Winning start to Al Ahli's defense of African crown

JOHANNESBURG: Al Ahli made a winning start to the defense of their African Champions League crown on Saturday, defeating Tusker FC of Kenya 2-0 in Nairobi in the first leg…

Daily Star Egypt Staff

The force of gravity

CAIRO: They called it Black Tuesday. Four days of panic selling on the New York Stock Exchange ended on Tuesday, Oct. 24, 1929 with share prices at only a quarter…

Waleed Khalil Rasromani

Canadian courts clear extradition hearing for one terror suspect; uphold deportation of another

TORONTO: Canadian courts handed down rulings Thursday that could send one terror suspect back to his native Egypt and another off to the United States to face charges that he…

Daily Star Egypt Staff

For Iraqis who can afford it, vacations abroad offer respite from the violence at home

CAIRO: Reem Al-Jawad can t take her young daughters to see Iraq s great and famous Tigris and Euphrates rivers as she believes it s too dangerous.So the 34-year-old Iraqi…

Daily Star Egypt Staff

Prince Charles to visit Egypt, Saudia Arabia, India

CAIRO: Since assuming the role of Supreme Governor of the Church of England, Prince Charles, the Prince of Wales, has worked to establish himself not as a defender of one…

Vivian Salama

Too mucho to change diapers

CAIRO: In a world trend that finds mothers wrestling between staying home versus working and where the challenges women face in juggling the roles of the homemaker and the bread-earner…

Najla Moussa

Brains or brawn for men in fitness

CAIRO: Typically, it has always been women that have a preoccupation with staying in shape and getting fit. Traditionally, men have gone to the gym to "get a six-pack, "get…

Daily News Egypt

Present and Tense

From bull to bear, Arab stock markets came crashing from coast to coast. Normally, I don't care much about the stock market. I keep my money in coffee futures and…

Nabil Shawkat

Courting danger

You can tell a sporting parent a mile away. There are the pacers, the nail-biters, the encouragers, the pushers and sometimes, the whackos, like the Frenchman who last week was…

Alaa Abdel-Ghani

Thirteen killed in road accident

CAIRO: Thirteen farm workers including seven women were killed and nine others wounded in a road accident in a town near Cairo on Wednesday, police said. The vehicle crashed when…

Daily Star Egypt Staff