"He should be treated properly whether inside or outside, but since there is no efficient medical care inside Tora prison hospital, then the interior ministry is responsible for establishing an efficient medical unit for Nour to be treated in"

CAIRO: The administrative court has rejected jailed opposition leader Ayman Nour's health release during the final court session Tuesday, but the defense team plans to appeal the court's decision, lawyers said. via The Daily Star - Egypt

Smoking in enclosed public places was banned in England on 1 July. How has is affected shisha cafes?

Two ethnic Kurdish dissident journalists are sentenced to death in Iran for "armed struggle against the system".

In a hilarious turn of events, a 2003 Hummer H2 was beaten by a 1921 Ford Model T Speedster at a road-going hill-climb event in America.

"Your music is this life you wasted. You could regain it if you wish, if you fasten to this indifferent thing which casts you back there where you set out."

These connections between dreams and the subconscious pathways that link the human drives towards love/sex and violence/cruelty are crucial to the understanding of Seferis' view of the forces dominating human ... via Turkish Daily News

Peugeot has been dead to us lately. Late last year, their Dubai reps postponed our date with a 407 Coupe four times in two months before eventually not responding any more. Not a good way to build a brand by ignoring the Middle East’s largest automotive portal (that’s right, we are the biggest now). Also [...]

"You were still able to procreate in the afterlife"

An artificial wood and leather big toe discovered on the foot of an Egyptian mummy could be the world's earliest functioning prosthetic body part, researchers at University of Manchester announced Friday. via China View

Three Saudi Arabian readers tell BBCArabic.com what they think about KSA's religious police.

I have updated the Future Preview section to reflect new information on tons of 2008, 2009 and 2010 cars. Spy shots, computer renderings and what not.

"If Afghanistan is a university for jihadi terror"

Revisionist message from prison cell shakes al-Qaida colleagues Ian Black Cairo Friday July 27, 2007 The Guardian In a prison cell south of Cairo a repentant Egyptian terrorist leader is putting the finishing ... via Guardian Unlimited