LE 1.6 billion budget deficit adds to railway woes
CAIRO: On the heels of the country s worst rail disaster in almost two years, will the government s handling of railway transport safety recuperate amid a budget deficit that…
Japan's Miyazaki returns to pencil in new anime film
TOKYO: Oscar-winning Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki released his first full-length film in four years this weekend, dropping computer graphics for his pencil to tell the story of a fish-girl and…
A KHAWAGA'S TALE: Baby Massage at the Alps
LE REVARD: I have been in my mountain chalet for two weeks now, where I have a panoramic view of the snow capped Alps and Mt. Blanc. At 1,500 meters,…
New camera dispels darkness around pharaoh's 'solar' boat
CAIRO: Egypt on Saturday revealed a unique way of viewing a wooden boat entombed 4,500 years ago next to Giza s Great Pyramid where exposure to the atmosphere had threatened…
Buying frenzy lights up the Iranian art market
TEHRAN: The prices have soared by a factor of 20 within two years, the galleries are packed with prospective buyers and the works are both modern and daring.A description of…
The green inquisition
When it comes to global warming, extreme scare stories abound. Al Gore, for example, famously claimed that a whopping six meters of sea-level rise would flood major cities around the…
Olympic gamesmanship
China lobbied long and hard to host this summer's Olympics, and thousands of Chinese literally danced in the streets when the decision was made to award Beijing the games. This…
Mediating the nuclear impasse
Iran s insistence on enriching uranium in defiance of three UN Security Council resolutions, combined with a bevy of antagonistic threats aimed at Israel s existence has created an explosive…
Recycling is popular, once it's put in context
CAIRO: "You can recycle anything. This bold claim, made by AUC's Professor of Environment and Development, Salah El-Haggar, just may be Egypt's answer to the global trend of "going green.…
Wikimania hits Alexandria
ALEXANDRIA: Soaring from Frankfurt to Boston to Taipei, Wikimania s fourth annual conference has landed this year at Bibliotheca Alexandrina, extending the global dream of free access to knowledge to…