Egypt stocks gain on broad retail buying, OT soars
CAIRO: Egyptian stocks gained almost 6 percent on Sunday, with local retail investors seeking bargains across the board and buying into leading stocks like Orascom Telecom, traders said. OT shares…
IMF needs hundreds of billions of dollars, says Brown
RIYADH: The IMF needs hundreds of billions of dollars to protect struggling economies from the global financial crisis, Britain s Gordon Brown said on Sunday, as he led a business…
NDP comes out swinging at opponents at party conference
CAIRO: Amid a worldwide economic crisis and a year of scandals, the National Democratic Party's (NDP) fifth annual conference kicked off this Saturday confronted with circumstances the ruling party has…
Push for privatizing transportation grows, though tempered by some worries
CAIRO: A glance at the decrepit trains running to Ismailia or at the clogged byways of Cairo's downtown make one thing clear: Transport has not recently kept pace with a…
War films garner top honors at Rome film festival
Two war films, Resolution 819 about the 1995 Srebrenica massacre and Opium War set in contemporary Afghanistan, won top honors Friday at the Rome Film Festival.Afghan filmmaker Siddiq Barmak, whose…
British royals shaken and stirred at London Bond premiere
Princes William and Harry joined James Bond actor Daniel Craig and a host of other stars on the red carpet at the world premiere of new 007 film Quantum of…
A KHAWAGA'S TALE: Here comes the sun
We are not only on the verge of a new leader of the free world, which should be known at breakfast on Wednesday morning, but we are on the verge…
US Election Watch
There s been a crucial question hanging over the US election campaign from the very start: Would US voters be willing to elect an African-American?There s another even uglier question…
A conspiracy so immense
NEW YORK: Is this the Age of the Conspiracy Theory? Plenty of evidence suggests that we are in something of a golden age for citizen speculation, documentation, and inference that…