As the Qatari economy continues to remain stable despite the recessionary pressure mounting worldwide, inflation is expected to ease further, stated a key study whose findings were released yesterday.

Qatar is not known for political spats and controversy but a publicly aired argument between the Doha Centre for Media Freedom and its political sponsors has recently livened up the peninsula.

The Qatar-Bahrain Friendship Causeway will go ahead as planned, despite having been delayed for months, Vinci president Yves-Thibault de Silguy said.

Members of Qatar Natural History Group (QNHG) took a step up this weekend – literally! Stranded in Al Khor by the unexpectedly heavy rain on Friday morning. Members who had planned a wildlife photography workshop with the eminent visiting Danish photographers Jens and Hanne Eriksen were forced to take shelter and hold the event in the stairwell of a block of flats.