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CAIRO - As the plane banks towards Cairo airport, passengers peer from the windows onto the highways below, empty of the cars usually inching along in heavy traffic at all hours of the day and night. Arriving in Egypt's protest-shaken capital after curfew, visitors quickly see how the usually heaving, noisy city has been transformed by eight days of demonstrations against Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.
At the arrivals terminal, immigration booths that are usually fully staffed

LOS ANGLES - A ballet psycho-thriller isn't the typical boxoffice juggernaut, but as Darren Aronofsky's "Black Swan" hit the $75 million mark during the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend. Women (big surprise!). About 55 percent of the audience is female (17-34 is the sweet spot), and many bring their boyfriends and husbands along.
Women are giving the film a B+ on CinemaScore; men are a bit less enthusiastic with a B, but that is considered great for a horror/thriller.

LAHORE - MPAs' attendance issue in the Punjab Assembly remained hot in the assembly's session on Thursday. Majority of the members, during the full day proceedings, declared it as a 'humiliation' and Sanaullah Masti Khel walked out from the assembly in protest.
Provincial Minister for Law and Parliamentary Affairs Rana Sanaullah Khan on a point of order informed that the matter was brought into Punjab chief minister's notice and he had allowed the purchase of Bio Matrix System to

LOS ANGELES - US presidents aren't the only ones who make surprise visits to troops in Afghanistan. "The Fighter" Mark Wahlberg made his own trek to the war-torn country in December, but with little media attention that typically follows dignitaries and Hollywood stars. Dressed in jeans, leather jacket, bullet-proof vest and battle-ready helmet, Wahlberg stepped off military transport and into the former home of a Taliban drug lord who had been ousted by US troops. There was no

LAHORE - The Punjab Emergency Service Rescue 1122 will mark 2011 as a year of safety by preventing the maximum number of emergencies, Rescue 1122 Director General Dr Rizwan Naseer said on Monday. He was speaking at a press conference at the Emergency Services Academy.
Naseer said that community safety initiatives would be implemented through district emergency boards in collaboration with chambers of commerce & industry, district governments and community emergency response

LAHORE: The main Zuljinnah procession of the provincial capital, which has over 165 years of history, will be taken out from Nisar Haveli at 11pm today - the ninth of Muharram - to mark the martyrdom of Hazrat Imam Hussain (RA) and his die-hard companions.
On Wednesday, hundreds of Majalis were held besides small Zuljinnah processions being taken out to observe Ashura in different parts of the city. Strict security arrangements were made for these small processions and no

LAHORE: Ten-year-old Abid Ali is adamant about joining in with his elders in the yearly 'zanjeeri maatam' of ninth of Muharram. He says nothing that anyone says to him will deter him from doing it. "My elder brother does it, and I want to be a part of it too," he says proudly.
A few blocks away, a local biryani owner's business is flourishing. Mukhtar Ahmed may not be a Shia himself, but his family has lived for generations in the area of Bhaati Gate, and he has now inevitably

Getting inked has been one of Sushmita Sen's fetishes for a while now. And she has now got a brand new tattoo on her left forearm. This one is inscribed in Latin 'Aut Viam inveniam aut faciam', which means 'I'll either find a way or make one.'
Even though she has a range of tattoos, she insists on only one man to put them on her: Sameer Patange. Reportedly, she has three other permanent tattoos on her arms and one on her back. She got her first tattoo on her left wrist, which

BEIJING: China is likely to raise interest rates in the coming days in a demonstration of the government's resolve to tame inflation, an official newspaper said on Tuesday.
In a banner headline across its front page, the China Securities Journal said this weekend offered a "sensitive window" for a rate rise, which would be the country's second following a surprise increase in October, the central bank's first rate hike since 2007.
An increase in rates would also put flesh

ISLAMABAD: Board of Investment (BOI) Chairman Saleem H Mandviwalla on Saturday termed the president's visit to Sri Lanka very fruitful and stressed his belief that both countries would boost the level of bilateral trade from the current $300 million to $1.0 billion within a very short time.
According to a statement of the BOI issued here, Saleem H Mandviwalla was part of the delegation that visited Sri Lanka and the trip was meant to remove any hurdles to enhanced commercial and

LAHORE: Shirakt Gah, South Asia Partnership Pakistan and Kashf Foundation along with other non-governmental organisations (NGO) organised a walk and solidarity rally at the Lahore Press Club to mark the International Women Rights Defenders Day.
The participants carried banners and placards demanding an end to all forms of violence against women and acts of harassment against human rights defenders. November 29 is a day of recognition for human rights activists when activism,

Mark Zuckerberg ended up seeing "The Social Network" after all.
The Facebook cofounder and CEO took his staff to a screening, a company spokesperson confirmed.
"To celebrate a period of intense activity at Facebook, we decided to go to the movies. We thought this particular movie might be amusing," the spokesperson said.
After the film, the group indulged in apple martinis, the same drink Jesse Eisenberg, who plays Zuckerberg, and Justin Timberlake (Napster's Sean