The six leaders of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) will gather for their 30th summit in Kuwait today to discuss the customs union and the railway project, as well as the monetary union agreement and the single Gulf currency.

The country received the season’s heaviest rains yesterday. The MET office recorded 14.4mm rain across the country.

The Ministry of Interior has urged the public to strictly follow the safety and security guidelines while visiting Corniche to watch the grand finale of Qatar National Day celebrations, to be held on December 18.

Alfardan Properties’ One Porto Arabia was formally opened on Wednesday, becoming the first building to be available for lease at The Pearl Qatar. The magnificent gala dinner marking the inauguration, complete with fire dancers and a lively musical band, was held on-site at One Porto Arabia. The event was attended by members of Alfardan family as well as other VIP guests. Nestled at one end of the manmade island, One Porto Arabia is the first building on the first marina of The Pearl. Boasting

Since the start of Vodafone Qatar’s second international calling promotion, customers have made international calls amounting to over 50 million minutes, Vodafone announced yesterday.

Vodafone Qatar was cited as the “New Entrant of the Year” during the recent 4th Annual CommsMEA Awards in Dubai, officials have announced. Sturt Eastwood, Director of Vodafone’s fixed line business, who accepted the award on behalf of the company said the award is a great privilege considering that the contest itself was hotly contested by very strong contenders.

The credit crisis in Dubai will be opened up for public discussion at the latest edition of the Doha Debates today.

Barwa has started delivering outstanding payments that the now-defunct main contractor owed to subcontractors who had completed work on the Barwa Masaken (Alsailya and Mesaimeer) project, the company said yesterday.

Only one percent of all blogging content is in Arabic. This lack of quality Arabic content in blogs maybe due to the cultural differences in the way technology is used in the Middle East and North Africa region.

The weather in Qatar will be partly cloudy to cloudy with a chance of scattered rain, thundery at times.