'Uncountable figures' of street children create new worries
CAIRO: "Street Children are the responsibility of our society, was the message of Saturday's one day festival to spread awareness of Egypt's street children. Celebrated with a wide variety of…
Sports Talk: After Africa, the world
We re still flying high with our African winning football team. Tomorrow the nation s parliament will be the latest site for some more feting. But people have started to…
News in Briefs
LINKdotNET announces free month for subscribersInternet Service provider LINKdotNET said it will not charge its current subscribers for its services between Feb. 18 and March 18, as compensation for the…
Gulf bank sinks into red on US subprime crisis
MANAMA: Bahrain-based Gulf International Bank said on Thursday it suffered a net loss of $757.3 million in 2007 due mainly to its exposure to the crisis-ridden US home-loan subprime market.…
Dubai firm gets more time to study possible bid for Colonial
MADRID: A sovereign wealth fund owned by the government of the booming Gulf emirate of Dubai said Thursday it had been given more time to go through the books of…
Abu Hamza preacher tries to block extradition to US
LONDON: An Islamic preacher accused of trying to establish a terrorist training camp in Oregon asked a British court on Wednesday to block his extradition to the US.Earlier this month,…
Unilateral declaration of Palestinian state on the table, says PLO official
CAIRO: Events in Kosovo seem to have repercussions in the region as Palestinians are considering the idea of declaring statehood for themselves without securing it through an agreement first.Yasser Abd…
Coffee, cigarettes and a thumping headache
I'm sitting in Cilantro near the American University in Cairo. Beside me is a girl working quietly on her laptop. Two seats down are two students revising from an English…