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/ 1 February 2011
Hundreds of thousands of protesters marched in Egypt’s second city Alexandria on Tuesday calling for President Hosni Mubarak to quit.
Thousands of Egyptians demanded an end to President Hosni Mubarak’s 30-year rule and clashed with police on Tuesday.
Police in the Egyptian coastal city of Alexandria have arrested the owner of a building that collapsed on Wednesday, killing 11 residents.
At least 11 people were killed in the Egyptian port city of Alexandria before dawn on Wednesday when a four-storey apartment block collapsed.
A day after giving birth to septuplets, a 27-year-old Egyptian woman said on Sunday she’s only seen her babies on television.
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/ 30 December 2007
Shoddy materials, illegal construction and a culture of corruption were blamed for the deaths of more than three dozen people buried when a 12-storey apartment building crumbled to the ground in Egypt. Six days after the collapse of the building in the Mediterranean coastal city of Alexandria, 35 bodies had been pulled from the rubble.
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/ 26 December 2007
The death toll from the collapse of a block of flats in the Egyptian port city of Alexandria has risen to 14, the official Mena news agency reported on Wednesday. The toll could climb even further as about 15 people remain trapped in the rubble of the flattened 12-storey building, a security official said on Tuesday.
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/ 25 December 2007
Rescue workers pulled three more bodies from the rubble of a collapsed block of flats in the Egyptian city of Alexandria overnight, bringing the toll to eight dead with many still missing, a security source said on Tuesday. Emergency services continued their search following Monday’s collapse of the 12-storey building.
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/ 24 December 2007
Five bodies were pulled from the ruins of a 12-storey apartment building that collapsed on Monday in the northern Egyptian port city of Alexandria, police said. Ambulances and civil defence teams rushed to the site of the collapse in the Loran district in the east of the coastal city and began rescue operations, a source said.
Alexandria, the Egyptian coastal city where Cleopatra had love affairs with Julius Caesar and Mark Anthony, is trying to regain some of its old glory as a tourism destination for European and Arab elites. This summer, a new luxury hotel opened on the site of a grand old establishment where Austrian archdukes and Egyptian khedives would gather for Viennese pastries or tennis a century ago.
A United States jury rejected the death penalty for al-Qaeda conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui and ruled he should be jailed for life without parole for his role in the September 11 attacks conspiracy. True to his stormy and unpredictable character, Moussaoui shouted ”America you lost … I won”, as he was led from the court.
An American Muslim convicted of joining al-Qaeda and plotting to assassinate United States President George Bush was sentenced to 30 years behind bars by a judge who compared him to ”American Taliban” John Walker Lindh. Prosecutors had asked for the maximum for Ahmed Omar Abu Ali, a 25-year-old US citizen who was born to a Jordanian father and raised in Virginia.
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/ 7 February 2006
The horror of September 11 is seared into the souls of many Americans and the collective psyche of their nation. But hundreds of potential jurors were told on Monday to put their haunting memories of that terrible day in 2001 aside, to grant fair justice to would-be al-Qaeda suicide pilot Zacarias Moussaoui.
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/ 31 January 2006
Christopher Katongo scored on Monday to give Zambia a 1-0 win over South Africa, their first in group C of the African Cup of Nations. Katongo scored a 73rd-minute cross from Clive Hachilensa to hand South Africa, the 2010 World Cup hosts, their third straight defeat without scoring.
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/ 31 January 2006
Monday was not a night for champions as reigning African Nations Cup holders Tunisia were trounced 3-0 by Guinea and ended up second in group C. At least they still have an interest in the tournament, whereas 1996 champions South Africa reached new depths as they were beaten 1-0 by Zambia.
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/ 25 January 2006
South Africa will be hard pressed to get a result in Egypt on Thursday against defending champions Tunisia if they are to go beyond the first round of the 2006 African Nations Cup. ”It will be a totally different team against Tunisia,” said coach Ted Dumitru after his team’s 2-0 loss to unfancied Guinea.
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/ 22 January 2006
Substitutes Sambegou Bangoura and Ousmane Bangoura scored a goal each in the last 13 minutes on Sunday to help Guinea beat South Africa 2-0 in group C of the African Nations Cup. Guinea were the more dangerous of the two teams in the first half and came close on several occasions.
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/ 16 December 2004
Google won a major legal victory when a federal judge ruled that the search engine’s advertising policy does not violate federal trademark laws. Auto insurance giant Geico argued that Google should not be allowed to sell ads to rival insurance companies that appear whenever Geico’s name is typed into the Google search box.
The Bibliotheca Alexandrina, partly submerged in a pool of water, will try to live up to an ancient tradition.
Two Somali refugees who ran the local branch of a money transfer group linked to al-Qaida have been sentenced to jail time for illegally structuring bank deposits.