At least 13 houses were demolished in Rafah Monday as per the second phase of the ongoing border evacuation in North Sinai, according to state media MENA which quoted security officials.

Endowments Minister Mohamed Mokhtar Gomaa said on Sunday that his house in his hometown of Beni Suef was the target of a failed terrorist attack.

A total of 31 mothers have been given the option of receiving a 50,000 EGP award or free pilgrimage, Sisa Abu Doah, one of the mothers honored by President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi Sunday, told Al-Masry Al-Youm.

A photojournalist was ordered be jailed 24 hours Sunday because his mobile phone rang inside the court as a hearing was taking place, Youm7 reported.

Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi reiterated the importance of his country's ties with the US but said that its values of democracy and freedom cannot be adopted by Egypt under the current circumstances.

An Egyptian leftist activist shot by police with birdshot in January died "because she was too thin," a spokesman for the forensic medicine authority said on Saturday.

Ex-president Hosni Mubarak’s former Minister of Interior Habib al-Adly was acquitted Thursday of charges of illicit gains, the last legal case Adly faced, Youm7 reported.

Egypt strongly condemned Wednesday’s attack on the Tunisian Wational Museum which killed at least 19 foreign tourists and civilians, as well as two gunmen, and left at least 44 injured.

Although the concept of monarchy in ancient Egypt was traditionally limited to males, a woman progressed from the role of co-regent to pharaoh and was a forerunner of such figures as Cleopatra.

A teacher at Nag Abd Rabo School at Balsfora village affiliated with Sohag Governorate's education department beat a pupil in the first preparatory grade using a water hose, causing bruises and abrasions on the boy's body.

A Cairo criminal court on Thursday acquitted Hosni Mubarak-era interior minister Habib El-Adly of corruption charges, paving the way for his release, his lawyer told Ahram Online

Either Ramses II or his son Merenpetah may be the Pharoah referenced in the story of the Exodus, according to a recent thesis by an Egyptian PhD candidate.

Egypt's cabinet decided on Wednesday to resume the country's football premier league on March 30, yet without spectators.

Governor of Cairo Galal Mostafa Saeed has announced the installation of an integrated system for the development of traffic lights in the capital.

Some 136 Egyptians returned Wednesday morning from Libya via an EgyptAir flight through Djerba airport in Tunisia, and 160 others arrived through the Sallum border crossing.

The state-owned Egyptian Holding Company for Natural Gas (EGAS) signed Tuesday a five-year deal with Russian company Gazprom to import a total of 35 liquefied natural gas (LNG) shipments, according to a ministry statement.

Egypt’s Tourism Promotion Authority office in New York announced Friday it would no longer offer visas upon arrival to any non-Egyptian wishing to travel to Egypt for tourism effective May 15, 2015.

Egypt will receive financial deposits pledged by Gulf States leaders at the Egypt Economic Development Conference (EEDC) in the coming few days, the Central Bank of Egypt’s (CBE) governor, Hisham Ramez told MENA Monday.

Egypt signed a deal to import 35 shipments of liquefied natural gas (LNG) over five years with Russian energy company Gazprom on Tuesday, the Petroleum Ministry said in a statement

Egypt's prosecutor-general said on Tuesday that the death of political activist Mohamed El-Gendy, who was killed in February 2013 after suspected police torture, was due to injuries caused by a hit-and-run car accident.

Egyptian authorities have now made it a little harder for tourists to enter Egypt. Starting 15 May, individual tourists arriving in Egypt will be required to apply for a visa at an Egyptian consulate prior to arrival at the airport, according to a press statement sent out on Tuesday by the Egyptian Tourism Ministry.