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Syrian Novel among Top 100 Novels of All Time

    Syrian writer Khaled Khalifa's novel "In Praise of Hatred" is in the list of "Top 100 Novels of All Time" with George Orwell, Leo Tolstoy, Albert Camus, William Faulkner, Franz Kafka, James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway, Virginia Woolf, John Steinbeck, Emily Bronte, E. M. Forster,...

Oil drops toward $106 as Syria tensions ease

Progress in reaching a deal to eliminate Syria's chemical weapons helped put downward pressure on oil prices Friday. Benchmark oil for October delivery was down 31 cents to $106.09 per barrel at midday Bangkok time in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract fell...