Running against time
With the starting date for phased parliamentary elections brought forward from November to mid-October, the state must race against time to prepare for the poll. Gamal Essam El-Din reports

Business blues
For the second time in two months, rumours are circulating that businessman Rami Lakah has fled the country in order to dodge an estimated LE1.2 billion in unpaid bank debts

Crash probe far from over
The temporary suspension of the investigation into the crash of EgyptAir Flight 990 has underlined the simmering dispute between the Egyptian and American sides. Amira Ibrahim reports

Stepping into the pasha's shoes
With six candidates competing, elections for the leadership of the Wafd Party are bound to be heated. Shaden Shehab writes

A mounting toll
The latest torrent of fatal traffic accidents has prompted the government to introduce a life insurance programme for highway motorists. Gihan Shahine reports

SECOND LAUNCHING:he second Egyptian media satellite, Nilesat 102, was carried before dawn last Friday by a French Ariane 4 rocket to its orbit in outer space from a base in Korou, French Guyana. --read caption--

Upwardly mobile bureaucracy
Smoking out the government
The last suspect
A horrible escape
Death chain