Kuwaiti women complain of discrimination | Women in Kuwait complained on Monday of gender discrimination in employment and other sectors despite making key strides in politics after four females were elected to parliament. | Marking Internat... (photo: AP Photo/Gustavo Ferrari) Middle East Online
Know your pearls | Some like to say, when in doubt, wear your pearls! The marketplace is active with so many pearl varieties and each variety singing confusing prices that people mostly give up and buy uninformed. Bro... (photo: WN / sweet) Indian Express
Arab League backs Middle East talks | The Arab League has agreed to a US proposal for indirect Palestinian-Israeli talks, a senior Palestinian official says. | The foreign ministers of Arab states agreed to give the diplomatic initiativ... (photo: AP / Ibrahim Usta)Al Jazeera ArabMideastPalestinianPhotosTalks
42 million date palms planted in UAE His Highness Shaikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahayan, there are continual efforts to increase UAE date palm productivity in order to make better use of the date palm industry and to produce an agricultura... (photo: Creative Commons / Andrew Massyn)Khaleej Times EconomyIndustryPalmPhotosUAE
Command role for Aussies in Afghanistan | AUSTRALIA is under increasing pressure to take command of coalition forces in Afghanistan's Oruzgan province after Dutch troops withdraw later this year. | The Dai... (photo: AP / Australian Defense Department, CPL Bernard Pearson, HO)The Daily Telegraph Australia AfghanistanAustraliaDefencePhotosUS
Marjah, the city that never was | By Gareth Porter | WASHINGTON - For weeks, the United States public followed the biggest offensive of the Afghanistan war against what it was told was a "city of 80,000... (photo: AP / David Guttenfelder)Asia Times AfghanistanDefenceNATOPhotosUS
