The first quarter balance of payment for the current fiscal year indicates that the Egyptian economy is still suffering from the effects of the global financial crisis.

Egyptian-Spanish talks: President Hosni Mubarak (R) during his talks with Spain's Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero in Cairo yesterday. Zapatero is on an official tour of the Middle East that will also take him to Saudi Arabia.

Egyptian crowds are massing in Zamalek to protest about Algerian violence in Khartoum ... For more than a week, Gamal Fahmy has watched in mounting dismay as the simple question of who would qualify for the 2010 World Cup has exploded into a violent threat to the relationship between two Arab peoples.

President Hosni Mubarak met Monday with the national football team over a breakfast reception held at the presidential palace,

Egypt's licensing committee has decided to cancel the production licence for El Wadi Cement over start-up delays, and is reviewing four other licences, the head of the Industrial Development Authority said

President Hosni Mubarak yesterday presided over separate meetings with cabinet ministers and the visiting Speaker of the EU Parliament, Jerzy Buzek, the official Middle East News Agency (MENA)

The wave of anger with Algeria over a World Cup qualifier that started last Wednesday continued to escalate yesterday with two Cairo lawyers demanding the expulsion of all the Algerians from Egypt.Enraged by the attacks against Egyptian fans in Khartoum last week

Inaugurating the restoration:President Hosni Mubarak cutting ribbon marking the restoration of the Shura Council, which was partly destroyed by a fire last year.Chairman of the Shura Council Safwat el-

A quiet session:Chief Judge Adel Abdel Salam Gomaa (C)talking to lawyers for the Hizbollah-linked cell during a court session in New Cairo yesterday.The hearings will resume on December 23.

DEMONSTRATORS gathered for a second day near the Algerian Embassy in Cairo yes-terday to protest against vio-lence against Egyptians during a play-off for the World Cup soccer finals.The Interior Ministry warned

ABEDOUIN tribesman in north- ern Sinai was shot dead yester- day in fighting with police, a security source said.After the shooting, tribesmen seized two policemen, one of whom was still being held, the

PRESIDENT Hosni Mubarak today addresses a joint session of members of both houses of the Egyptian Parliament, officials said yesterday. President Mubarak's keynote speech, which will be broad-cast alive by

EGYPTIAN Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit said yesterday that Egypt had no plans to encourage Egyptian workers or busi- nessmen to abandon investment in the Arab country of Algeria after attacks

LITTLE has changed in Egypt to move the poor from unsafe places and prevent a repetition of a rockslide in a Cairo shantytown that killed more than 100 people last year, Amnesty International said in

A 26-year-old pregnant Egyptian woman from the coastal city of Alexandria died of swine flu on Sunday, raising to eight the fatalities from the deadly H1N1 virus as infections have neared 3,000in Egypt, the

Addressing 'hunger' summit: President Hosni Mubarak delivering a speech during the opening of the World Summit for Food Security organised by the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) in Rome yesterday. The summit runs until tomorrow with the participation of

AN Egyptian court sentenced two Christian men to death yesterday for killing the Muslim husband of a female relative who converted to Islam against the wishes of her family, court sources said.The brother

Celebrating victory: Egyptian students in Cairo University yesterday, Egypt's largest public university, expressing their joy over Egypt's 2-0 win over Algeria. FOUR Egyptian passengers cancelled theirtriptothe North African country of Algeria yesterday after they

Egyptian forward Amr Zaki (F)scoring against Algeria during their 2010 World Cup African zone Group C qualifying match in Cairo yesterday. Photo by Amr el-Maraghi

EIGHT Egyptian rail workers will go on trial on charges of negligence in a deadly train crash last month, that prompted the resignation of the Transport Minister, tomorrow, a judicial official said yesterday."The

THE General Prosecutor, Abdul Meguid Mahmoud, has charged eight railway workers with involuntary manslaughter over a train collision that killed 18 people near Al-Ayyat town, outside Cairo, the local media reported yesterday.