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Valentino Rossi won the Commercial Bank Grand Prix of Qatar A champ like no other: Valentino Rossi. Pictures: Noushad Thekkayil and Reuters Seven-time MotoGP champion Valentino Rossi won the Commercial Bank Grand Prix of Qatar for the first time since 2010 holding off the blistering Ducati of Andrea Dovizioso by a little under two hundredths of a second at the floodlit...

Work continues to recover bodies from Germanwings crash site Rescue workers have been gathering wreckage and recovering bodies trapped in the debris of the A320 that crashed last week. A road was being created for workers to transport aircraft parts. Investigators were busy recovering bodies from the Germanwings A320 crash site in the French Alps on Sunday, German news agency DPA...

Arab League summit wraps up with plan for pan-Arab force Arab leaders have agreed to try to form a joint military force to tackle regional crises. Saudi Arabia is already leading a coalition of Arab countries that have been conducting airstrikes against rebels in Yemen. Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi (pictured above), who hosted the two-day Arab Summit at the Red Sea...

Find The Top Retirement Cities In Vietnam And why would you go halfway around the world to retire? In two words, it’s cheap. It costs much much less to live in Vietnam than in the U.S., and it’s also a charming country to live in. It is all coast, mostly what looks like a strip of land bordering the South...

"Modeling for Calvin Klein Jeans is really a dream come true," Jenner said today. "I've grown up wearing the brand and seeing the iconic advertising in magazines and on billboards featuring some of the world's top supermodels. To now be a part of that legacy is truly an honour." "Kendall is a modern beauty who brings her youthful spirit and...

Give a classic chocolate tart an Aussie Milo twist. Ingredients 375ml (1 1/2 cups) milk 50g Milo 6 egg yolks 50g (1/3 cup) cornflour 2 tablespoons caster sugar 50g milk cooking chocolate, finely chopped 300ml thickened cream 1 1/2 tablespoons icing sugar mixture Milo, extra, to serve Chocolate pastry 225g (1 1/2 cups) plain flour 60g (1/3 cup) icing sugar, sifted 30g (1/4 cup) dark cocoa powder, sifted Pinch of salt 150g unsalted butter, chilled,...

DOHA: A goal from Al Sadd midfielder Qatar Ali Assadalla helped Qatar to a 1-0 victory over star studded Algeria in the friendly match held at Abdullah bin Khalifa Stadium. A superb 32nd minute goal from Ali Assadalla proved the difference between the two sides. The midfielder picked up the ball 35 yards from goal, before embarking on a...

A look inside Education City’s glittering new mosque Three years after breaking ground, the Qatar Faculty of Islamic Studies has officially opened Education City’s first mosque. Inaugural Friday prayer services were held last week, and were attended by several hundred students and Qatar Foundation Chairperson Sheikha Moza bint Nasser. The mosque, a large white cavernous structure with Quranic verses embossed into its...

Qatar’s Emir meets with Egyptian president in Sharm El Sheikh Qatar’s Emir has received a warm welcome after arriving in Egypt today for the 26th Arab League summit. According to QNA, Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al Thani and his delegation were greeted at the airport in Sharm El Sheikh by Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi. This is one of the first meetings...

Yemen crisis tops agenda as Arab League summit opens Egypt's president has called for the creation of a unified Arab force to tackle regional crises. He was speaking at the start of two days of Arab League talks expected to focus largely on conflict-torn Yemen. Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi told other Arab League heads of state on Saturday that he fully...

Blog: #NigeriaDecides in presidential and parliamentary elections March 28,2015: Nigeria heads to the polls to vote for their next president and parliament amidst heavy concerns over the country's security. We bring you reactions and discussions from around the web. 14:51 Tweets and reports from our correspondents Jan-Philipp Scholz and Adrian Kriesch in Abuja and Lagos 14:31 More reports about violence trickling in:...

Mourners gather in French Alps near Germanwings crash site Hundreds have gathered in Digne-les-Bains to honor the victims of Tuesday's Germanwings disaster. The co-pilot blamed for the crash often glided not far from the site, according to members of his former gliding club. Saturday's service at the church in Digne-les-Bains, around 40 kilometers (30 miles) from where Germanwings flight 4U9525 smashed...

Italy's art police recover missing Picasso painting Italian investigators have found Pablo Picasso's missing 1912 "Violin and Bottle of Bass" oil painting. The authenticated work was given to a retired frame maker in Rome nearly 40 years ago and then forgotten about. A special Italian police squad tasked with tracking down stolen art announced Friday they had confiscated the painting last...

New rules in the works to regulate drone usage in Qatar Qatar is drafting new regulations to govern the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), also known as drones, in the country, a spokesperson for the Civil Aviation Authority has told Doha News. Though details were not immediately available, she said, “Qatar cares about the safety and security of its airspace”...