Islamists compete in round two run offs, win most seats in party lists
CAIRO: The Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) and the Salafi Al-Nour Party will be facing off in the run offs over single winner seats in the second round…
Thousands of women denounce military violence against female protesters
CAIRO: Thousands of Egyptian women took to the streets of downtown Cairo on Tuesday denouncing the excessive use of violence and sexual abuse by the Egyptian army against female protesters,…
MPs missing from MP sit-in, return at 4 pm
By Mostafa Sheshtawy CAIRO: A group of newly elected members of parliament were conspicuously absent from a sit-in they announced Monday in protest at the violence used by security forces against…
70 percent of books destroyed in fire, says Dar Al-Kotob head
CAIRO: Seventy percent of the books and manuscripts were damaged in the fire that engulfed the Scientific Complex on Saturday amid clashes in downtown Cairo, according to Saber Arab, head…
Ballet keeps Polish seniors on their toes
By Maja Czarnecka / AFP Dressed in white tutus, seven pensioners from a village in southern Poland love to get on their tiptoes to dance ballet classics like Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake."…
Giambattista Valli joins haute couture club
By AFP Italian designer Giambattista Valli is to join the exclusive club of haute couture fashion, showing a spring-summer collection in Paris next month, organizers said Monday. A Paris commission…
‘Extremely Loud’ is incredibly phony
By David Germain / AP It is no surprise that the grief-drenched Sept. 11 drama "Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close" should turn out incredibly mawkish. A cloying exercise in sentimentality, the…
Oil gains on supply fears, better data
LONDON: Threats to supply in Iran and Kazakhstan and stronger economic data lifted oil by nearly $2 on Tuesday, outweighing rumbling concerns on the euro zone debt crisis. Brent crude…
US foreign aid escapes slashing cuts in fiscal 2012
WASHINGTONG: The US State Department and foreign aid budget escaped devastating cuts in a fiscal 2012 spending plan that Congress has approved. Aid in war zones helped boost the overall…
Egypt to implement maximum wage as it battles budget deficit
CAIRO: Egypt's Prime Minister Kamal El-Ganzoury said Tuesday that the public sector will enforce a maximum wage 35 times that of the minimum wage, to be applied starting January 2012.…