30 prisoners escape after bomb blast at south Yemen jail
SANAA: Around 30 prisoners escaped after a bomb explosion at a prison in southern Yemen on Thursday, police said, identifying the fugitives as sympathizers of a secessionist movement. They said…
Islamic scholars at Saudi meet urge 'extremists' to repent
RIYADH: Muslim scholars from around the world who met this week in Saudi Arabia's holy city Medina have denounced "terrorism" and appealed to "extremists" to repent, a statement said on…
Holy abuse
NEW YORK: In his remarkable apology to the Catholics of Ireland (most of that country’s population), Pope Benedict XVI explained why he thought sinful priests were tempted to commit sexual…
Turbulence at the exits of Iraq
The flight path from Abu Dhabi to New York routes directly through Iraqi airspace, and from 32,000 feet, the Fertile Crescent is an oasis of calm. Streaks of dark green…
Women for integration
COPENHAGEN: The past decade has proven again and again that empowering women worldwide holds the key to solving many seemingly intractable issues that have otherwise stymied policymakers. Poverty in the…
Arab woman to head UN's new gender program?
CAIRO: In the halls of the United Nation's New York bureau, officials have been considering a proposal to unify the UN’s many organizations promoting women’s equality and rights into a…
Deep into the heart of Africa
Photography is a particularly strong medium when explored properly. Alas, it’s been fairly difficult to find a photography exhibition in Cairo without cliché and tired ideas. The recent exhibited works…
One on one with Jaime Mota
Born in Malaga in Spain, a life of travel and photography was more than Jesús Jaime Mota imagined. Or maybe it was exactly what he dreamed of while working part-time…
Peter Jackson's no-so-lovely 'Bones'
It seems an unfortunate truth that producing a film version of a novel automatically generates a certain aura of importance around the original source material. The aura may be nothing…