Egypt holds seven for questioning after church blast
CAIRO: Egypt is holding seven people for questioning over the New Year's Day bombing of a church in the northern city of Alexandria and has released 10 others, a security…
Protests across Egypt denounce Alex church attack
CAIRO/ALEXANDRIA: Clashes broke out as hundreds marched down the Corniche Sunday in protest of the attack on an Alexandria church during New Year’s Mass. Starting close to Abdel-Moneim Riad…
Thousands of Copts bury 12 killed in Alexandria bombing
By Mohammed Effat CAIRO: Thousands of Coptic Christians attended the funeral of 12 Copts who were killed in the Jan. 1 attack on Al-Qeddesine Church in Alexandria. The funeral took place…
Pope Shenouda mulls canceling Christmas celebrations
By Essam Fadl CAIRO: Pope Shenouda ended his spiritual mediation at St. Bishoy Monastery in Wadi Notroun to go back to the Cathedral's headquarters in Abbasiya on Sunday, meanwhile mulling whether…
Qena woman dies of bird flu, says health ministry
CAIRO: A 25-year-old woman from Qena became the 39th bird flu fatality in Egypt, the Ministry of Health reported on Saturday. The woman died on Dec. 29. A 27-year-old man…
Court finds syndicates’ election law unconstitutional
CAIRO: Egypt’s Supreme Constitutional Court (SCC) issued its final ruling regarding the Professional Syndicates’ Law, finding it unconstitutional thereby invalidating the incumbent boards of syndicates. The ruling on Law 100…
Alexandria church bombing was sectarian, terrorist: expert
By Heba Fahmy CAIRO: The deadly attack on the Church of the Two Saints in Alexandria early on New Year’s Day can be described as both a terrorist and sectarian attack,…
Hungary’s new media authority rebukes radio over Ice-T
Hungary's new all-powerful media authority has opened an inquiry into a small private radio station, Tilos, for broadcasting a number by US rapper-cum-actor Ice-T, the radio said Saturday. A letter…
Maine merchant makes most of uptick in book sales
Nearly half of North America’s independent book stores have closed in the past decade. Book store chains are struggling. E-books are all the rage. Even so, Brett Wickard is defying…
Guy Manoukian wows Cairo with twist on classic music
In what was undoubtedly one of Cairo’s best concerts of 2010, Lebanese Armenian maestro Guy Manoukian took the Cairo Opera House by storm, wowing the audience with his cutting edge…
