ICBF TO HOST SALMAN REFUSES NADAL ALKA YAGNIK TO BELIEVE BEATS PAL MUSIC SHOW BODYGUARD NALBANDIAN ON SEPT 15 IS A BIG HIT TO MAKE US OPEN LAST 16 PAGE 13 | NATION PAGE 20 | CHILL OUT PAGE 28 | SPORTS www.qatar-tribune.com First with the news and what’s behind it MONDAY SEPTEMBER 5, 2011 SHAWWAL 7, 1432 Newsline Nationline Businessline Lifeline I Sportsline VOL. 6 NO. 1827 QR 2 Breast cancer major cause of death among Arab women Reluctance to undergo early screening raises mortality rate in Qatar Qatar was 12.9/100,000. (10.4/100,000) and the UAE Exclusive “This rate of death is close (10.9/100,000) which have JOSEPH VARGHESE humans are women, men can of the project named ‘Study QT to the Middle East countries lowest incidence of breast DOHA also develop breast cancer. exploring breast cancer with higher incidence of the cancer in the M-E.” The reluctance of Arab screening practices amongst will be completed in 2013. disease such as Kuwait According to the professor, BREAST cancer is one of the women to undergo screening Arab women living in Qatar’. Donnelly said according to (15.3/100,000) and Bahrain breast cancer is the most biggest causes of mortality has been identified as the The first phase of the three- the World Health (18/100,000). common form of malignancy among Arab women as well as major reason for this. This phase study has been complete Organisation (WHO) statis- Qatar’s breast cancer mor- prevalent among women men in Qatar. While the over- was stated by Tam Truong and the findings will be pub- tics published in 2008, the tality rate is high compared whelming majority of cases in Donnelly, the lead researcher lished this month. The study breast cancer mortality rate in Tam Truong Donnelly to Saudi Arabia CONTINUED ON PAGE 12 DOW JONES 11,328 QE 8,441 2017 IAAF WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS -165 +89 PTS PTS S Korean firm SENSEX 16,821 CURRENCY +144 Indian Rupee 12.57 PTS Philippine Peso 11.57 bags $434mn HOT & HUMID 0 0 WEATHER HIGH: 41 C | LOW: 32 C The race is between contract to build Newsline Qatar museum ASIF IQBAL DOHA 24 killed in Syria crackdown Doha and London HYUNDAI Engineering & Construction AT LEAST 24 people were killed (HDEC) has bagged the $434million con- in violence across Syria on tract to build the National Museum of Qatar Sunday, reports said as the visit- in Doha. ing Red Cross chief sought access Announcing this on Sunday, the South to those detained in more than Korean construction firm said it had five months of anti-regime secured the final contract from the Qatar protests. As more bloodletting Museums Authority (QMA) to build the gripped the country, Arab League museum on a 46,000-square- metre site in chief Nabil al Arabi said Syria has Doha. The construction of the museum was agreed to host him for a visit, to expected to be completed in 33 months, the help push for a peaceful outcome company said. to the crisis. (PGS 2 & 12) In recent years, Qatar has been invest- ing billions of dollars in an effort to become a cultural 20 die in Japan typhoon hub in the Gulf. The The South new National Korean A TYPHOON that pummelled Museum of Qatar, construction western Japan left at least 20 peo- designed by Jean firm said it ple dead and more than 50 miss- Nouvel, will open in had secured ing, reports said on Sunday, after December 2014, the final swollen rivers swept away build- according to the contract ings and landslides crushed hous- QMA’s website. from the es. Streets were submerged in Qatar already QMA to scenes that rekindled memories of boasts the IM Pei- build the the March 11 tsunami disaster. designed Museum museum on a Thousands of people were left of Islamic Art and 46,000-sq m stranded. Typhoon Talas, which Mathaf. site in Doha. made landfall on Saturday and is Valentin Balakhnichev, president of the All-Russia Athletics Federation, waves the IAAF flag during a handover ceremony at the end of the It has been report- one of the deadliest in recent final day of the IAAF World Championships, in Daegu, on Sunday. (AFP) ed that Qatar is keen to buy London auction years, packed gusts of up to 108 house Christie’s. kilometres per hour as it cut across REUTERS bid, IAAF spokesman Nick on an athletics track being August 27 and ended on The former chairman of Christie’s the island of Shikoku and the main DAEGU Davies said. The IAAF Council maintained in the 2012 Sunday. Moscow will hold the International Edward J Dolman left the island of Honshu. (AFP) will choose between Doha and Olympic Stadium. “If they event in 2013 and Beijing in privately-owned auction house in June to DOHA and London will go London at its November meet- have no stadium, they have no 2015. join the board of directors of the QMA. The head-to-head to host the 2017 ing in Monaco. chance,” Diack said in an inter- Diack also repeated his com- QMA administers collections of Islamic art, UAE election campaign begins world athletics champi- Doha, in a bid to avoid some view on Saturday. ments that the one-and-you- Oriental paintings, natural history, photog- onships, IAAF chief Lamine of its hottest weather, would Davies said British officials are-done false start rule would raphy, Islamic coins, costumes and jew- CANDIDATES in the United Arab Diack said on Sunday. like to hold the championships had assured the IAAF there not change. The rule, in effect ellery. Emirates began campaigning on “Barcelona is no longer a in September rather than the would be a track in the stadium. since 2010, gained worldwide Established in 1947 by its founder and Sunday for the second-ever elec- candidate,” the International traditional August date. The The bid has been clouded by a attention when Jamaican current Honorary Chairman of the Hyundai tions to choose half the members Association of Athletics IAAF will consider the request row over the Olympic Stadium, world record holder Usain Bolt Business Group, Ju Yung Chung, the HDEC of the purely consultative Federal Federations president told a in the coming weeks. with Premier League soccer was disqualified in the 100 would bring to the construction of the National Council. A total of 468 news conference on the last “It is possible that a date can club Tottenham Hotspur seek- metres final on the champi- National Museum of Qatar its vast experi- candidates, including 85 women, day of the Daegu world cham- vary,” Diack said, noting there ing a judicial review of the deci- onships’ second day. “But that ences in building and designing. are running in the polls on pionships. was no fast rule the champi- sion to allow West Ham United is not going to make us HDEC’s initial major role was in rebuild- September 24. Candidates had “There are only two candi- onships must be in August. to take over the facility after change,” Diack said. ing Korea’s infrastructure. Growing rapidly already tapped into social net- dates, Doha and London.” “The last half of September is next year’s Games. IAAF officials also said these during the early 1960s, HDEC built dams, working websites such as Twitter Barcelona had expressed something I have nothing West Ham has said it would have been a clean champi- bridges, buildings, and tunnels, as well as and Facebook, which they used to interest in the global meeting against,” he said. retain a track in the stadium. onships with no positive dop- industrial plants that were desperately introduce themselves to the elec- but did not submit an official London’s chances depend The Daegu meet began on ing tests. needed. torate. (PG 12) Bolt stars in 4x100 record SPRINT superstar Usain Bolt brought the world championships Prayer beads getting popular among Qatari youth to a thrilling climax on Sunday as his Jamaican team smashed the IHSAN YOUSSEF buying them, not only due to the without the beads,” says Shahir world 4x100m relay record on the DOHA growing religiosity among the al Murri, a beads’ trader at Souq last night of action in Daegu. It youth but also because it’s being Waqif. was Bolt’s second gold of the QATAR is witnessing a signifi- increasingly used as a fashion Beads are made of bone or worlds after winning the 200m cant growth in the prayer beads’ accessory. stones such as jade and emerald crown and marked a fairytale end- market in recent times. Much of and come in different colours. ing for the sprinter, who on only this growth is, however, attrib- Exclusive Many of them are imbued with the second day of the champi- uted to the growing popularity of QT the fragrances of oud, rose, jas- onships saw his 100m dream the sibah (bead strings) among mine, sandalwood, Arabian and shattered when he false-started. A the youth of the country and As of now, most of the young mint that last long. Earlier, the delighted Bolt danced on the other Gulf nations. people, both men and women, sibah used in Qatar were also track and pretended to strip his The usage of the sibah is no carry it as an item of adornment. made of pearls. These days, singlet off in front of a packed longer confined to old people, as “The elegance of Qatari garments crowd. (PG 28) more and more youngsters are and the Abaya is not complete CONTINUED ON PAGE 12 The sibah as seen at Souq Waqif, in Doha, recently.