fold that to India.
He drew the attention to the post-oil-and-gas era in the GCC member states, citing the importance of giving priority to sciences and technology in the field of education.
He concluded that security is pivotal factor for (...)
but-modest job growth presents political challenges for both President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney, who's closing in on the Republican presidential nomination.
Romney needs an ailing economy to fully exploit his image as an experienced business (...)
Taylor Swift was crowned artist of the year at the American Music Awards for a second time.
“This is so crazy!” the country superstar said after beat such contenders as Adele, Lady Gaga and Katy Perry to capture all three awards that she was (...)
أعلن مسؤول كبير في البيت الابيض أن الرئيس الاميركي باراك أوباما سيرسل اليوم إلى الكونغرس خطته للنهوض بالاقتصاد والتوظيف التي كان اعلن عنها الخميس امام البرلمانيين.
وقال المسؤول الذي فضل عدم الكشف عن هويته ان اوباما سيعلن من البيت الابيض بانه (...)
songwriter Bob Dylan will kick off tour of Asia in April with his first ever performance in Taiwan, organisers said Tuesday.
Dylan, the reluctant voice for disaffected youth in the 1960s, will perform in Taipei on April 3, a prospect that has led (...)
PAKISTAN DIPLOMACY IS BETTERTHE case of Raymond Davis, the American who had shot dead two Pakistanis, has reached dimensions that could put further pressure on the already frayed US-Pakistan relations, says the Dawn newspaper in an editorial. (...)
Andrey Golubev of Kazakhstan upset defending champion Nikolay Davydenko of Russia 6-4, 6-4 to reach the quarterfinals of the German Open on Thursday.
Third-seeded Juergen Melzer of Austria advanced to the last eight by beating Jeremy Chardy of (...)
Palestinian textile enthusiast and art teacher Joy Totah Hilden moved in 1982 to Saudi Arabia, where her husband Robert had been appointed as an English teacher at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM) in Dhahran, she embarked on an (...)
Israeli relations, the Abha-based Al-Watan said these relations are currently passing a stage of uncertainty after the decision of the Zionist leadership to turn down the American initiative pertaining to resumption of indirect negotiation with the (...)
year-olds in 2006, Reuters quoted a federal study as releasing today.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that autism cases were four to five times higher among boys than girls, with 1 in 70 boys and 1 in 315 girls (...)
The number of Saudi applicants for visas to the United States of America has gone up by 30 percent from last year, Ambassador Michael Kirby, Assistant Undersecretary at the US Department of State, has said.
Kirby said that staff numbers has been (...)
While on holiday in Canada, a huge sign in front of the Ontario Science Center caught my attention. It was an advertisement for the film “Journey to Mecca in the footsteps of Ibn Battuta” produced by the National Geographic Society in collaboration (...)
The United States Consulate General in Jeddah screened the 2007 Golden Globe & Academy Award Winner ‘Dream Girls' for a “houseful” of invited guests at the consulate premises complete with free popcorn on Saturday night.
As Consul General Martin R. (...)
LAST Friday, the “Weekend” section of the Washington Post featured a cover story on “Arabesque: Art of the Arab World,” the Kennedy Center's three-week-long festival of Arab arts and culture. There is no better way to begin a reflection on the (...)
SOME elections serve as clarifying moments in a nation's history, others resolve little and serve only as a reflection of internal division. The former provide direction, the latter create paralysis.
The recently completed Israeli elections and (...)
baseball, comic books, rock ‘n' roll — the video game is a mongrel art form. Literature, music, art and film all get jumbled together in this relatively new medium, but even that isn't enough: Designers have to figure out how to make the whole (...)
Elect Barrack Obama, noting that the diplomacy of the new American Administration is active with many unsolved issues and there is a strong management of the crisis related the goals in Gaza.
As for the Iraqi cause, he said that consensus among (...)
in-waiting like John Adams and Thomas Jefferson once had to serve long apprenticeships abroad, immersing themselves in the complexities of international diplomacy.
But as voters make their choice in the Nov. 4 presidential election, foreign policy (...)
than-expected second-quarter profit. The broader Standard & Poor's 500 index rose 17.00, or 1.35 percent, to 1,277.00. The technology-heavy NASDAQ composite index rose 24.43, or 1.1 percent, to 2,303.96.
Apple reported quarterly profits that beat (...)
The Philippine Declaration of Independence occurred on June 12, 1898 in the Philippines, where Filipino revolutionary forces under General Emilio Aguinaldo (later to become the Philippines' first Republican President) proclaimed the sovereignty and (...)
screen flat panel TVs looks to be getting smaller.
According to data released by the research firm, Pacific Media Associates, the share of the TV market for 30 to 34-inch L.C.D. TVs jumped to 24 percent in February from 16 percent in January.
That (...)
SENATOR Hillary Rodham Clinton may have won three of four primaries last Tuesday, gaining needed momentum for her flagging campaign, but in the end the cost of these wins may prove too high.
First and foremost, is the fact that, despite the (...)
2013 plan which was approved in Geneva last month.
Dr. Hoskins valued, in a press statement here, the support and efforts of Prince Abdulaziz bin Ahmad bin Abdulaziz, the Head of Middle East region's International Agency for Combating (...)
maybe all of the American people -
don't believe the benefits of this trading relationship are spread
evenly. Congress is reflecting that sentiment," Paulson told US
public television last week.
Washington has gotten tougher with China in the (...)
National Force _ West died Friday from wounds sustained due to enemy action in the province, a vast insurgent stronghold west of Baghdad, according to a statement.
The soldiers' names were withheld pending notification of relatives.
The deaths (...)