Oil prices mixed as inventories stay high
LONDON: Oil prices dropped on Friday and were likely to stay under $80 because of high energy inventories in the United States, the world s biggest energy-consuming nation, analysts said.New…
Dubai Airshow ends on sharply lower sales note
DUBAI: The biennial Dubai Airshow ended on Thursday, fulfilling pessimistic analyst forecasts, as sales of only a bit more than $14 billion dimmed against $155.5 billion in 2007. The declared…
Egyptian-Algerian diplomatic relations take a wrong turn
CAIRO: The government has called in the Algerian ambassador Ambassador Abdelkader Hadjar yesterday and then recalled its own envoy Ambassador Abdul-Aziz Seif al-Nasr, from Algeria for consultations in protest against…
Omar Abdel-Rahman's NY ex-lawyer surrenders to serve prison term
NEW YORK: Promising you haven t seen the last of me, a 70-year-old disbarred lawyer convicted in a terrorism case surrendered to US marshals Thursday to begin serving her prison…
Peres to meet Mubarak Sunday
CAIRO: Israeli President Shimon Peres will arrive in Egypt Sunday to hold talks with President Hosni Mubarak.Peres was on a tour of South American countries, which took him to Brazil…
Tribal tensions continue in fallout from Suez officer shooting
CAIRO: Tribal tensions in Northern Sinai continued as a result of the shooting of a Suez police officer and the subsequent shooting of the prime suspect.Ahmed Eid from the Tarabin…
Maadi's best kept secret
I do quite a bit of eating for my job and never have I come across a small independently run establishment in Cairo that can compete with the big boys…
Wonder bread at new bakery TBS
The success of The Bakery Shop (TBS) at the North Coast over the past two summers left many dreaming of its delicious treats once they return to the city -…
Rest – and unrest – on vacation in Honduras
The president s been arrested already this morning, hotel owner Jeff Kuken told my wife and me one Sunday morning in late June.We had spent months planning a vacation across…
TV ad seeks to recruit Arab-Americans to CIA
DEARBORN, Michigan: There s a swirl of activity in a spacious, modern kitchen as final meal preparations are made.An older man tries to swipe a felafel off an appetizer plate…