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SARAH CAREY NYT SYNDICATE IT’S our dream Thanksgiving menu: turkey, stuffing, fresh dinner rolls and a few showstopping sides. CITRUS-RUBBED TURKEY WITH CIDER GRAVY (Serves 12) ACTIVE TIME: 45 minut…

Spice Girls for all age groups: Halliwell SINGER Geri Halliwell says her band Spice Girls is all about bringing every age group together. The band which consists of Halliwell, Victoria Beckham, Mela…

The Fiscal Delusion NOW that the election is over, Washington's attention is consumed by the looming combination of automatic spending cuts and tax increases known as 'the fiscal cliff'.…

MANOHLA DARGIS NYT SYNDICATE THE story and its players look different in the latest screen iteration of Dangerous Liaisons, but the venomous passions remain repellently, seductively familiar. Bankro…

AFP DOHA IRAQ resurrected their slim chances of making it to Brazil in 2014 with a 1-0 victory over Jordan in their Asian World Cup qualifier on Wednesday. Winless in four matches prior to Wednesday…

MIR BASIT HUSSAIN DOHA QATAR Olympic Committee Secretary-General Sheikh Saoud bin Abdulrahman al Thani on Wednesday unveiled the Qatar sports venue master plan (QSVMP) at the Aspire4Sport congress. …

TRIBUNE NEWS NETWORK DOHA QATAR Tourism Authority (QTA), in partnership with Aspire4Sport and the Qatar Olympic Committee (QOC), on Wednesday hosted a workshop to discuss sports tourism in Qatar. Th…

IKOLI VICTOR DOHA SEBASTIAN SORIA scored a wonder goal to revive the hopes of Qatar qualifying for the 2014 FIFA World Cup with a 1-0 victory over Lebanon on Wednesday. The Lekhwiya striker charged …

REUTERS DUBAI VODAFONE Group has extended a contract to manage loss-making affiliate Vodafone Qatar until 2018 and will take a smaller percentage of its revenues under the new terms. Vodafone, which…

The Fiscal Delusion NOW that the election is over, Washington's attention is consumed by the looming combination of automatic spending cuts and tax increases known as 'the fiscal cliff'.…

REUTERS PERTH BHP BILLITON expects to expand its iron ore capacity by nearly a fifth just by working its mines, rail lines and port harder as it looks to control costs in a softer iron ore market, t…

REUTERS ABU DHABI ABU Dhabi National Energy Co (Taqa) will cut spending in North America by 30 percent in 2013 to weather a downturn in commodity prices, its chief executive said after reporting a t…

LANI ROSE R DIZON DOHA VARIOUS occupational health hazards among workers, including exposure to electromagnetic fields, mercury, infectious diseases, as well as stress at workplace, were highlighted…

LANI ROSE R DIZON DOHA THE Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) is planning to conduct a study on the health effects of electromagnetic radiation field (EMF) to residents in Qatar, officials said. Speaki…

RAMY SALAMA DOHA A GROUP of 23 Qatari students of the French language will leave for France on a week-long educational and cultural visit to Tours, a city renowned for the perfection of its local sp…

MOHAMED KHOULAIDI DOHA THE International Conference on Food Security in Dry Lands (FSDL) opened at the Qatar University (QU) on Wednesday under the patronage of the Heir Apparent His Highness Sheikh…

JOSEPH VARGHESE DOHA EVERY child is special to us as we believe that producing wellgroomed children will facilitate overall community development, says Rakesh Bharti Mittal, vice-chairman and managi…

TEHRAN TEN people were killed on Wednesday when a rescue helicopter ferrying wounded people from a vehicle accident to hospital hit power lines and crashed to the ground in northeastern Iran, media …

REUTERS KUWAIT TO gauge the impact of Kuwait’s political deadlock on its economy, access the Internet with a fixed-line broadband connection. The line is slow, very slow - half the speed of a connec…

AFP DAMASCUS SYRIA’S regime unleashed tank fire and air strikes on rebels on Wednesday as it slammed France for recognising an opposition bloc formed in Qatar that it said amounted to a “declaration…

TRIBUNE NEWS NETWORK DOHA QATARIS are the biggest buyers of luxury goods across the Middle East; spending up to $5,000 a month on luxury items, says a report of the American Express Middle East Luxu…

AFP GAZA CITY PRESIDENT Mohammed Morsi on Wednesday recalled Egypt’s ambassador to Israel after a series of airstrikes in Gaza killed a top Hamas militant and six other Palestinians. Morsi decided t…

JOSEPH VARGHESE DOHA CHAIRPERSON of Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development (QF) Her Highness Shiekha Moza bint Nasser launched a new global education initiative named ‘Edu…