Almost a week after a group of Swiss tourists rescued a donkey from the Giza district and flew it to Switzerland for 800 Euros, an American woman reportedly airlifted 14 dogs and a cat out of Egypt on Sunday, according to airport officials. The woman paid 60,000 Egyptian pounds ($3,400) for the operation to rescue the 15 animals, and shipped them to New York via national carrier EgyptAir.

Artists, intellectuals and ambassadors from around the world attended the Saturday night opening of “A night with Art at the Egyptian Museum”, organised by the private Art D’Egypte organisation. The exhibition, at the museum on Cairo’s iconic Tahrir square, will be open to the public until Tuesday.

The Panorama of the European Film’s 10th edition, will be taking place between 8-18 November and will expand its showings this year to 10 cities across Egypt. The annual festival was founded by Misr International Films and is organized by Zawya, Cairo’s arthouse cinema.

Paintings by top Egyptian artists shared wall space with hieroglyphs and Pharaonic relics at Cairo s Egyptian Museum this week in an exhibition highlighting ancient influences on contemporary art. Artists, intellectuals and ambassadors from around the world attended the Saturday night opening of "A night with Art at the Egyptian Museum", organised by the private Art D Egypte organisation.

Antiquities officials at Hurghada International Airport foiled an attempt on Monday to smuggle an antique Coptic icon out of Egypt. According to Naglaa El-Kobrosly, director of the Antiquities Units in Egyptian Airport, a passenger was attempting to smuggle the 18th century religious object to Germany.

The General Authority for Transport Passengers in Alexandria signed on Tuesday a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with China’s leading new-energy car maker BYD to conduct a feasibility study on a 128 kilometer monorail project to be implemented in eight stages in the city. The monorail will be the first sky rail monorail to be constructed on the African continent, based on Build–operate–transfer (BOT) system.

Egypt’s Ministry of Antiquities will start a restoration and rehabilitation project for the Bab al-Azab area in Mediaeval Cairo, the scene of Mohamed Ali’s massacre of the Mamluks in an effort to renovate a series of monuments in Historic Cairo. The restoration project will be executed in three phases over a 10-month period, with a grant from the American Research Centre in Cairo (ARCE), director general of the Historic Cairo Rehabilitation Project, Mahmoud Abdel Aziz said in a statement this week.

Major General Alaa Abu Zeid, governor of Matruh governorate, and head of the Antiquities Ministry’s Museums Sector Elham Salah Eddin, inspected Thursday the first regional archaeological museum in Matruh that will be inaugurated in November at a cost of LE3.5 million. The museum is affiliated to Matruh Public Library. The governor stressed the need to take precautionary measures to secure the museum, through the installment of the latest surveillance cameras, and providing fixed police checkpoints supported by the latest bomb detection devices.

The committee of Islamic and Coptic antiquities approved starting restoration of Bab Azzab, one of Saladin Citadel of Cairo s gates and its surrounding area. According to a state media outlet, starting from next April and for tens months, the restoration process will include removing the place s surrounding trash while restoring the gates as well as the walls and widows

During her first visit to Egypt, Miss Universe 2016, Iris Mittenaere, exclaimed “Long live Egypt, Long live Egypt” in Arabic to express her love for Egypt and Egyptian people. “I have been longing to see Egypt since I was a child,” Mittenaere said after she arrived at Cairo airport, on Tuesday.

About 175 students from the faculties of art education and applied arts in three universities participated in drawing and beautifying the wall of the new building at 57357 hospital. The hospital invited students from four faculties of art education and applied arts from the universities of Minya, Banha and Helwan to participate in drawing the wall surrounding the new building, said Professor Ahmed Ammar, who is in charge of the student delegation from the Faculty of Art Education, Minya University.

Napoleon Bonaparte and Auguste Rodin are both household names in their own right. But a bust of the French emperor created by the master sculptor faded into oblivion in an American town, only to be discovered by chance. The white marble statue was certainly visible in the meeting room of the borough hall of Madison — a municipality of 16,000 people in New Jersey.

A massive 423.5-kilogram (934-pound) doner kebab was served up in a Berlin shopping center on Friday, breaking the world record for the sandwich that has become a staple of German food. The doner weighed in at almost a ton, but broke due to its weight and needed to be cut in two. Still, the larger doner piece broke the previous world record of 413 kilograms set in Australia, said the Record Institute of Germany, a counterpart of the Guinness Book of World Records.

A group of Swiss tourists visiting Egypt were angered by how one donkey was brutally treated near the Giza Pyramids so they decided to buy it, rescue it, medically treat it and fly it with them to Switzerland. The Swiss tourists were at Sakkara this week where they found a donkey with traces of torture, and severe wounds. They offered its owner money so they could take it, but the owner refused, Mohammed al-Nawawi, head of the Brooke Hospital for the treatment of donkeys and horses told Al Masry Al Youm.

Fans of soft cheeses in China have reason to celebrate after the country reversed a ban on mould-ripened cheeses, allowing imports of Camembert, Brie and Roquefort, European Union officials said Monday. From early September, businesses in the country were forbidden from importing cheeses made with certain moulds and bacteria. The ban was lifted following meetings last week between European Commission representatives and Chinese quarantine and health officials, the EU’s China delegation said in a statement.

3500 tourists and Egyptian visitors witnessed, Sunday, the bi-yearly phenomenon of the sun’s alignment with the face of King Ramses II’s statue. The remarkable event was not accompanied by the usual pomp and circumstance, as the state was in mourning over 16 police victims, killed in clashes with terrorists in Bahariya Oasis on Friday. The rare solar events and accompanying celebrations are meant to mark key dates in the pharaoh’s life. The first alignment takes place on February 22, marking his assumption to the throne, and the second on October 22, marking his birthday.

Egyptian officials joined hundreds of tourists on Sunday to watch the bi-annual phenomenon of the solar illumination of the statue of King Ramses II at Abu Simbel in Aswan governorate. "The sun illuminated the face of the king for 20 minutes starting at 5:53am," announced Hossam Aboud, the director of Abu Simbel Temple, where the event took place.

19 October marks the 5th anniversary of the death of Hanaa Abdel-Fattah, the prominent Egyptian theatre director, actor, translator, and critic. He passed away on 19 October 2012 in Cairo after a long battle with cancer. Mohamed Hanaa Abdel-Fattah Metwaly was born in December 1944 to a family submerged in culture. He began acting at the age of 8, landing a number of roles in both radio and then film.

The competition committee of the Dog Breeders Association in Egypt have organized the first specialized best-in-show competition for Armant dogs in Egypt. The competition will include 100 dogs of all ages, starting from three months, and take place on October 28, in Madinaty city, Cairo. Mohamed al-Azhary, president of the association, said the competition will be preceded by an educational seminar at 10 am, on how to properly raise and provide the necessary veterinary care for Armant dogs.

Diana Ross will receive a lifetime achievement honor at next month’s American Music Awards and will celebrate with a performance on the broadcast next month. ABC and Dick Clark Productions announced the honor Wednesday. It’s the first time the AMAs have given out the award since 2006, when it was presented to Sting. Previous winners include Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, Elle Fitzgerald and Michael Jackson.

Throughout Turkey s history, humorists have traditionally been staunch opponents of the government. But in the current political climate, pursuing that profession is growing more difficult.. Turkey s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP)has been cracking down harder than ever since the failed coup attempt on July 15, 2016. Anti-government cartoonists and satirical magazines are often targeted by the government. In the trial against staff members of the daily newspaper Cumhuriyet, the famous cartoonist Musa Kart was charged with helping a terrorist organization, among other things. After nine months in custody, he was released at the end of July. But his trial is set to resume. If Kart is found guilty, he faces up to 29 years in prison.