Hawaii is paradise for green-tech entrepreneurs Knox News | KONA, Hawaii — Take a ride in Ron Baird's pickup truck along the volcanic shore of Hawaii's Big Island and he'll show you an inventor's wonderland. | On one parcel of this government-created energy laboratory, rows of mirrors shine white-hot in the sun, turning heat into energy. On another, ...
Egypt arrests 3 top Muslim Brotherhood leaders The News & Observer | CAIRO -- The No. 2 leader of Egypt's opposition Muslim Brotherhood and two other top figures have been arrested by police in a dawn sweep that also grabbed 10 senior members across five provinces, police and members of the group said. | Police arrested the newly elected deputy leader, Mahmoud Ezza...
Spring break turns air travel into a nightmare Arab News | Laura Bashraheel | Arab News | JEDDAH: With the school mid-year break only days away, local flights, especially those coming to Jeddah, are all fully booked despite airlines adding more domestic flights. | Seats on domestic flights operating from R...
Yemen's al-Qaida deputy chief urges new attacks The News & Observer | SAN'A, Yemen -- The deputy chief of al-Qaida's offshoot in Yemen called for attacks on Saudi Arabia and U.S. interests in the region in a new audio message posted Monday on the Internet. | The statement, purportedly by Said al-Shihri, urged followe...
Hawaii is paradise for green-tech entrepreneurs Knox News | KONA, Hawaii — Take a ride in Ron Baird's pickup truck along the volcanic shore of Hawaii's Big Island and he'll show you an inventor's wonderland. | On one parcel of this government-created energy laboratory, rows of mirrors shine white-hot ...
Haitian Lawmakers Seek to Postpone Elections The New York Times | PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - Lawmakers in the lower house of Haiti's Parliament plan to ask President René Préval to postpone upcoming elections and instead extend their terms of offi...
Dazzling haute couture rises from Lebanon's ruins China Daily | PARIS - Lebanon's new star couturiers face the typical problems of people working in fashion: snarled deliveries, canceled trips, delayed fittings. | Only in their case, such hic...
Cruise trends: Higher prices, single studios, water parks Denver Post | In this Oct. 21, 2009 photo released by Carnival Cruise Lines, guests aboard the Carnival Dream, slide down two massive corkscrew waterslides. The slides are central elements featured within the ship's expansive WaterWorks attraction, billed by the...
Sunnis kill 65 Shiites in Iraq and Pakistan in coordinated attacks (Slideshow) The Examiner | Bomb detonates outside hospital in Karachi, Pakistan | Coordinated bomb blasts in Iraq’s holy city of Karbala and Pakistan’s largest city, Karachi, killed at least 65 Shi’ite pilgrims and worshipers and wounded another 250 ...
Hotel prices slump in UAE The Independent | Hotel prices in the UAE fell by 15.5 percent at the end of last year, according to data released February 5. | Dubai led the decline, with hoteliers suffering a fall in revenue per room available by as much as 27.5 percent. Abu Dhabi, however, prov...
Indian billionaire Mukesh Ambani sets sights on buying Liverpool from Hicks and Gillett The Times | Liverpool emerged as a takeover target for the seventh-richest man in the world last night as the pressure mounted on Tom Hicks and George Gillett Jr to cut a deal to sell Anfield. | Mukesh Ambani, the wealthiest man in India, is one of two tycoons from the sub-continent competing to buy a stake in the Merseyside club. | The Sahara Group's chairm...
Muslims should make fellow countrymen likeminded: Shahrukh Khan The Siasat Daily | Mumbai, Jan 23 (News Editor Aamer Ali Khan): Bollywood Badshah Shahrukh Khan, not only in his reel life but also in his real life determined to eradicate the wrong notions about Muslim community. | Ahead of his to be released film “My Name is Khan†Shahrukh had invited a selected few Urdu journos to his Juhu located residence Mannat where he ...
