Cable cut brings internet traffic to a standstill
CAIRO: Egypt's information highway was moving at a crawl Wednesday due to a failure in the deep water fiber optic cable that travels beneath the Mediterranean Sea, linking Egypt with…
MCIT to compensate internet subscribers
CAIRO: Internet subscribers in Egypt will be compensated for the service disruptions caused by the damage of the two undersea cables last week, the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology…
Egypt briefly detains AFP journalists in Rafah
RAFAH: Security forces briefly detained an AFP journalist and photographer in Rafah on the border with the Gaza Strip for a couple of hours on Sunday. Plainclothes police officers erased…
Doctors demand new law to hike salaries
CAIRO: The Doctors' Syndicate General Assembly decided in a meeting on Friday to hold protests starting next week demanding a new law that would increase doctors' salaries, according to Dr…
Chelsea connection clicks for Nigeria, Ivory Coast
ACCRA: Nigeria bounced back from the brink to sneak into the African Nations Cup quarter-finals on Tuesday but the door to the last eight closed on Mali. The two countries…
Manucho and co out to spike Egypt's title defense
KUMASI: Manchester-United new recruit Manucho and surprise-package Angola face five-time defending champions Egypt today in an intriguing African Nations Cup quarter-final. Angola have never progressed so far in the biennial…
Sports Talk: Keep your shirt off
We interrupt what would have been a story on the Africa Cup of Nations to bring you this special report. We re still in Ghana but we focus on what…
An about-turn on book fair censorship
Publishers at the 40th Cairo International Book Fair said on Wednesday that the authorities had allowed them to sell a number of Western and secular books that were forbidden only…
The Big Read answers a big need
In an attempt to bridge the cultural gap between Egypt and the United States, while solving the problem of reading deficiency that persists in both countries, the National Endowment for…
Fragile and expendable, finger-thin undersea cables tie the world together
NEW YORK: The lines that tie the globe together by carrying phone calls and internet traffic are just two-thirds of an inch (1.68 cm) thick where they lie on the…