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India beat Bangladesh to reach World Cup semis * Rohit hits ton in India's 109-run victory * Bangladesh all out for 193 in 45 overs India, growing in confidence with every match, thrashed Bangladesh by 109 runs on Thursday in the quarter-finals of the World Cup. The defending world champions made light work of their clash at the Melbourne Cricket Ground,...

VIDEO: Tough choices await Qatar expat as father prepares to move ‘home’ Mkachar now has some difficult choices to make. Staying in Qatar would require retaining family or employment sponsorship, since the path to citizenship here is restrictive at best. Moving would mean starting over somewhere that she has never known. Speaking to Doha News, Mkachar said she hasn’t made any decisions...

240 Saudis change names each month The Saudi Ministry of Education has introduced in its syllabus for intermediate schools a whole subject about the rights of children, including their right to have good names. As many as 10 Saudis change their names every day, Makkah daily reported on Tuesday. An informed source at the Interior Ministry’s agency for civil affairs said most...

72,494 women-owned businesses in Riyadh Riyadh Chamber of Commerce and Industry says the number of registered businesses owned by women in the city reached 72,494. According to the Riyadh Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the number of registered businesses owned by women in the city reached 72,494. The Riyadh Chamber of Commerce and Industry’s Women’s Committee, the British Embassy and the British...

Warplane bombs Yemeni president’s palace A fighter jet bombed Yemeni President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi's palace in the southern city of Aden on Thursday, security sources said, as smoke was seen rising from the hill-top compound. A presidency source told AFP that Hadi was evacuated to safety. The aircraft dropped a bomb or fired a missile at the compound in al-Maasheeq district...

Two killed in Gothenburg shooting At least two people were killed and around a dozen injured in a shooting at a Gothenburg bar Wednesday night. Customers were watching an on-going Champions League football match when several masked men entered the restaurant in the suburb of Hisingen and started firing. They then escaped in a car. Over ten ambulances were sent to the...

Arrests over deadly jihadist attack in Mali Malian police have arrested three men suspected of aiding militants behind a deadly attack that killed two Europeans and three Malians. A jihadist group has claimed responsibility saying Westerners were targeted. Malian police have arrested three men suspected of aiding militants behind this month's deadly attack that killed a French citizen, a Belgian and...

UN: Islamic State suspected of genocide, war crimes against Yazidis A UN report has accused the "Islamic State" of genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity. Iraqi forces may also have committed war crimes while battling IS. Islamic State (IS) fighters are suspected of committing genocide against Iraq's Yazidi minority community, the United Nations human rights office said Thursday. The Islamic State...

Tunisia attack death toll rises as first arrests are made Tunisia has arrested the first suspects in connection with an attack on a museum in the capital. The prime minister says two gunmen killed in Tunis have also been identified. On Thursday, Tunisia's government announced that police had made the first arrests in an attack on a museum in the capital...

Influx of Seha patients stretch capacity of Qatar’s private clinics The number of Qataris seeking medical treatment in private clinics appears to have grown substantially since the launch of the country’s nationwide health insurance scheme, with at least one prominent hospital reporting that up to half of its patients are now nationals. Since Seha (“health”) started in August 2013, the program...

HH Sheikha Moza to Inaugurate New QFIS Building on Friday Doha, March 17 (QNA) - HH Sheikha Moza bint Nasser, Chairperson of Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development (QF), will patronize the official opening of the new Qatar Faculty of Islamic Studies (QFIS) Building on Friday and the new QFIS mosque at Education City, where guests will perform...

Three Iraqis dead in explosion near Kuwaiti border Members of the Iraqi security inspect the site of a bomb attack near the border with Kuwait in the southern Basra province March 18, 2015. (Reuters) Three Iraqis were killed on Wednesday when a booby-trapped truck exploded in Iraq near the border with Kuwait, Kuwaiti news agency KUNA reported. The agency quoted Talib al-Hosuna,...

New inflation figures for Qatar hint at expensive year for tenants The cost of living in Qatar remained largely the same from January to February, though increases in housing and other categories suggest that 2015 may be another expensive year for residents who rent their accommodations. The consumer price index increased a modest 0.1 percent last month compared to January, according...

Indian festival The Passage To India, Qatar’s biggest festival celebrating the culture, heritage and traditions of the subcontinent, will take place over two days on March 19 and 20 at Katara Cultural Village’s amphitheater. Some 450 different musicians, singers and artists are scheduled to perform at the festival, now in its second year and organized by Katara and the Indian Embassy....