: PJ Harvey wins UK’s Mercury Prize for second time
Bookmakers' favorite PJ Harvey has become the only artist to win Britain's prestigious Mercury Prize on two separate occasions, beating soul star Adele to the honor thanks to her eighth…
Spies and drop-outs in Venice for the Golden Lion
By Ella Ide / AFP Spies, torture and betrayal have come to Venice with Tomas Alfredson's cold war thriller, "Tinker, Taylor, Soldier, Spy" — an espionage whodunit, without a James Bond…
Arnold premiers ‘Wuthering Heights’ in Venice
British director Andrea Arnold describes her experience creating a new film version of Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte's only novel and 250-year-old literary phenomenon, as "a very difficult journey" but one…
Comedy show du jour: Bassem Youssef’s Al-Bernameg
Bassem Youssef has become one of Egypt’s first YouTube sensations. A heart surgeon by day, Youssef now moonlights as the host of On TV’s new political satire “Al-Bernameg” (The Program),…
Nuclear disarmament and neighborhood bullies
By Shlomo Ben Ami MADRID: Twenty-five years ago, at a summit in Rejkjavik, Iceland, US President Ronald Reagan stunned the world and his Soviet counterpart, Mikhail Gorbachev, by proposing global and…
Making sense of 9/11
By Prince El Hassan bin Talal AMMAN: Over the past ten years, much has been written in an attempt to make sense of what happened on Sept. 11, 2001. It is…
Democratic hysteria
By Pranab Bardhan BERKELEY: In the political impasses that recently paralyzed the world’s two largest democracies, India and the United States, both countries’ usually clear-sighted leaders, to paraphrase William Butler Yeats,…
From pain to gain on the EU frontier
By Daniel Gros BRUSSELS: The first act of the eurozone debt drama was about whether any European Union member country could ever become insolvent. It ended when the highest EU authority,…
US predicted Mubarak would name Suleiman VP in 2006: Wikileaks
CAIRO: The US predicted in 2006 that then-president Hosni Mubarak would name then-intelligence chief Omar Suleiman his first vice president, a recently revealed partial extract of a Wikileaks cable said.…
Egypt sees billions in aid from Saudi, UAE soon
ABU DHABI: Egypt expects to reach a loan agreement with Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates worth several billions of dollars each soon, while another $500 million should come…