Microsoft hopes for a fresh start with Windows 7
Microsoft Corp. finally got its chance to reboot its reputation Thursday, launching a new edition of Windows that it hopes will encourage more PC buyers to get back into stores.Microsoft…
Diabetes drug also helps weight loss for obese: study
Microsoft Corp. finally got its chance to reboot its reputation Thursday, launching a new edition of Windows that it hopes will encourage more PC buyers to get back into stores.Microsoft…
ANALYSIS: Greater gov't role to deepen Islamic finance markets
DUBAI: Governments in Muslim nations in the Middle East and Asia are increasingly turning to Islamic finance to raise funds, giving a necessary but perhaps not sufficient shot in the…
THE REEL ESTATE: An inglorious return for Quentin Tarantino
As I watched a long talky scene that seemed to go on forever in Quentin Tarantino's ill-fated "Death Proof (2007), my mind began to stray, and I wondered how long…
Rewarding Hope
PARIS: By awarding its Peace Prize for 2009 to Barack Obama, the Nobel Committee took a big risk. Even if Obama is obviously something of a pacifist, the president of…
Israeli, Palestinian teens talk peace
CHICAGO, Illinois: Although Israelis and Palestinians have been meeting and communicating at a grassroots level to better understand one another and work toward a more peaceful future, the initiatives that…
Editorial: Egypt's H1N1 policy between clarity and chaos
CAIRO: Ever since the outbreak of swine flu in Mexico last April and the Egyptian government has been gripped with a virus - long before it was pronounced a global…
Refugee John Simon, 'I don't know where I will be tomorrow'
CAIRO: Officially, there were 41,423 refugees registered with the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) in Cairo in September. The Sudanese make up the biggest national group-22,689. Of these, about 35 percent…
Tight security for trial of Marwa Sherbini's killer
BERLIN: Under tight security, a man stands trial in Dresden on Monday for the murder of a pregnant Egyptian woman that stoked anger against Germany and its media in her…
