The court sent its initial ruling of death against Morsi in jailbreak case, and initial verdicts of death against Brotherhood leaders Shater and Beltagy and 14 others in espionage case, to Grand Mufti for consultative review Cairo Criminal Court on Saturday issued a preliminary ruling of death to former Islamist president Mohamed Morsi and 105 other defendants in the trial known as the "Natroun Jailbreak case." The court has sent its decision in the "Natroun case" to the country's Grand Mufti for a consultative review as required by Egyptian law,  setting 2 June as a date for a final verdict. The court also issued a preliminary ruling of death to Brotherhood leaders Mohamed El-Beltagy and Khairat El-Shater and 14 others in the trial known as "Hamas Espionage case." The court also sent its decision in the "Hamas Espionage case" to the country's Grand Mufti for a consultative review as required by Egyptian law,  setting 2...

Scriptures: Luke 17:11-19 Introduction A large dog walks into a butcher shop carrying a purse in its mouth. He puts the purse down and sits in front of the meat case. "What is it, boy?" the butcher jokingly asks. "Want to buy some meat?" "Woof!" barks the dog. "Hmm," says the butcher. "What kind? Liver, bacon, steak ..." "Woof!" interrupts the dog. "And how much steak? Half a pound, one pound ..." "Woof!" The amazed butcher wraps up the meat and finds the money in the dog's purse. As the dog leaves he decides to follow. The dog enters an apartment house, climbs to the third floor and begins scratching at a door. With that, the door swings open and an angry man starts shouting at the dog. "Stop!" yells the butcher. "He's the most intelligent animal I've ever seen!" "Intelligent?" says  the man. "This is the third time this week he's forgotten his key....

The radio broadcast by General Godefroid Niyombare — who was sacked from his position as the central African nation's powerful chief of intelligence in February — came hours after Mr Nkurunziza arrived in neighbouring Tanzania for talks to end the crisis. PHOTO: People celebrate with soldiers in Bujumbura, Burundi after the announcement of a coup. (Reuters: Goran Tomasevic) General Niyombare said on Wednesday he was working with civil society groups, religious leaders and politicians to form a transitional government. Before his radio broadcast, General Niyombare made his declaration to reporters at a military barracks in the capital Bujumbura. There he was surrounded by several other senior officers in the army and police, including a former defence minister, when he made the declaration, Reuters reported. "Regarding president Nkurunziza's arrogance and defiance of the international community, which advised him to respect the constitution and Arusha peace ...

FBI says no indication that terrorism was a factor in Philadelphia derailment that killed at least six and left another six critically injured A crash investigation has begun into what caused an Amtrak train to derail in north Philadelphia, killing at least five people and leaving six others critically injured. A sixth person was declared dead by Herb Cushing, medical director of Temple University hospital in Philadelphia, where several of the injured were taken, according to local television news reports. During the night the mayor of Philadelphia, Michael Nutter, had confirmed that five people had died in the crash. Federal investigators arrived on the scene of the mangled and overturned cars on Wednesday morning to try to establish the cause of the crash. The Northeast Regional 188 service was carrying 243 people, including five crew, when it went off the rails between Washington DC and New York city shortly after 9pm local time. The front of the train was going into a lo...

The Parliamentary Committee on Education, Research and Technology has expressed deep concern over the growing insecurity in parts of the country and asked the government to fulfill its responsibility in this regard. Committee members led by Chairperson and Murang’a County Women Representative Sabina Chege asked the government to appropriately respond to the growing insecurity cases in the North Rift and parts of northern Kenya. The MPs said the recent ethnic conflict that left at least 50 people dead in North Rift and the killing of 147 university students in Garissa by militant groups is an indication that the government needs to get serious and secure Kenyans. The MPs urged the warring communities in the North Rift to stop the pointless fighting and hostilities and embrace peace. ‘We are convinced on the need to stop hostilities because nothing good comes out of war but death and destruction’ said Chege. Speaking last evening to Kenya News Agency at the close of a two...

Several tornadoes ripped through North Texas ranch and farming country, leaving one person dead and others unaccounted for in a sparsely populated area over the weekend, authorities said. One of the tornadoes on Saturday shattered homes in a rural area south of Cisco, a town about 100 miles west of Fort Worth, Eastland County Judge Rex Fields said. “The homes that I’ve seen, there are just maybe one or two walls standing,” Fields, who also serves as the county’s emergency services coordinator, told The Associated Press. Fields said one person was killed and there were likely other injuries. Authorities were going house to house to assess the damage, but that proved difficult amid the heavy rainfall. The extent of injuries or fatalities also wasn’t immediately clear in the town of Burkburnett, about 15 miles north of Wichita Falls, where a second tornado touched down. A police dispatcher who declined to give her name due to department policy said tornado sirens could be heard ...