Palm Hills says wants Aswan money back by mid-Sept
Egyptian real estate company Palm Hills said on Sunday it had given a company that sold it land in southern Egypt until mid-September to return money from a cancelled deal…
‘Packing for Mars’ demystifies space science
"Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void" (W.W. Norton & Co.), by Mary Roach: Mary Roach has made a career writing books that answer questions most…
Oscar-winning actress Patricia Neal dies at age 84
Patricia Neal, the willowy, husky-voiced actress who won an Academy Award for 1963's "Hud" and then survived several strokes to continue acting, died on Sunday. She was 84. Neal had…
Jolie’s ‘Salt’ is indigestible
In the past few months, billboards, TV spots and newspaper ads all asked the same question, who is Salt? After watching the action thriller starring Angelina Jolie in the title…
Israeli PM: Turkey looked for a fight on ship
JERUSALEM: Israel's prime minister defended the deadly commando raid on an international flotilla protesting the Gaza blockade in opening testimony before an internal inquiry commission Monday, and suggested Turkey had…
German authorities shut ‘9/11 plotters’ mosque, city
HAMBURG: German police on Monday shut a mosque in this northern city frequented by suicide hijackers from the September 11, 2001 attacks and suspected of recruiting jihadists, authorities said. An…
Outrage over medics’ murders in Afghanistan
KABUL: Anger and condemnation deepened Monday after eight foreign medics, including a British female doctor who was about to get married, were mown down in a forest gun attack claimed…
Israeli held in Libya returning home after release
JERUSALEM: An Israeli arrested and imprisoned in Libya last March while photographing Jewish sites will return to Israel on Monday after being freed in a complicated deal engineered by Israel's…
Bomb kills 2 traffic cops at Baghdad precinct
BAGHDAD: Officials say a rush-hour bombing at a western Baghdad police precinct has killed two traffic cops and one civilian. Police and hospital officials say five traffic cops and four…
Flotilla probe will show Israel acted lawfully, says Netanyahu
JERUSALEM: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu insisted Monday that Israel acted lawfully in a commando raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla which killed nine activists, in testimony before an Israeli panel.…