Zamalek invites Palestinian PM to football match

CAIRO: Zamalek football club has invited Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniya to attend the upcoming clash with city rivals Ahly and promised to donate part of the proceeds to the…

Daily Star Egypt Staff

Celebrity birthday party

 ŠΘ###Yehya El Fakharany with his wife Lamis Gabir##Khaled Sarhan, Mohammed Fadel and Menna Fadaly

Daily Star Egypt Staff

Human bird-flu deaths prevalent among breeders, says health ministry

CAIRO: Human deaths caused by the potentially pathogenic avian virus H5N1 have resulted mostly from exposure to infected fowl kept domestically, according to a health ministry statement issued following a…

Daily Star Egypt Staff

Refugee advocate awarded British honor

CAIRO: After decades of hard work for refugees, the woman who coined the term "forced migration, the highly impressive Barbara Harrell-Bond, was given the title of Officer of the Order…

Farah El Alfy

Kuwait's Aref, KGL sign $1 billion Egypt pier deal

KUWAIT: Aref Investment Group and Kuwait Gulf Link Transport Co. said on Tuesday they signed a deal to build and operate container docks at Egypt s Damietta port. The firms,…

Daily Star Egypt Staff

Digitalizing homes

CAIRO: The home entertainment industry is in the throes of its most dynamic period of change, due to today's "digitalization trend in homes of the future.Thanks to the currently heavily…

Najla Moussa

Emergency Law leading to more instability

CAIRO: Opposition forces claim that following the extension of the Emergency Law security forces have been "harsher and "stricter in their policy. In response, some political and judicial blocs have…

Pakinam Amer

Israelis urged to leave Sinai after kidnap threat

JERUSALEM: Israel on Monday warned its citizens to leave Egypt s Sinai resort area immediately, saying there was a threat of kidnapping by militant groups. A message circulated to media…

Daily Star Egypt Staff

Police detain four Islamists in Alexandria

CAIRO: Police detained four Muslim Brotherhood members in Alexandria, bringing to 70 the number of members of the Islamist movement being held behind bars, a spokesman told AFP on Tuesday.…

Daily Star Egypt Staff

Police kill mastermind of Sinai bombings

AL-ARISH, Egypt: Police killed Tuesday the leader of an Islamist militant group blamed for a spate of attacks in tourist resorts in the Sinai Peninsula over the past 18 months,…

Daily Star Egypt Staff