| | Latest Update: Friday, 29 August, 2008, 01:19 AM Doha Time |
|  UK apologises for student’s murder | | THE United Kingdom officially apologised yesterday for the tragic murder of Qatari student Mohamed al-Majed saying it was a horrible isolated incident. |
|  Qatar Entertainment City work progressing | | MANAMA: The first phase of the multi-billion dollar Qatar Entertainment City at Lusail will be completed in 2010, its developer Abu Dhabi Investment House (ADIH) has said.
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|  | | DUBAI: Restrictions by the US and others may lead sovereign wealth funds to invest closer to home instead of in the West, the head of the UAE central bank was quoted as saying yesterday. | | |
| | DUSHANBE/PARIS: Russia faced increased diplomatic isolation over its military action against Georgia yesterday, with its Asian allies failing to offer support and France saying EU leaders were considering sanctions.
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| | QTEL’S mobile phone service was disrupted in several areas in Doha yesterday as some six fibre optic cables were “accidentally cut” by road maintenance contractors working between Al Jazeera Academy and Abu Hamour petrol station. | | |
| | DUBAI: Gulf Arab oil producers are unlikely to complete monetary union by a 2010 target, but the dollar’s rebound is giving them more reason to stick with their currency pegs, the UAE central bank governor said yesterday. | | |
| | THE official working hours for ministries, government departments and other general corporations during Ramadan will be from 8am to 1pm. | | |
| | MONACO: Holders Manchester United will face familiar foes Celtic in this season’s Champions League group stage. | | |
| | RAMADI, Iraq: The US military will next week hand over to Iraqi forces security control of Anbar, a Sunni Arab province where some of the war’s bloodiest battles have been fought, the provincial police chief said yesterday. | | |
| | Qatar:
|  | Concern over risk posed by ‘damaged’ medical gas cylinders | | Post office timings | | Bank quiz goes regional in latest edition | | Indians celebrate I-Day at Dukhan | | Services, facilities in focus at fair | | | Gulf/Arab World:
| | Lebanese chopper hit, pilot is killed | | Saudi ordered to recognise his daughter after 50 years | | Handicapped siblings found locked in West Bank cellar | | | Britain/Ireland:
| | House prices post biggest fall since 1990 | | 14-year-old girl nearly blinded during carnival violence | | Underworld gunsmith gets 11-year jail term | | Cocaine overdoses claim record number of lives | | | Europe/World:
| | There’s no build-up in Black Sea: Nato | | Cracks appear in opposition truce | | Italian museum won’t remove crucified frog | | | India:
| | Sonia, Mayawati on Forbes ‘most powerful women’ list | | RJ enters record books | | Hundreds flee as religious riots spread | | Troops kill three militants, rescue hostages in Jammu | | Mayawati neglecting poor: Rahul | | The Sunnahs of fasting | | | Pakistan/Afghanistan:
| | Bomb attack on police van kills 10 | | Musharraf friends, foes in Facebook fray | | Islamabad urged to seek IMF help to avoid default | | Over 100 Taliban killed in four days of fighting | | | Americas:
| | McCain to announce running mate today: reports | | Democratic nominee gets Clinton nod | | Biden leads attack on Republican foreign policy | | | SriLanka/Bangladesh:
| | Tamils urged to move to govt territory | | Prachanda’s China trip ‘costly’ | | | Philippines/East Asia:
| | Malaysia agrees to extend Manila peace mission | | High inflation takes bite out of Philippine economic growth | | Anwar stages dramatic walkout hours after return to parliament | | Two police killed in Xinjiang region | | | Opinion:
| | Georgia the graveyard of US’s unipolar world | | As gas prices rise, rural America feels extra pain | | Japan’s domestic stalemate to strain US ties | | Viewpoint | | | Islam:
| | Sighting versus calculations | | Truthfulness leads to piety | | | Finance & Business:
| | Sensex falls on inflation concern; ICICI, HDFC decline | | Asian mining stocks gain, led by BHP | | Qatar records lowest petrodollar recycling through bank deposits | | Sarkozy confirms tax to fund job measure | | Al Khaliji joins group for $1.5bn Murabaha | | Toyota shelves goal of selling 10mn vehicles on slowing demand | | | Sport:
| | It’s fantastic, says McDonald | | Murray digs deep to beat France’s Llodra | | Hard work key to Vaas’s 400-wicket success | | First Afghan medallist lands to hero’s welcome | | Pedroia, Red Sox blast Yankees 11-3 | | Proteas coach vows to fight back | | Deans’ love affair with S Africa | | Havret leads at Gleneagles | | Rossi hopes for improvement | | Gerrard out for two weeks after groin operation | |
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