Rolling out broadband and putting more computers in schools will be pieces of a massive economic recovery package proposed by U.S. President-elect Barack Obama, he has announced.
Obama, in a radio address Saturday, told listeners that he will push for the largest government-funded infrastructure program since the Interstate highway system in the 1950s as a way [...]
Seafaring countries have agreed new sulphur limits for ship fuels that will slash air pollutants and help clean up the oceans but will raise costs for the oil and ship sectors, a maritime industry source said on Friday.
Governments agreed the measures, which will sharply cut harmful sulphur dioxide (SO2) emissions from ships through a staggered [...]
Karl Rove, the man credited with getting President Bush elected twice, has warned both Democrats and Republicans that they are making a mistake by using advertising to attack their respective candidates.Political strategist Karl Rove said Obama may not have consciously wanted to attribute Palin with porcine traits when he used the “lipstick on a pig” [...]
Despite skyrocketing inflation, millions of Malayalis across the Gulf prepared to celebrate Onam, the traditional harvest festival, that falls Friday.Shops and supermarkets were filled with customers buying traditional items like plantain leaves, vegetables, sweets, dry fruits, jewellery, and decorative items.
‘We have managed to procure vegetables that people seek during Oman,’ manager at a branch of [...]
Angry residents wailed and protested as rescuers in northern China kept hunting on Wednesday for dozens of victims feared trapped by a deluge of mud after a reservoir for mine waste collapsed, killing more than 50 people.State media reported late on Tuesday that searchers had confirmed 56 dead after heavy rain triggered Monday’s collapse of [...]
A Slovak tour bus crashed Sunday on a highway in Croatia, killing 14 people and leaving two in a critical condition, a Slovak official said.The bus with 49 passengers swerved off the Zagreb-Split highway near the mountain town of Gospic and slammed straight-on into an overpass concrete pillar shortly before 6 a.m., spokesman for the [...]
Thailand’s embattled leader struggled to keep the peace and his grip on power Tuesday after declaring a state of emergency that was openly flouted by thousands of anti-government protesters in the capital.
While Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej sought to tamp down newly violent unrest pitting pro- and anti-government protesters, he also was hit by an electoral [...]
Young Americans studying Arabic like to joke that Jordan is “Middle East Lite” — a safe way into a tumultuous region without Lebanon’s violence, Syria’s tense relationship with the U.S. or the Gulf’s conservative culture.
Drawn by that reputation, an increasing number of Americans interested in Arabic have been flocking to Jordan.
The capital, Amman, lacks much [...]
Nigerian President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua has been in a Saudi hospital for several days, a hospital official said on Sunday, as his government insisted he was in good health.
Yar’Adua has been at the King Fahd Armed Forces Hospital in the Red Sea city of Jeddah, the administrative official told AFP without specifying his medical condition [...]
Russia’s president said Sunday his country will give military aid to the two separatist regions at the center of the war with Georgia — signaling Moscow has no intention of backing down in the face of Western pressure.
Dmitry Medvedev also warned that American domination of world affairs is unacceptable, though he insisted that Russia did [...]