A general view shows the Kellingley Colliery in Knottingley, northern England. A short drive across Britain’s gritty former industrial heartland of south Yorkshire...
A general view shows the Kellingley Colliery in Knottingley, northern England. A short drive across Britain’s gritty former industrial heartland of south Yorkshire...
A worker walks on scaffolding at the construction site of a new home in Carlsbad, California. US housing starts and permits rose in...
RIYADH: Saudi Arabian retailer Jarir Marketing Co plans to invest SR1.1bn ($293m) over the next five years to roughly double the number of...
OUARZAZATE, Morocco: Morocco’s first solar energy plant will begin operating in 2015, an official said yesterday, as part of a multi-billion-euro project the...
KUWAIT CITY: A Kuwaiti oil trade union yesterday condemned the unilateral closure by Saudi Arabia of an offshore oilfield jointly operated by the...
DUBAI: A judge in the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) court approved on Sunday an application to liquidate ES Bankers (Dubai) Ltd (ESBD),...
A serviceman loads a mortar in Peski village, near Donetsk, yesterday. KIEV: Two Ukrainian soldiers have been killed in combat with pro-Russian rebels...
By Satish Kanady DOHA: The gross written premium (GWP) of Qatar’s five listed insurance companies stood at $1.4bn last year. The density of...
Officials signing the agreement in Berlin. DOHA: Catalyst Qatar, a company involved in the design and development of software applications and games, announced...
Qatari and Moroccan officials exchanging the contracts. DOHA: Qatar Development Bank (QDB) yesterday announced that joint meetings between Qatari exporters and Moroccan importers...
A Mitsubishi Regional Jet (MRJ) is unveiled at Mitsubishi Heavy Industries’ Nagoya Aerospace Systems Works Komaki Minami Plant in Toyoyama town, yesterday. KOMAKI:...
IMF President Christine Lagarde (right) poses with OECD Secretary General Angel Gurria, prior to a meeting with International economic organisations at the OECD...
Technicians work on the assembly line of Embraer’s E-Jet family of commercial planes at their factory in Sao Jose dos Campos. Embraer delivered...
GDF Suez Executive Vice-President and Chief Financial Officer Isabelle Kocher (left) and CNR Chairman Elisabeth Ayrault attend a ceremony to celebrate the 80th...
CAIRO: The Egyptian government has signed contracts with six international firms to carry out the dredging of the new Suez Canal, the head...
Doha: A significant decline in commodity prices in recent weeks—coupled with a worsening global economic outlook and major corrections in global equity markets—could...
Doha: Alfardan Properties has entered into a partnership with Vodafone Qatar to provide complimentary Internet connection with a speed of 10 Mbps to...
Manama: Gulf Air, the national carrier of the Kingdom of Bahrain, announced that it will be recommencing flights to Shiraz. Becoming the airline’s...