Doha: The Qatar Photography Center under the Ministry of Culture is hosting a solo exhibition featuring 43 photographs taken at Katara's Katmai National Park in Alaska by Qatari photographer Khalifa Al Mansouri at Katara's Building 18, running through November 4. The exhibition documents the brown »»»

OHIO, USA: A former music pastor in Ohio who appeared briefly on ” American Idol ” was sentenced Monday to life in prison without the possibility of parole, after a jury convicted him last week of murdering his wife while he was having an affair. The judge said Caleb Flynn, 40, used his Christian f»»»

STOCKHOLM: Belgian-born scientist Francis Halzen won the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for his efforts to demystify a rare group of neutrinos, tiny cosmic particles that researchers believe offer clues to how the universe evolved. “It was a great surprise, and I obviously didn’t expect it,” Halzen»»»

There is now an exact date of when Hungary could adopt the euro if the country successfully meets the necessary economic and legal requirements, according to a potential timetable outlined by Zoltán Kurali, Deputy Governor of the Hungarian National Bank (Magyar Nemzeti Bank, MNB). A possible pathwa»»»

Hamdan Foundation in Dubai, UNESCO launch research project on lessons from past laureates Dubai: Three teacher development initiatives from Türkiye, Ethiopia and Indonesia have shared $300,000 at the ninth edition of the UNESCO–Hamdan Prize for Teacher Development, honoured at a ceremony at UNESCO »»»

ICE has called the gloves “distraction and de-escalation devices" The shock gloves immigration agents could soon use to control detainees and protesters worked so powerfully during a military exercise that participants felt intense pain, stopped fighting immediately and feared additional exposures,»»»

TUNIS, Oct 6, 2026 (TAP) - The number of trade transactions carried out by Tunisia under the Agreement Establishing the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) has exceeded 400, more than two years after the agreement entered into force,...»»»

GENEVA: The UN Human Rights Council voted Tuesday to extend its monitoring of abuses in Russia, citing the “continued significant deterioration” of rights. The UN’s top rights body voted 21-5 to prolong by a year the mandate of its special rapporteur on rights violations in Russia. Ireland presente»»»

Membership connects Emirati researchers with international Antarctic science programmes Abu Dhabi: The UAE has joined the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) as an associate member, becoming the first Arab state to join the international body in its 68-year history. The UAE’s membersh»»»

WASHINGTON: Kilmar Ábrego Garcia on Tuesday will be back in federal court, where the federal government will continue its attempt to deport him in an 18-month saga that began when he was mistakenly sent to El Salvador last year. The government is moving to vacate a preliminary injunction put in pla»»»

RIYADH: Saudi Arabia’s Cabinet on Tuesday reaffirmed the Kingdom’s full support for Yemen’s Presidential Leadership Council and internationally recognized government as fighting intensified against the Iran-backed Houthis. The Cabinet, chaired by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in Riyadh, said Sau»»»

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Russian President Vladimir Putin will hold a bilateral meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the APEC summit in Shenzhen, Kremlin aide Yury Ushakov said on Tuesday. "An agreement has been reached. Our leader will meet with the Chinese president, that is fo»»»

Etihad touches down at Red Sea International Airport, opening new Saudi route Etihad Airways has launched direct flights from Abu Dhabi to Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea coast, opening a new year-round connection to one of the kingdom’s fastest-growing tourism destinations. The airline’s inaugural Airbus A»»»

UAE's AI initiative targets workforce transformation and global competitiveness Abu Dhabi: The UAE is training about 80,000 government employees to become "super users" of artificial intelligence, capable of building AI agents and working with advanced models, the Minister of State for Artificial I»»»

WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump on Tuesday blamed mass student protests in France on “mass migration” and Islam, pushing his global right-wing narrative ahead of tough midterm elections at home. “What’s happening in France is nothing less than out-of-control mass migration. This isn’t about s»»»

BERLIN: Ever since the far-right, anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany party won a regional election last month, not a day goes by without Ola Akhras and her husband discussing whether they should go back to Syria. The couple live with their two young daughters in Magdeburg, where Saxony-Anhalt’s»»»

Washington Capitals captain Alexander Ovechkin will retire after the current NHL season, he told his teammates in a video shared on social media. In the short clip, which was filmed in the team’s locker room on Monday, the 41-year-old Russian said he was sad to tell his teammates he would soon be l»»»

The author of a new book that tells the story of a White supremacist coup in her hometown of Wilmington, North Carolina has spoken to FRANCE 24 about how those involved and the authorities covered up the event for years. The coup happened back in 1898, but was never mentioned in local schools »»»

RIYADH: The Coalition to Restore Legitimacy in Yemen battling the Houthis said on Tuesday that its forces intercepted a ballistic missile fired by the Iran-backed militia at the Kingdom’s southwest. The coalition’s spokesman Major General Turki Al-Maliki said on X it “intercepted and destroyed” the»»»

In tonight's edition: Ethiopia's leader Abiy Ahmed secures another term in office, but his country is sliding back into conflict. Also, several major cities across Senegal are battered by torrential rains. Plus some of the migrants being deported from the US fear being sent to African countrie»»»

The Commission is “going a bit too fast” in unlocking €4.2bn and restarting the Erasmus+ student exchange programme in Hungary, according to budget committee MEPs. The EU froze its financial assistance to Hungary in 2022 due to concerns about rule of law breaches and misappropriation of funds by Vi»»»

MADRID: Spain’s government on Tuesday approved two housing decrees whose rejection by parliament last week prompted Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez to call a snap election. The measures, which include rent caps, a temporary ban on evictions and limits on corporate purchases of residential property, we»»»

LONDON: Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir took part in a raid and demolition of a Palestinian residence in occupied East Jerusalem on Tuesday. The far-right politician spearheaded the demolition of a five-story residential building with 10 apartments, housing about 70 people in the»»»

LONDON: A former top UN food agency official has said he was fired last week after highlighting Gaza’s hunger crisis, as he launched an appeal against the dismissal, The Guardian reported. The leadership of the Food and Agriculture Organization had refused to renew Benjamin Davis’ contract as chief»»»

Interviewed on bTV on Tuesday, Defence Minister Dimitar Stoyanov said that wreckage from the drones that attacked the two commercial vessels in the Black Sea needs to be recovered in order to determine who they belonged to. At present, there is no such information, he added. “We cannot confirm whet»»»

RIYADH: Egypt and Jordan reaffirmed their support for Saudi Arabia on Tuesday amid renewed Houthi attacks targeting the Kingdom. The statements of solidarity came during separate telephone conversations between the Saudi foreign minister, Prince Faisal bin Farhan, and his Egyptian and Jordanian cou»»»

MIONICA - Aleksandar Vucic, who heads the Aleksandar Vucic-United Serbia electoral list for the October 25 early parliamentary polls in Serbia, said on Tuesday the country's strategic dialogue with the US would not be easy or simple, but that he believed big things would be achieved for Serbia. "I »»»

Poland’s developers completed more than 132,200 homes between January and August 2026, according to Statistics Poland. Mazowieckie led with over 26,000 units, followed by Małopolskie with nearly 13,800 and Wielkopolskie with about 13,300. Together, these three regions accounted for over 40% of nati»»»

The global energy transition faces a major infrastructure bottleneck: electricity grids. The International Energy Agency estimates that 25 mln km of lines must be built or replaced worldwide by 2035, requiring a 30% capacity increase. Around EUR 584 bln may be needed to modernize EU grids by 2030, »»»

TUNIS, Oct. 6, 2026 (TAP) - The next phase of implementing the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) agreement requires further commitment from the Tunisian private sector and the exploitation of the opportunities offered by the agreement to...»»»

Doha, Qatar: Director of the Media and Communication Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Ibrahim bin Sultan Al Hashmi affirmed Tuesday that mediation efforts between the United States and the Islamic Republic of Iran are ongoing and uninterrupted. He noted that these efforts aim to achiev»»»

Bulgaria's Fiscal Council has called for fiscal consolidation, spending cuts and structural reforms in the 2027 budget, warning that the country faces a growing risk of recession and a potential debt spiral. The recommendations were issued as part of the ongoing 2027 budget procedure and cover the »»»

DOHA: Director of the Media and Communication Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) Ibrahim bin Sultan Al Hashmi affirmed that mediation efforts between the United States and the Islamic Republic of Iran are ongoing and uninterrupted. He noted that these efforts aim to achieve progre»»»

US lawmakers hail Captain Smit Machchhar and crew for courage aboard flydubai Flight 1073 The heroism of flydubai Captain Smit Machchhar and those aboard Flight 1073 has been recognised in the United States Congress, with a House resolution praising their courage during a terrifying mid-air emergen»»»

STRASBOURG/LYON/PARIS: Police fired tear gas at protesters blockading French high schools on Tuesday as students, teachers and parents took to the streets on the biggest day of action in a wave of demonstrations against understaffed and dilapidated classrooms. In Marseille and Nantes, protesters he»»»

WASHINGTON - Serbia's economic growth will accelerate from 2 pct in 2025 to 3.1 pct in 2026 and 3.7 pct in 2027 and slow down slightly to 3.5 pct in 2028, the World Bank said in its latest Europe and Central Asia Economic Update, released on Tuesday. Growth is projected to be supported by "public i»»»

European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen has joined MEPs in urging the bloc’s governments not to gut the EU’s next seven-year budget, as talks on spending reach a critical phase. “I would like to caution against large cuts. It would risk cutting deep into critical priorities that we all t»»»

Hungary is officially among the countries in the running to host the 2036 Summer Olympics and Paralympics, with Budapest named as the central location for the proposed Games. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) confirmed that Hungary is one of seven interested parties currently in continuous »»»

A delivery of 70,000 doses of flu vaccine for the open market is scheduled for November, the Health Ministry told the Bulgarian News Agency on Tuesday in response to a question about when the vaccines are expected to arrive and whether there will be any delay. The National Programme for Seasonal In»»»

Moscow: Russian authorities denied Tuesday that they were imposing anti-plague measures after a laboratory technician reportedly died of the disease, as Washington called on Moscow to be "transparent" about the situation. It was reported last week that a worker at an anti-plague institute in Siberi»»»

KUALA LUMPUR: Myanmar’s coup leader turned president Min Aung Hlaing will head to Malaysia on Wednesday for a two-day visit, officials said, following Kuala Lumpur’s plan to return thousands of Myanmar immigrants. The visit comes after a group of nearly 1,500 returnees reached Myanmar on Sunday, wi»»»

NAIROBI: Kenya confirmed its first Ebola case on Tuesday after a Kenyan citizen who had traveled from the Democratic Republic of Congo died in Nairobi. Kenya is the third country to record a case linked to the Ebola epidemic in eastern Congo, the second largest on record with more than 8,000 cases.»»»

Majid Al Futtaim says THAT’s footprint will support Mall of the Emirates’ next chapter Dubai: THAT Concept Store, the UAE-born retail concept developed by Majid Al Futtaim, is set to close its Mall of the Emirates footprint as the Dubai mall undergoes a Dh5 billion transformation. Sign up for our d»»»

Crash axe attack on captain reportedly caused head and hand injuries and heavy bleeding Abu Dhabi: The Indian Embassy in Abu Dhabi on Tuesday issued a health update on flydubai pilot Captain Smit Machchhar, who was seriously injured on September 30 when his co-pilot attacked him in what the UAE Att»»»

LONDON: A seventh man was arrested Tuesday over a major incident last month at a British military airbase used by the United States to launch strikes on Iran, police said. The arrest came a day after President Donald Trump said the United States had withdrawn all B-1 bombers from RAF Fairford becau»»»

Abu Dhabi to pioneer post-quantum encryption for secure government systems Abu Dhabi-Abu Dhabi is moving towards developing post-quantum encryption across government systems, embedded across their technology systems. Officials view this as an early step towards gaining greater visibility and contro»»»

RIYADH: The Ministry of Hajj and Umrah has held a series of meetings with Hajj affairs offices from 78 countries to enhance readiness, monitor operational plans, and align requirements and timelines ahead of the upcoming Hajj season. Discussions have focused on the various stages of preparation, pr»»»

Israel on Tuesday said that Hamas and the Palestinian population in Gaza would pay a "heavy price" if any of Israel's armed forces were harmed on the three-year anniversary of the militant group's October 7 attack.  Israel's defence minister on Tuesday said he had put the military on high aler»»»

President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order to ease limits on tax-free red-dyed diesel as fuel prices put pressure on Republican candidates. Trump said the move would save farmers millions of dollars and lower the cost of goods, though analysts said the change would not benefit farme»»»

DOHA: Minister of Municipality HE Abdullah bin Hamad bin Abdullah Al Attiyah inaugurated the 6th Recycling and Sustainability Conference and Exhibition 2026, organised by the Ministry of Municipality on October 6 and 7 at Raffles Doha Hotel. The event brings together government and semi-government »»»