Prosecution to argue its case in Mubarak trial starting Tuesday
CAIRO: The prosecution in the trial of ousted president Hosni Mubarak will start to plead its case on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. “The judge surprised us by announcing that the…
Designer behind Apple’s products knighted in UK
Fans of the clean, inviting look of the iPhone, iPad and other blockbuster Apple products are legion, and that includes Queen Elizabeth II. The British monarch has awarded a knighthood…
Golden year for Klimt as Austria marks 150th anniversary
By Sim Sim Wissgott / AFP His golden "The Kiss" adorns scarves and coffee mugs worldwide, while his portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer sparked a decades-long restitution battle: in 2012, Austria celebrates…
Elton John wants Timberlake to play him in biopic
Elton John is working on a biopic about himself and would like Justin Timberlake to take on the lead role, he said in an interview published Sunday. The British veteran…
Met’s ‘Enchanted Island’ a clever concoction
Call it a pastiche. Or a Baroque fantasy in two acts. Or the best opera Handel and Vivaldi never wrote. By any name, "The Enchanted Island," which had its world…
Radical Russian art group ‘sets police van on fire’
A radical Russian art group known for provocative stunts said Monday it had set a police van alight to create an "eternal flame" remembering the arrests of opposition figures. Voina…
Syria activists heap criticism on Arab monitors
DAMASCUS: Activists piled pressure Monday on Arab monitors to do more to prevent Syrian forces pursuing their brutal crackdown against pro-democracy protesters, amid fresh criticism of the observer mission. The…
SCAF, police knew nothing about NGO inspection, say ministers
CAIRO: Two cabinet ministers denied Sunday that the ruling military council or the police were privy to details about Thursday’s inspection campaign targeting 10 local and international NGOs, including the…
A Russian spring?
By Dominique Moisi PARIS: Russia is not Egypt. And Moscow is not on the eve of revolution as Cairo was less than a year ago. Indeed, Russia’s powerful have at their…
Who will be the Republican presidential nominee to face Obama?
By Andrew Hammond The 2012 US election season begins on January 3 when Iowa becomes the first state to hold contests to decide who will be the Democratic and Republican presidential…