Qatar Airways is continuing its growth and expansion plans and has announced its newest destination – Canberra, which is the national carriers’ fifth in Australia. The launch of Canberra service will be in 2018, Qatar Airways said yesterday.

Wildfires burn near Plettenberg Bay, South Africa, late on Thursday.

There are 5,000 miles between England and India and for Ben Stokes, just back from the IPL, Leeds seems a world away from Pune.

As part of its commitment to highlight the role of families in the life of Persons with Disabilities (PWD), Mada Assistive Technology Centre celebrated Qatar Family Day recently.

There has been a marginal fall in Qatar's population, according to the latest figures released by the Ministry of Development Planning and Statistics (MDPS) compared to those at the end of February.

Iraqi special forces battling the Islamic State group on Friday pushed deeper into west Mosul, where a commander said jihadist resistance is showing signs of weakening under repeated assaults.

Most of the hundreds of people streaming over the US border into Canada in recent weeks are asylum-seekers, coming from Syria, Yemen, Turkey or Sudan, according to the United Nations’ refugee point man in the country.

With its iconic mountain, beaches and vineyards, it’s easy to attract global mining bosses and fund managers to Cape Town.

Cameroon and Egypt are both aiming to cap remarkable revivals by winning the Africa Cup of Nations when they meet in a final that few thought possible in Libreville tonight.

Austrian President Alexander Van der Bellen took office yesterday, denouncing populist ideas like those of the far-right candidate he defeated, but a spat within the ruling coalition threatened to play into the hands of his rival’s party.

Egypt will make further cuts to energy subsidies, raise taxes and seek more international financing as it pursues economic reforms this year, Finance Minister Amr El-Garhy said yesterday.

There were as many as 1.2mn heads of registered livestock in the country by the end of 2016, compared to just 1mn during the corresponding period in 2015.