AMMAN - Jordan is set to produce the world’s first ‘flying car’, the Associated Press reported Thursday. In a bid including 36 nations at the technology exhibition NextFest, a Jordanian manufacturing firm won the contract to produce the M400 SkyCar. A joint NASA-GM venture, the M400 needs 35 clear feet to take off but thanks […]

Internet Video Shows Killings of DriversCAIRO, Egypt - A video surfaced Tuesday on the Internet showing three drivers who said they worked for a Jordanian trucking company being shot by gunmen claiming to belong to a militant Islamic group in Iraq. One of Iraq’s most notorious insurgent groups, Ansar al-Sunnah, posted the video on an […]

Jordan eyes free trade deal with CanadaAMMAN (AFP) - Jordan’s King Abdullah II reportedly called for a free trade agreement with Canada during talks with visiting Canadian Housing and Labour Minister Joseph Fontana
The state-run Petra news agency reported that the king said “measures should be stepped up to set up a free trade agreement with […]

Today was a beautiful Canadian spring day. The snow is all but gone. Only stubborn pieces of ice remain. There are many ways to know spring has arrived in Canada, I am frequently discovering these little seasonal idiosyncrasies. Today it was the realisation that my winter boots were too heavy and I was dragging my […]

How to End your Career With a “Bang”?AMMAN Â? Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research Issam Zabalawi was slightly injured on Tuesday after being assaulted by a professor while attending an event at the University of Jordan (UJ).
Zabalawi was standing outside the UJ scientific education faculty waiting for Â?the Scientific Day for Women’s StudiesÂ? […]

First. My condolences and prayers go out to the families in Indonesia today. I cannot begin to fathom the shock and panic ongoing there. I hate the feeling of not being able to do anything but pray. I keep remembering the scene in Hotel Rwanda where Joaquin Phoenix explains to Don Cheadle how the western […]

Just yesterday while my father and I discussed the negative effects of bad diplomacy in Jordan lately, we wondered if Fayez Tarawneh would ever come back, as he is probably the most experienced and skilled politican and diplomat in the modern Jordanian political arena. It was tough to imagine him as a foreign minister again, […]

This was a scene from last night’s study massacre while I burnt the midnight oil. My father is staying with me for a few weeks and so I keep him company during the day and when he goes to sleep at around 10pm or so, I start to study till 4 or 5am. I then […]