The weather in Qatar will be relatively hot by the day with slight haze and some scattered clouds at times.

Tickets for the Doha Tribeca Film Festival (DTFF) will go on sale on October 16 at venues throughout the city and online at www.dohatribecafilm.com.

The sixth Islamic Conference of the Culture Ministers of the Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC), meeting the Azerbaijani capital Baku, yesterday approved Doha as “Capital of Islamic Culture for 2021”.

Qatar will the annual “World Solidarity Day With the Blind” with a march on the Doha Corniche tomorrow afternoon, officials at the Qatar Social and Cultural Centre for Blind (QSCCB) announced yesterday.

The first phase of the Karwa City, now under construction in Mesaimeer, would be ready in the first quarter of 2010.

The visiting King Mswati III of Swaziland and his accompanying delegation yesterday visited the Qatari Diar Real Estate Investment Company.

After over three decades of their successful musical journey, Air Supply finally arrived in Doha bringing with them their love songs set to capture people’s hearts as they stage their first-ever concert here tonight.

Doha has become a member of the World Energy Cities Partnership (WECP), a collaboration between 15 “energy cities” around the world which encourages the exchange of energy industry knowledge and economic and infrastructure development strategies. In its annual general meeting held in Calgary, Canada, from October 7 to 10, the member cities voted unanimously for Doha’s membership of WECP.

Qatar hopes to have a full-fledged railway system in Doha and outside the city, with links to other countries as well, by the year 2026.

A law to regulate the employment and working hours of domestic servants is expected to be enforced soon.