Stand up for your rights, says victorious Noha Roushdy

CAIRO: Winning the first sexual harassment case in the history of Egyptian law can be draining, as Noha Roushdy is finding out. Ever since the North Cairo Court ruled in…

Abdel-Rahman Hussein

Word on the Street: Roushdy a hero, but government has to step up harassment fight

CAIRO: In a first, a Cairo criminal court sentenced a man to three years in prison for sexually harassing a woman. Although in legal proceedings the charge was "sexual assault,…

Yasmine Saleh

Rain, thunder and lightening cloud Cairo

CAIRO: Heavy rain, thunder and lightening marked the weather on Friday which had Egypt under thick clouds all day. The weather forecast for the day was a high of 27?C,…

Safaa Abdoun

Al-Tariq newspaper chairman arrested for selling public land

CAIRO: Medhat Barakat, businessman and chairman of the board of directors of Al-Tariq newspaper, was detained for 15 days pending investigation for allegedly forging ownership documents and selling 6400 feddans…

Yasmine Saleh

Sports Talk: This time there's no excuse

Egypt should make it to the 2010 World Cup. We could use the world must be we don t want to make it sound like it s do or die,…

Alaa Abdel-Ghani

Police officer gets three years for killing Manzala fisherman

CAIRO: A criminal court in Mansoura sentenced a police officer to three years in prison and a fine of LE 10,000 ($1,750) after being convicted of murdering a fisherman in…

Manar Ammar

El Sewedy launches wind energy subsidiary

CAIRO: El Sewedy Cables has launched a wind energy group to build turbines in Egypt in line with the government s plan to increase renewable energy use, and expects sales…

Cynthia Johnston

Egypt stocks extend falls, Ezz at lowest in three years

CAIRO: Shares of Ezz Steel, Egypt s largest steel producer by sales, tumbled to their lowest in more than three years on Thursday as emerging markets dropped, weighing on Egypt…

Will Rasmussen