AS PART of Doha’s efforts to ensure food security, Qatar and Sudan yesterday agreed to establish a joint holding company, which is expected to focus on agricultural investment, food industry and animal husbandry.

THERE has been a 218% increase in the number of people undergoing tests at the Medical Commission during the first half of this year compared to the same period last year, a senior official yesterday said.

Qatar Entertainment City, Abu Dhabi Investment House’s unique mega mixed-use development in Qatar – has signed a development agreement with United Real Estate Company, Kuwait, to develop the first of five districts in Qatar Entertainment City – Qatar’s first integrated family destination.

A CHRISTIAN man and a Muslim woman escaped jail for having illicit relations after he converted to Islam and the couple married.

DOHA • Qatar is projected to become the richest country in the world in terms of GDP per capita income, which was estimated at $76,000 in 2007, according to a report released by the International Bank of Qatar (IBQ)

A Bangkok-bound Qatar Airways flight was diverted to Mumbai early yesterday after a passenger misbehaved on board, an airport official here said.

Many commuters who do not have their own vehicles prefer to hire 'taxis' that are illegally operated here by some private car owners.

British Charg・d'Affaires and Head of Mission Roddy Drummond yesterday welcomed the London signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between the Armed Forces of Qatar and the British Armed Forces.

Arab human rights activists have urged the setting up of a permanent human rights committee under the aegis of the GCC General Secretariat. This call was made at the end of the five-day Regional Programme for Human Rights Activists held at the Millennium Hotel here.

LONDON • Gulf Arab oil producers are unlikely to decide on a new deadline to launch a single currency until next year as the 2010 target for monetary union becomes “difficult”, Bahrain’s central bank governor said yesterday.