Prosecutor demands death for Mubarak, security boss
CAIRO: The prosecutor in the trial of Hosni Mubarak demanded on Thursday that the ousted Egyptian leader be sentenced to hang on charges of complicity in the killing of protesters…
Czech dissident writer Josef Skvorecky dies
Czech dissident writer and publisher Josef Skvorecky, who spent much of his life in Canada, died in Toronto on Tuesday, aged 87, CTK news agency reported. Skvorecky, who published the…
Bumper year for box office as French flock to homegrown hits
An intrepid boy reporter, a black manservant and his paralyzed aristocrat master, and French actors adrift in Hollywood helped make 2011 France's best box office year in nearly half a…
Buttered Up: Food myths and a roasted aubergine salad
We sit in the sticky tropical heat, a lone cat observing us from afar, wondering with a tilt of its head, why we have occupied her bench with our derrieres.…
Chop Chop: Flavors of Asia done well
I am told over lunch with a friend from out of town, the hilarious Dubai-based reporter Tom Gara, that in Hong Kong, dim sum and lunch are a sight to…
A year on, no answers to Alexandria church bombing
CAIRO: Just over a year ago, Amira Maurice was attending a New Year's Eve Mass in the Saints Church in Egypt's Mediterranean coastal city of Alexandria with her parents and…
Arab League turns to UN for help in Syria
DAMASCUS: The Arab League has turned to the United Nations for help after admitting "mistakes" in its Syria monitoring mission, which has come in for withering criticism for its failure…
Four blasts kill 29, wounds dozens in Iraq’s capital
BAGHDAD: Four bombs in mainly Shia Muslim areas in Baghdad killed at least 29 people and wounded dozens of others on Thursday, police and hospital sources said, as fears of…
Blasts rock Nigeria’s north as Islamist ‘ultimatum’ expires
KANO: Bomb blasts have rocked northeastern Nigerian cities under a state of emergency as an ultimatum from Islamists for Christians living in the area to leave expired, officials said Thursday.…
Mayor mulls options for E. Jerusalem areas behind the wall
JERUSALEM: Jerusalem's mayor has voiced support for a scheme that could see responsibility for areas in the city's eastern Arab sector transferred to the Israeli body which runs civil affairs…