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The mystery about the two Qatari children of divorced parents who went missing in Makkah on June 7, is deepening. In a new twist to the row, the Family Consultancy Centre has said the dispute over the custody of the children between their estranged parents is old and was first brought to its notice in 2005.

The British Embassy has urged all students planning to study in the UK in 2009-10 academic year to apply for their student visas early and to make sure they provide all the right documents.

There are some Qatari youth who spend as much as 14 to 15 hours surfing the Internet daily, causing concern to their parents, says a national who has a social website to interact with fellow citizens. Yusuf Al Amri said designing a website is so easy and it can be done without any monitoring by the authorities concerned.

Growing interest in the archaeology of Qatar has resulted in a substantial number of new sites being discovered and significantly more archaeological research in the region.

The Qatar General Electricity and Water Corporation (Kahramaa) has launched a study for continuously improving the quality of drinking water in the country to match the guidelines set by the World Health Organisation (WHO).

Eid Charity will be launching the biggest Ramadan Iftar in Africa, where it hopes to feed 20,000 fasting Muslims daily during the holy month.

Regular monitoring by the consumer protection cell of the business and trade ministry seems to have led to competition among major shopping centres here as their price lists for food items show some uniformity now.

In old Cairo's Al Darb Al Ahmar district, the minarets of several historic mosques reach out from the modern grunge surrounding them. They are timeworn but elegant, with windows and walls adorned with carved wood and dome ceilings tiled with colorful mosaics.

The weather in Qatar will be hot with blowing dust and some clouds.

The formal synchronization of power grids of Bahrain, Qatar and Kuwait in the first phase of the GCC Interconnection Power Grid was completed yesterday.