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Expats express ire on social media over rent hikes in Doha A growing number of expatriates have resorted to Facebook and Twitter 'to voice their concerns and anger about the unjustifiable hike' in real estate rental rates in Doha recently. Local Arabic daily Al Sharq reported that aggrieved individuals have formed groups on Facebook urging the departments concerned to curb the...

Qatar Airways relax policies for female cabin crew Qatar Airways will no longer sack its female cabin crew if they get married or pregnant, a senior official at the airlines has announced. Rossen Dimitrov, the senior vice president who oversees the carrier's 9,500 flight attendants, also pledged to review a curfew and other concerns which last year prompted unions to file...

QFC Appoints New Chief Financial & Tax Officer The Qatar Financial Centre (QFC) announces the appointment of Hamed Al Saadi as Chief Financial & Tax Officer, a vital position in the organisation. In this capacity he will also sit on the Executive Committee (ExCo) of the QFC Authority. In his role, Al Saadi will report directly to the CEO and assume...

Health benefits of carrots » Sweet and crunchy carrots are notably rich in anti-oxidants, vitamins and dietary fiber. They provide only 41 calories per 100 g, negligible amount of fat and no cholesterol. » They are exceptionally rich source of carotenes and vitamin-A. 100 g fresh carrot contains 8285 µg of beta-carotene and 16706 IU of vitamin A. Studies have found...

J Crew Goes Back To "Heritage" J CREW is "recalibrating" and refocusing on its "heritage" styles, the company's chairman and CEO - Mickey Drexler - said yesterday. Speaking as the label released its second quarter earnings report, which showed sales down 10 per cent on last year, Drexler said that the company was looking forward to the next collection drop...

How to Remove the Small Warts by Using a Single Ingredient They most commonly appear in middle aged people and especially on places where the skin is rubbing Fibromas are benign skin growths which by definition are actually benign tumors of the connective tissue. They look like small soft nodules, and can vary in size from a few millimeters to a...

Qatar to host Pakistan Twenty20 league in 2016 The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) announced on Wednesday that it would host a Twenty20 league in Qatar starting February next year. Najam Sethi, the former chairman of the PCB, announced the Pakistan Super League (PSL) will involve around 25 foreign players. The PCB had previously planned a Super T20 league in 2013, but had...

Pakistan: Indian Cross-border Fire Kills 6 Civilians An injured Indian civilian of cross border firing gets down from an ambulance at the Government Medical College hospital in Jammu, India, ISLAMABAD - Pakistan’s military says “unprovoked” cross-border shelling from India has killed at least six civilians and wounded 46 more. An official statement said Friday 22 women were among those wounded. “Pakistani...

Don't worry about the China crisis - now is the time to BUY shares, Hargreaves Lansdown boss tells investors Ian Gorham does not fit the stereotype of a slick, immaculately coiffured FTSE 100 boss. But the disarmingly down to earth 43-year old – who admits he was not the obvious choice to become chief executive of Hargreaves Lansdown – has been...

Ashley Madison hack: Just three in every 10,000 female accounts on infidelity website are real Just three in every 10,000 Ashley Madison members are real women, it has been revealed, as the huge scale of fake female accounts on the infidelity website was exposed. Despite the website claiming 5.5 million of its 37 million customer accounts are “female” there was “a...

Hundreds feared dead after boat capsizes off Libya A rescue operation is underway after a migrant boat sank off the coast of Libya. Hundreds of people are reported to have been on board, with many trapped in the hold when the vessel capsized. The boat was carrying at least 200 migrants when it capsized Thursday near the northwestern port city of...

Death toll rises to at least 70 in Austrian migrant truck The Austrian government has increased the death toll in an abandoned migrant truck found on a highway to more than 70. Police had originally put the toll between 20 and 50. The truck, which had been traveling from Hungary to Austria, was found on Thursday on an Autobahn near the...

Al Meera continues expansion of retail outlets in Qatar Al Meera Consumer Goods, which runs some of Qatar's leading retail outlets such as Géant hypermarket, is continuing to extend its presence in the country, with new acquisitions and establishment of new stores across Qatar. Al Meera recently concluded the purchase of Al Oumara Bakery Company, which added five new stores to...

Colorado shooting: James Holmes handed 12 life sentences and maximum 3,318 years in prison without parole over movie theatre massacre A gunman who murdered 12 people and injured 70 others when he carried out a carefully planned shooting at a movie theatre in Colorado has been handed life sentences for each fatality and the maximum 3,318 years in prison. James Holmes,...