Qatar
Qatar will take on Yemen in the AFC Asian Cup Qualifiers on Friday.
Already mired in controversy over the possibility of moving the 2022 World Cup to the winter season, Qatar is accused of appalling conditions for migrant workers hired to help with the construction of World Cup facilities.
The FIBA Asia Championship 2013 has now entered the do-or-die stage after six tough days of preliminary round basketball.
The Doha climate talks in Qatar have hit several substantial roadblocks, as poor and developing countries clash with flourishing states in a scramble for disaster relief funds and strict carbon emissions regulations.
The impact of Hurricane Sandy looms large over the latest United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, already in progress in Doha, Qatar.
Climate change activists are loudly decrying the decision to allow Qatar to host the next United Nations carbon emissions summit, while executives in the region look to alter common perception of the oil-producing nation, according to an Associated Press report.