3-D helps lift ‘Transformers’ to $400 mln global haul
The "Transformers" robots have put their 3-D ticket-price advantage to good use. Distributor Paramount Pictures estimated Monday that "Transformers: Dark of the Moon" pulled in $116.4 million domestically over the…
‘Elliot’ writer’s opera dropped over gay character
A community opera involving hundreds of children and written by the author of "Billy Elliot" has been canceled after the writer refused to remove lines spoken by a gay character…
From Fukushima to disarmament
By Malcolm Fraser SYDNEY: Months after the devastating March 11 earthquake and tsunami hit Japan, the ongoing nuclear disaster at Fukushima compounds the humanitarian tragedy and impedes recovery. The damaged…
Turning privacy “threats” into opportunities
By Esther Dyson NEW YORK: It is a well-known — though questionable — truth in the online community that consumers won’t pay for privacy. Accordingly, most companies regard the entire…
A clockwork chemistry
By Guy Kahane OXFORD: In Anthony Burgess’s novella (and Stanley Kubrick’s film) A Clockwork Orange, Alex, an unrepentant psychopath, has his eyes pried wide open and is forced to watch…
Indonesian efforts to defend multiculturalism
By Testriono JAKARTA: Recent cases of religious intolerance in Indonesia have led some observers to worry that US President Barack Obama's praise of religious tolerance in Indonesia during his visit…
Egypt’s Enppi signs MOU with Emerson
CAIRO: Enppi, one of Egypt’s leading petroleum companies, signed on Sunday a Memorandum of Understanding with Emerson Process Management, who will deliver training courses at ENPPI Academy, the educational arm…
EU bans import of seeds linked to E. coli as Egypt denies responsibility
BRUSSELS/CAIRO: The European Union has voted to ban imports of all seeds and beans from Egypt until Oct. 31, after a batch of fenugreek seeds from the country was…
Revised minimum wage still too low, activists argue
By Brett Borkan CAIRO: While being a substantial increase from the previous year’s level, the revision of Egypt’s proposed minimum wage from LE 700 to LE 684 per month was…
Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood expels five members, says paper
By Reuters CAIRO: The Muslim Brotherhood group expelled five of its members for setting up a political party in defiance of the group's own Freedom and Justice party, a newspaper…
