Five steps forward in 2011
MILAN: The worst of the financial/economic crisis seems to be over. Asset markets performed reasonably well in 2010. Growth in the United States and parts of Europe returned. Private-sector deleveraging…
New York exhibit highlights 1,001 Muslim innovations
NEW YORK: Eight-year-old Marissa Campis is playing a game that is part of the new exhibition, “1,001 Inventions: Discover the Muslim Heritage in Our World” at the New York Hall…
South Sudanese set for freedom party
JUBA: Voters in south Sudan opted overwhelmingly to create the world's newest state, partial results posted outside polling stations in regional capital Juba showed Sunday after a count into the…
Huge new settlement project in East Jerusalem, says radio
JERUSALEM: Israel is to approve 1,400 new settler homes in east Jerusalem, media and the local council said on Sunday, defying pressure to halt settlement building that has stalled peace…
Foreign envoys to tour Iran uranium plant
TEHRAN: Foreign diplomats were on Sunday to tour a plant where Iran is enriching uranium in defiance of UN sanctions, a day after Tehran vowed to push ahead "very strongly"…
Algerian dies in self-immolation, echoing Tunisia
By Lamine Chikhi/ Reuters ALGIERS: A man has died after setting himself on fire at a government building in Algeria, state radio reported on Sunday, echoing the self-immolation that triggered…
Bomb kills 9 civilians in north, says Afghan official
KABUL: A station wagon carrying a family of Afghan civilians struck a roadside bomb in northern Afghanistan on Sunday, killing all nine aboard, an official said. It was the second…
Naga Hammadi Christmas shooter sentenced to death
By Essam Fadl CAIRO: The State Security Criminal Emergency Court in Qena on Sunday sentenced to death one of the men found responsible for shooting and killing six Coptic Christians…
Iran fuel ban targets NATO but hurts Afghans
KABUL: Iran's ban on fuel tankers crossing into Afghanistan over accusations that they are supplying NATO troops is snaring ordinary Afghans in a complex power game as living costs rise,…
Israeli gas find reshuffles Med landscape
ATHENS: Like it or not, Israel's discovery of promising gas fields in the eastern Mediterranean has forced friends and foes in the area to take a good look at their…
