France moves Africa summit to avoid inviting Al-Beshir
PARIS: France-Africa summit will be held in France instead of Egypt after Paris made clear it did not want Sudanese President and indicted war criminal Omar Al-Beshir to attend, a…
Mubasher partners with Fidessa, looks to integrate Arab stock markets
CAIRO: At the recent meeting of the Union of Arab Stock Exchanges (UASE), the CEO's of securities exchanges from Morocco to Oman agreed that in order to strengthen Arab markets,…
Coco before Chanel
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. So remarked Oscar Wilde, a century before the emergence of a split second…
NY Film Critics name The Hurt Locker' best film
The Iraq war drama The Hurt Locker added to its award-season momentum, winning best film from the New York Film Critics Circle.The group, which announced its selections Monday, also awarded…
Rights for robots?
PRINCETON and WARSAW: Last month, Gecko Systems announced that it had been running trials of its "fully autonomous personal companion home care robot, also known as a "carebot, designed to…
India remembered
PARIS: "Do not forget India. That warning made sense 10 or 15 years ago; not any longer. India is now impossible to ignore, much less forget, owing not only to…
ME peace requires new ideas and courageous leaders
CHICAGO: Why is the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians so difficult to resolve when everyone knows exactly what a fair compromise must contain?Two states, one Palestine and one Israel, with…
Gaza's five-star destination
GAZA CITY: On the shore of Gaza City a large building lays as a casualty of the years of conflict. Bullet holes and tanks rounds are visible on the building's…
Ghazl El-Mahalla labor activist sacked after aborted strike
CAIRO: NGO the Center for Trade Union and Workers Services (CTUWS) has condemned the sacking of a worker at the Ghazl El-Mahalla spinning factory as a "dangerous escalation and crude…
