HH the Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, Chairman of the Supreme Council for Economic Affairs and Investment, chaired the Council’s third meeting for 2016 held at the Emiri Diwan yesterday morning.
Sri Lanka’s Law and Order Minister Sagala Ratnayake, third right, feeds fruits to an elephant after an event at a Buddhist temple near Colombo yesterday.
Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton holds a model of her new campaign plane at Westchester County Airport in White Plains, New York.
The body of 22-year-old pedicab driver Eric Sison lies in a coffin in a Manila slum with a chick pacing across his casket, placed there in keeping with a local tradition to symbolically peck at the conscience of his killers.
Mark Carney had better have made the most of his summer break, because he’s about to meet his critics again.
Saudi Arabia is issuing pilgrims with electronic bracelets and using more surveillance cameras to avoid a repeat of a crush that killed hundreds last year.
Saudi Arabia led Gulf stocks higher yesterday as Riyadh eased restrictions on foreign investment in its securities markets, while most other bourses in the region were buoyed by strength in oil prices and global equities at the end of last week.
The world’s central banks are “pretty close” to the limits of their ability to stimulate economies, Angel Gurria, head of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), said yesterday.
Belgium’s Jens Keukeleire won a bunch sprint to clinch the 12th stage of the Vuelta a Espana yesterday as Nairo Quintana retained the overall lead.
The General Authority of Customs (GAC) has foiled four separate attempts to smuggle a total of 22.6kg of the illicit drug marijuana into Qatar during the past few days.
Stronger buying support from Gulf and foreign institutions led Qatar Stock Exchange gain another 64 points to settle close to the 11,300 mark.
A US software firm which chose Singapore for the world's first public trial of driverless taxis hopes to be operating in 10 Asian and US cities by 2020, an executive said Monday.
