Qatar

December 18, 2012

Mohamed bin Hammam resigns from FIFA, gets lifetime soccer ban
10:13 GMT

Mohamed bin Hammam has reportedly resigned from all football-related positions and is now banned for life, soccer world's governing body FIFA has confimed.

December 12, 2012

Qatar has been given a $1 billion quota to invest in China, much lower than the $5 billion it had hoped for
08:51 GMT

Qatar Holding has been granted a $1 billion quota to invest in China's capital markets, much lower than the $5 billion it had hoped for.

December 5, 2012

Throughout the Arab Spring, people demanded the end to corruption, but a new report shows much more needs to be done
14:15 GMT

As results in the Corruptions Perceptions Index break, the Arab Springers and the region measures its great expectations against its poor results. Qatar’s corruption rating glows against other Arab members states – but it is the best of a bunch of bad eggs.

December 3, 2012

Qatar is planning to reduce the amount of food it imports
03:00 GMT

Authorities involved with an ambitious project in Qatar, the Sahara Forest Project, said they were determined to contribute to plans undertaken by the government and Qatari organisations to reduce the country’s heavy reliance on food imports.

December 2, 2012

Qatar is offering to fund French SMEs
11:13 GMT

Qatar has announced that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the French financial organisation Caisse des Dépôts to provide funding to Small and Medium Sized businesses.

Qatar will have the fastest growing economy in the GCC, according to Fitch Ratings
03:00 GMT

Qatar will remain the fastest growing of all GCC sovereigns in 2013, driven by the government’s huge capital investment programme, Fitch Ratings has forecast.

November 26, 2012

The UN Climate Change Summit in Doha
09:49 GMT

The conference has begun in Doha with 191 countries participating in the last chance to find a replacement for the Kyoto Protocol.

November 25, 2012

Paris St-Germain planning 40m pounds bid for 'madcap' Balotelli
15:07 GMT

Paris St-Germain are reportedly planning to make a 40 million pound bid for Mario Balotelli in January, triggering a tug of war for the Italian striker with AC and Inter Milan.

November 20, 2012

US actor Robert De Niro (2nd L) founder of New York's Tribeca Film Festival, poses for a photograph along side his wife Grace Hightower De Niro and Indian actor Anupam Kher (L) and Doha Film Institute CEO Abdulaziz Bin Khalid Al-Khater (R) at the Doha Tribeca Film Festival in the Qatari capital. AFP
09:47 GMT

On the third night of the Doha Tribeca Film Festival stars were few and far between and those who did make an appearance were a moody lot.

November 19, 2012

Qatar's GDP is set to climb 6.3% in 2012, according to the IMF
16:08 GMT

The International Monetary Fund has said that GDP in Qatar is set to grow at 6.3 per cent, a marked drop from the 14.1 per cent the country saw in 2011.

A still from the film 'The Reluctant Fundamentalist'
09:35 GMT

We take a look at the opening movie of the festival.

November 18, 2012

Qatar Airways has no plans to become the Middle East version of Ryanair
09:57 GMT

Qatar Airways has neither immediate plans to launch a budget airline to compete with Dubai's expanding low-cost carrier flyDubai nor any move to float an initial public offering, said a report citing its chief executive.

Indian film director of "The Reluctant Fundamentalist" Mira Nair stands along side Abdul Aziz Al Khater, the Chief Executive Officer of the Doha Tribeca Film Festival in the Qatari capital, on November 17, 2012.
07:45 GMT

Adapted from the 2007 bestselling book, Nair's movie is a hit in the Gulf.

November 17, 2012

Barcelona replaces Qatar Foundation with Qatar Airways as shirt sponsors
14:35 GMT

Spanish giants Barcelona have replaced their shirt sponsors Qatar Foundation with Qatar Airways, and will display a purely corporate advertisement for the first time under a 210-million dollar deal approved last year.

November 12, 2012

Jehane Noujam and Mona Al Daif's film 'Solar Mama' will feature at the festival
05:00 GMT

Eight Qatari films by female directors and 11 films by Arab women filmmakers will be screened at the Doha Tribeca Film Festival this November.