Egypt’s Islamist leader vowed to carry out tough structural reforms to overhaul his country’s ailing economy and create a better environment for business and investment, participants in a meeting between corporate executives and the president said.

ASSISTED suicide advocate Jack Kevorkian, known as “Dr Death” for helping more than 100 people end their lives, died early yesterday at the age of 83, his lawyer said.

Young women with cancer are gaining hope from a new procedure in which tissue from patients’ ovaries can be implanted in their forearms to produce mature eggs.