Pope Francis brought to a close the Catholic Church’s “Year of Mercy” yesterday, shutting the Holy Door at St Peter’s Basilica after a year in which he raised Mother Teresa to sainthood and took in Syrian Muslim refugees.
Iran denied on Friday that it had in any way breached its nuclear deal with world powers, insisting it was meeting its commitment to cap its stocks of controlled materials.
HH the Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani yesterday offered condolences to the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques...
Danish conglomerate AP Moller-Maersk said yesterday that its third-quarter profit tumbled 44% to $429mn (€387mn) as low fees pushed its world-leading shipping service into loss.
The UK’s biggest regeneration project at Old Oak Common has been criticised as “a mess” in a review which calls on the government to reduce the financial burden it could place on Londoners.
Iraqi forces advanced to within a few hundred metres of Mosul yesterday, moving within striking distance of a city they lost to the Islamic State group two years before.
Ooredoo’s Qatar Data Centre will mark 10 years of service at the end of 2016, and the company is set to launch a major campaign highlighting its contribution to the development of Qatar’s knowledge-based economy and key role in nurturing future solutions.
A nearly three-month diversion on the Doha-bound traffic between Al Kheesa and Al Kharaitiyat interchanges will begin tomorrow (Friday), Ashghal announced.
German police said Thursday they were investigating a refugee couple after their one-month-old baby was put up for sale on the online auction platform eBay for 5,000 euros ($5,500).
US oil futures held above $50 per barrel on Friday as the entire crude forward curve pushed above that level in a sign that financial markets have increasing confidence in the sector.
Iraq's prime minister warned Turkey on Wednesday it risked triggering a regional war by keeping troops in his territory, as the neighbouring states summoned each other's ambassadors in a mounting diplomatic stand-off.
The largest hospital in rebel-held parts of Syria's Aleppo was "completely destroyed" in air strikes on Monday, the medical organisation that supports it said.
