Qatar has not said if it will sell alcohol at stadiums during the 2022 World Cup, but an official says he didn’t see a reason to sell it at matches.
Inmates in Afghanistan’s US-run Bagram Prison have faced abuses including torture, beatings and other mistreatment, according to a government report.
Rafael Nadal had to fight hard not to lose his opening match of 2012, fighting back against Philipp Kohlschreiber in the Qatar Open.
According to the presidency of COP17, an ad hoc group will now work towards charting a new universal legal agreement on climate change.
Suspended Asian Football Confederation head Mohamed bin Hammam fights bribery allegations while soccer in Asia battles match-fixing and violence.
Sepp Blatter has been re-elected Fifa president and vowed to clean up the body’s tarnished image following a series of corruption allegations.
Sepp Blatter has shrugged off the corruption allegations engulfing football’s governing body, denying the sport was in crisis.
Jerome Valcke has denied suggesting Qatar’s 2022 bid team were guilty of corruption in an email sent to scandal-tainted Jack Warner.
Jerome Valcke had confirmed that he sent a private email suggesting Qatar had "bought" the right to host the 2022 World Cup, which Qatar has denied.
Fifa presidential candidate Mohamed bin Hammam has vowed to bring more transparency to football’s world governing body amid fresh corruption claims.
The Qatar Football Association has said Qatar won the right to host the 2022 World Cup fairly and squarely and not by corrupt methods.
Western warplanes bombed Muammar Gaddafi’s armour in eastern Libya on Friday to try to break a battlefield stalemate and help rebels take Ajdabiyah.
Asian football chief Mohamed bin Hammam said on Friday he will run for the Fifa presidency, the first challenge to Sepp Blatter in nearly a decade.
The economy of Qatar — the world’s wealthiest country per capita — will grow a breathless 20% in 2011, the IMF said on Wednesday.
A member of Fifa’s executive committee has criticised talk of moving the 2022 World Cup to winter, saying it will disrupt the "entire football world".
Nasser al-Attiyah of Qatar made up for heartbreak a year ago by finally winning his first Dakar Rally title on Saturday.
The prospect of the 2022 Qatar World Cup being held in the winter moved a step closer when Sepp Blatter said that this is what he expects will happen.
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/ 9 December 2010
Governments worldwide should treat education with the same urgency they bring to bear in combating HIV/Aids and global warming.
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/ 5 December 2010
Qatar’s stock market index surged on Sunday, the first trading day after the Gulf state won the bid to host the 2022 football World Cup.
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/ 4 December 2010
The 2022 soccer World Cup in Qatar could take place in January or February to avoid the scorching temperatures of the summer months.
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/ 2 December 2010
Russia and the tiny Gulf state of Qatar were awarded the 2018 and 2022 Soccer World Cups on Thursday.
A senior member of FIFA’s executive committee has criticized the decision to vote on the 2018 and 2022 World Cup hosts at the same time in December.
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/ 29 October 2009
Venus and Serena Williams refused to become entangled in the fall-out from Andre Agassi’s shock drugs confession on Wednesday.
Fabrice Santoro was shorn of all magic while going down 6-0 6-1 to world number-one Rafael Nadal in the first round of the Qatar Open on Tuesday.
Rival Lebanese leaders signed a deal on Wednesday to end 18 months of political conflict that had pushed their country to the brink of a new civil war. The deal, concluded after six days of Arab-mediated talks in Qatar, paved the way for parliament to elect army chief General Michel Suleiman as president, filling a post vacant since November because of the political deadlock.
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/ 25 January 2008
Swede Johan Edfors shot a scintillating six-under-par 66 to take a two-shot lead going into the third round at the ,5-million Qatar Masters on Friday. South African Charl Schwartzel, who was on two-under at the end of the first round, picked up five shots in a flawless round of 67.
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/ 23 January 2008
Defending champion Retief Goosen has been forced to withdraw from the ,5-million Qatar Masters suffering from vision problems, he announced on Wednesday. He has been replaced by Sweden’s Henrik Nystrom. Goosen came to Doha for the European PGA Tour event after undergoing corrective laser surgery ten days ago.
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/ 23 January 2008
Retief Goosen is hoping to become the first golfer to win the European Tour’s Qatar Masters on two occasions when the 11th edition of the ,5-million event gets under way on Thursday at the picturesque Doha Golf Club. The South African responded with a confident ”You mean not yet” when told that no player has won the tournament twice since its inception.
Nikolay Davydenko, the world number four from Russia who remains at the centre of an investigation into a betting scandal, on Tuesday described his treatment by the Association of Tennis Professionals as ”idiotic”. Davydenko recently had a fine, for allegedly not trying at the St Petersburg Open, overturned.
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/ 3 December 2007
Leaders of the Gulf Cooperation Council, wary of the repercussions of Iran’s nuclear programme, opened a two-day summit on Monday at which they were joined by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. He was the first Iranian president to attend the gathering of the neighbouring bloc of wealthy Gulf Arab oil producers.
Egyptian Energy Minister Sameh Fahmi said on Sunday that forming an Opec-like gas cartel was not a good idea as the world is not prepared to have a new energy organisation. ”It’s not a good idea at this stage,” Fahmi said when asked about the idea of forming a cartel for the gas-producing and -exporting countries.
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/ 28 January 2007
South African Retief Goosen won the ,2-million Qatar Masters with a one-stroke victory over Australian Nick O’Hern on Sunday. The South African, aiming for his first win in more than a year after a disappointing 2006, held his nerve on the final hole to curl in an eagle to finish the tournament on 15-under-par 273.