In US debut, Icelandic filmmaker exposes grim organ trade
For his first movie outside his native Iceland, filmmaker Baltasar Kormakur plunged into "the most horrific world I've ever been in" — that of the grim business of organ trafficking.…
Jane Austen had helping hand from editor
She's renowned for her precise, exquisite prose, but new research shows Jane Austen was a poor speller and erratic grammarian who got a big helping hand from her editor. Oxford…
25 finalists in Guggenheim-YouTube creative video biennial
Twenty-five clips from around the world were selected for the first creative video biennial run by the Guggenheim Museum and the YouTube video sharing site, highlighting online video as a…
Health care’s frequent flyers
NEW YORK: For those of you who have seen the (American) movie “Up in the Air,” think of the scene where George Clooney meets Vera Farmiga. He’s an outsourced human-resources…
High expectations for Indonesian religious leaders
YOGYAKARTA: Indonesians place high expectations on religious leaders to respond with real positive action when it comes to current interfaith issues and the relationship between religious communities and the state.…
Talking to the Taliban
WASHINGTON, DC: The Obama administration has affirmed that, while it will not participate directly, it supports the idea of peace negotiations between the Afghan Taliban and the Afghan government. This…
Tourism, one practical advantage of an Israeli-Palestinian settlement
WASHINGTON, DC: Recent sputtering of a peace process between Israel and Palestine, the termination of Israel's settlement building freeze causing a demise of said peace process — again — has…
Six Egyptian companies to bid for steel licenses
Six Egyptian companies are studying to bid for the new steel licenses offered by the Industrial Development Authority: Ezz Steel, Sixth of October for Light Industries, Al Marakbi, IIC for…
Eastern July-Sept profit down 52 pct yr/yr
Unaudited net profit at Egyptian cigarette monopoly Eastern Company fell 52 percent to LE 73 million for the quarter to the end of September, the bourse said on Sunday. Eastern…
Egypt’s Mobinil mulls $347 mln loan: newspaper
Mobinil, which leads the Egyptian mobile market by subscriber numbers, is considering borrowing as much as LE 2 billion ($347 million) to finance expansion of its network and services, a…