Ballet keeps Polish seniors on their toes
By Maja Czarnecka / AFP Dressed in white tutus, seven pensioners from a village in southern Poland love to get on their tiptoes to dance ballet classics like Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake."…
Giambattista Valli joins haute couture club
By AFP Italian designer Giambattista Valli is to join the exclusive club of haute couture fashion, showing a spring-summer collection in Paris next month, organizers said Monday. A Paris commission…
‘Extremely Loud’ is incredibly phony
By David Germain / AP It is no surprise that the grief-drenched Sept. 11 drama "Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close" should turn out incredibly mawkish. A cloying exercise in sentimentality, the…
Oil gains on supply fears, better data
LONDON: Threats to supply in Iran and Kazakhstan and stronger economic data lifted oil by nearly $2 on Tuesday, outweighing rumbling concerns on the euro zone debt crisis. Brent crude…
US foreign aid escapes slashing cuts in fiscal 2012
WASHINGTONG: The US State Department and foreign aid budget escaped devastating cuts in a fiscal 2012 spending plan that Congress has approved. Aid in war zones helped boost the overall…
Egypt to implement maximum wage as it battles budget deficit
CAIRO: Egypt's Prime Minister Kamal El-Ganzoury said Tuesday that the public sector will enforce a maximum wage 35 times that of the minimum wage, to be applied starting January 2012.…
Thousands of rare documents burned in Egypt clash
CAIRO: Volunteers in white lab coats, surgical gloves and masks were standing on the back of a pickup truck along the banks of the Nile River in Cairo, rummaging through…
Military police ‘punishing’ protesters, not maintaining order, says Amnesty
CAIRO: Video footage of the crackdown on protesters by security forces suggests that military police were aiming to punish demonstrators rather maintain law and order, Amnesty International said Tuesday. “Available…
Naked truth
By Philip Whitfield CAIRO: Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. Though Shakespeare gets praise for it William Congreve wrote it in The Mourning Bride. There are moments when a…
Clinton attacks Egypt ‘disgrace’ to women
By Shaun Tandon / AFP WASHINGTON: An impassioned Hillary Clinton on Monday accused post-revolution Egypt of failing its women as she denounced the stripping and beating of a female protester as…