Sarkozy visits Valley of the Kings
LUXOR: Dressed in casual clothes and riding in a 26-car motorcade, French President Nicolas Sarkozy toured the archeological sites of Luxor with his new girlfriend ex-supermodel Carla Bruni.Hordes of photographers…
Egypt gives Barak both barrels on visit
CAIRO: Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak's visit to Sharm El-Sheikh Wednesday to discuss border security with Egyptian officials ended with him trying to quell a series of Egyptian accusations of…
Rachid: Fines for monopolistic practices up to LE 50 mln, six brands of bottled water found noncompliant
CAIRO: Minster of Trade and Industry Rachid Mohamed Rachid made two startling announcements Tuesday, both of which, he said, aim to protect consumer rights and ensure the quality of products…
Orange Lab to open in Smart Village
CAIRO: France Telecom Group will inaugurate the company's Technology Innovation Center - dubbed the Orange Lab - in the Smart Village on Jan. 3, 2008. Chairman and CEO of France…
Time to save the music
This month's SOS (Save Our Soul) Festival seemed to go off without a hitch, but what else is new? In its seventh installment in just over a year (including a…
The Case for Mitigating Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Last fall, the United Kingdom issued a major government report on global climate change directed by Sir Nicholas Stern, a top-flight economist. The Stern Review Report on the Economics of…
Afghanistan and the Future of Nato
Things aren't going well in Afghanistan. Sometime at the turn of 2001/2002, the Bush administration concluded that the stabilization and reconstruction of Afghanistan was no longer its top priority and…
Avoiding responsibility
The Israeli demand to be recognized as a Jewish state was not only one of the main reasons for the failure of the Annapolis conference, it was one of the…
'Chaos' stirs debate on the country's political future
CAIRO: Youssef Chahine and Khaled Youssef's "Heya Fawda? or "Is it Chaos? has succeeded not only in breaking the record of Chahine's box office returns, but also in stirring political…
Death toll in Alex building rises to 19
ALEXANDRIA: Rescuers pulled seven more bodies early on Wednesday out of the rubble of a 12-storey building which collapsed in Alexandria, bringing the death toll to 19, a senior police…