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

Egypt to rekindle Hamas talks on captured Israeli soldier

SHARM EL-SHEIKH: Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak vowed on Thursday to rekindle Cairo s stalled efforts to broker a prisoner swap with Hamas, after talks with Israeli President Shimon Peres.Peres, welcomed…

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Experts debate the potential rebound of Egypt's stock exchange

CAIRO: With the Egyptian stock market following the erratic downs of Wall Street and to some extent those of Asian and European stock markets, when is it going to see…

Sherine El Madany