Throughout the Middle East and North Africa - or MENA - wasta is a currency more powerful than dirhams or dinars. Wasta is the clout you get from whom you know and it can make every aspect of your life easier - from getting a new phone line installed...
Despite falling 140 points before the market opened, because of disappointing corporate earnings, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed more than half a percent higher on Tuesday. A Wall Street economist says the mixed signals reflect an exaggerate...
Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani speaks during a press conference held at the Iranian embassy in Damascus, Syria, 01 Jun 2010 Top Iranian leaders and officials say they have no intention of conducting negotiations with the United States. Meanw...
President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron hold a joint news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, 20 Jul 2010. U.S. President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron held wide-rangi...
A deadly car bomb last week, the first of its kind, suggests that Mexico's drug cartels are growing increasingly bold and sophisticated. As illegal drugs and people cross the US-Mexican border into the United States, weapons and possibly billions of...
Foreign ministers and delegates from various countries attend an international conference on Afghanistan's future in Kabul, Afghanistan, 20 July 2010 Representatives from countries around the world and international organizations have met in Kabul at...
Theophile Kouamouo (L), a French national and the editorial director of Le Nouveau Courrier, and senior editor Saint Claver Oula (R) walk handcuffed for their trial on theft of an official document to Adibjan's Justice Palace, 19 July 2010 In Ivory C...
At age 97, singer and pianist Pinetop Perkins proves you're never too old to play the blues. Pinetop is still in top form on a new album with singer, drummer and harmonica player Willie Big Eyes Smith, titled Joined At The Hip. When Pinetop Perkins c...
U.S. President Barack Obama, right, talks to members of the media as Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron, left, looks on during their bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Toronto, (file photo - 26 June 2010) As Prime Minister Da...
This picture provided by the Israeli Defense Ministry on 6 Jan 2010 and made within 48 hours of release, shows a rocket fired from the Iron Dome system during a test in southern Israel Israel's new anti-rocket system, called the Iron Dome, has passed...
Manga, a longstanding Japanese version of graphic novels, is such a popular literary form that ian entire category in several bookstores.t's In a recent Washington Post story, Michael Dirda described young people sprawled on the floor at bookstores,...
Former US president Bill Clinton speaks during a session at the International AIDS Conference Austria, 19 Jul 2010 Former President Bill Clinton addressed the 18th International AIDS Conference in Vienna Monday. He said while much progress has been m...
Bill Gates says in these tough economic times, more efficiency is needed in HIV/AIDS treatment and prevention programs. At the same time, he says more people need to be on anti-retroviral drugs. The billionaire philanthropist spoke Monday at the 18th...
Under UV light, this mosquito larva reveals a red fluorescent marker in its nervous system, causing eyes and nerves to glow. The marker's presence tells the researchers in Riehle's team that this individual carries the genetic construct rendering it...
New technologies aid in conservation efforts at the National Zoo Susan Logue Koster | Front Royal, Virginia 19 July 2010 The National Zoo opened a cheetah science facility in 2007 at its conservation center in Front Royal, VA. Cheetahs are considered...
