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With pedestrian bridges coming up at some places in Doha, other neighbourhoods are calling for similar facilities in their areas as well. Recently, the Public Works Authority (Ashghal) began the installation of a pedestrian bridge across the E-Ring Road between the Al Thumama signal and the Airport Street intersection. The is expected to be ready by mid-2017. Due to the...

The Met Department in its latest weather report has stated that the country will continue to experience strong winds along with thundery rain in some areas today. Conditions in the offshore areas are expected to remain windy along with high seas today. The wind speeds are expected to 23knots in the inshore areas and 25knots in the offshore areas accompanied...

The best gaming desktops in one handy guide Update: We’ve overhauled our list to reflect our revised buying guide ranking methodology, listing the best gaming PCs in an order that reflects each model’s score and award set. This new arrangement does not, however, reflect the quality of each device according to your specific use case. PC gaming has never been in...

Best Android apps - introduction The Google Play store has exploded in recent years, with a proliferation of apps that can cater to your every need. The problem is: there are just too many of them, even with Editor's Picks, Featured and Best Selling, Top Paid and Top Free categories there to help What's the best phone of 2016? And that's...

Update: The best tablet in 2017 remains the iPad Pro, edging out all of the best Android tablets even after nearly a year since it launched in the US. Apple's vast app ecosystem made this decision easy. Here are the best iOS, Android and Kindle tablets ranked for February. The best tablets in 2017 are all about combination. They all...

Best iPhone apps 2017 Apps are the cornerstone of Apple's iOS platform. The ecosystem is what sets Apple's mobile platform apart from its rivals, and the highest-quality iPhone apps are typically best in class. But, like any app store, it is sometimes difficult to find out what are truly the best apps, the ones that stand out from the rest and...

Asus ZenFone Live smartphone has gone live on the company’s website ahead of the annual Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona. The Zenfone Live is being touted as the world’s first smartphone with hardware-optimised, real-time beautification technology for livestreaming videos. It packs company’s new live beautification app called BeautyLive that smooths out any blemishes on face in real time. Asus...

An iPhone 7 Plus user has claimed her smartphone exploded and started spewing smoke even though it wasn’t being used. The video of the incident posted on Twitter by Brianna Olivas shows flames coming from her Rose Gold iPhone 7 Plus with the plastic case melting away. The video has been viewed 1.91 million times and Retweeted by more...

In the United Arab Emirates, migrant women are routinely jailed for having sex outside marriage. Desperate to leave the country, one Filipina maid who was raped found a dramatic way to escape. There wasn't much in the village Monica left behind. No clinic, no school, no street lights - just a crossing of dirt roads and a few concrete houses...

A Muslim woman has filed a lawsuit in a court at New York alleging that police officers forced her to remove her hijab and snapped photos of her after ‘false arrest’. Rabab Musa, 34, alleged in the Manhattan Supreme Court lawsuit that she was “unlawfully arrested” last September as she left a Starbucks in Midtown. She claimed that she was...

The Dubai Police has come across a case of a daughter verbally and physically assaulting her parents after they refused to give her the passport. According to details of the case, the girl wanted the passport in order to be able to live separately from the family after getting a job. Brigadier Dr. Mohammed Al Murr, Director of the General Department...

Temperatures have significantly gone down below 10C at a number of places with strong winds making the climate really cold. It may be mentioned that the country was affected by a “cold wave” earlier this month for a few days due to the extension of a Siberian high-pressure system, accompanied by fresh to strong northwesterly winds. The mercury level went up...

With the spell of cold weather and rain keeping customers away from the local market, traders at the Central Wholesale Market in Doha have decided to cut prices of vegetable and fruits. Although the local production has made it easier for vendors to sell freshly harvested vegetables on the same day to the customers, the current weather conditions have resulted...

The ministry has taken the step so that motorists drive carefully and under speed limits, thereby ensuring that they follow traffic rules. The ministry also said that they will announce on social media as and when they shift the mobile units to other roads or streets in Qatar. The radar, which is placed in random locations, has sparked a debate on...