ABU DHABI: The Gulf states are changing tack in their multi-billion dollar search for food security. With their farming projects in some of...
ABU DHABI: The Gulf states are changing tack in their multi-billion dollar search for food security. With their farming projects in some of...
DOHA: Qatar’s real gross domestic product (GDP) grew by 6.2 percent year-on-year in the third quarter of 2013, from 6 percent in the...
ANKARA: The political crisis engulfing Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has cost the economy $100bn, a top official said yesterday, as financial...
CAIRO: Egypt’s General Petroleum Corporation and Natural Gas Holding Company announced yesterday an international auction for 22 concessions for oil and gas exploration...
DOHA: Qatar Exchange (QE) will remain closed on Wednesday, January 1, 2014. Trading will resume on Thursday, January 2. The decision is followed...
WASHINGTON: US pending home sales rose slightly in November, ending five consecutive months of declines, the National Association of Realtors (NAR) said yesterday....
MUMBAI: The rupee fell yesterday, hit by strong dollar demand by a state-run bank that dealers said was intended to meet oil refiner...
LISBON: The European Union is ready to offer Portugal further aid once its current bailout expires in May, Economics Affairs Commissioner Olli Rehn...
Doha: Qatar Exchange ended in the green yesterday adding 8.18 points or 0.08 percent to 10,368.20 points from 10,360.02 on Sunday. Among the...
DUBAI: The National Iranian Gas Company (NIGC) has been forced to slash gas supplies to industrial consumers as cold weather drives up heating...
CAIRO: The Egyptian pound weakened at a forex auction yesterday, extending a series of falls at the central bank’s regular sale of dollars,...
ZURICH: A fire that destroyed a workshop at a Swatch Group factory will affect other watchmakers it supplies more than the Swiss firm...
Employees and traders celebrate the closing of this year’s last trading day at the Korea Exchange in Seoul yesterday. The Korea Composite Stock...
This image taken by passenger Andrew Peacock of www.footloosefotography.com yesterday shows Barbara Tucker, a passenger aboard the ‘stuck’ ship MV Akademik Shokalskiy, watching...
WASHINGTON: It was a moment for Barack Obama to savour. His second inaugural address over, Obama paused as he strode from the podium...
Police buses block a road leading to the Presidential Blue House as South Korean workers demonstrate during a general strike in central Seoul. ...
Demonstrators gathering in front of the parliament in Athens. Greek trade unions staged a protest ahead of a parliament vote on a bill...
A woman shops for garments at a Kohl’s department store which opened at 5am a day after Christmas in Alhambra, California, in an...
