World Cup Sunday Preview: England, Germany and more
BLOEMFONTEIN: Be careful of what you wish for. Sometimes it is what you get, as Wayne Rooney has found out. Asked last week if he would relish the prospect of…
HRW urges Egypt probe police in Khaled Saeid’s death
By Reem Abdellatif /AP CAIRO: A leading international human rights group on Thursday cast doubt on an Egyptian report about the death of an alleged victim of police brutality and urged…
Santorini: Cliffs, beaches and the sapphire sea
The afternoon crowd flowed down among the shops, cafes and picture-postcard lookouts on the Greek island of Santorini, speaking at least a half-dozen languages. It spread along the cliff-top village…
Challenges of Social Progress in IBSA
Governments from the South are assuming leading roles in decisions on global issues ranging from climate change, health governance, trade regimes, and water and food security. Complementing the new economic…
America's oil-spill nationalism
LONDON: American exceptionalism, when it runs rampant, is a tsunami to be avoided. The oil company BP is discovering that right now. The environmental disaster destroying seaside communities around the…
Inflation or deflation?
CAMBRIDGE: The investors that I talk to these days are not sure whether to worry more about future inflation in the United States or about future deflation. The good news…
On Israeli settlers: Few legitimate candidates
The question of settlers remaining in a Palestinian state is becoming increasingly central to the issue of a successful two-state solution. One reason is quite simply the growing number of…
Apple's iPhone 4 makes world debut
PARIS: Eager Apple fans rushed to stores in Europe and Japan on Thursday to become the first owners of the latest-generation iPhone as it made its global debut in five…
Quantum control: New step forward for supercomputers
PARIS: Scientists said they had overcome two hurdles in the quest for quantum computers, whose backers say will pry open an era of computing magic by exploiting a quirk of…
Copts protest Pope Shenouda's rejection of remarriage verdict
* Coptic protestors call for right to remarry outside the Justice Ministry on Thursday. (Daily News Egypt Photo/Marwa Al-A'sar) # ! CAIRO: Dozens of Copts protested Thursday outside the Ministry…