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At a restaurant in Old Al Ghanim area the health control section of the Ministry of Municipality and Environment (MME) has detected the use of expired foodstuff to prepare meals. This was found out in an inspection campaign conducted by the section at a number of food outlets in Doha. A violation report was issued to the erring restaurant for flouting...

Flying on a plane is generally an awful experience, but next time you're crammed in the middle seat counting down the hours, be thankful there aren't 80 birds perched in coach with you. An image posted Monday morning on Reddit of a Saudi prince who brought 80 birds on a plane is going viral: Reddit We've reached out to the author of...

Qatar adopts a visa-exemption policy for more than 30 countries, as well as the GCC members, to boost tourism. The current regulations are applicable to GCC residence permit holders. Business Visas are issued to businessmen who have applied in advance. To obtain a tourist visa, the individual should have traveled into the country by Qatar Airways. Fourteen-day visas are usually...

POLICE have blown open a major cocaine ring worth hundreds of millions of dollars operating in Sydney, resulting in the arrest of more than a dozen men. The arrests, made during a series of Christmas Day raids, come after a two-and-a-half-year investigation by the NSW Police Drug Squad and Australian Federal Police. The top-secret investigation targeted commercial fishermen who were allegedly...

AN AIRLINE maintenance worker has stumbled upon $570,000 worth of cocaine that was stashed in the nose of an American Airlines passenger jet. A spokesman for Tulsa County Sheriff’s Office said the discovery was made after the plane arrived in Miami from Bogota, Colombia, on Sunday, the Associated Press reported. It had been flagged for maintenance after arrival and sent to...

I HAVE just seen Jennifer Lawrence in the flesh. Let’s be honest here — she essentially sprinted past me in high heels while I shouted out her name at a desperately high pitch, but it was still in the flesh. The Oscars red carpet isn’t a competition between Best Actor and Best Actress; it’s a competition between journalists with the...

AMIRAH Droudis has been sentenced to 44 years in prison for the brutal stabbing murder of her lover Man Monis’ wife, whose body she doused in petrol and set alight in a suburban Sydney apartment block. Droudis, 37, will serve a minimum of 33 years in Silverwater Women’s Correctional Centre where Justice Peter Johnson said she remained “committed to her...

The Insider Picks team writes about stuff we think you'll like. Business Insider has affiliate partnerships, so we get a share of the revenue from your purchase.   Sebastiaan ter Burg/Flickr The new year is officially upon us, and with it comes both the hope and expectation that we can change our lives for the better. There's no better time than the...

If you can hide your arm or selfie stick in a selfie, good for you. For those who can't, there's a drone for that. The Airselfie is a tiny drone that is housed in a phone case, and it lets you take selfies or group shots from farther away than you could with your arms or a selfie stick. Airselfie already went...

Pitch-side at Doha’s sweltering Abdullah bin Khalifa football stadium, coach Felix Sanchez barks instructions at his Qatar under-23 team. “Out of here!” he screams as his players run the ball into a channel filled with Palestinian defenders. “Yalla shabab!” he shouts in Arabic. “Let’s go, lads!” He shakes his head, fuming, as football coaches do. It is late September and...

Amazon chief executive, Jeff Bezos, has pledged the full legal resources of his company to fight the travel ban instituted by Donald Trump against seven Muslim-majority nations. In an email to employees sent on Monday afternoon, Bezos said that Amazon would be putting its legal and lobbying efforts behind the fight against the ban. A key avenue of opposition involves...

Kuwait has hanged seven prisoners, including a member of the royal family and a woman convicted of killing more than 40 people, the first death sentences carried out in several years in the oil-rich emirate. Those executed on Wednesday included a Bangladeshi, a Filipina, an Ethiopian, two Kuwaitis and two Egyptians, according to a statement carried on the state-run Kuna...

2012 I set up a charity kitchen to help the people flowing into my hometown as they escaped the conflict engulfing the rest of Syria. They were fleeing to Aleppo, a beautiful city where people of all creeds lived in understanding, harmony and love. Travel ban: Trump defends order as dispute over UK visit deepens – as it happened Follow the...

Thousands of Canadians from coast to coast have sought to show their support for victims of a shooting spree on a Québec City mosque, as the country struggled to comprehend how one of Canada’s safest cities had become the setting for an attack described by the country’s prime minister as an act of terror. Just steps away from the mosque,...