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Facebook, China and dividend payers boost global tech In this Sept. 19, 2014 file photo, Alibaba founder Jack Ma raises a ceremonial mallet before striking a bell during the company's IPO at the New York Stock Exchange. We signaled here March that Facebook was likely to pass IBM in 2014 on the list of most valuable technology companies in the world. It...

French police hunt 'armed and dangerous' suspects These handout photos released by French Police shows suspects Cherif Kouachi, left, and his brother Said Kouachi, who are wanted in connection with an attack at a satirical weekly in the French capital that killed at least 12 people. French Prime Minister Manuel Valls says there were "several arrests" overnight in the hunt for...

HH the Emir Attends Matches of Qatar ExxonMobil Open Doha, January 06 (QNA) - HH the Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani attended matches of the Qatar ExxonMobil Open which is being organized by the Qatar Tennis Federation at the Khalifa International Tennis Complex until January 10. HH the Emir attended a match between world number one Serbian player Novak Djokovic,...

After terror attack, Twitter users unite with #JeSuisCharlie (CNN) - Social media users are demonstrating solidarity with satirical French magazine Charlie Hebdo where at least a dozen people were killed in a terror attack Wednesday. Using the hashtage #JeSuisCharlie, many on Twitter are replacing their profile photo with a white-on-black image of the phrase, which translates to "I am Charlie." More than...

Charlie Hebdo: Satirical magazine is no stranger to controversy Armed gunmen face police officers near the offices of the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo in Paris on Wednesday. (CNN) - Charlie Hebdo, the French magazine where gunmen killed journalists and police in a brazen lunchtime attack Wednesday, is no stranger to controversy. The Paris-based weekly satirical magazine, which was founded in 1970,...

Saudi Arabia vows 'firm will' in dealing with oil challenge Saudi Crown Prince Salman bin Abdulaziz speaks before the consultative assembly on Tuesday. (Al Arabiya) King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz of Saudi Arabia vowed on Tuesday to deal with the challenges posed by the falling oil prices with a "firm will." King Abdullah made the statement in a speech read on his behalf...

Deadly explosion rocks Yemeni capital Photos are pictured on the ground at the scene of a car bomb attack the police college in Sanaa January 7, 2015. (Reuters) A suicide bomber driving a minibus killed at least 33 people Wednesday as cadets gathered to enroll at a police academy in the heart of Yemen's capital, Sanaa, authorities said. No one immediately claimed...

AirAsia plane tail found in Java Sea Indonesian search authorities say they have found the tail of AirAsia flight 8501 in the Java Sea. The tail usually holds the black box flight data recorders, key to revealing why the plane went down. Search teams scouring the Java Sea for parts of an AirAsia Airbus with a remote-operated submarine announced on Wednesday...

Arab League, Al-Azhar condemn Paris shooting attack Firefighters, police officers and forensics personnel work at the scene of the attack. The Arab League and Al-Azhar, the Sunni Muslim world's premier Islamic institution, strongly condemned Wednesday's deadly shooting attack by black-hooded gunmen on the office of French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo. The shooting left at least 12 people killed, and was described by...

At least 12 killed in shooting at office of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo An injured person is evacuated outside the office of the satirical newspaper "Charlie Hebdo" in Paris on Wednesday after the attack. Paris (CNN) - The office of a satirical magazine in Paris turned into a horror show when two gunmen burst in and began firing, killing at...

Qatar ExxonMobil Open Gets Underway Doha, January 05 (QNA) - HE the Prime Minister and Interior Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al-Thani on Monday attended the first round of the Qatar ExxonMobil Open which is organized by the Qatar Tennis Federation at the Khalifa International Tennis Complex.     Read the full text news resource site… Source News: qna.org.qa

HH the Emir Meets Algerian Ambassador Doha, January 05 (QNA) - HH the Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani met on Monday morning at his Emiri Diwan Office with HE Ambassador of the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria Abdel Fattah Ziani on the occasion of the expiry of his tenure in the country.     Read the full text news resource site… Source...

Feast your eyes on this $6,000 Lamborghini 'wow-factor' smartphone The company also makes headphones and other audio products, and an earlier smartphone selling for around $4,000. For the consumer who wants a smartphone to make an impression, the Lamborghini nameplate can do that -- for a cool $6,000, shipping included. Tonino Lamborghini Mobile on Monday announced the global launch of the...

Special relationship? ‘Obama calls me bro’ Cameron reveals British Prime Minister David Cameron has revealed he is so close to the U.S. president that Obama sometimes calls him “bro.” British Prime Minister David Cameron has revealed he is so close to the U.S. president that Barack Obama sometimes calls him “bro,” a term short for “brother.” Speaking to The Mail on...