Death toll spikes for Iraqis, US troops
BAGHDAD: Violence killed more Iraqis last month than at any time since September, figures showed Friday after the US reported deaths that also made June the deadliest month for its…
Yemenis turn Friday prayers to political rallies
SANAA: Tens of thousands of Yemenis turned Friday prayers into rallies for and against President Ali Abdullah Saleh who is recovering from injuries sustained in an assassination attempt earlier this…
Vampires, ninjas and more pack LA for Anime Expo
When it comes to embracing their inner geekiness, aficionados of Anime Expo are proud to tell you that pretty much nobody tops them. More than 100,000 such fanatics of the…
Bay: New 3-D ‘Transformers’ better than No. 2
The 46-year-old's pride was bruised after part two of the franchise, 2009's "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen," did a bang-up job at the box office (bringing in more than $400…
Buttered Up: Tom Yum Goong – the Egyptian way
My husband relocated to Malaysia a few months before I did. While I was busy boxing up what little we had made of our first makeshift home and saying my…
Confessions of a financial deregulator
By Bradford DeLong BERKELEY: Back in the late 1990s, in America at least, two schools of thought pushed for more financial deregulation — that is, for repealing the legal separation…
Europe’s Ukrainian test
By F. Stephen Larrabee and Taras Kuzio WASHINGTON, DC: The recent start of the trial in Kyiv of former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, one of the leaders of Ukraine’s…
Is pornography driving men crazy?
By Naomi Wolf NEW YORK: It is hard to ignore how many highly visible men in recent years (indeed, months) have behaved in sexually self-destructive ways. Some powerful men have…
The Israeli uprising
By Naava Mashiah GENEVA: “What Israel now needs is an uprising.” This is the comment I heard on the side-lines of the discussions at a conference called “Enriching the Economic…
Egypt denies its seeds caused E.coli outbreak
CAIRO: Egypt's ministry of agriculture on Friday denied that fenugreek seeds exported to Europe had caused an E.coli outbreak that has killed 50 people, mainly in Germany. The head of…
