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Qatar Airways’ expansion plans remain unaffected by the current production delays involving Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft since the delivery of the planes is not scheduled to begin before 2010.

The stage is all set for Qatar’s first ever media and advertising exhibition and conference — Media Expo Qatar 2008 — to unveil at the Qatar International Exhibition Centre, today.

The Upper Criminal Court here recently found four men, two of them public servants, guilty of forging municipal documents related to building permits, Al Sharq daily reported.

City Center Doha, is conducting a SMS-Mania promotion which is to last till January 9. The promotion, in which customers can win a Kia Mohave, has been organised in collaboration with Al-Attiyah Motor.

US Defence Secretary Robert Gates warned yesterday that US adversaries would be “sorely mistaken” to test Barack Obama’s resolve in the Gulf as Iran shunned a regional

DESPITE the economic turmoil rocking the world, almost half the people of the Gulf think that the region would not be affected by job cuts.

The first spell of rain has brought its magic all across the deserts of Qatar. A few days after it received scattered showers, the parched landscape of Qatar’s interiors has transformed into green patches which are scattered with small indigenous flowers in various hues.

Children as young as four years old are getting up at 4.30am in order to catch school buses that pick them up at 5.15am – some two hours before their lessons even start.

A HOUSEMAID has spent 28 months in jail awaiting her trial only to discover her case has come and gone – and she should have served 24 months.