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Kombizz Koshani/Flickr Sports Roundabout One of Qatar’s last and most congested roundabouts will be demolished this year and replaced with a signal-controlled intersection, a senior Ashghal official has said. Work on Sports Roundabout in Al Sadd will begin within months, said Salem Al-Shawi, assistant director of Road Projects at Ashghal. Speaking to Al Sharq this week, he said construction will start with the dismantling...

QNA Qatar Armed Forces Three workers have died and several others were injured in an incident on a construction site for a Qatar Armed Forces project, officials have disclosed. In a statement on QNA yesterday, the Ministry of Defense expressed its condolences to the families of the deceased and wished a speedy recovery to those who got hurt. The ministry did not say what happened or...

Photo by the Australian Transport Safety Bureau The woman whose headphones caught fire during a February flight from Beijing, China to Melbourne, Australia was wearing a pair of AAA-powered Beats, according to the Australian Associated Press. What’s more, the report states that a representative for Apple, which bought Beats in 2014, told the woman’s lawyer that the company’s investigation into...

Ted S. Warren FILE - In this Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2015 file photo, the 24th Boeing 787 airplane purchased by Qatar Airways is photographed, during a delivery ceremony in Everett, Wash. FIFA has signed up Qatar Airways as a sponsor through 2022 when the World Cup is staged in the Gulf nation. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File) MANAMA, Bahrain (AP)...

Qatar Airways CEO Akbar al-Baker speaks at a press conference during the Arabian Travel Market Exhibition in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, April 24, 2017. DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES — The CEO of one of the Middle East's largest carriers said Monday passenger numbers to the United States have dipped slightly over fears by some Muslim passengers that their visas may be...

Al-Sulaiti receiving the award from HE al-Sada and al-Kaabi. Rate Text Size: A A A Nakilat has achieved more than 37% Qatarisation, thus bagging the award for localisation at the recently held Energy and Industry sector 2017 annual Qatarisation review meeting. Nakilat was awarded in the ‘supporting Qatarisation’ category, for the company’s demonstration of successfully implemented human resource strategies towards...

HH the Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani and HE the Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohamed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani during their meeting with the heads of diplomatic missions of Qatar abroad. 3.2 Stars Text Size: A A A QNA/Doha HH the Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani yesterday met the heads of diplomatic and counsellor missions of Qatar abroad. HH the Deputy...

Officials were 'investigating wrongdoing' at world football's governing body - the focus of numerous corruption cases. FIFA's decision threatens to overshadow its congress in Bahrain A FIFA ethics investigator removed from office has said that his committee was investigating "several hundred" cases of possible wrongdoing, some involving senior officials. World football's governing body recommended on Tuesday that Cornel Borbely, along with...

(Pictured: Doha, Qatar's capital, by night.) Qatar’s Hamad International Airport (formally Doha International airport) welcomes an estimated 500 expats per week making the country extremely multi-cultural and diverse. Relocating to Qatar – or any country in the Middle East - can seem like an extremely daunting prospect, so to help you with your decision here’s what you need to know...

Omar Chatriwala / Doha News Photo for illustrative purposes only. Government employees in Qatar, including those working for ministries and public institutions, will work a five-hour day during Ramadan, officials have announced. QNA reported the news yesterday, adding that official hours will be from 9am to 2pm. Ramadan is a little less than two weeks away. The exact start date has yet to...

Qatar Musems Elemental’s design concept for the Art Mill An old flour mill that sits off of Qatar’s Corniche will soon be redesigned into an art gallery and cultural center with the help of Chilean firm Elemental, officials have announced. The Santiago-based architecture group is the winner of a two-year long design contest held by Qatar Museums. The competition had attracted nearly 500...

SCDL Khalifa Stadium rendering The first of eight World Cup venues in Qatar is officially complete and will host its debut football match this weekend, organizers have announced. After three years of renovations, Khalifa International Stadium in Al Waab will open to the public for the Emir Cup final on Friday, May 19. The stadium was first built more than 40 years ago...

Elizabeth Soffe’s bedroom after the fire in 2014 An Irish family whose child suffered severe burns in their Qatar villa three years ago has decided to take their former landlord to court. The Soffes had been negotiating for financial compensation for their child since her accident, but said they were getting nowhere. Their case has so far served as a bit of a cautionary tale...

A South Korean army soldier walks by a TV news program showing a file image of missiles being test-launched by North Korea, at the Seoul Railway Station in Seoul on Sunday. (Ahn Young-joon/Associated Press) North Korea fired a ballistic missile Sunday local time from a region near its west coast that flew 700 kilometres, South Korea's military said, days after...