Egypt poised to delay local polls, Islamists cry foul
CAIRO: Egypt s consultative council on Sunday approved the two-year postponement of municipal polls that had been due within two months, in a move slammed by the opposition Muslim Brotherhood.…
Egyptian president suggests amending law to speed benefits for families of sunken ferry victims
CAIRO: Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak on Saturday asked his Cabinet to modify the personal status law so the families of the victims of disasters such as last week s ferry…
AUC grants El Baradei honorary doctorate
CAIRO: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Mohammad El Baradei left Cairo Friday for the Austrian capital Vienna after a several days visit to Egypt.President Hosni Mubarak held a…
The Struggle for a new social contract
CAIRO: Business as usual just isn't going to cut it anymore. That is the core message of Egypt's Human Development Report for 2005. The in-depth study released yesterday by the…
European Union envoys tour Toshka
CAIRO: Thirty envoys from the European Union concluded a two-day tour of the Toshka Project.The envoys, representing a range of countries, from Russia to Japan, were invited to tour the…
Football fever
CAIRO: The only thing people are able to talk about these days is Egypt's fantastic defeat over the African nations. "Our land, Our Cup, said one of the artistic banners…
Mummies found at Egypt's Valley of the Kings
CAIRO: Five mummies in wooden sarcophagi and colored funeral masks from the 18th Pharaonic dynasty were discovered by a US team from the University of Memphis, in the Valley of…
My ticket, my seat
CAIRO: After a troublesome journey to get tickets for the African Cup of Nations final, I arrived at the stadium last Friday holding my ticket. Standing amid hundreds of others…
Rights groups slam interior ministers' call to close websites
CAIRO: Human rights groups have condemned a recent proposal by the Council of Arab Interior Ministers aimed at giving member governments wide scope to ban websites suspected of supporting terrorism…
BMW adds model to local assembly line
CAIRO: BMW announced this week that it will add a new model to the two that are currently assembled in Egypt. The company also released its sales figures for 2005,…