Hopes for breakout by Qatar stocks
DUBAI: Qatar's stock market could break above its recent trading range as soon as next week if global markets, still vulnerable to the euro zone debt crisis, do not fall…
Arab Spring raises hope for era of cleaner business
By Suleiman Al-Khalidi / Reuters AMMAN: Gulf investor Omar Ayesh flew to Tripoli to meet Saif Al-Islam Qaddafi when the son of Libya's now-deposed strongman wanted to talk business, only to…
Who needs a flat tax?
By Mitchell Orenstein WASHINGTON, DC: With America’s Republican presidential candidates lining up to declare their fealty to a flat tax — a system of personal-income taxation that assesses a single rate…
Legal power to the people
By Vivek Maru NEW DELHI: Inspired by Anna Hazare’s hunger strike, thousands of people gathered at Ramlila Grounds in New Delhi to protest governmental corruption. Protesters here and around the country…
Editorial: How to amputate a revolution
By Rania Al Malky CAIRO: It’s official. Egypt’s ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces is leading the counter-revolution. Why else would SCAF spearhead the unethical smear campaign against the now…
Hope is not a scarce resource in Iraq
By John Filson WASHINGTON, DC: US President Barack Obama recently confirmed that he will bring US troops home from Iraq by the end of the year and, at the same time,…
Esraa Abdel Fattah urges skeptical expats to use right to vote
NEW YORK: Activist Esraa Abdel Fattah urged Egyptian expats to vote in the upcoming elections, as they questioned the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces’ (SCAF) intention to oversee free…
UN calls for release of Egyptian blogger
GENEVA: The UN human rights office is calling on Egyptian authorities to release a prominent blogger and others imprisoned for exercising free speech. The military trial and jailing of blogger…
Natural history of New France published 335 years on
An illustrated book describing Canada's vast wilds, masked medicine men and a missionary's taming of bears at the onset of European colonization will hit bookstores on Saturday — three centuries…
Leonardo DiCaprio becomes J. Edgar Hoover on film
The Leonardo DiCaprio sitting inside an empty soundstage on the Warner Bros. lot on a sunny November afternoon looks very little like J. Edgar Hoover — his title role in…