Forty-five injured in train crash
CAIRO: Two trains collided at a station in northern Egypt Monday, derailing four carriages and injuring 45 people, police said.None of the injured was in serious condition and all were…
Rights activists cry foul after arrest of protesters
CAIRO: Human rights activists condemned the arrest of at least 30 protesters at demonstrations held on 26 and 27 April, held in support of pro-reform judges. Among other groups, the…
Woof
"I like pigs, Winston Churchill is supposed to have said on what must have been a rainy day. "Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat…
Present and Tense
My wife calls me a mule. I call her Forty Acres. Together we're the perfect couple, a dream of emancipation running across oceans of color, creed, and common sense. Last…
Look who's watching?
An explosion has already been heard in Iran. Not the nuclear kind the world is dreading. This one is softer, curvier (some makes come with an unusually short fuse) and…
An affordable goal
CAIRO: Shisha first found its way into the land of the Nile with the Ottoman conquest in the early 19th Century. It is the modern shisha, however, that is uniquely…
Activists, journalists condemn Al-Jazeera reporter's arrest
CAIRO: Press freedom activists and journalists condemned the arrest of satellite TV news station Al-Jazeera s Cairo bureau chief Hussein Abdel Ghani on Wednesday, calling it an attack on journalists…
Reform, before it is too late
CAIRO: It wasn't long into the aftermath of the latest Sinai bombing that the people in Dahab, and the rest of the country, began anxiously pondering who was responsible for…
Mubarak arrives in Jordan for talks with king
AQABA, Jordan: Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak arrived in Aqaba for talks with King Abdullah II on aiding the Palestinians amid a growing Western boycott, an official with Jordan s royal…
Egypt renews state of emergency for two years
CAIRO: Egypt s parliament approved the renewal of the state of emergency for two years Sunday, a controversial measure the country s premier justified with a recent wave of bombings…
