Dina Ezzat looks into the Mubarak-Cheney encounter

Negligence in hospitals is being exposed like never before. Mohamed El-Sayed tries to find out if this means the government is taking deteriorating health care services more seriously

The holiday season featured more than its usual share of tragic roadway fatalities. Was defective road planning or human error to blame, asks Gihan Shahine

The trial of Egyptian-born, UK-based mosque preacher Abu Hamza El-Masri may be more complicated than it seems, reports Jailan Halawi

The Sudanese community in Egypt sheds bitter tears over the brutal crackdown on asylum-seekers a fortnight ago, reports Gamal Nkrumah

The controversy over French warship Clemenceau's crossing the Suez Canal raged last week, reports Magda El-Ghitany

The dismissal of any grounds for criminal action following last May's assaults against women demonstrators provokes angry responses from the Press Syndicate and in the People's Assembly, reports Gamal Essam El-Din

Amira Howeidy listens in as the Egyptian left attempts to salvage a role

At the Engineers' Syndicate, the next few months will provide a crucial test of the government's willingness to keep its promises, reports Mona El-Nahhas

The possibility of a Free Trade Area with the US is in jeopardy once again. Members of a senior delegation of congressional staffers, addressing the American Chamber of Commerce in Cairo, yesterday said that if FTA negotiations are not launched in the next three weeks or one month at most, Egypt will lose the opportunity of ever concluding such a deal. Niveen Wahish listened in