WOMEN in Cairo and other cities of the nation yesterday protested against a decision by the State Council court to bar women from working as judges at this influential court.

will undergo gallbladder surgery in Germany on Saturday and has temporarily handed over power to his prime minister during his absence, local TV reported.

An US officials reported that with Mohamed ElBaradei, former head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, causing a stir, Washington would like to see a more vibrant and inclusive political process emerge

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is due to meet German Chancellor Angela Merkel for talks in Berlin Thursday, a German government spokesperson announced on Tuesday.

Egypt's Judicial sources reported that the Egyptian Supreme Administrative Court turned down yesterday an appeal submitted by the government and the Ministry of Defense against the release of a movie about former President Gamal Abdel Nasser and his deputy Abdel Hakim Amer

Egypt's blogger detained for writing a post critical of the armed forces faced a military court on Monday accused of publishing false information about a military institution, according to Cairo

The Egyptian parliament voted Saturday by an overwhelming majority to regulate organ transplants in a bid to curb illegal trafficking and tourism over the issue

An influential court, advising the Egyptian Government, Monday, reiterated its opposition to the appointment

Former chief of the International Atomic Energy Agency, potential candidate in Egypt's presidential elections 2011 Mohamed ElBaradei departed Egypt for Vienna on Sunday

A CAIRO court on Saturday closed down three sports programmes broadcast by famous TV presenter Ahmed Shobeir on the private satelliteTV El-Hayat.

Egyptian medical and security sources announced on Tuesday that Egypt's police killed an Ethiopian migrant as tried to cross the Egypt-Israel border

A Cairo court on Saturday gave the Egyptian government legal clearance to allow natural gas exports to Israel, cancelling a lower court's verdict to stop exports.

ABUSED women will be given free legal aid by a newly established nongovernmental organisation in Alexandria, one of the founders has pledged. Free legal aid: A newly established NGO in Alexandria will give abused women and children free legal aid.

The Former Chief of the UN nuclear Agency Mohammed ElBaradei is positioning himself as a force for change in Egypt ElBaradei, 67, said that he might run for the Egyptian upcoming presidential elections

Mohamed ElBaradie, the former chief of the UN atomic watchdog, has said he will lead a front composed of different political powers in Egypt, to press for change and effect social justice. Former UN nuclear chief Mohamed El Baradei.

Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak on Monday called for confronting all elements of division and extremism which threaten security and stability in the Islamic world and distort the image of Islam

The Shura Council (the Upper House of the Egyptian Parliament) Monday dismissed a remark made in a TV interview by former chief of the International Atomic Energy Agency Mohamed ElBaradei. The remark was deemed offensive by MP Mohamed Khalifa.

Former Egypt's Ghad Party president Ayman Nour announced the start of the second stage of the "door knocking" campaign which aims to open up nominations for the presidency, according to Egypt's press

Former Chief of UN nuclear Mohamed ElBaradei said on Sunday that Egypt has stagnated under the Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak while corruption has thrived, criticizing the Egyptian ruling system

Egyptian police report a makeshift bomb was hurled at Cairo's main downtown synagogue in the early hours of the morning, causing a brief fire but no injuries, security sources said Sunday.

CAIRO - It's something Egyptians rely on daily: the ''ambooba,'' the steel canister of government-subsidized cooking and heating gas, hooked to the stove or water heater in the cramped homes of nearly everyone in this country's large population of poor.