Millionaires to Feast at Pyramids
Associated Press CAIRO: From the creators of the $25,000 dinner, there s another pricey gourmet feast on the horizon. Wealthy foodies can mark their calendars for Dec. 12, 2008, when…
Egypt ranked 31 Top 50 countries by greenhouse gas emissions
CAIRO: Following is a ranking of the top 50 national emitters of greenhouse gases in 2000, showing huge gaps in the world picture of emissions in recent years. Countries facing…
AFRICA: Creativity key to attaining millennium goals – ECA
ADDIS ABABA: Africa s economic growth is estimated to average 5.8 percent in 2007, but this rate of performance is insufficient to meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015,…
Bedouin tribes seek release of Sinai suspects
AL-ARISH, Egypt: Bedouin tribal leaders in Sinai on Sunday asked President Hosni Mubarak to order the release of Bedouins arrested after attacks on the peninsula since 2004, one of them…
Polygamy is no joke, man discovers
RIYADH: A Saudi man lost a bit of his nose in a joint assault by his two wives after he jokingly threatened to marry a third woman.Judaie Ibn Salem had…
Russia to establish industrial zone in northern Egypt
Russia is expected to establish an industrial zone in the northern coastal city of Alexandria with an area of one million square meters, the official Mena news agency reported Monday.Minister…
Abu Dhabi Islamic races Saudis to buy Egypt bank
ReutersABU DHABI: Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank said on Monday it was competing with Saudi banks to take over Egypt s National Development Bank and enter the most populous Arab country.It…
Pentagon: No link between Saddam and Al-Qaeda
WASHINGTON: Interrogations of Saddam Hussein and seized documents confirmed the former Iraqi regime had no links with Al-Qaeda, a Pentagon report said Friday, contradicting the US case for the 2003…