Egypt praying in tune

Cairo is to synchronise the call to prayer across the city's 4500 mosques using computers, putting an end to out of tune and out of time muezzin.

"Egyptians have a problem with timing," said Sheikh Salem Abdel-Galil, the official behind the proposal.

"Our goals are to accurately set the time of prayer so it is called at the same time from each mosque, and to control the quality of the voices that call the prayer."