Svelte models strutted down the catwalk in garish dresses with bare backs and short hemlines all under the watchful portraits of Syrian President Bashar Assad and his late father, Hafez.The glitzy occasion was Syrias first-ever fashion-design competition, intended to encourage

Egypt announced on Wednesday that it has cut all cooperation with Frances Louvre Museum until it secures the return of stolen Pharaonic antiquities in the latest row involving the exhibits of a major European institution.We made the decision to end