http://www.aawsat.com/english Asharq Alawsat English Edition is your insight into the Middle East en-us © 2005 Saudi Research and Publishing Thu, 16 May 2012 18:03:15 GMT 1 http://www.aawsat.com/english http://www.aawsat.com/english/images/aaaeng.gif 144 33 Asharq-e delivers up-to-the-minute news and information on the latest stories, weather, entertainment, politics in the Middle East http://www.asharq-e.com/news.asp?section=7&id=29645 CANNES, France (Reuters) - It took no less than a live camel strolling the promenade in Cannes to steal the show on the film festival's opening day, a feat that comedian Sacha Baron Cohen pulled off Thu, 16 May 2012 18:03:15 GMT http://www.asharq-e.com/news.asp?section=7&id=29610 LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Oscar prognosticators were flummoxed when "Where Do We Go Now?" won the audience award at last year's Toronto Film Festival - previous winners like "Slumdog Millionaire" and Mon, 13 May 2012 18:03:15 GMT http://www.asharq-e.com/news.asp?section=7&id=29586 London, Asharq Al-Awsat- Shakespeare has been translated into every major language, interpreted via every art and theater movement, has been the basis of discussions about language on multiple levels Sat, 11 May 2012 18:03:15 GMT http://www.asharq-e.com/news.asp?section=7&id=29577 NEW YORK (AP) — Andy Warhol's "Double Elvis" sold for $37 million and works by Roy Lichtenstein and Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei broke their own records at Sotheby's contemporary art sale on Wednesday. Lichtenstein's Fri, 10 May 2012 18:03:15 GMT http://www.asharq-e.com/news.asp?section=7&id=29562 HIGHLAND PARK, Mich. (AP) — Rima Fakih, the first Arab-American to be crowned Miss USA, avoided jail during sentencing Wednesday in her Michigan drunken driving case, an experience she described as "very Thu, 09 May 2012 18:03:15 GMT http://www.asharq-e.com/news.asp?section=7&id=29544 LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) - John Travolta is being sued for $2 million by an unidentified masseur who claims the Hollywood star assaulted him sexually during a massage in January inside a room at the Wed, 08 May 2012 18:03:15 GMT http://www.asharq-e.com/news.asp?section=7&id=29535 LOS ANGELES (AP) — Hulk, smash. That's what Captain America tells the Incredible Hulk to do in "The Avengers," and that's what the Marvel Comics superhero mash-up did at the box office, smashing the Tue, 07 May 2012 18:03:15 GMT http://www.asharq-e.com/news.asp?section=7&id=29485 NEW YORK, (AP) — One of the most iconic images in art history — Edvard Munch's "The Scream" — has become the most expensive artwork ever sold at auction. The 1895 piece — a modern symbol of human anxiety Fri, 03 May 2012 18:03:15 GMT http://www.asharq-e.com/news.asp?section=7&id=29445 TOKYO (Reuters) - What with romance and suave, sensitive characters, vampires weren't scary enough for author David Wellington anymore. So he decided to see if he could bring some terror back to tales Mon, 29 Apr 2012 18:03:15 GMT http://www.asharq-e.com/news.asp?section=7&id=29420 There are treasures more precious than oil in Saudi Arabia’s out-stretched deserts...buried antiquities and ruins of ancient cities which – despite their frailty – stand tall in the face of time, telling Sat, 27 Apr 2012 18:03:15 GMT