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Doha Festival City The entrance to the mall From mall openings to wakeboarding lessons to desert excursions to a German choir concert and Zumba on a dhow cruise, there’s lots to do around town over the next few days. Here are our picks: Doha Festival City opens Mega-mall Doha Festival City (DFC) will soft-open to the public today (April 5). Located off of Al...

Ren Wlasiuk Turtles at Fuwairat Beach Qatar’s environment ministry is asking residents to steer clear of the nation’s northeastern shores as turtle nesting season begins. That’s because each year, from April to August, endangered Hawksbill turtles return to the exact same spot that they were born, or have previously nested, to lay their eggs. To help facilitate their breeding and nesting, the popular Fuwairat beach...

Supplied Lauren Patterson with her mother Alison The family of a woman murdered in Qatar four years ago has decided to seek retribution against the man accused of killing her. Badr Hashim Al-Jabr is currently being retried for stabbing Lauren Patterson to death in 2013. A verdict in the case was due last week, but then postponed until yesterday. Chantelle D'mello / Doha News Court of...

The airline will begin daily direct flights between Sharjah and Kozhikode from March 20 Aviation Indian low-cost carrier IndiGo has announced plans to launch daily direct flights to Sharjah starting next month. It will launch a daily non-stop route between Sharjah and Kozhikode from March 20, while another route between Sharjah and Thiruvananthapuram will begin from April 8. From March 20, flight 6E...

Qatar Airways Multiple Job Openings 2017 Qatar Airways is the national carrier of Qatar and they are looking for applicants for various positions this month. If you have what it takes to work in a five-star airline, then you can apply for the available job opportunities for this prestigious company. Please note the instructions on how to apply provided in...

Qatar Airways Multiple Job Openings 2017 Qatar Airways is the national carrier of Qatar and they are looking for applicants for various positions this month. If you have what it takes to work in a five-star airline, then you can apply for the available job opportunities for this prestigious company. Please note the instructions on how to apply provided in...

The Associated Press In this image provided by the U.S. Navy, the guided-missile destroyer USS Porter (DDG 78) launches a tomahawk land attack missile in the Mediterranean Sea, Friday, April 7, 2017. The United States blasted a Syrian air base with a barrage of cruise missiles in fiery retaliation for this week's gruesome chemical weapons attack against civilians. (Mass Communication...

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs, H E Ahmed bin Abdullah bin Zaid Al Mahmoud (centre); Minister of Finance H E Ali Sherif Al Emadi (third right); Minister of Municipality and Environment H E Mohamed bin Abdullah Al Rumaihi (second right); Minister of Transport and Communications H E Jassim bin Saif Al Sulaiti (second left);...

The health inspectors of Al Wakrah Municipality officials destroyed 1350kg of food stuffs as it was unfit for consumption. The raids are a part of an ongoing campaign on food outlets to enforce health law. The campaign identified 12 violations of law 8/1990. The municipality said that reconciliations on ten violations were made. Police were handed over two cases for...

Qatari Armed Forces celebrated the graduation of 193 recruits of first founding session of Joint Special Forces  under the patronage of Minister of State for Defence Affairs, H E Dr Khalid bin Mohamed Al Attiyah, Chief of Staff of the Qatari Armed Forces, and Major General (Pilot) Ghanem bin Shaheen Al Ghanem. The necessary skills were taught in the 12...

It is not every day that you belt up your seats to have your meals in the air, sounds like a crazy thing, right. That is exactly what you will be experiencing in Doha when a crane lifts you 50m into the air. It is a major attraction of Qatar International Food Festival (QIFF), Dinner in the sky offers...

Toothaches can bring about terrible pain. Of course, if you have an extreme or consistent toothache or other mouth issue, you ought to visit your dentist in case you are dealing with a serious dental problem that needs to be treated. In addition, you may encounter some minor toothaches and agonies that can be dealt with at home, or...

Qatar, which will host the 2022 FIFA World Cup, is a major natural gas producer   The Qatar Foundation says it is looking at possible job cuts, the latest Gulf entity to acknowledge being hurt by low global energy prices. The foundation says in a statement Sunday it is “examining our existing operational costs,” when asked if it was cutting jobs. It...

After a lot of news about cases has been airing in the past week, another was reported recently, but this time, it was almost caught in the act. A taxi driver was arrested for an attempted of a Grade 5 girl student  in a remote vacant lot, in a subdivision in Barangay Muntindilaw, Antipolo. According to the police...