Egypt finds foot-and-mouth disease in eight calves
ASSIUT, Egypt: Egyptian vets have detected foot-and-mouth disease in eight calves on a government-owned farm in southern Egypt, an official said on Sunday. Mohammed Marzouq, head of veterinary medicine for…
Lawmaker who owned ferry that sank in Red Sea stripped of immunity for questioning
CAIRO: Egypt s upper house of parliament on Saturday stripped one of its deputies of immunity so he could be questioned about the tragic sinking of a ferry owned by…
Courting danger
You can tell a sporting parent a mile away. There are the pacers, the nail-biters, the encouragers, the pushers and sometimes, the whackos, like the Frenchman who last week was…
Present and Tense
From bull to bear, Arab stock markets came crashing from coast to coast. Normally, I don't care much about the stock market. I keep my money in coffee futures and…
Brains or brawn for men in fitness
CAIRO: Typically, it has always been women that have a preoccupation with staying in shape and getting fit. Traditionally, men have gone to the gym to "get a six-pack, "get…
Too mucho to change diapers
CAIRO: In a world trend that finds mothers wrestling between staying home versus working and where the challenges women face in juggling the roles of the homemaker and the bread-earner…
Prince Charles to visit Egypt, Saudia Arabia, India
CAIRO: Since assuming the role of Supreme Governor of the Church of England, Prince Charles, the Prince of Wales, has worked to establish himself not as a defender of one…
For Iraqis who can afford it, vacations abroad offer respite from the violence at home
CAIRO: Reem Al-Jawad can t take her young daughters to see Iraq s great and famous Tigris and Euphrates rivers as she believes it s too dangerous.So the 34-year-old Iraqi…
Canadian courts clear extradition hearing for one terror suspect; uphold deportation of another
TORONTO: Canadian courts handed down rulings Thursday that could send one terror suspect back to his native Egypt and another off to the United States to face charges that he…
The force of gravity
CAIRO: They called it Black Tuesday. Four days of panic selling on the New York Stock Exchange ended on Tuesday, Oct. 24, 1929 with share prices at only a quarter…
