The yards for selling fresh local farm products are being readied for opening on Thursday to concur with the upcoming agricultural season, a senior official has said.

Mahaseel, a subsidiary of Hassad Food, on Wednesday launched the first phase of marketing local produce.

The market share of Qatari fresh produce has increased significantly during the current winter season compared to last year, a prominent Qatari agriculturist has said.

A large number of Qatar residents and visitors thronged the Mahaseel Souq at Katara–the Cultural Village’s southern area to buy fresh produce from local vegetable farms and dairies.

Dubai has tested a Chinese prototype of a self-driving hover-taxi, its transport authority said yesterday, with the aim of introducing the aerial vehicle in the emirate by July.

The funeral was held yesterday of a Brazilian Supreme Court justice who died in a plane crash after overseeing the investigation of politicians linked to the nation’s largest graft scheme.

Qatar Career Development Center (QCDC) has concluded its four-day Professional Career Counsellor programme.

A 28-year-old man died in Japan after choking on a rice ball at a speed-eating contest, an event organiser said on Tuesday. The man died on November 16 in hospital three days after choking.

Turkey has suspended 12,800 police officers over alleged links to an Islamic preacher accused of masterminding the failed July coup, and cut broadcasts of a pro-Kurdish television channel.

Myanmar, a country served by Qatar’s telecom giant Ooredoo, is the fourth-fastest growing mobile phone market in the world, contributing around 6% to the 87mn people ...

Global equities moved ahead yesterday as another raft of weak US economic data reinforced expectations that the Federal Reserve will likely delay an interest rate hike.

UEFA chief Michel Platini has appealed against a 90-day ban slapped on him over an ongoing corruption probe...