Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe vowed yesterday to make the 2020 Tokyo Olympics an exceptional event for the world’s top athletes, as his government eyes a haul of 30 golds.

HE al-Sada outlines the strong foundations of the relationship between Qatar and Japan

Egyptian police yesterday arrested a senior Muslim Brotherhood official and threatened to use live rounds at planned anti-government rallies...

Mexican authorities are struggling to control growing numbers of small town vigilante groups which have taken up arms in the name of protecting their...

Giant panda Wei Wei smells a birthday cake made of fruits and bamboo in its enclosure in Wuhan zoo, central China’s Hubei province...

America is struggling to fully realise the vision that civil rights leader Martin Luther King described in his famous “I Have a Dream” speech 50 years ago...

The new East Span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge rises to the left of the old cantilever span in San Francisco on Tuesday.

Colombia’s leftist ELN rebels have freed a Canadian engineer in what they called a humanitarian gesture after holding him for more than seven months, the Red Cross said.

HH the Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani receiving Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas at Al Bahr Palace yesterday evening.

Italy’s billionaire former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi said yesterday he will appeal to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg over a tax fraud conviction delivered this month.

The UN demanded Syria give its chemical weapons experts immediate access yesterday to rebel-held Damascus suburbs where poison gas appears to have killed hundreds...

Thirtynine high school students from Qatar and abroad recently completed Georgetown University in Qatar’s (GU-Q) fourth annual Georgetown Pre-College Summer (GPS) programme...