'An entirely futile exercise'
An exclusive interview with Amr Moussa in Washington.

Israel condemned

Assad in France

More than a shopping trip
Shopping is a quintessential fin de siècle activity. So too mass tourism. So what happens when the two collide? Rehab Saad examines the prospects for next week's Tourism and Shopping Festival

Nigel Ryan reviews The Orientalists exhibition at the newly refurbished Nile Gallery in the Opera House grounds

One and undivided? -- Revellers gather for the traditional 14 July Ball on the place de la Bastille, where earlier that afternoon 5,000 illegal immigrants were "adopted" in a ceremony presided over by renegade mayors, in defiance of the government's increasingly harsh stance on immigration. The symbolism of the occasion was enhanced by the celebration which had preceded it, for the World Cup victory of a French team made up almost entirely of the sons of immigrants. As the National Front continues to advance in the polls, can the country master its demons before they pull it apart?

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