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…
Astronomers glimpse distant planet's lethal moods
PARIS: A planet named after ancient Egypt's Lord of the Dead is a place where human beings would be simultaneously boiled, poisoned and ripped apart by super storms, astronomers reported…
UN climate panel names new authors after criticism
GENEVA: The UN science body on climate change, accused of ignoring its critics and allowing glaring errors to creep into its work, announced Wednesday that a broader range of experts…
Nations fail to limit whaling, Japan still hunts
AGADIR, Morocco: An international effort to truly limit whale hunting collapsed Wednesday, leaving Japan, Norway and Iceland free to keep killing hundreds of mammals a year, even raiding a marine…
Suicide bombers kill five as 12 die in Iraq unrest
MOSUL: Three suicide bombers killed four police and a soldier in separate attacks in Iraq's main northern city of Mosul on Thursday, as violence claimed a total of 12 lives…