The Ministry of Economy and Commerce has announced the two-week closure of an electrical appliances and sanitary installations company, located in Madinat Khalifa South ...

Norway’s Foreign Secretary Ine Eriksen Soreide (left) listens as Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson speaks during the unveiling of a Christmas tree

Iraq’s prime minister has denied that an attack on the Kurds was imminent, in a bid to defuse tensions that had prompted Kurdish peshmerga fighters to temporarily seal off road links with the rest of the country.

His Highness the Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani and His Highness the Deputy Emir Sheikh Abdullah bin Hamad al-Thani yesterday sent cables of congratulations to Paul Kagame, on his re-election as president of Rwanda.

US President Donald Trump admitted yesterday he did not have recordings of his private meetings with fired FBI director James Comey, after maintaining the explosive claim of secret Oval Office tapes for weeks.

Six workers were killed when a fire swept through a bakery in the western Indian city of Pune overnight, police said Friday, adding that the victims had been locked in.

Yesterday the Japanese city of Nagasaki marked 71 years since its destruction by a US atomic bomb, with its mayor lauding a visit by US President Barack Obama to Hiroshima earlier this year.

Australia is close to poaching Jason Gillespie from English cricket to be the national team’s new full-time fast bowling coach, a report said yesterday.

After years of feasting on tourists’ demand for hand-stitched leather satchels and diamond-encrusted watches, luxury-goods makers are now courting a group they’ve long overlooked: local shoppers.

Europe’s main stock markets and US stocks fell yesterday after losses across most of Asia on poor Chinese data and a drop in oil prices.

Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, centre, and his wife Kalsoom Nawaz Sharif...

HH the Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani met at his Emiri Diwan office yesterday with Kyrgyzstan President Almaz Atambayev Beck.