The Polish capital Warsaw will host as of August 27 [2006] a conference on Nubian monuments, Polish Cultural Counsellor in Cairo Gabriela Piotrowska told MENA on Monday.

The conference, to last till September 2, will be organized by several Polish institutes.

Some 200 researchers will attend the conference, in which at least 156 papers will be presented.

Poland hosts conference on Nubian monuments, Egypt State Information Service, Egypt, August 22, 2006.

"Tourist arrivals in Egypt over the past four years have increased by 66 per cent," according to official statistics. Around 8.6 million tourists visited Egypt last year against 5.1 million in 2002, said Abu Bakr el-Gendi, the Chairman of the Central Agency for General Mobilisation and Statistics, in a newsletter quoted by the Middle East News Agency.

Visitors from west and south Europe topped the arrivals in Egypt last year with 4.6 million, followed by eastern Europeans 1.34 million and the Middle Easterners 1.31 million.

Tourists to Egypt 66 pct up in 4 years, Egypt State Information Service, Egypt, August 23, 2006.

Stargate SG-1, the longest-running science fiction series on American television, has been cancelled.

The Sci Fi Channel, which airs the show in the US, has said it will not broadcast any potential 11th series.

The show, based on the 1994 film Stargate, aired its 200th episode last week. It airs in Sky One in the UK...

Stargate shut by Sci Fi Channel, BBC News, UK, August 22, 2006.

"Studio executives are working to identify an alternative outlet for Stargate SG-1..."

Stargate shut by Sci Fi Channel, GateWorld, August 21, 2006.