Khobar covered with colors as thousands of residents from a cross-section of nationalities joined together to participate in non-competitive 5 kms Color Run along Khobar beach. Launching for the very first time in Saudi Arabia, in association with (...)
[caption id="attachment_118263" align="alignleft" width="233"] Arizona Coyotes' Shane Doan, back, celebrates with Arizona Cardinals' Larry Fitzgerald after Fitzgerald scored a goal during a practice session Monday in Glendale, Ariz. — (...)
day visit to Israel and the West Bank with a visit
to Bethlehem, the biblical birthplace of Jesus, dpa reported.
The team, which will include the world's number one player, Lionel
Messi, and new signing Neymar, met with Palestinian President (...)
OEIRAS, Portugal: Juan Martin del Potro beat Pablo Cuevas 6-2, 7-6 (6) to reach his second final of the season at the Estoril Open Saturday, where Fernando Verdasco awaits after the Spanish player got past Milos Raonic.
Del Potro, the 2009 US Open (...)
Kobe Bryant scored 32 points, and Pau Gasol added 33 points and 14 rebounds as the Los Angeles Lakers completed a four-game sweep of the Utah Jazz with a 111-96 victory Monday to advance to the Western Conference finals for the third straight (...)
Fernando Llorente led Athletic Bilbao to a 4-3 home win over Racing Santander in La Liga Monday which put his side within two points of the Champions League qualification places Monday.
The powerful Basque striker scored the first, set up the (...)
anticipated potential quarterfinal between the back-from-retirement Belgians dissolved in 52 minutes Friday at the Australian Open.
That's the time it took for Kim Clijsters to lose, in embarrassing fashion, her third-round match at the season's (...)
morning service to Houston, which Qatar Airways is launching on March 30.
The daily service will enhance the convenience for passengers traveling on this route, the airline said.
“The massive increase in frequency will provide business and (...)
Serena Williams recovered from a second-set lapse to win her third WTA title of the year by beating Russian Vera Zvonareva 6-4, 3-6, 6-3 in the Family Circle Cup final on Sunday.
The fifth-seeded American fought back from an early break down in the (...)
Pakistan produced another clinical performance to crush Bangladesh by seven wickets in the fourth one-dayer on Wednesday.
Opener Salman Butt made 74 and Bazid Khan hit 51 as Pakistan reached its target of 211 with 33 balls to spare to take a 4-0 (...)
Rangers won its first trophy in three years on Sunday, defeating Dundee United in the League Cup final 3-2 on penalty kicks.
Substitute Kris Boyd was the key for Rangers - scoring equalizing goals in both regular and extra time and converting the (...)
Jhelum Hydroelectric project aimed at producing 969 MW power and helping Pakistan meet its increasing energy requirements.
Terming it a very important project, the president said it will have far reaching strategic implications and added that it (...)
led coalition said
might be a rehearsal for a future attempt to overrun the
outpost.
«Several» suspected Taliban were killed Saturday evening
in the latest attack on Firebase Anaconda, in addition to
four that were killed in an earlier attack (...)
Fatah administration.
Aboul-Gheit called on the international community to deal «positively» with the new government and «take necessary measures to guarantee its success, especially by ending of the suffering of the Palestinian people and building (...)
hit regions in response to the requests by the governments of NWFP and Kashmir.
"We will provide them free textbooks, stationery, and other educational material beside large tents which could accommodate 40 children easily," Javed Ashraf Qazi, the (...)
sponsored cease-fire in Lebanon that barred any weapons supplies to Hezbollah, the Associated Press reported.
Annan, who flew into Tehran Saturday for a visit also
dominated by the country's nuclear program,
started by meeting with Foreign (...)
called misconceived press freedom, hurting feelings of more than a billion Muslims around the world.
The cartoons appeared in the Dominion Post and the Press based in Christchurch, both owned by Australia's Fairfax group.
As expected, Danish Prime (...)
nation Asian tour, which will also take him to India, Malaysia and Pakistan in response to officials invitations extended to him.
On departure from Riyadh's King Khaled International Airport, the King was seen off by Prince Misha'al bin Abdulaziz, (...)
8 group of developed countries to forgive $40 billion of debt owed by 18 of the poorest states.
"It's a good signal from the G-8 on debt cancellation," said Surakiart Sathirathai, Thai deputy prime minister and a leading candidate to replace Kofi (...)
Palestinian
fighting in the Gaza Strip was sparked by the Hamas movement and expressed hope that both sides would overcome the violence.
Peres told The Associated Press that he was scheduled to
meet with Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia (...)
by-case basis. The flights, between January 29-February 20, have paved the way for launching more charter flights and even regular flights between Taiwan and China, which split after the end of the Chinese Civil War in 1949.
Taiwan has banned (...)
warm response, waiting to see whether there would be a referendum or not.
"This war is going to end and is the process of ending by the constitutional path," Gbagbo told the group of youths.
Ivory Coast, the world's top cocoa grower and a country (...)
million-ruble (US$10 million, ¤8.2 million)
reward being offered for information about rebel leaders
Shamil Basayev and Aslan Maskhadov.
The Federal Security Service "is prepared to cooperate
with anybody, among them members of illegal (...)