Ahly get Santos, ENPPI clash with ASEC in CAF Cup
CAIRO: Ahly are set to face Santos FC of Angola in the CAF Confederation Cup fourth round.The fixture was confirmed at the fourth round s draw, which was held at…
Egyptian Sheikh Safwat Higazi banned from entering UK
LONDON: Britain for the first time has published a list of people barred from entering the country for what the government says is fostering extremism or hatred.Egyptian cleric Safwat Higazi…
Bias in pig slaughter debated
CAIRO: The Egyptian government is using swine flu as an excuse to get rid of tens of thousands of pigs raised by garbage collectors who live amid the refuse in…
Keeping swine and bird flus apart top priority, say experts
PARIS: Preventing the swine flu that is spreading across the globe from infecting patients sick with the deadly H5N1 avian flu should be a top priority, especially in Asia, top…
Palestinian theater offers youth a breath of freedom
Bisam Astiti takes her role very seriously - the theater is one of the few places where the 13-year-old living in the stranglehold of Israeli occupation can feel free. Acting…
Famed Nefertiti bust a fake, says Swiss art historian
PARIS: The bust of Queen Nefertiti housed in a Berlin museum and believed to be 3,400 years old in fact is a copy dating from 1912 that was made to…
Afghan music school emerges from ruins
Two teenage violinists scrape their way through a French gavotte in a chilly classroom at Afghanistan s only high school for music, a bleak building and one-time ruin of Kabul…
Egypt unemployment rises to 9.4 percent
CAIRO: Egypt s unemployment has climbed to 9.4 percent in the first quarter of 2009 due to the global economic crisis.The Middle East News Agency has cited the official Central…
Saudi prince sells stake in Red Sea luxury hotel
RIYADH: Billionaire Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal s Kingdom investment group said on Tuesday it has sold its shares in a luxury hotel in an Egyptian Red Sea resort, its…
OCI, partner to build Cairo retail center
Egypt s Orascom Construction Industries said on Wednesday its joint venture with Al-Futtaim Carillion had secured a $340 million deal to build a retail center in Cairo. OCI s share…
