CAIRO (Update 1)- Around 22 protesters were injured Saturday evening when unknown people shot at demonstrators staging a sit-in outside the official TV building near the Cairo Nile, a Coptic priest said on Sunday.

CAIRO – Arab foreign ministers meet Sunday to pick a new secretary of the Arab League. Competing for the job are Egypt's Moustafa el-Feqi and Abdel Rahman el-Attia of Qatar.

CAIRO: A senior official of Muslim Brotherhood (MB) said the group would expel any member who runs for president, after a leading Brotherhood reformer was quoted as saying he might stand.

SHARM EL-SHEIKH - Suzanne Mubarak, wife of ousted leader Hosni Mubarak, has been hospitalized in the intensive care unit after suffering severe chest pains upon hearing the news that she had been ordered detained on corruption allegations.

CAIRO - A delegation of US officials representing associations and foundations interested in safeguarding Egypt’s antiquities against theft are set to visit Cairo Sunday to help investigate how to stop organized robbery of Egyptian antiquities, Egypt's official Middle East News Agency (MENA) reported.

CAIRO: The military ruling army council denied late Thursday press reports about an amended law for practicing political rights that wouldn’t allow Egyptians living abroad to vote in the next parliamentary elections.

CAIRO – Thirty-seven Egyptian workers were deported from Saudi Arabia on Tuesday for violating the residence regulations of the kingdom, the official Middle East News Agency reports.

CAIRO: The prosecutor general has extended the detention of ousted president Hosni Mubarak another 15 days, a judicial source said on Tuesday.

CAIRO: Urban consumer inflation in Egypt accelerated to 12.1 percent in April, its highest in a year, on the back of soaring food prices which contributed to the mass protests that toppled President Hosni Mubarak earlier this year.

CAIRO - Egyptian authorities have arrested the "mastermind" behind the sectarian violence in Cairo that killed 12 people, the cabinet said.

CAIRO - The Islamist sect blamed for attacks on Coptic churches in Cairo had already been accused of stoking religious strife since the uprising that ousted the former regime which had kept them in check for decades.

CAIRO: Twenty-three suspects and eyewitnesses were arrested Monday in Imbaba as part of investigations into Saturday’s violence.

CAIRO: Justice is hope, members of the under formation El-Adl (Justice) Party repeated as they addressed the hundreds attending its first conference on Friday at Azhar Park.

CAIRO - After a Cairo court annulled a 2006 deal to sell Omar Effendi department store chain to a Saudi investor on Saturday, experts say the mega store will face "four possible scenarios". These scenarios will be based on "overall restructure to maximise the State's revenues and preserve labour right's", the official Middle East News Agency (MENA) reported on Sunday.

CAIRO (Updated 4) - Egypt's cabinet said on Sunday it would take firm action against attacks on places of worship and use anti-terror laws against those sowing unrest, a day after deadly sectarian clashes in Cairo.

CAIRO - Egypt's prime minister Sunday called a crisis cabinet meeting and delayed a Gulf visit after Cairo clashes between Muslims and Christians killed nine people, hurt at least 100 and left a church ablaze.

CAIRO-" Hospitals receiving people injured at Imbaba church clashes that took place on Saturday are totally secured by military and civil police, Egypt's Minister of Health Ashraf Hatem said on Sunday. Hospitals have not been lately spared thuggery owing to so far inadequate control exersiced by the police on the Egyptian streets.

CAIRO (Updated) - Around 3,000 political activists and scholars held Saturday a broad conference on Egypt's future after the revolution and on moves to protect it, as they elected a 60-strong council to represent them in this transition-to-democracy period.

CAIRO - Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is healthy enough to be transferred to the Torah Prison hospital in Cairo, the chief coroner said. Interior Ministry officials said it would take up to three weeks to properly outfit the prison hospital with equipment necessary to treat the former leader, al-Masry al-Youm reported Friday. Chief Coroner Kamil

CAIRO: Lawyer Farid El-Deeb, representing the Mubarak family, said Friday that Gamal Mubarak was remanded in custody for a further 15 days over new charges, without giving details.

CAIRO (Update3) - Hundreds of Islamists rallied in Cairo on Friday in anger over the killing of Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden by US forces in Pakistan. Soldiers stopped the protesters from advancing a block away from the embassy after they marched from a mosque controlled by the hardline Salafi sect. They shouted at diplomats inside the embassy