Over the weekend, Egypt unveiled plans to build a wholly new capital. The new city would lie somewhere to Cairo’s east, closer to the Red Sea. It would sprawl across some 150 square miles and potentially be home to as many as 7 million people. Projected to cost $45 billion, it was announced at a summit in the seaside resort of Sharm El-Sheikh aimed at boosting ...

The Future Movement and Hezbollah are to hold a new round of talks Wednesday despite renewed tension over the party’s role in Syria, political sources said Monday. “Future and Hezbollah officials will resume their dialogue Wednesday on the presidential election deadlock and a national strategy to fight terrorism,” a senior March 8 source told The Daily Star. The two sides ...

Jordan Henderson’s fortuitous goal earned Liverpool a 1-0 win at Swansea Monday as they moved within two points of fourth-placed Manchester United ahead of an eagerly anticipated showdown against their bitter rivals. Henderson scored for a third successive Premier League game to make it five successive top-flight victories for Brendan Rodgers’ team as their charge for the Champions League continues ...

Gareth Bale ended a nine-game goal drought by scoring twice as Real Madrid moved back to within a point of Barcelona at the top of La Liga with a 2-0 win over Levante Sunday. The Welshman silenced his critics as Madrid snapped a three-game winless streak to ensure they go into next weekend’s El Clasico at the Camp Nou on ...

British newspapers and pundits rounded on Chelsea and manager Jose Mourinho Thursday following their Champions League elimination, branding them “a team who will never really be loved.” Chelsea succumbed to French champions Paris Saint-Germain on away goals following a stormy and ill-tempered 2-2 draw Wednesday in the second leg of their last 16 tie at Stamford Bridge. The home side’s ...

Hen Zakai loves exploring darkness. In his spare time, he lowers himself into the underground world of hidden caves to navigate the nooks and crevasses of a very different environment. Zakai was recently spelunking with his father and a friend, all of whom are members of the Israeli Caving Club, when Zakai spotted a shiny silver object in one of ...

An American journalist held hostage by al-Qaeda militants in Yemen was one of the key targets of a pre-dawn raid by U.S. Special Operations troops and Yemeni forces Tuesday, the New York Timesreported. When the rescuers raided the militants’ shelter in a mountainside cave, they found six Yemeni hostages, a Saudi and an Ethiopian who were also held, but not ...

Shiite Huthi militiamen have stormed government installations in the Yemeni capital, tightening their grip on power in the city they overran in September, witnesses said Wednesday. Gunmen from the Ansarullah movement occupied the headquarters of the state-owned Safer oil and gas company and barred employees from entering the premises, company sources said. The movement appointed a new chief for Safer, ...

Yemen’s al-Qaida branch on Wednesday confirmed it carried out last week’s deadly assault on a French satirical newspaper to avenge cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad, as it called for unity among jihadi ranks and vowed more attacks on the West. In an 11-minute video posted on the group’s Twitter account, Nasr al-Ansi, a top commander of al-Qaida in the Arabian ...

Yemeni President Abed Rabbou Mansour Hadi and the country’s powerful Shiite militia agreed Wednesday to end a deadly confrontation that had raised fears the impoverished but strategic country might descend into chaos. The Houthis seized almost full control of the capital Sanaa in September and have fought pitched battles with government forces this week as they continued to press for ...