(Reuters) – An assembly amending Egypt’s constitution has left it to the army-backed interim president to decide on the voting system to be used in a parliamentary poll next year, state news agency MENA said on Wednesday. Egypt’s political transition … read more
An Egyptian court has handed down heavy sentences of 11 years in prison to 21 female supporters of the ousted Islamist president, many of them juveniles, for holding a protest. The court in the Mediterranean city of Alexandria issued the … read more
The internet is becoming an increasingly important part of our lives with many now unable to live without it to fulfill both their business and leisure needs. But imagine waking up one day to find that your internet connection has … read more
Science has enriched the lives of bacon-lovers everywhere. A study conducted by researchers at ETH Zurich has concluded that the high levels of Vitamin B3 (known as niacin) in this meat could help you live longer. To test this, Energy … read more
Witnesses said four black army Humvee four-wheel drive vehicles came for Mohammed Hussein Muhareb, better known as Abu Munir, in his village in the north-east of the Sinai peninsula early in the morning. After an initial shoot-out in which at … read more
A British woman who was raped in Egypt has received an apology and £1,000 in compensation from the Foreign Office after it failed to provide proper support to her. The woman believes her attacker was an Egyptian military officer and … read more
Samsung’s billboards are causing a stir on all social networks after what seems like a misspelled word made it onto their huge outdoor adverts. The original idiom, ‘The pen is mightier than the sword’ is now displayed by Samsung as … read more
Egyptian security forces on Monday fired tear-gas to disperse university students who had defied a new law that restricts demonstrations, the state news agency reported. Students of Al-Azhar University and Assiut University in Assiut province, south of Cairo, staged a … read more
Egypt’s interim Prime Minister Hazem El Beblawi said yesterday he expected a referendum on the constitution now being drafted to take place in January, later than previously expected. The referendum is an important milestone in a roadmap for political transition … read more
Alia al-Mahdi – notoriously known as the “nude poser” – stirred up more trouble when she derided the Muslim call to prayer on social media Al Arabia reported. On her Facebook account, she published a picture of a fabricated call … read more