Thirteen-year-old Rasha thought she was leaving her home in rural Egypt to help out an elderly aunt in the city for the summer and would return in time for the new school year

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak discussed efforts to lift the Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, at a meeting with his Palestinian counterpart Mahmoud Abbas.

IN what marks a new turn in a case that has kept the public busy for days now, Egypt’s Chief Prosecutor on Tuesday ordered the exhumation of a man who was allegedly killed by police in the coastal city of Alexandria so that a new autopsy could be performed

A chairman of the Egyptian Mortgage Finance Fund Mostafa El Hayawan said that Egypt’s mortgage lending may increase to 8 billion Egyptian pounds ($1.4 billion) by the end of June next year

An Egyptian emergency court Monday postponed until next month the trial of five Islamists accused of money laundering and funding an illegal group.

The Central Bank of Egypt will probably keep its key interest rate on hold for the sixth straight time, with urban inflation easing and core prices remaining within what economists describe as the bank’s “comfort zone.”

Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper said late Sunday that Canadian government invited Egypt's president Hosni Mubarak to attend the Group of Eight summit it is hosting this month

IN the heart of el-Minya in Upper Egypt, about 240km south of Cairo, Tel el-Amarna Museum will soon open. It will be the first museum dedicated to monuments connected with Akhenaten and his wife, Nefertiti. However, it won't contain the head of Nefertiti, which was smuggled out of Egypt by a German scientist early last century and which the German authorities refuse to return, despite Egyptian diplomatic efforts.

CAIRO: Lawyer Mohamed Abdel Aziz from El Nadeem Center for the Rehabilitation of Victims of Violence told Daily News Egypt that the prosecution office refused to examine the crime scene of a man who eyewitnesses allege was beaten to death by two police informants in Alexandria because it was “unnecessary”.

Ex-chief of the International Atomic Energy Agency and potential presidential candidate for Egypt's upcoming

THE family of a young man, allegedly tortured to death by police in the Egyptian coastal city of Alexandria, held congregational prayers for the soul of the deceased, which were attended by hundreds, including tens of activists and relatives.

RAFAH - More than 7,000 Palestinians have crossed Egypt's border with Gaza since it was opened after Israel's attack on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla, an Egyptian official said Saturday.

CAIRO: Egypt accepted 21 out of 25 recommendations for human rights reforms made to it by members of the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) on Friday as part of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) mechanism, when HRC members states’ human rights records are reviewed.

Activists have said they will protest on Sunday outside the Ministry of the Interior in Cairo against the death of a young man in the coastal city of Alexandria allegedly during torture by police, according to organisers.

Egypt's annual urban inflation rate, the most closely watched price indicator, fell to 10.5 percent in May, its lowest level since August and giving the Central Bank of Egypt more latitude to keep key interest rates steady

The Egyptian Higher Election Commission announced that Egypt's ruling National Democratic Party (NDP) won 80 out of 88 seats contested in the Shura Council mid-term elections

THE trial of two lawyers, accused of assailing a prosecutor, started in the Egyptian Delta town of Tantaon Wednesday amid mounting anger from their colleagues. Meanwhile, Chairman of the Bar Association Hamdi Khalifa suggested the creation of a body to tackle disputes between lawyers and judges.

The International Labor Organization (ILO) said on Monday that Egypt had failed to implement its earlier recommendations in terms of labor-related legislation

Egypt's Minister of Agriculture Amin Abaza, in a speech before the Food Security Conference, said that Egypt imports 40 percent of its total foodstuffs and 60 percent of its wheat

Arab League chief Amr Mussa will make a groundbreaking "solidarity" visit to the Israeli-blockaded Gaza Strip next week, top aide Hisham Yussef told AFP on Monday. The head of the 22-member pan-Arab organisation "will visit the Gaza Strip next week -- the first trip of its kind by an Arab League secretary general," Yussef said.

Representatives from Egypt's National Association for Change (NAC), founded by potential presidential contender Mohamed ElBaradei, will today visit the Wafd Party headquarters to congratulate el-Sayyed el-Badawy on his election as the party's president on 28 May