The Residential Necropolis: Five Headlines Worth Reading

+ Egyptian soap operas vie for post-fast time slots during the month of Ramadan
+ For every 1000 CCTV Cameras one crime is solved
+ One in 18 Cairenes reside among the deceased within the City of the Dead [pictured]
+ Canada sends body bags to native communities as part of a swine flu kit
+ Egypt passes its first mental health legislation in 60 years:

“It is common to joke that someone acting in an eccentric fashion could be locked up in Abbasiya [asylum] and forgotten.  Unsurprisingly, most patients I meet there do not find the idea funny”

[image via Priscilla & Hans]