Egypt judge shoulders historic task in Mubarak case
CAIRO: For the final case of his career, Egyptian Judge Ahmed Refaat has no easy task: to deliver justice in the trial of the first Arab head of state to…
Qaddafi defiant, rebels poised to strangle capital
TRIPOLI: Muammar Qaddafi urged Libyans on Monday to free the country from "NATO and traitors", as rebels in the west began to strangle a major lifeline to his capital. Despite…
66 killed in Iraq’s bloodiest day this year
KUT: Attacks in more than a dozen cities across Iraq on Monday killed 66 people, including 40 in twin blasts in the southern city of Kut, in the country's bloodiest…
Israel okays 277 new homes in settlement, says minister
JERUSALEM: Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak has given the green light to build 277 new homes in the Ariel settlement of the occupied West Bank, his office said on Monday.…
Women seek to establish themselves during transitional period
CAIRO: Six months on, women say they are yet to reap the benefits of a revolution that explicitly called for equality and social justice, with women missing from key positions…
The Russians are coming! (To reality TV)
After celebrating the fake tans and drunken antics of Italian-American youths, America's reality TV machine this week unleashes its latest ethnic portrait: "Russian Dolls." And not everyone is happy. The…
Subway expansion digs up Roman city under Sofia
By Diana Simeonova / AFP Cars zoom by on the boulevards overhead as work progresses on expanding the subway underneath —and in between a full-fledged Roman city has emerged right in…
Bikya Book Café: A book pub for geeks
“It’s the living room one aspires for but never has,” said one client. “It’s a geek’s pub,” said another — and that succinctly summarizes that mood and feel of Bikya…
When elephants fight, it is only the grass that suffers
By Safa Hussein The geopolitics of the Middle East has changed drastically over the past ten years, and remains unsettled. Soon after the occupation of Iraq in 2003 and the complete…
Supra-constitutional principles bring nothing new, say experts
By Marwa Al-A'sar and Heba Fahmy CAIRO: The Cabinet’s draft of supra-constitutional principles brought nothing new to the table, constitutional law experts and political powers said on Monday The draft…