Ahly fine Farag
CAIRO: Ahly assistant coach Hossam Al-Badri fined striker Ahmed Hassan Farag after the player protested against his exclusion from the Ittihad game. The Red Devils will face Ittihad in the…
Agogo dropped from Zamalek lineup
CAIRO: Zamalek coach Michel Decastel has dropped Junior Agogo for Friday s Egyptian Premier League game against Olympic in Alexandria.The Ghanaian striker, whose dispute with Zamalek s board has been…
Egypt stock index gains 1.3 pct as OT climbs
CAIRO: Egypt s main stock index climbed 1.31 percent on Thursday led by gains in Orascom Telecom, despite institutional profit-taking that set in late in the session, dealers said. Shares…
Egypt intel chief meets Clinton
WASHINGTON: Egyptian intelligence chief Omar Suleiman held talks on Wednesday with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, a US official said."She met him, the State Department official told AFP on…
Sudan's Al-Beshir ready to expel ambassadors, says report
CAIRO: Sudan is ready to expel foreign ambassadors "if they exceed their diplomatic mission, President Omar Al-Beshir was quoted as saying on Thursday in his latest act of defiance of…
Ambassador to Israel denies all is forgiven and forgotten with Lieberman
CAIRO: Egypt's ambassador to Israel Yasser Rida denied making statements in an Israeli newspaper that Egypt was willing to forget scathing remarks about it by the right-wing Avigdor Lieberman, who…
Austrian businessmen explore opportunities in Egypt
CAIRO: An Austrian trade mission spent much of this week in Cairo in an effort to promote trade and investment between one of Europe's powerhouse economies and the Middle East's…
Oil up more than 5 pct after Fed plan, weak dollar
LONDON: Oil jumped more than 5 percent on Thursday to above $50 a barrel after the US Federal Reserve announced a new plan to fight recession and a weak dollar…
Natasha Richardson dies at 45 after ski accident
Natasha Richardson, a gifted and precocious heiress to acting royalty whose career highlights included the film "Patty Hearst and a Tony-winning performance in a stage revival of "Cabaret, died Wednesday…
The elephant in the room
This month, Cairo's hottest contemporary arts venue Darb 1718 hosts an exhibition called "Nun by Amr Fekry, one of Egypt's most celebrated young artists. Like the space, Fekry's work straddles…