DUBAI - Shrugging off the global financial crisis, Dubai overnight toasted a new luxury hotel with a 20 million dollar bash attended by film stars and sporting greats and marked by a spectacular fireworks display.More than 2,000 world celebrities were invited to the event, which began Thursday night and continued into Friday.Among those who showed up for what the local press described as the "party of the decade" were Hollywood stars Robert de Niro, Cha... Read more »

VIENNA - Syria said Friday a building bombed by Israeli planes last year was not a covert nuclear reactor, as Washington stuck to its allegations."We are talking about military bases, we are talking about military activities," Ibrahim Othman, the head of Syria's Atomic Energy Commission, told reporters after IAEA inspectors briefed members about their first visit to the site in June.Earlier on Friday, the US envoy to the International Atomic Energy Agen... Read more »