'Avatar' soars to new box office record
Science-fiction epic Avatar soared to a new global box office record, taking $1.85 billion and sinking Titanic to become the biggest earning film of all time, figures showed Tuesday. On…
Muslims helping Haiti
FREMONT, California: Haiti is experiencing unimaginable suffering from its devastating earthquake, with more than 150,000 dead and one to three million individuals displaced. Individuals, groups and governments from around the…
A year of US-China discord?
NEW YORK: In 2009, Forbes magazine named US President Barack Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao the "world's most powerful people. In 2010, we will discover that neither has the…
The unbearable lightness of change
MADRID: Barack Obama's first year in office has been a sobering exercise in the limits of presidential power. It also carries lessons about how the resilient and impersonal forces of…
Would-be Gaza migrants face endless hurdles
GAZA CITY: Abu Luay sold his wife s gold to pay for a visa to Germany, but if the Egyptian border does not open soon he will lose his only…
Travel ban imposed on Brotherhood officials
CAIRO: A travel ban was imposed on newly elected Muslim Brotherhood Supreme Guide Mohamed Badea's, almost two weeks after he was appointed, according to the group's lawyer.. Barring Brotherhood MPs…
Religious, economic experts weigh in on property tax law
CAIRO: Religious and economic experts alike criticized Al-Azhar and the Islamic Research Center for saying that the new property tax law is against Sharia.Earlier this week, members of Al-Azhar as…
Egypt court orders stay of Al-Azhar's ban on niqab
CAIRO: An Egyptian court ordered on Wednesday a stay of a ban on the full face veil, or niqab, in female schools affiliated with the Islamic Al-Azhar University.The administrative court…
Ahly to loan out Sayoud
CAIRO: Ahly playmaker Amir Sayoud is set to join Kuwait s Arabi Athletic in the winter transfer window on a four-month loan deal.The Red Devils announced on their official website…