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  • Saudi woman creates history by reaching Mount Everest summit

    A Saudi woman has become the first female from the country and the youngest Arab to reach the summit of Mount Everest - the world's highest mountain. Raha Moharrak, 25, was part of a four-person expedition, which also included the first Qatari man and the first Palestinian man attempting to reach the top of Mount Everest, trying to raise 1 million dollars for education projects in Nepal, the ...

  • UAE to raise standard of education

    The announcement of the UAE's Ministry of Education about the School Leadership Project to raise standards in the country's education sector is an important initiative which needs to be highly commended, a UAE daily has said. "Over the next five years, 700 education professionals in public schools in the UAE will undergo rigorous training in international best practices in teaching to set the ...

  • Two Mossad CIA spies executed in Iran

    Two Iranian spies working for the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad were hanged in Iran on Sunday morning, the state IRIB TV said.Mohammad Heidari, one of the executed men, had prepared information in a number of security issues of the country and had given them to the Israeli Mossad in several meetings outside of the country, said the report.Heidari ...

  • Where in the world is Ragheb Alama Fans worried he wouldn’t show for Friday’s Arab Idol

    fight with fellow feisty judge Ahlam digging too deep into Ragheb Alama's skin to the point that he flew the coup and headed to the City of Lights to hide in the Eiffel Tower? This was the question some fans wondered when the superstar tweeted a pic from Paris last week.Ragheb didn't let his fans down, and made it to Friday night's episode of the hit talent show, only for the ...

  • Kuwait replaces oil officials at KPC after $2.2 billion Dow payment

    KUWAIT (Reuters) - State-run Kuwait Petroleum Company (KPC) appointed a new chief executive and suspended other top officials after the country paid $2.2 billion in damages to Dow Chemical Co ...

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O Brother, Where Art Thou? [Blu-Ray]

O Brother, Where Art Thou? [Blu-Ray]

Leave it up to the Joel and Ethan Coen to use Homers The Odyssey as inspiration for an eclectic, slapstick, Depression-era musical comedy set in Mississippi and featuring jokes about cows getting run over by cars, manic-depressive bank robbers, and the Ku K ... ...

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  • 8 killed across Iraq as violence escalates fresh deaths come after bloodiest day in months

    Iraqi armed tribesmen pose for a picture in front of a truck in a road north of Ramadi (Azhar Shallal/AFP) Eight people were killed across Iraq Saturday, hours after a series of bombings rocked Baghdad in the bloodiest day there in months, officials said.Calls for a halt to sectarian violence went unheeded, with gunmen storming the home of a top police anti-terrorism official and killing him, ...

  • Arab Aatomic Energy Conf. Opens in Tunisia

    Tunisia, May 19 (BNA) - The conference of the Arab Atomic Energy Agency (AAEA) started here , with representatives from AAEA member countries participating. In a keynote speech, the head of the conference Abdulrahman Al-Arfaj said to achieve development in Arab countries, fresh reliable energy sources should be found. He said the growth of nuclear energy and nuclear technology applications is ...

  • Police officers hurt in Kuwait prison brawl

    Four inmates - a Saudi and three stateless residents - are accused of using "sharp edged objects" to attack the officers during a surprise raid on a ...

  • RPT-New Egypt central bank ruling a blow for local money market funds

    Sun May 19, 2013 3:00am EDT (Repeats story that ran on May 15, with no changes) * Limits fund investments to only 2 pct of a bank's capital * C.bank concerned that funds lie outside its supervision * Investment bank Beltone could be among those hardest hit By Patrick Werr CAIRO, May 15 (Reuters) - Egypt's central bank, worried that banks are investing too much of their cash in local ...

  • Egypt Suez Canal Development Project Will Raise Revenues 20 Folds - Official

    The Suez Canal development project aims at turning the canal into "a global centre for industry and logistics" since 10 percent of the world's merchandise and 20 percent of all ships pass through the canal, said an advisor to President Mohamed Mursi. The project which is expected to raise the canal's revenues 20 folds will involve three phases, presidential advisor Ahmed ...

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