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Quality healthcare our priority: PM Doha - Prime Minister and Minister of Interior HE Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa al Thani on Monday said Qatar is taking all steps to ensure the quality of healthcare and patient safety. Speaking at the opening ceremony of the 32nd edition of International Society for Quality in Health Care (ISQua), taking place for the...

LinkedIn to Pay Users Up to $1,500 Each to Settle Lawsuit The networking site LinkedIn announced Friday it will pay some of its users up to $1,500 each to settle a $13 million lawsuit regarding one of the website's services. The lawsuit targeted LinkedIn's "Add Connections" service that allows members to import contacts from their email accounts and send invitations to...

Takaaki Kajita, Arthur B. McDonald share Nobel Physics Prize Kajita and McDonald claim the physics prize for their discovery of neutrino oscillations, "which shows that neutrinos have mass." The committee said the finidng "can prove crucial to our view of the universe." Takaaki Kajita and Arthur McDonald brought about a "metamorphosis in the particle world," as the Nobel Foundation in Stockholm...

Thousands stranded following deadly South Carolina storms A week of steady rain in the US state of South Carolina has left thousands without drinking water and devastated infrastructure. Officials say the state is in the grip of a full-scale disaster. The death toll from record floods in the US state of South Carolina jumped to 10 on Monday, as tens of...

Léa Seydoux Covers November Vogue LEA SEYDOUX graces her first British Vogue cover for November, looking every inch the Bond girl, while inside she talks about her role in Bond's next big-screen outing, entitled Spectre. "I don't mind the cliché of the Bond girl. But Madeleine, she is very different," she told British Vogue. "And to choose me as a Bond...

Colin Hancock is giving his second chance his best shot. With a history of violence and bad decisions behind him and the threat of prison dogging his every step, he's determined to walk a straight line. To Colin, that means applying himself single-mindedly toward his teaching degree and avoiding everything that proved destructive in his earlier life. Reminding himself...

Fudge Crinkles (A Great 4 Ingredient Cake Mix Cookie) These are chewy, fudgy, SUPER EASY cookies that you can probably make right now! I have watched these disappear time and again and everyone is always asking for the recipe. It is almost embarrassing to give it out, it is that easy :) Enjoy! Ingredients 1 (6 1/8 ounce) box devil's food cake...

Milk is an important part of our diet. We begin drinking it when we are young, but our intake decreases as we get older. Some people shy away from it because they fear that it will add too much fat to their diet. Others leave it out because they believe that they no longer need it. You are never...

Top 7 Supplements for Weight Loss Success Is there such a thing as weight loss in a pill? While there are no magic pills or potions to help you instantly melt the fat, there are supplements that will absolutely aid your weight loss. Many people when trying to lose weight, cut calories that reduce the nutrients you need to lose weight.....

Ten famous people from Qatar Qatar doesn’t have to be proud over its wealth alone. It can also be proud of some of the most influential people that it has come up with. There are hundreds of talented, popular and intelligent people in Qatar. However, with great difficulty we have come up with 10 of them. 1- HH Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad...

Georgetown University of Qatar has organized a free, open to the public book launch today. The book “Water, Civilization and Power in Sudan: The Political Economy of Military-Islamist State Building” written by Professor Dr. Harry Verhoeven will be launched at 6PM today. The book portrays the remarkable state building projects in the modern era in Sudan. Also, the book consists of a...

Qatar’s e-Commerce Forum 2015 to begin on October 19 Qatar’s e-Commerce Forum is where businesses, policy makers and other connected stake holders can get together and be a part of Qatar’s e-commerce future. This year, Qatar’s e-Commerce Forum will be inaugurated by HE Minister of Information and Communication Technology Dr.Hessa Al-Jaber on October 19. Many representatives from Google, PayPal, Payfort, Aramex and...

FIFA awards Saudi Arabia a 3-0 win after Malaysia crowd trouble Players from Saudi Arabia watch as a flare is thrown during their 2018 World Cup qualifying soccer match against Malaysia in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Sept. 8, 2015. (Reuters) Malaysia have been issued with a formal warning and a raft of other sanctions from soccer's world governing body FIFA after their...

Trio claims Nobel Prize for Medicine: William C. Campbell, Satoshi Omura and Youyou Tu win Nobel Prize for Medicine Three researchers are sharing this year's first Nobel Prize, the award for medicine or physiology. Campbell and Omura worked on a roundworm parasite treatment, while Youyou Tu made a malaria breakthrough. Irish-born Campbell and Japan's Omura shared half of the prize for...