Drogba named African Player of the Year
ACCRA: Chelsea striker Didier Drogba was on Thursday named African Footballer of the Year for 2009, the second time the Ivory Coast international his won the award.Drogba pushed Inter Milan…
Sports Talk: FIFA fails to see the green light
You would have thought that with all the refereeing mistakes that are allowing unfair goals to be scored, many in major games, FIFA would have decided to use goal-line technology…
Shoura Council approves anti-human trafficking law 'in principle'
CAIRO: The Shoura Council, Egypt's Upper House of Parliament, approved an anti-human trafficking law in principle, Shoura Council Speaker Safwat El-Sherif said.The MPs have approved the law in principle in…
Rights groups urge gov't to repeal emergency law
CAIRO: "We can do everything with you and no one will know. We bury people alive, a policeman reportedly told Abdel-Aziz Mujedin, blogger and business student arrested on Nov. 2,…
A single woman in Cairo: The new challenge
CAIRO: "People don't consider that you are a human being, says 31-year-old Layla, beginning her ordeal of being a single female professional living on her own in Cairo. Since she…
Reassessing the genocide resolution
ANKARA, Turkey: Once again, as has happened every spring for years running, the debate over whether the ethnic clashes against the Armenians in the break up of the Ottoman Empire…
