British Prime Minister Tony Blair is a man in a hurry. He is desperate to tie up as many political loose ends as he can in the coming months, the tail end of...
The verdict of course was as much in doubt as a turkey's fate come Thanksgiving. Saddam Hussein now has a date with the hangman's noose. An appointment with...
LONDON: Higher oil prices are on the way. Or at least that's what OPEC hopes. Last week the cartel attempted to send a message to all those hedge funds and...
Britain's top soldier, General Sir Richard Dannatt, has spent most of the last week expressing surprise that his trenchant comments about the war in Iraq...
As commodities go, it's not just that insanity runs through the entire oil market; it positively gallops. Perhaps it's just me, but did anyone else notice...
It says something about British Prime Minister Tony Blair's current woes that his government's travails pushed England's injured star footballer Wayne Rooney...
Not long ago, while travelling in a taxi in Beirut amid the haze of smoke coming from the dilapidated car's dashboard and the elderly driver's incessant...
The farcical '"phony war'" over Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's recent ill-judged call for Israel to be '"wiped off the map'" reached a new level of...
Analysis There's a danger when you're in a job too long you start repeating yourself. So forgive me if I mention the fact that earlier this year I wrote that...
BEIRUT: Hurricane Katrina has been a human catastrophe on a scale hardly imaginable in the richest and most advanced country in the world. But to believe some...
News analysis When three of the former top brass of a country's security apparatus are arrested in dawn raids in connection with the assassination of a former...
BEIRUT: Oil surged to a new record high of $70.85 in late New York trade yesterday while in London Brent rose to an all time high of $68.89 in another day of...
Oil prices briefly broke through the symbolic $70 a barrel after Hurricane Katrina forced the closure of oil platforms in the Gulf of Mexico, where more than...
Call me an old fashioned romantic, but I find it heartwarming when a democratically elected politician dresses down an over zealous unelected bureaucrat. In...
Analysis BEIRUT: We keep hearing the price of a barrel of crude oil is being driven by fundamentals, but yesterday offered us the clearest indication of what...
Much learned ink has been spilt examining the reasons why three young British born Muslims and a Jamaican born British national would become suicide bombers...
Analysis Another day another deadly bomb attack in Beirut. As events in London this week and Israel yesterday show, no country is immune from...
The ten-minute economic guide Earlier this month China's state-owned China Textile Machinery group began construction work on a $12.5 million fabric factory...
Interview BEIRUT: U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Near East Affairs Elizabeth Dibble warned Lebanon's incoming government UN Resolution 1559 needs to be...
Governments and the media are fond of saying that terrorism has no face. But it does. It was in the face of Jassim Hassan whom The Daily Star showed grieving...
Beirut: What is the world's worst performing currency in Forex markets over the last five weeks? Believe it or not it is the Israeli Shekel. A report by...
As it turns out, my prediction last week that oil would hit $60 before the start of summer was out by two days. In fact, despite breaking the symbolic $60...
As humiliations go, it could have been worse. But short of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas being physically thrown out of this week's summit in...
BEIRUT: Oil prices broke through the $60 barrier in New York yesterday as fears about tight supply continue to convulse the market. New York crude for August...
Washington again pointed an accusing finger at Syria following the murder of Lebanese politician George Hawi, insisting Damascus was responsible for an...