Antiquities Council must improve media events
CAIRO: Reporters found it difficult to cover the press conference organized this past Wednesday at Cairo's Egyptian Museum to announce the discovery of Queen Hatshepsut's mummy.Scores of TV cameramen, reporters…
Tony Blair, the last interventionist
When Tony Blair, having procrastinated about his departure almost to the point of unreason, finally gives up the British premiership tomorrow, it will be to the general relief not only…
Making Russia and China less of a Middle East nuisance
Can Kosovo achieve independence without the tacit consent of Russia? And can there be a humanitarian and political solution to the tragedy in Darfur without the active goodwill of China?…
Accept reality when it comes to Hamas
In response to the formation of an emergency Palestinian government, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice announced that Washington would remove the embargo on international aid for the Palestinian Authority.…
Doctors' Syndicate fights plans to cancel residency program
When Ahmed Darwish, Minister of State for Administrative Development, indicated to Al-Masry Al-Youm newspaper on May 27 that he intended to cancel the two-year obligatory residency of Egyptian medical school…
7-year-old raped by friend's brother
CAIRO: A girl was brutally raped in Al Marg area while visiting a friend who lives next door. Donia asked her mother to go over to her schoolmate, who lived…
Hepatitis result of infected syringes, say students
CAIRO: Seven students were reportedly diagnosed with Hepatitis C after being injected with insulin shots using the same syringe in Sporting Student Hospital in Alexandria.However Ayman Kamel, an employee at…
SPORTS TALK: Never say die
There s no getting rid of Egyptian footballer Hossam Hassan. At 40, when most players would be kicking around nothing more than memories, Hassan has been chosen to play in…