three Al-Qaeda militants in the Northern Yemeni province of Saada on Sunday in the first such raid against the militant network there, tribal sources…

Vettel secures fourth straight win on Indian Grand Prix

AFP NEW DELHI SEBASTIAN VETTEL moved within sight of the youngest triple world champion in formula 1 history ever on Sunday when he to his fourth consecutive victory with an excellent, dominant vict…

Syria truce collapses, UN Envoy gropes for ideas

AFP Fight against DAMASCUS and air strikes shook Syria on Sunday as the international community looked to pick up the pieces of a failed attempt to stop the violence for the Muslim holiday of Eid al…

Building components cost air-missiles in Qatar

ASIF IQBAL DOHA, QATAR become most expensive construction raw materials market in the Gulf, according to the latest report of the mede on the industry. Building material in Qatar costs on average 12…

Chronicles of Caribbean change curated and served

HOLLAND COTTER NYT SYNDICATE IN size, cultural scope and freshness of material, the three-museum exhibition “Caribbean: Crossroads of the World” is the big art event of the summer season in New York…

Priyanka Chopra too shy to sing on home turf

IANS PRIYANKA Chopra may have gone international as a singer with her new single In My City, but the actress says she is too shy to sing in Bollywood. “I was offered to sing whether it’s by Salim- S…

There could be a black James Bond, says Naomie Harris

IANS ENGLISH actor Idris Elba has been considered for the role of James Bond, says actress Naomie Harris. Harris, who plays the Bond girl in the forthcoming movie Skyfall, confirmed that Elba met wi…

Tom Cruise sues magazines for $50 mn over claims he abandoned Suri

REUTERS TOM Cruise filed a $50 million defamation lawsuit on Wednesday against magazines that claimed he had abandoned his daughter, Suri, following his divorce from actress Katie Holmes. The Missio…

The not-so-evil Evil Queen

IAN SPELLING NYT SYNDICATE THERE must be magic in the air. That, according to Once Upon a Time star Lana Parrilla, could be why her latest ABC series is a hit, while her previous efforts Boomtown (2…

Man City, Arsenal taste victory after Euro losses

AFP LONDON MANCHESTER City and Arsenal bounced back from damaging Champions League defeats to return to winning ways in the Premier League on Saturday, although both sides were made to toil. City pu…

Al Anabi Teams make it to Las Vegas eliminations

TRIBUNE NEWS NETWORK DOHA AL ANABI RACING silver Top Fuel driver Shawn Langdon is fifth and his teammate Khalid al Balooshi is sixth at the mid-point of qualifying for the 12th annual Big O Tires NH…

Vettel on pole in another Red Bull lock-out

AFP NEW DELHI DEFENDING world champion Sebastian Vettel completed a third successive Red Bull front row lock-out on Saturday when he took pole position for S u n d a y ’ s Indian Grand Prix ahead of…

Sadd cruises to win against Jaish

IKOLI VICTOR DOHA KHALFAN IBRAHIM netted a brilliant brace as Al Sadd consolidated its position at the top of the Qatar Stars League with an impressive 3-1 home victory over El Jaish on Saturday. Co…

Spain’s jobless rate crosses 25%

AP MADRID THOUGH hardly a surprise, Friday’s report that Spain’s unemployment rate had surpassed 25 percent was bad news for a government that recently trumpeted a streamlining of its labour market …

IMF unhappy with new tax steps in Hungary

REUTERS BUDAPEST THE International Monetary Fund (IMF) has not fixed a date for its next round of aid talks with Hungary, the IMF’s representative in Hungary said on Saturday, saying that Budapest’s…
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