Gold weighed down by dollar rally
CAIRO: If you are looking for an excuse to buy some gold jewelry, now is the time. The yellow metal slid to an eight-month low which may increase demand and…
Toronto film festival award goes to … 'Slumdog Millionaire'
TORONTO: Audiences at the 33rd Toronto International Film Festival picked Briton Danny Boyle s Slumdog Millionaire for this year s best picture, organizers said Saturday.The film follows a poor boy…
Spike Lee does the right thing in France for forgotten black troops
DEAUVILLE: Spike Lee visited a World War II cemetery near France s D-Day landing beaches before presenting the European premiere of his film about the forgotten contribution of African-American soldiers…
A KHAWAGA'S TALE: Hunting down speed racers
Since moving to Sixth of October, I've entered that macabre world that resembles a cheap video arcade lined with racing car games where you swerve in and out of the…
The Omar El-Bashir indictment: a precedent for global accountability?
WASHINGTON, DC: The world deserves a supranational and neutral international court in which political interests and stakeholders are unable to deter investigations into the actions of leaders who sanction murder…
Misusing the inaction argument
SAN JOSÉ, Costa Rica: One commonly repeated argument for doing something about climate change sounds compelling, but turns out to be almost fraudulent. It is based on comparing the cost…
A Gazan education
GAZA: This was supposed to be my first year of medical school. Instead, I am stuck here in Gaza, in my father's house inside the Jabalia refugee camp, with few…
Summit regroups to gain momentum in Egypt's IT sector
CAIRO: When Summit Technology Solutions entered the Egyptian IT market five years ago, they were greeted with a boardroom nightmare. A young and fractious industry had yielded a phenomenon known…
UN warns of increasing use of synthetic drugs in the region
CAIRO: While the use of synthetic drugs is either stabilized or decreasing in countries around the world, it is booming in East and South East Asia and the Middle East,…
Duweiqa residents clash with security forces razing the site
CAIRO: Residents of the Duweiqa shantytown, the site of the rockslide disaster, clashed with security forces Saturday night as they attempted to raze the area.Residents from Duweiqa called relatives who…
