Transportation ministry to issue new smart cards for metro passengers
CAIRO: In an effort to improve the underground metro ticketing system, the Ministry of Transportation is planning to issue new smart cards in more than 20 different metro stations around…
Uncertainty over destination of Libyan ship carrying Gaza aid
ATHENS/JERUSALEM: Israel on Sunday vowed to prevent a Libyan aid ship from running the Gaza blockade after it appeared to be heading for the besieged enclave, despite a flurry of…
Website says Gibson rant audio not the last word
The two-minute clip of Mel Gibson using a racial slur and calling his ex-girlfriend a "whore" during an argument are unlikely to be the last ugly words the public…
Nolan, DiCaprio play mind games with ‘Inception’
It's no rarity for blockbuster Hollywood directors to dream big. Dreaming big and smart, though, is Christopher Nolan's specialty. Nolan elevated the superhero thriller to high art with "The Dark…
If you think the burqa is degrading, banning it is not the solution
Pierre Bayle, a 17th-century philosopher and theologian, wrote one of the first works on religious toleration of the western tradition. He argued that Christians should not use force to convert…
Open air terrace
The Ramses Hilton hotel celebrated the beginning of the summer season with the opening of its open-air terrace Al Mandara, where guests can enjoy the summer breeze and a big…
Witness intimidation continues in Khaled Saeid death case, say lawyers
By Ingy Hassieb and Sarah Carr CAIRO: El Nadeem Center for the Rehabilitation of the Victims of Violence filed a complaint with the attorney general Saturday, demanding that the intimidation of…
Gharbeya lawyers may hold strike after Judges’ Club ‘threat’, says lawyer
CAIRO: Lawyers in Gharbeya governorate may hold an open strike if the head of the Judges’ Club opens an investigation into an incident where hundreds of lawyers held the Attorney…
Peace demands courage
WASHINGTON DC: Too often Israeli-Palestinian relations are seen as a zero-sum conflict in which whatever is good for one party is bad for the other. In reality, both parties, for…
Europe’s Banks, Europe’s crisis
BRUSSELS: Europe continues to constitute the epicenter of Act II of the global financial crisis, which has now mutated into a sovereign-debt crisis within the eurozone. How could this happen…