Court quashes murder conviction of youth who confessed under torture
CAIRO: The conviction of a youth found guilty of murdering a three-year-old boy and sentenced to 15 years imprisonment has been quashed. Ramy Ibrahim was 17 at the time the…
Ismaili defender bemused by Shehata snub
CAIRO: Ismaili full-back Ahmed Samir Farag has joined Hassan Shehata s critics as he questioned the Egypt coach s decision to exclude him from his African Cup of Nations squad.The…
Sports Talk: Calling on inspiration
No country has won the Africa Cup of Nations three times running. Egypt s bid to do just that should be incentive enough for the players who definitely need motivation.How…
Mido feels offended by exclusion manner
CAIRO: Mido said he felt offended by the way coach Hassan Shehata excluded him from Egypt s squad for the African Cup of Nations finals in Angola.The Zamalek man was…
Foreign activists in Gaza protest Israeli closures
EREZ CROSSING: Hundreds of people including international activists protested on both sides of a Gaza Strip border crossing on Thursday against Israeli closures imposed on the Hamas-ruled territory. It s…
2009 among deadliest years for media: watchdog
BRUSSELS: The year 2009 was one of the worst for the targeted killing of media workers, with 113 lives lost, a leading watchdog said Thursday and called on governments to…
German hell-raiser Nina Hagen pens Jesus book
German punk pioneer and scandal queen Nina Hagen is writing a book about Jesus, she said on her website Thursday.The former hell-raiser, now 54, said she had come a long…
Scribe writes Torah atop emblematic Masada fortress
In the tiny synagogue of Masada, a ruined desert fortress steeped in myth, symbolism and controversy, a Torah scribe sits motionless but for the slow, deliberate strokes of his right…
Oil above $79 after year of recovery
LONDON: Oil steadied above $79 a barrel on Thursday, poised for the biggest annual climb in a decade, a year after posting huge falls as the global economic crisis sapped…
