The training programme is designed to enhance workers’ technical capabilities, improve job performance and increase both safety and productivity.

Fifty One East and Bang & Olufsen have launched the new BeoSound Shape, a wall-mounted wireless speaker system for design conscious music lovers – delivering immersive sound staging, a customisable design and integrated noise dampers for improved room acoustics.

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen challenged the United States on Sunday to cut all aid after it announced it was ending funding for a general election next year in response to the dissolution of the main opposition party, media reported.

Qatar Green Building Council (QGBC), a member of Qatar Foundation, has announced the winners of the Qatar Sustainability Awards 2017, at a gala dinner sponsored by Tadmur Holding.

A possible Labour-Green coalition narrowed the gap with the ruling National Party in New Zealand’s final election tally, strengthening their position ahead of talks today with the small nationalist party which holds the balance of power.

The world’s refugee crisis is most often measured in numbers. But for young refugees missing out on an education, the crisis can also be tracked by an irreversible metric: the passage of time.

The high court yesterday upheld death sentences of 15 convicts including Noor Hossain, dismissed officials of elite Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) lieutenant colonel Tareque Sayeed Mohammad, major Arif Hossain and lieutenant commander SM Masud Rana in the Narayanganj seven-murder trial.

Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar (CMU-Q) graduates are exploring emerging fields at Sidra Medical and Research Centre (Sidra), the new paediatric and maternal healthcare facility in Doha.

Canadian officials yesterday ordered boats including cargo and cruise ships to reduce their speed in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence in a bid to protect endangered whales.

A day after Apple announced updates to its computers, watches and phones, the company packed a couple thousand software developers into a theatre for an early look at its next big thing: an online TV show featuring Jessica Alba and Gwyneth Paltrow.

The battle to capture the Islamic State group's Syrian bastion Raqa will begin ‘in days’, a militia spokeswoman said Saturday after fresh advances by a Kurdish-Arab alliance battling the jihadists.

Another hot day with a maximum temperature of 44C in Abu Samra has been forecast for Saturday by the Met department.