HH the Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani and Cyprus President Demetris Christofias held a round of official talks yesterday at the Emiri Diwan.

H H Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani yesterday endorsed Cabinet Decision No. 24 of 2009 amending some provisions of Decision No. 17 of 2008 establishing the State Projects Financing Policies Committee.

Mobile content has become popular among consumers in Qatar, where almost everyone owns a mobile phone, according to a study by the Supreme Council of Information and Communication Technology (ictQatar).

A high level delegation from the Intergovernmental Institution for the use of Micro-algae Spirulina Against Malnutrition (IIMSAM), Permanent Observer to the United Nations Economic and Social Council is arriving here today.

Qatar Airways’s outstanding levels of service won accolades at the glittering World Travel Awards in Dubai, recently.

Doha was seething with anger and resentment last evening with heated debates in majlises and drawing rooms and people exchanging angry messages — at least some calling Al Adeed (the security helpline set up by the Interior Ministry) after news that controversial Danish journalist, Flemming Rose, Culture Editor of the Jyllands-Posten, who had commissioned and published a series of cartoons derogatory to the Prophet Muhammed (PBUH) was in the city for the World Press Freedom Day conference.

Qatar’s Minister of Business and Trade, H E Sheikh Fahad bin Jassem Al Thani, died after the car he was driving met an accident late on Thursday night.