Finger-lickin’ fix
By Philip Whitfield CAIRO: Imagine you’re President of Kentucky Fried Chicken on January 25. You pick up the phone and call the manager in Tahrir Square. What would you tell him?…
The too-quiet American
By Jagdish Bhagwati NEW YORK: It is now apparent that the United States is the main culprit in preventing the ten-year-old multilateral trade negotiations known as the Doha Round from being…
Turkey on Trial
By Dani Rodrik ISTANBUL: In a Hollywood courtroom drama, you know that the hero, set up by the bad guys, will eventually be cleared — but not before the noose tightens…
Troubled diva Amy Winehouse dead at 27
Few artists summed up their own career in a single song — a single line — as well as Amy Winehouse. "They tried to make me go to rehab," she…
Tripoli bombed, Qaddafi lashes ‘colonial plot’
TRIPOLI: NATO warplanes blitzed a string of military targets in Tripoli on Sunday, an official said, as embattled Libyan leader Moammer Qaddafi blamed a "colonial plot" for the conflict engulfing…
Turkey PM demands Israeli apology for flotilla dead
ISTANBUL: Normal ties between Turkey and Israel are "unthinkable" until Israel apologizes for the nine Turks killed when Israeli troops stormed a Gaza-bound aid flotilla, Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said…
Car bomb in Yemen’s Aden kills 9 soldiers, injures 21
ADEN/SANAA: A suicide bomber drove a booby-trapped car into an army checkpoint outside Yemen's southern port city of Aden on Sunday, killing at least nine soldiers and wounding 21 others,…
Iranian nuclear scientist killed in Tehran, says report
TEHRANL: An Iranian physicist was shot dead by a motorcyclist in Tehran on Saturday and Iran's student news agency ISNA quoted an unnamed police official as saying the man was…
Focus on Islamists let other extremists go under radar
By Rita Devlin Marier/ Reuters STOCKHOLM: Security services in Norway and elsewhere in the region had recently shifted their focus to Islamist extremism, letting other forms of terror slip under the…
Egyptian academic heralds global youth revolution
By AP JOHANNESBURG: An Egyptian academic says diverse communities can find integration through social networking, including platforms such as Facebook and Twitter. Ismail Serageldin, director of Egypt's Alexandria Library, says…
