Editor of WQ

A child who appears to execute an Arab Israeli in a video released this week by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) group is said to have been recognized by classmates in France, an official said Friday. The schools inspector in the Haute-Garonne district in southern France said students in the city of Toulouse believe they recognized the...

A powerful cyclone has swept through the Vanuatu archipelago in the South Pacific Ocean. The UN says it is gravely concerned, with unconfirmed reports of dozens of deaths in northeastern Vanuatu. The Category 5 storm, named Cyclone Pam, swept through the Vanuatu island chain overnight into Saturday with 278 kilometer (168 mile) -per-hour winds. The storm triggered flash flooding and...

The distance between the youth and the decision tables must be reduced, opined experts, during a panel discussion on “Youth Development and Peaceful Societies” at Empower 2015 conference yesterday. Empower 2015, organised by Reach Out To Asia (Rota), concludes today at the Student Centre of Hamad Bin Khalifa University in Education City. More than 450 youths between the ages of...

Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates and Oman on Friday pledged a combined $12.5 billion in aid to stimulate the Egyptian economy during an investment summit held in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh. Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and the UAE, which backed the Sisi-led army overthrow of Islamist President Mohamed Mursi in July 2013 following mass unrest against...

The final MotoGP preseason test gets underway this week under the floodlights of the Losail International Circuit in Qatar. With teams having had time to digest and interpret all of the data they had recorded at the last Sepang test in Febuary, the MotoGP paddock heads to Losail for three days/nights today, before the season kicks off in earnest at...

The U.S. State Department said on Friday it was working with Congress to provide nearly $70 million in new foreign support to the moderate Syrian opposition fighting to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad. The announcement was made during a reception to commemorate the fourth anniversary of the Syrian uprising. Blinken said the “humanitarian catastrophe” in Syria “is exacerbated further still by the...

NASA says it has confirmed that an ocean lies beneath the icy crust that forms the surface of Jupiter's largest moon Ganymede. The presence of a deep ocean there means Ganymede may be capable of sustaining life. Ganymede - the largest moon in the solar system - has a salty ocean underneath the icy shell that surrounds it, NASA said...

Qatar’s first zero-gravity flight experience postponed to next year A traveling space-focused project that is offering people around the world a chance to experience weightlessness aboard an airplane has postponed next’s month trip to Doha. According to Swiss Space Systems (S3) ZeroG’s website, the zero gravity flights will now be offered in Qatar sometime in the first half of 2016, instead...

The United Nations opened a new round of consultations with Libyan politicians on Friday aimed at ending the country’s crisis, but delegates from the internationally recognized parliament were absent. Western leaders support the U.N. talks as the only way to end the turmoil in Libya, where two rival governments and armed factions are battling for control of the North African...

1. Fifty Shades of Grey: Literature student Anastasia Steele's life changes forever when she meets handsome, yet tormented, billionaire Christian Grey. 2. Avengers: Age of Ultron: When Tony Stark tries to jumpstart a dormant peacekeeping program, things go awry and it is up to the Avengers to stop the villainous Ultron from enacting his terrible plans. 3. Focus: In the midst...

Members of the militant group "Islamic State" in Tikrit are preparing to stage their last stand, as Iraqi forces and Shiite militia tighten their grip on the city. The Islamist group has played down their losses. Iraqi forces were gearing up to move further into Tikrit on Friday, but said they were adopting a strategy of caution as they approached...

A British parliamentary committee has recommended that information such as web browsing history and location tracking data be given an extra level of protection against government spying. President Obama, U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron and other government officials have taken care to say that the government is not as a rule reading citizens’ emails or listening in on phone calls. But...

Marking the fourth anniversary of the civil war, the United States on Thursday made a fresh call for embattled Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to step down, as U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon on urged the Security Council to take “determined measures” to end the war. “For four years the Assad regime has answered Syrians’ calls for freedom and reform with unrelenting...

HH the Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani met with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara yesterday. They discussed latest developments in the region, as well as the overall current regional and international affairs of mutual concern. Talks at the meeting at the presidential palace also dealt with bilateral relations between the two countries and means of enhancing...