The secret Saudi plan to buy the World Cup

[ad_1] Saudi Arabia offered to pay for new sports stadiums in Greece and Egypt if they agreed to team up with the oil-rich Gulf heavyweight in a joint bid to host the 2030 football World Cup, POLITICO can reveal.  In exchange, the Saudis would get to stage three-quarters of allContinue Reading

Egypt discovers 4,300-year-old gilded mummy

[ad_1] Cairo: Egypt’s renowned archaeologist Zahi Hawass has announced the discovery of “important tombs hosting a 4300-year-old mummy” in the Saqqara necropolis near the Pyramids of Giza. “The mummy is the oldest and most complete unroyal mummy found in Egypt to date,” Xinhua news agency quoted Hawass as saying inContinue Reading