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

CAIRO – Egypt will make a formal request to Germany for the return of the 3,400 year-old bust of fabled Queen Nefertiti, the state minister for antiquities said on Tuesday. Zahi Hawass said a letter would be sent to Germany to demand the return of the Nefertiti bust, nearly a century after it was uncovered on the banks of the Nile.

GENEVA: Switzerland has Some 410 million Swiss francs traced to former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak stashed in the Alpine country, the Foreign Ministry said on Monday.

CAIRO (Update 1)-- Prime Minister Essam Sharaf Tuesday pledged to respond to "all demands", of a restive province in Upper Egypt whose people violently protested for almost two weeks at the appointing of a Coptic police officer as their governor.

CAIRO — Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, a conservative organization with links around the Islamic world

CAIRO: Ousted president Hosni Mubarak did not go into a coma and his health is "relatively" improving, his medical team said Monday in response to circulating news about his health deteriorating.

SINAI - Under the burning sun of the South Sinai desert, some Egyptian Bedouin tribes live in harsh conditions. But they’re sticking to their land, hoping for a better future, especially after celebrating the Egyptian revolution and then their first Sinai Liberation Day without Mubarak.