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• Egypt's election fever comes to Garbage City

  (AP) -- Election fever has even come to Cairo 's Garbage City, the sprawling neighborhood built on -- and living from -- the waste of the Egyptian capital.The tens of thousands of impoverished residents of the district are almost all Christians. For gene   Read more »

• In Egypt's vote, revolutionaries lack a candidate

  A black smoke covered Cairo's Tahrir Square. Around a dozen protesters who had been holding a weekslong sit-in demanding an end to military rule had come to the conclusion their gathering was useless. So over the weekend, they splashed gas on their tents   Read more »

• Media watchdogs decry Egypt attacks on reporters

  (AP) -- Two media rights groups on Tuesday condemned the Egyptian military for assaulting and arresting journalists who were covering a recent violent crackdown on anti-military protesters in Cairo .The Paris-based Reporters Without Borders said it recor   Read more »

• Egyptian troops, protesters clash in Cairo

  CAIRO -- Egyptian troops blasted protesters with water cannons, tear gas and live ammunition, trying to prevent them from marching on the Defense Ministry Friday in clashes that left one soldier dead and scores of people injured just three weeks ahead of   Read more »

• Ex-US coach Bradley finding his footing in Egypt

  (AP) -- When soccer riots broke out in Egypt in February, Bob Bradley did not hesitate to speak out despite having only just arrived as the new coach of the national team.It didn't matter that the American had been in Egypt less than six months or was st   Read more »

Around the web

• Globetrotting family finds a world of good

  from work and school to travel around the world, especially in today's uneasy environment. In Egypt, the family walked the streets of Cairo, the only foreign tourists for as far as they could see. With hardly any Egyptian women in sight, the Becker twins, 10:50 AM from The Orange County Register Read more »

• Sabbahi, Abul-Fotouh campaigns strategise on runoff plans

  presidential candidates Hamdeen Sabbahi and Abdel-Moneim Abul-Fotouh met in Cairo on Tuesday to discuss results of the first round of Egypt's presidential elections, which saw the two candidates come in at third and fourth place respectively. According to 10:22 AM from Aswat Masriya  Read more »

• Things I didn’t know, pt. 2 – Mountains in Illinois

  September 2012 we will publish Picturing Illinois: Twentieth-Century Postcard Art from Chicago to Cairo, an illustrated history of Illinois postcards edited by John A. Jakle and Keith A. Sculle. I have really enjoyed browsing the proof pages of this book, 10:07 AM from University of Illinois Press  Read more »

• Mubarak sons face charges over stock market fraud

  President Hosni Mubarak, leaves the courtroom at the police academy where they were on trial in Cairo January 5, 2012. CAIRO (Reuters) - The two sons of Egypt's ousted President Hosni Mubarak will face charges of stock market manipulation, the public prosecutor 9:25 AM from Reuters Mobile Read more »

• World Cup Qualifier - Oyekale Invites 20 for Egypt Clash

  Team, Oladunni Oyekale has invited 20 players to camp for next week's FIFA Futsal World Cup qualifying match against Egypt in Cairo. The Futsal Eagles reached the final stage of the African qualifying campaign without kicking a ball, following the withdrawal 9:23 AM from AllAfrica.com Read more »