Speaking the language of IT
Loghat Al-Asr makes its debut today -- a new publication the Al-Ahram Organisation is introducing to its readers. Amira Howeidy reports

Editor out of jail
A fortuitous early release from his two-year sentence has Al-Shaab editor Magdi Hussein hoping for a reversal of the paper's controversial suspension, reports Khaled Dawoud

The helmet and the belt
FASTEN your seat belt and don't use your mobile phone (hand-free sets are still allowed) and if you're riding a motorcycle be sure to put your helmet on; the year 2001 has started and so has the enforcement of a new traffic law. Jailan Halawi reports that by the dawn of the first day of the year, traffic policemen were all over Cairo, conducting surprise checks to make sure that motorists and motorcycle riders were obeying the rules

Divided on violence
Egypt's largest militant Islamist group, Al-Gama'a Al-Islamiya, remains in the throws of deep internal crisis, as Khaled Dawoud finds out in an interview, in London, with a UK-based Gama'a spokesman

Obituary:
Michel Wahba (1912-2000)

The last trip
Outside parliament
Policemen killed
Root damage
Animal cemetery