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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.

MOHAMED Maqsood Akhtar, a United Nations (UN) expert, has hailed Qatar’s role in protection of the ozone layer.

Qatar Airways recently bagged the award for the World’s Leading Business Class during the World Travel Awards grand

DOHA Debates chairman Tim Sebastian gave a keynote speech on in-depth interview techniques to a gathering of some 200 Arab journalists yesterday at the first ‘Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism’ (ARIJ) conference in Jordan.

From the next year, all lights on the streets and roads of Doha and its outskirts are to be operated centrally and maintained regularly says a report published in the local.

The Ministry of Interior will introduce more combined speed and red light digital enforcement cameras soon as procurement of new 24 traffic cameras from the Redflex, an Australian company specialised in traffic systems, was signed recently.