A sailor who was forced to live alone on a ghost ship in Egypt for four years because of red tape has finally been allowed to go home. Mohammed Aisha boarded a plane back to Syria on Friday, describing his elation he told the BBC: ‘How do I feel? Like I finally got out of prison. … Read more
At least 11 people are killed and 100 injured as four passenger train carriages derail in Egypt At least 11 people have been killed and 98 injured after a train derailed in Egypt Around 60 ambulances were dispatched to the scene to take people to hospital The cause of the crash is not yet known … Read more
A megaship which blocked Egypt’s Suez Canal and crippled world trade for nearly a week has been ‘seized’ on court orders until the vessel’s owners pay $900 million, canal authorities said Tuesday. The MV Ever Given was seized due to its failure to pay $900 million in compensation, Suez Canal Authority chief Osama Rabie was … Read more
Alicia Keys embraces the moment and her sons Genesis, six, and Egypt, 10, while she can on Instagram By Paul Chavez For Dailymail.com Published: 02:28 BST, 9 April 2021 | Updated: 02:44 BST, 9 April 2021 Alicia Keys embraced her sons in a tender photo posted Thursday on Instagram. The 40-year-old singer shared an outdoors … Read more
Fashion designer Wayne Cooper lists his glamorous Tamarama home for $10.5million By D. Lawrance For Daily Mail Australia Published: 04:29 BST, 8 April 2021 | Updated: 04:37 BST, 8 April 2021 It was briefly home to Gerard Butler when he filmed Gods of Egypt in Sydney in 2015. And fashion designer Wayne Cooper has now … Read more
A fascinating new book has revealed how punctuation and symbols have developed over thousands of years. Claire Cock-Starkey’s new non-fiction Hyphens & Hashtags explores how punctuation such as full-stops, commas and exclamation marks have come to be part of our day-to-day writings. While the question mark is believed to come from Ancient Egypt, where they … Read more
A fascinating new book has revealed how punctuation and symbols have developed over thousands of years. Claire Cock-Starkey’s new non-fiction Hyphens & Hashtags explores how punctuation such as full-stops, commas and exclamation marks have come to be part of our day-to-day writings. While the question mark is believed to come from Ancient Egypt, where they … Read more
How Egypt’s first female ship’s captain was blamed for blocking the Suez Canal – despite her being hundreds of miles away at the time Marwa Elselehdar was first mate in command of the Aida IV in Alexandria Online rumours spread that she had caused the Ever Given to run aground She was the youngest and … Read more
Egypt’s first female ship’s captain say ‘fake news’ reports blamed her for blocking the Suez Canal despite her being hundreds of miles away Marwa Elselehdar was first mate in command of the Aida IV in Alexandria Online rumours spread that she had caused the Ever Given to run aground She was the youngest and first … Read more
Egypt held a spectacular parade to transport 22 mummies of its most famous pharaohs from central Cairo to their new resting place at a museum. The ceremony snaked along the Nile corniche from the Egyptian Museum overlooking Tahrir Square to the newly opened National Museum of Egyptian Civilization in Fustat, Cairo, where Egypt’s first Islamic … Read more