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The Doha Zoo is to be redeveloped in the model of a safari park. The new zoo will be three times bigger than its existing size, where visitors can watch the animals from a close distance in a natural environment, a senior official of the Ministry of Environment said. The project is currently under design and will take three to five years to complete, according to Dr Qassim Nasser Al Qahtani, head of the Animal Resources Department.

DOHA: The average monthly income of Qatari households has jumped many times over in the past several years, thanks to massive gas-fuelled wealth generation in the country. A vast majority of Qatari families (66 percent) had an average income of QR30,000 ($8,219) a month in 2007. That worked out to close to a $100,000 a year. Given the current value of money the figure would be higher in today’s terms.

DOHA: Temperature could dip to less than 10 degrees Celsius next week as the country is expected to come under a severe cold spell over the next few days, according to the Meteorology Department. “We are expecting a significant fall in temperature beginning Friday, probably dipping to less than 10 degrees Celsius in the following days,” a forecaster at the Department said last evening.

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Qatar tossed Egypt an economic lifeline on Tuesday, announcing it had lent Egypt another $2bn and given it an extra $500m outright to help control a currency crisis.