Many people around the world are probably wondering why Hillary Clinton – who is obviously more prepared and better suited for the American presidency than her opponent, Donald Trump – isn’t waltzing to victory.

The recent IATA report on the increasing incidents involving unruly passengers on commercial flights causes concern as these will have unpleasant consequences for the safety and comfort of travellers.

HE the adviser at the Emiri Diwan, Dr Hamad bin Abdulaziz al-Kuwari, who is Qatar’s candidate for the director general post at the United Nations Educational, ...

One hundred days after Britain voted to leave the European Union (EU), the government has yet to give any detail of when and how it plans to depart.

QUESTION: I was working as a manager with a contracting company in which I hold 34% of shares. My partners were working with other local firms and I was managing the company. I have left the managerial post because of some personal issues.

The final day of the summer marked the start of yet another season of futile policymaking by two of the world’s major central banks – the US Federal Reserve and the Bank of Japan.

Iraq is already in trouble – 3.3mn displaced, regular violence by the Islamic State, major divisions between the Shia majority and Sunni and Kurdish minorities – and it’s about to get a whole lot worse before it gets better.

India yesterday said it carried out ‘surgical strikes’ on militant launch pads across the border in Pakistan, a claim Islamabad denied, insisting there had been only cross-border clashes that left two of its soldiers dead.

Being afraid of growing old may shorten your life, the UN health agency said yesterday, as new data highlighted the widespread prevalence of ageist attitudes worldwide.

“What a government spends the public pays for. There is no such thing as an uncovered deficit.” So said John Maynard Keynes in A Tract on Monetary Reform.

While Trump’s lack of preparedness didn’t serve him well, what spoke even louder was his attitude

A desperate situation calls for desperate measures, and so it is understandable that Jorge Fossati has been handed the reins of the Qatar football team. The 63-year-old Uruguayan will now attempt to resurrect the team’s fortunes after they suffered back-to-back defeats in the final qualifying tourna