Three Italians die in road accident
EL-ARISH: Three Italian tourists died Friday when their minibus overturned on a coastal road in the Sinai Peninsula, police and hospital officials said.Three other Italians and two Egyptians - the…
Football: Hodoud climb to top in African Confederation Cup
ALEXANDRIA: Harras Al-Hodoud of Egypt replaced CS Sfaxien of Tunisia as African Confederation Cup Group A leaders after a 3-1 win in the top-of-the-table clash this weekend.Unfashionable Harras have six…
Meteb scores first competitive goal for Ittihad Jeddah
CAIRO: Emad Meteb scored his first competitive goal for Ittihad Jeddah as his new club kicked off their Saudi League campaign with an emphatic 5-1 victory over Al-Raed.The Egypt striker,…
No chance for Hamza, Barakat- Shehata
CAIRO: Hassan Shehata insisted that Gamal Hamza and Mohamed Barakat will not be recalled to the national team as long as he is in charge.The Egypt coach declared that he…
Controversy over burial of Tunisian who converted to Islam
TUNIS: A Tunisian court is today discussing the case of a Christian Tunisian woman, who converted to Islam in 1955 but was prevented from being buried in a Muslim graveyard,…
Art world looks to China to sustain sales boom
SHANGHAI: Andy Warhol s pop art portraits, Damien Hirst s kaleidoscopic butterfly wings and Zhang Xiaogang s monochromatic families were on sale this weekend under the Shanghai Exhibition Center s…
EFG leads Egyptian bourse down on foreign selling
CAIRO: Egyptian stock indexes slipped on Sunday for the fourth straight session, with foreign investors dumping shares to cover positions in falling international markets, brokers said. The benchmark index CASE…
Arab League chief doubts Mideast peace deal this year
CAIRO: Arab League chief Amr Moussa said on Saturday there were no high hopes for a peace deal between Israel and the Palestinians this year, warning that time was being…
Al-Qaeda threatens to assassinate Egyptian expert on Islamist movements
CAIRO: Al-Qaeda threatened yesterday to kill Egyptian Islamist movements expert Diaa Rashwan, a researcher at Al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies.The statement was published on an online forum affiliated…