Police round up teenage boys for harassment
CAIRO: Hundreds of teenage Egyptians boys were arrested Wednesday in various areas in Cairo for sexually harassing women. Police arrested the youngsters, 15- to 17 years-old, in several locations around…
Lawyers' Syndicate to resume chairman elections
CAIRO: Candidates for the Lawyer's Syndicate's chairman position will be filing their applications today following a court order for elections to resume. This comes after an Administrative Court ruled in…
Officials say brown cloud 'unlikely' to reach Egypt
CAIRO: Ahmed Aboul Seoud, deputy minister of State for Environmental Affairs, linked the appearance of the "brown cloud to burning wood in East Asia, a practice strongly condemned by the…
100,000 to obtain international computer driving license
CAIRO: The Ministry of Communication and Information Technology (MCIT) and Hewlett-Packard (HP) signed an agreement that would see HP train 100,000 members of the work force in the sectors of…
WITH A GRAIN OF SALT: Global crisis and government fiasco
CAIRO: The main concern of all countries around the world was to be immune from the effects of the mortgage crisis that erupted in the United States and threatened its…
Iran and Obama's "new" America
LONDON: President-elect Barack Obama has already achieved a rhetorical break with the arrogant, pompous and rather totalitarian language of the outgoing Bush administration. Thus, a new grammar is being presented…
Reaching out to Jews, Bahrain posits model for regional cooperation
NEW YORK: Bahrain, the little Persian Gulf nation where pluralism has been the exception to the regional hegemonic rule, is learning that the best way for democracy to survive is…
The Road to Nuclear Disarmament
NEW YORK: Weapons of mass destruction and disarmament form one of the gravest challenges facing the world. One of my priorities as United Nations Secretary-General is to promote global public…
Apology
Daily News Egypt apologizes for not running Chief Editor Rania Al Malky's weekly editorial this week. It will resume next Saturday.
Cairo International Film Festival's recommended movies of the day – Nov.22
SATURDAYDancersDirector: Pernille Fischer Christensen. Starring: Anders W.Berthelsen, Trine Dyrholm and Sofia Cukic. Synopsis: Attractive Annika and her mother run a dance school that her grandfather founded during the Second World…
