13 dead in Egypt road crash
CAIRO: Thirteen people were killed and 26 were injured on Wednesday when a passenger bus and pick-up truck collided head-on on a road in Egypt s Western Desert, a police…
Southgate resigned to Mido and Tuncay exits
MIDDLESBROUGH: Middlesbrough manager Gareth Southgate admits Egypt striker Mido and Turkey forward Tuncay Sanli are certain to leave the Championship club within weeks.Both are keen to move on after Middlesbrough…
News in brief
Egypt sees high-speed rail study ready in 2 monthsEgypt expects an Egyptian-Italian feasibility study for a high-speed railway line between Cairo and Alexandria to be ready in two months, the…
Mubarak to visit US in August
CAIRO: President Hosni Mubarak will head to Washington around the middle of August, a presidential source told AFP on Wednesday. President Mubarak will leave for Washington in the middle of…
Military Supreme Court to review former editor's 2-year sentence Tuesday
CAIRO: The Military Supreme Court will review Tuesday the verdict of a two-year prison sentence handed to former editor of Al-Shaab newspaper Magdi Ahmed Hussein last February for illegally entering…
IN DEPTH: A closer look at Egypt's car boom
In 1982, Nisma Mohamed Hassan was the 10-year-old daughter of a lower-middle class family that owned no cars. Ahmed Abdel-Aziz was a 17-year-old high school student, one of nine in…
BUSINESS BEAT: JP Morgan deal to offer GB Auto cash infusion
Ghabbour Auto (GB) announced earlier this month that it closed with US investment bank JP Morgan on a $20 million structured trade finance credit facility, a deal that will give…
SUVs taking over Cairo streets
With drivers making use of every inch of space available to navigate traffic on Cairo's crowded roads, it stands to reason that local drivers would choose the smallest car possible…