Months of work become minutes on SAG Awards
Producer Quinn Monahan wants to show you the history of on-screen comedy in about two minutes.He and his team watched more than a thousand movies and TV shows, clipped out…
War, Bhutto films on show at Sundance Film Festival
Films about the war in Afghanistan and the assassination of former Pakistan prime minister Benazir Bhutto are among the offerings as the 26th Sundance Film Festival gets underway in Utah…
Oil slips below $78 on tight China credit
LONDON: Oil slipped below $78 a barrel on Wednesday on fresh evidence of tightening credit policy in China, a stronger dollar and expectations that US refiners processed less crude in…
Arab states to see more robust growth in 2010: UN
BEIRUT: Most Arab countries are expected to record an average 3.6 percent economic growth this year as the price of crude oil rebounds from 2009, a United Nations economic report…
US envoy discusses Mideast peace in Syria, Lebanon
DAMASCUS/BEIRUT: US envoy George Mitchell on Wednesday met President Bashar Al-Assad and said Syria had an important role to play in the search for peace in the Middle East.Mitchell reaffirmed…
Reports that Hamas chief to come to Egypt to apologize for soldier death
CAIRO: Reports have emerged from Qatar that Hamas chief Khaled Meshaal will come to Egypt this week to apologize for the death of an Egyptian soldier on the border with…
Antiquities protection draft law continues to ignite debates at PA
CAIRO: Protection of Egypt's antiquities was the subject of heated debate at the People's Assembly as steel mogul and senior National Democratic Party MP Ahmed Ezz and Minister of Culture…
NGO looks for worthy endeavor in promising entrepreneurs
CAIRO: In an effort to fill the funding gap that many startups face after having raised their initial "pre-seed money of about $25,000 to $100,000, Endeavor Egypt met with promising…
Mariza the fadista sings in Egypt
We Portuguese are very melancholic people, said Mariza onstage at the Cairo Opera House on Tuesday, "But our melancholy is a sweet melancholy. That's why we have the fado. Born…
The CEO Pay Slice
CAMBRIDGE: There is now intense debate about how the pay levels of top executives compare with the compensation given to rank-and-file employees. But, while such comparisons are important, the distribution…