Palm Hills to raise $400 mln, speed up work
CAIRO: Egypt s Palm Hills Development plans to raise as much as LE 2.17 billion in new funds as it prepares to speed up construction spending, an official said on…
Tobey Maguire, director won't return for 'Spider-Man 4'
Tobey Maguire has hung up his spandex suit and will not return as Spider-Man when the fourth film based on the web-slinging superhero hits cinemas in 2012, studio officials confirmed…
French filmmaker Eric Rohmer dies
Eric Rohmer, pivotal member of France's New Wave film movement that changed the history of the art form, has died aged 89, leaving behind an immense yet subtle and sensitive…
El-Beit Beitak to end six-year run in March
CAIRO: By next March, popular Channel 2 talk show "El-Beit Beitak will no longer be gracing Egyptian living-rooms, as producers have recently announced that the show's six-year run will come…
Freud, Monet, Basquiat plus blood n'gore on view in Paris in 2010
The Paris art scene spotlights giants Lucian Freud, Claude Monet and even Yves Saint Laurent in 2010, but a chill air of death and destruction peppers many of this year's…
Europe's latest revolution
STOCKHOLM: History often moves with small steps, but such steps sometimes turn out to have big implications.This New Year's Eve, Sweden made history in a small way by ending the…
Is military power becoming obsolete?
CAMBRIDGE: Will military power become less important in the coming decades? It is true that the number of large-scale inter-state wars continues to decline, and fighting is unlikely among advanced…
How to govern Sudan: A quest for confederation
This article tacitly acknowledges the complex and volatile nature of events in Sudan as a state and a nation, if there is a nation to begin with. The crisis of…
Swine flu death toll over 200
CAIRO: The Ministry of Health announced on Monday the death of six new cases of swine flu (H1N1) virus, raising Egypt's swine flu death toll to 201. The recent deaths…
