In Focus -- Qatar: What recession?
Defending champion Venus Williams reached the semifinals of the $4.55 million WTA Championships in Qatar on Friday without hitting a ball
Lyon's Brazilian playmaker Juninho has completed his 2.5m euros ($3.47m) transfer to Qatari champions Al-Garrafa -- a record fee for the country.
MotoGP's opening race of the season was postponed until Monday after torrential rain saw the floodlit race in Qatar called off at the last moment.
Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir asked Arab leaders meeting in Qatar on Monday to strongly reject an arrest warrant issued against him by the International Criminal Court for war crimes.
Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir landed in Qatar on Sunday for an Arab League summit, a move that could put him at risk of arrest on war crimes charges leveled by a U.N. tribunal.
Sudan's government and rebels from its troubled Darfur region signed a confidence-building agreement Tuesday in Qatar, a step toward ending a six-year conflict that has killed about 300,000 people, the emirate's state news agency reported.
Britain's Mark Cavendish claimed his second stage win in the Tour of Qatar as Belgium's Tom Boonen clinched overall victory on Friday.
Belgian cyclist Frederiek Nolf was found dead in his hotel room in Doha hours before he was scheduled to compete in Thursday's fifth and penultimate stage of the Tour of Qatar.
Belgian cycling star Tom Boonen had double cause for celebration after winning the third stage of the Tour of Qatar on Tuesday.
In Focus -- Qatar: What recession?
Defending champion Venus Williams reached the semifinals of the $4.55 million WTA Championships in Qatar on Friday without hitting a ball
Lyon's Brazilian playmaker Juninho has completed his 2.5m euros ($3.47m) transfer to Qatari champions Al-Garrafa -- a record fee for the country.
MotoGP's opening race of the season was postponed until Monday after torrential rain saw the floodlit race in Qatar called off at the last moment.
Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir asked Arab leaders meeting in Qatar on Monday to strongly reject an arrest warrant issued against him by the International Criminal Court for war crimes.
Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir landed in Qatar on Sunday for an Arab League summit, a move that could put him at risk of arrest on war crimes charges leveled by a U.N. tribunal.
Sudan's government and rebels from its troubled Darfur region signed a confidence-building agreement Tuesday in Qatar, a step toward ending a six-year conflict that has killed about 300,000 people, the emirate's state news agency reported.
Britain's Mark Cavendish claimed his second stage win in the Tour of Qatar as Belgium's Tom Boonen clinched overall victory on Friday.
Belgian cyclist Frederiek Nolf was found dead in his hotel room in Doha hours before he was scheduled to compete in Thursday's fifth and penultimate stage of the Tour of Qatar.
Belgian cycling star Tom Boonen had double cause for celebration after winning the third stage of the Tour of Qatar on Tuesday.
Northern Ireland teenager Rory McIlroy underlined his future Ryder Cup potential with a superb eight-under-par 64 to hold a one-stroke first round lead at the Dubai Desert Classic before play was suspended due to bad light.
Spain's Alvaro Quiros charged into the third round lead at the Qatar Masters with a bogey-free eight-under-par round of 64.
South African Louis Oosthuizen carded a flawless seven-under-par round of 65 to claim a three-stroke halfway lead at the Qatar Masters on Friday.
Spanish Ryder Cup player Miguel Angel Jimenez spurned the chance to claim the outright lead after the Qatar Masters first round on Thursday when he missed an eight-foot putt on the last.
If FIFA president Sepp Blatter is to be believed, it's the biggest issue that faces football. No, not diving, or Premiership hegemony or even the tackle from behind but rather the naturalization of players from other countries, especially Brazil, becoming common currency in the international game.
Adam Scott goes into Thursday's Qatar Masters bidding for his third win in three appearances at the European Tour event and staving off questions about his personal life.
Fourth seed Andy Roddick launched his Australian Open build-up in style when he raced past Spain's Ivan Navarro 6-1 6-3 in 61 minutes at the Qatar Open on Monday.
The Saudi Arabian Stock Exchange dipped slightly Sunday, a day after King Abdullah announced he would invest billions of Saudi riyals into the market.
Iran, Russia and Qatar discussed the formation of an OPEC-style cartel among some of the largest natural gas producing nations on Tuesday
One look outside the window gives a glimpse of the "economics of energy" in Doha, Qatar. Cranes dot the tops of half-finished towers, a monumental work in progress; the result of vast energy wealth being pumped out of the ground and poured into project after project.
In Focus -- Gulf football interests
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The money involved is mind boggling, even by Formula One's heady standards.
A U.S. Air Force B-1 bomber caught fire Friday after a landing at al-Udeid Air Base in Qatar, U.S. military officials said.
Noor Al-Mohannadi is a budding Qatari businesswoman taking part in the inaugural class of a new entrepreneurship program -- the first of its kind her country -- delivered by the Pittsburgh-based Carnegie Mellon University in partnership with the Qatar Science & Technology Park.
If there's anything in which Qatar takes pride -- aside from a massive construction boom -- it is providing its Qatari minority and the hundreds of thousands of expatriates working and living here with plenty of shopping opportunities.
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The second cut in U.S. interest rates in as many weeks is putting further pressure on the members of the Gulf Cooperation Council to reconsider their currencies' peg with the dollar; and none more so than Qatar.
Amid all the talk about storm clouds gathering over the U.S. economy, it's easy to forget there are other places in the world where the sun is still shining.
It was back in December at a summit in Qatar that members of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) decided to weather falling interest rates and soaring inflation and retain the dollar-peg.
Belgium's Tom Boonen retained the overall leader's yellow jersey in the Tour of Qatar after finishing third in Thursday's 170-kilometer fifth stage around Al Khor.
Belgium's Tom Boonen retained his overall lead after winning the third stage of the Tour of Qatar on Tuesday.
Andrew Coltart took a big step towards winning back his European Tour card after closing to within a shot of leader Johan Edfors ahead of Sunday's final round of the Qatar Masters.
Holder Retief Goosen has withdrawn from the Qatar Masters and returned to London for treatment after suffering blurred vision following laser surgery 10 days ago.
A high-ranking minister in the Gulf points a finger at commodity speculators and the "fear factor" for the recent jump in prices
Nasser al Ansari is the CEO of Qatari Diar, a state-owned real estate investment company. Famous for its purchase of London's Chelsea Barracks, Qatari Diar was established in 2004 by the Qatar Investment Authority, to support Qatar's growing economy and to co-ordinate the country's real estate development priorities. It is now valued at $1 billion with 18 projects underway.
The declining dollar, surging oil prices, and exploding growth across the Persian Gulf are causing inflation levels to rise. Kuwait has already abandoned the dollar. And some analysts say the rest of the GCC may have to do the same to fight inflation. But do the Gulf banks agree? And how far do they think switching to a basket of currencies will bring down prices?
Honda's Dani Pedrosa ended Yamaha's dominance in the first official MotoGP test of the year on Thursday with a lap of Qatar's Losail circuit that was quicker than the 2006 pole position time.
Left-hander Richard Green celebrated Australia Day by joining South African Retief Goosen in a share of the lead after the second round of the Qatar Masters on Friday.
Host nation Qatar won the 428th and final gold medal of the 15th Asian Games when they beat Iraq 1-0 in a scrappy men's football final on Friday.
Iraq pulled off a shock 1-0 win over South Korea on Tuesday to reach the Asian Games soccer final, while host nation Qatar scored a famous 2-0 victory over defending champions Iran in the other semifinal.
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The Asian Games security task force is to try to track down supporters responsible for unruly behavior during Qatar's 1-0 defeat to Uzbekistan in the soccer tournament.
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Saad Al-Jassem slips out of his dishdasha revealing a body in extraordinary shape for a man who turns 70 this year. On a traditional wooden dhow off Doha's corniche, Saad is getting ready to show me how to dive for pearls.
The Gulf state of Qatar has become the first Arab country to commit troops to the U.N. international peacekeeping operation in Lebanon.
An estimated $30 billion a year is pouring into developing liquefied natural gas.
Former Nigeria international Jay-Jay Okocha has signed a one-year contract with Qatari first division team Sports Club.
World champion Valentino Rossi roared back from his worst start to a MotoGP season with victory in Qatar on Saturday.
Australian rookie Casey Stoner has taken pole position for Saturday's Qatar MotoGP after a "dream" ride on his Honda on Friday.
American Kenny Roberts Jr. was fastest in the first practice sessions for the Qatar Grand Prix on Thursday.
After his worst start to a season in six years, MotoGP world champion Valentino Rossi needs a win in Qatar on Saturday for both points and pride.
World champion Tom Boonen has won the Tour of Qatar, taking the fifth and final stage of the race in three hours, 36 minutes and 48 seconds.
Argentina's Ricardo Gonzalez and Swede Henrik Stenson share the Qatar Masters lead on six-under-par 66 after Vijay Singh and Ernie Els failed to fire in the first round.
Argentina rebounded from their weekend defeat to arch-rivals England with a comfortable 3-0 win over Qatar in a friendly in Doha on Wednesday.
Former French captain Marcel Desailly has quit his club in Qatar to return to France and said he wants to continue to play football.
Loris Capirossi lined himself up for a hat-trick of successive MotoGP wins by taking pole position for the third race in a row at the Qatar GP.
The oil-rich nation of Qatar has offered the United States $100 million to assist in the humanitarian crisis triggered by Hurricane Katrina.
Former French captain Marcel Desailly is to extend his playing career for at least another season after helping Al Gharafah to the Qatar league title.
The man who exploded a suicide car bomb outside a Doha, Qatar, theater Saturday was an Egyptian national, Qatar Interior Ministry officials said Sunday.
A car bomb exploded at a theater near a British school in the Qatari capital of Doha on Saturday night, killing a British national and wounding 12 others, said the Qatari Interior Ministry.
Australian Richard Green holds a one-stroke lead after two rounds of the Qatar Masters after shooting a four-under 68.
Claudio Caniggia, one of the stars of Argentinian football during the last decade, has announced his retirement at the age of 38.
The Qatar Masters golf tournament, a European PGA Tour event since its inception in 1998, will be co-sanctioned by the Asian Tour from next year.
The United States warned Americans in the Gulf state of Qatar Friday to avoid major hotels in Doha over the next week due to the possibility of a terrorist attack.
Ezekiel Kemboi led home a jubilant Kenyan clean sweep of the medals in the men's Olympic 3,000 meters steeplechase final on Tuesday.
Philippe Troussier confirmed his decision to quit as Qatar coach at the end of the Asian Cup after his team were shocked 2-1 by Indonesia in their opening game.
Former Bayern Munich coach Ottmar Hitzfeld, who surprisingly turned down an offer to become coach of the German national side earlier this month, has also opted against a move to Qatar, the daily Bild has reported.
A Qatari court has sentenced two Russian intelligence officers to life in prison after finding them guilty of the assassination of a Chechen rebel leader.
Brazilian striker Marcio Amoroso has started a week-long trial period with Celtic, the Scottish champions said on their website on Tuesday.
Clarifying comments by a U.S. diplomat, a U.S. official in Moscow said Monday the United States played no role in the arrest or investigation of Russian intelligence agents held in Qatar on charges of killing a Chechen separatist leader.
Top seed Justine Henin-Hardenne is through to the semi-finals of the Qatar Total Open after defeating Nathalie Dechy of France in straight sets.
Top seed Justine Henin-Hardenne and second seed Jennifer Capriati bucked the trend of losing seeds in the second round of the Qatar Open.
A Chechen rebel leader linked by the U.N. to Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda terror network has been killed in a car explosion in Qatar, government sources in Doha told CNN.
Frenchman Nicolas Escude capped his return from injury by beating Ivan Ljubicic of Croatia 6-3 7-6 to win tennis' Qatar Masters.
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