Egypt’s mummies divulge secrets in modern Scotland
EDINBURGH: Modern technology reveals the secrets kept for thousands of years by Egyptian mummies in a major exhibition at Scotland's National Museum. Scientists used advanced scanning techniques on the mummified…
US lawmakers warn US-Egypt ties nearing ‘precipice’, Brotherhood backs probe
WASHINGTON: US lawmakers from both parties stepped up their warnings Wednesday that Egypt's crackdown on democracy activists will force a review of US aid to the longtime Mideast ally if…
Rights groups accuse gov’t of misinformation in ‘politically motivated’ NGOs case
CAIRO: Twenty-nine Egyptian NGOs condemned the ongoing “slandering and intimidation” of civil society organizations, particularly human rights groups, saying the referral of the activists to criminal court as politically motivated.…
Retribution for Ultras Martyrs
Thousands of Ahly fans marched from the club in Zamalek to the High Court in Downtown Cairo on Wednesday. Carrying pictures of more than 70 who were killed in Port…
Earlier presidential elections spark debate among political powers
CAIRO: Political powers were divided over a decision to bring forward the presidential elections to the end of May instead of the end of June. Egypt’s Minister of Parliamentary Affairs…
Egypt firmly backs Syria change but not from outside
CAIRO: Egypt called on Wednesday for change in Syria that met its people's demands, Cairo's strongest language yet on the crisis, though it ruled out supporting outside military intervention. Egypt…
Billy Bob Thornton turns car wreck past into a film
When actor-director Billy Bob Thornton was a boy, his father took him to the scene of car crashes to survey the wreckage. Now he has turned his unconventional childhood into…
Sinai death sentences revoked in landslide decision
CAIRO: Following “the first decision by an international court against the Egyptian government”, authorities have revoked death sentences to three Sinai locals handed down by the State Security Emergency Court…
Jolie hopes her film draws notice to Syria
Angelina Jolie this week premiered her film "In the Land of Blood and Honey" in Bosnia, where the fictional tale of a romance between a Bosnian Serb man and a…
Ali Abdel Mohsen’s apocalyptic vision of wasted opportunities
By Mariam Hamdy As we are bombarded every day with horrible news, conspiracy theories, warped viewpoints and bizarre events, it’s become difficult to be positive or hopeful. The fact that the…