French NGO to support street children
CAIRO: Ambassador Mushira Khattab, Secretary General of the National Council for Maternity and Childhood, met last week with Xavier Emmanuel, founder of Samusocial International (SSI), a French NGO assisting victims…
Dokki court hears case to ban human rights websites
CAIRO: The Sixth District Court in Dokki heard the first session of the case between Alexandria Judge Abdel Fattah Mourad and the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (HRInfo) over…
Al-Safti suspended by Zamalek
CAIRO: Zamalek's technical staff suspended defender Amr Al-Safti on Tuesday when he didn't show up at the recent training sessions in protest salary dock. Al-Safti got angry when he knew…
Ramy Ashour wins biggest prize in world squash
CAIRO: World junior champion Ramy Ashour has won the world's richest squash tournament, the 2007 Sheikha Al Saad Kuwait Open, in a dramatic all-Egyptian men's final against world number one…
Millionaires to Feast at Pyramids
Associated Press CAIRO: From the creators of the $25,000 dinner, there s another pricey gourmet feast on the horizon. Wealthy foodies can mark their calendars for Dec. 12, 2008, when…
Egypt ranked 31 Top 50 countries by greenhouse gas emissions
CAIRO: Following is a ranking of the top 50 national emitters of greenhouse gases in 2000, showing huge gaps in the world picture of emissions in recent years. Countries facing…
AFRICA: Creativity key to attaining millennium goals – ECA
ADDIS ABABA: Africa s economic growth is estimated to average 5.8 percent in 2007, but this rate of performance is insufficient to meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015,…