If you have ever been to Egypt you will have been stunned by the sheer number of people who have Broadband which is quite an expensive service everywhere! However, we Egyptians are caring beings and believe in loving our neighbours so households share internet connections and split the cost. This socially acceptable ‘fad’ was recently proven by the ‘Egypt Households Telecoms and Media Survey Report 2008'. The survey basically showed that nearly 1 million households in Egypt have access to ADSL which is great news for a somewhat ‘developing company’.

Well everything goes in the UAE or so they say, we saw number plates being sold for millions before and now a camel has been bought for the equivalent to $2.7 million! Those of you who are camel enthusiasts –if they indeed exist- will know of a beauty pageant strictly for camels that occurs in Abu Dhabi offering prizes for the best of the breed.

To be honest although many have argued that the quality of Egyptian cinema is deteriorating, it appears that the public always know whose movies are worth watching and those movies come up on top. In this season of movies Ahmed El Saka’s movie ‘El Gezeera’ (The Island) has taken first place with ticket sales worth a whopping 222,740,00 E.P in Egypt alone after 13 weeks of being in cinemas. Not too far behind was Kareem Abdel Aziz’s ‘Khareg An El Kanoon’ (Outlaw) which made 191,170,00 E.P. Controversy is a movie maker’s best friend they say and ‘Heena Maysara’ which takes third place in the Egyptian Box office saw a lot of controversy regarding the presence of homosexual scenes, the movie made 169,030,00 E.P.

Would you feel sorry for Bill Gates now that he’s no longer the richest bloke in the world? It’s true he’s no longer the richest man according to Forbes’s 22nd annual ranking. The list includes so many names, so we’ll only focus on the top 5 to make things easy to remember. Let’s take it from the top. Holding the most coveted number one is Warren Edward Buffet from the United States of America. This man has $60.0 billion dollars in his name. A lot of people in the investment world know of this man since Buffet is an investor who owns the firms Fruit of the Loom and ice cream Dairy Queen. He is considered as the most beloved investor in America. Even though he is the son of a politician, Warren Edward Buffet delivered newspapers as a boy. He strived to make his business as good as it is today that is why he is now richer than his friend Bill Gates.

Well we all know that Dubai is the land of extravagance especially after the hefty sum the wealthy businessman paid for the No. 1 plate. However, extravagance reached an all time high when Iranian artist Farhad Moshiri’s artwork titled 'Eshgh' or ‘Love’ sold for a whopping $1.05 million as opposed to the $200,000 which was the ‘reserve’ amount. The auction took place in Dubai and a lot of records for prices of Middle Eastern artists work were set.

Out of all the simple luxuries in life I never thought car number plates would be the most expensive, however, businessman Saeed Khoury would disagree after paying $14.5 million for the number plate that held the number ‘1’! It would make sense to me if he had bought it as an investment to sell it on later for a higher price, but he says that although he is sure its value will double within the next two years he will be using it as opposed to reselling! The plate was sold at an auction in the UAE and there was a lot of hype as people waited to see if the bidding would exceed the record amount of 11 million dirham- and it did by a lot!

- Spider Man 2 .. Budget: $207 Million. Earnings: $778.5 Million.
- Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest .. Budget: $217 Million. Earings: $973 Million.
- Titanic .. Budget: $243.5 Million. Earnings: $2.3 Billion!
- Superman Returns .. Budget: $261 Million. Earnings: $389 Million.
- Cleopatra (1963) .. Budget: $282 Million. Profits barely covered production costs!
But Elizabeth Taylor was the 1st ever star to be paid a whopping $1 Million to star in a movie!

Obviously the perks of being a singer in the Arab world are numerous; there is the devotion of the fans, the advertising contracts and of course: the cash!
Recently Arab singers’ fortunes have been revealed by Arabian Business Magazine, that also ranked them from the richest to the ... not so rich!
Amr Diab has been Number 1 for a lot of things but now he also has the biggest fortune worth a whopping $37 million!
The singer holding the second place position has been on the scene for a much longer period of time and has had many amazing successes.
This singer is none other than Lebanese legend Fayrouz, whose fortune is worth $34 million!

According to a study conducted to calculate which channel had the highest number of viewers M.B.C had the biggest percentage of viewers over 15 years of age! But MBC’s star show was ‘Tash 15’ which gained a whopping 48.6% of viewers. This was quite expected as viewers in our day of age seem to lean more towards comedies that make them forget their problems. ‘Bab El Hara 2’ came on top of the Ramadan dramas this year but other series such as ‘Sultan El Gharam’ and ‘El Malek Farouk’ still had high numbers of viewers.

Did you know that an elephant spends about 16 hours eating every day!?
An Elephant can consume about 136 kilograms of food daily and that is like 2400 hamburgers and 160 huge glasses of milkshake!

It is not often that one comes across an ancient and complete copy of the Holy Quran but some lucky fella managed to discover a 13th Century complete copy. I say lucky because this copy sold recently at open auction for over $ 2.3 million! The auction took place in London and the Quran was expected to sell for only about $ 715,000 probably because it has most significance to Muslims and there were not many of those present.

A new study published by Professor Abd Allah El Rasheed showed that 70% of the materials on Saudi Arabian teenager’s mobile phones are pornographic materials! Obviously in a country where Islam is dominant religion and where there are strict traditions and values this is atrocious. The study then focused on men arrested for harassing women by the ‘Amr Be Al Marof Wal Nahy An El Monkar’ group and their mobile phones. These men’s phones further proved the study.

Forbes revealed its annual listing of the richest Americans whose minimum net is $1.3 billion. Can you guess who got the top place? If you say Bill Gates you got that right on target! This year is already his 14th year in that position. This year Forbes disclosed that Bill Gates’ wealth amounting to $59 billion. Though in the worldwide scene, Gates has been surpassed in being the individual with the highest net-worth by Mexican telecom tycoon Carlos Slim whose fortune is now $62.9, that’s according to Mexican Website Sentido Comun.

It’s no surprise that people have a theory that China will in fact take over the world at one point! No only can China copy anything and sell it for half the price but they make the most interesting and random products. Following the theme of random a Chinese company, Yutung, has just released the longest bus in China which is around 24.99 meters long. Merely looking at the length you can tell that this so called ‘bus’ is more like a train except it doesn’t travel on a track and instead can travel on any road.