Ashour replaces Mansour Hassan as head of Advisory Council
By Heba Fahmy CAIRO: Sameh Ashour, head of the Lawyers’ Syndicate, replaced Mansour Hassan as head of the Advisory Council to Egypt's military rulers on Tuesday night. Mansour, a culture…
FIFA must specify regions for World Cup bids: Richards
By Regan Doherty / Reuters DOHA: Soccer's ruling body FIFA should specify regions where it would like to stage World Cups so that nations outside those locations do not waste money…
INTERVIEW: Brotherhood takes softer line on Egypt gov’t
By Tom Perry and Edmund Blair / Reuters CAIRO: Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood said on Tuesday it recognized its demand to sack Prime Minister Kamal El-Ganzoury's cabinet is unlikely to be heeded…
Hospital staff pose risk to patients in developing countries, says study
By Heather Moore CAIRO: A new study published by the British Medical Journal suggests hospital patients in developing countries are harmed most often by the mistakes of the hospital’s clinical staff…
El Gouna International Squash Open to kick off on April 5
By Safaa Abdoun CAIRO: Professional squash players from 16 different countries are coming together next month for the Second International Squash Open held in Gouna, aiming to bring Egypt’s tourism industry…
Bargain hunters lift Egypt; most Gulf markets up
By Tom Pfeiffer and Nadia Saleem / Reuters CAIRO/DUBAI: Egyptian stocks rallied on Wednesday after their biggest losing streak in months created fresh buying opportunities, and most Gulf markets also rose,…
Egyptians design ‘faster, cheaper’ hepatitis C test
By AFP CAIRO: The American University in Cairo said Wednesday that a team of its researchers has designed a faster and cheaper test for all types of hepatitis C, which…
Dubai Investments mulls $272 mln Islamic bond issue
By Reuters DUBAI: Conglomerate Dubai Investments may look to raise up to 1 billion dirhams ($272.3 million) in 2012 through sale of a sukuk, or Islamic bond, to finance the expansion…
Oil shut-ins, slow supply growth support price: IEA
By Jessica Donati and Zaida Espana / Reuters LONDON: Incremental oil supply from non-OPEC countries that is running short of expectations and a high level of supply outages are supporting oil…
Bonfire of the banalities
By Philip Whitfield CAIRO: Grace and pace they have not. Filibuster and bluster they’re full of. Can you believe the new crop of rags-to-riches whistle-stoppers are turning down a billion US…