Robert Ménard and his team have left the Doha Centre for Media Freedom. "The Centre has been suffocated. We no longer have either the freedom or the resources to do our work", he explained.

Two Indians, one of them a four-month-old infant, are among four new cases of swine flu that were detected here yesterday taking the total number of confirmed cases to 14, Qatar News Agency reported quoting the Minister of Public Health and Secretary-General of the Supreme Council of Health, H E Abdullah bin Khalid Al Qahtani.

A housemaid of an undisclosed nationality has committed suicide by throwing herself out from her sponsor’s moving car in Laqta district, says a report published in the local Arabic daily Al Arab.

Six of the total 14 swine flu patients in Qatar have recovered from the illness while the condition of the remaining is improving fast, the Supreme Council of Health said yesterday.

A 70-year-old woman has been beaten up severely and kicked out of her home by her son and grandchildren, but she is reluctant to file a police complaint because she does not want legal action against her near and

The head of the French-Qatar businessmen Club, Claude de Kimulria, has said that the state visit of HH Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani to Paris comes at the right time to enhance the very special relationship between Qatar and France that began when the two countries established diplomatic relations in the early seventies.

The Qatar Philharmonic Orchestra (QPO) will perform a film music programme, Hollywood: A Musical Celebration, on June 27 at 7.30pm at the Aspire Hall. This will be the last evening concert of the season by QPO.

The Coasts and Borders Security Department (CBSD), popularly known as the Coast Guard, have recently manufactured a speed boat locally, and using it for the first time in an anti-smuggling operation, caught two cross-border drug traffickers who had hidden 81 packets of narcotics on Qatar’s shores.

One hundred and sixty-five students who successfully completed their secondary education proudly received their diplomas during the graduation ceremony of the Omar bin Al Khattab Educational Complex for Boys Secondary School, at the Sheraton Doha yesterday.