Murder victims' friends disheartened by the crime, media coverage
CAIRO: The murder of Heba El-Akkad, 23, and Nadine Khaled, 19, at the latter's home in Al-Nada compound in ElSheikh Zaid city, left their friends and colleagues in disbelief. Their…
Cairo Appeals Court to rule in four editors' case today
CAIRO: The Cairo Appeals Court is scheduled to issue a verdict today in the case of the four newspaper editors who were handed down one-year jail sentences and a LE…
Activists lash out against state security over prisoners of conscience
CAIRO: Lawyers and activists condemned the detention of 10 men who they say are prisoners of conscience during a seminar held Thursday at the Journalists' Syndicate.The seminar was followed by…
Red Sea ferry launch precedes Egypt-Saudi talks – Lead
JEDDAH: Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak went to the Saudi port of Jeddah on Friday for the entry into service of two new ferry boats donated to Egypt by the Saudi…
Editorial: Murder in Egypt's suburbia
CAIRO: Do we ever really get to know the truth when heinous crimes that defy any semblance of logic are committed in Egypt?I'm not a conspiracy theorist and don't have…
With a Grain of Salt: Off with who's tongue?
I traveled to Canada to attend the Montreal International Book Fair, leaving behind our venerable press busy with the killing of a Lebanese singer, but when I came back one…
The Human Face of Climate Change
A clever new gadget was described in a newspaper a few weeks ago. It pulls water out of the atmosphere and delivers you a glass of clean, chilled H2O. It's…
Thailand Turns Banana Republic
BANGKOK: "Thailand's future is up for grabs, proclaimed the eminent Thai scholar Thitinan Pongsudhirak just before the country's Constitutional Court ruled, in effect, that the ruling People Power Party (PPP)…
