Cuba, Kenya and Saudi Arabia are doing better at fighting human trafficking. Egypt, Ghana and Bulgaria are doing worse. That's according to the latest annual report from the US State Department, which rates 188 countries on their efforts to stamp out trafficking in persons.

At least 11 people were killed and 25 others were wounded Tuesday in a fire that broke out at a furniture factory in al-Obour city north of Cairo, Youm7 reported.

The incidence of Hepatitis C for people between the ages of 15 and 59 has dropped to 7 percent, down from 10 percent in 2008, Egyptian Health Minister Adel el-Adawi said on Tuesday.

The Cairo Criminal Court sentenced six defendants to death in absentia on charges of storming into the Ghad Al-Thawra Party’s headquarters. The court accused the defendants of possessing weapons and ammunition.

On the eastern bank of Aswan, an American-Egyptian archaeological mission at the Middle Kingdom settlement of Al-Hoody has found three engraved limestone reliefs which could be of great historical significance.

Rights advocates have recounted further alleged cases of detainees torture, with violations amounting to denial of medication.

Egypt is putting together a12 kilometer-long flag in a bid to set a new Guinness world record and promote the upcoming inauguration of the new Suez Canal project scheduled for August 6, Youm7 reported Sunday.

Strategic US-Egyptian dialogue, which has long been in the pipeline, recently faced an apparently final postponement, as the Foreign Ministry announced the talks will be held on 2 August.

Around 100,000 Egyptians are diagnosed with cancer annually, Health Minister Adel El-Adawi said on Monday.

Suez Canal Authority will hold a lottery to decide who will attend the opening ceremony of the New Suez Canal, the head of one of the companies responsible for promoting the Canal said on Sunday.

Cairo Criminal Court, headed by Judge Mohamed Nagy Shehata, sentenced in absentia, Sunday, six defendants to death over storming the Ghad al-Thawra Party headquarters in February 2013.

Archaeological sites in the west bank of Luxor, including burials at the Valley of the Kings, are now opened to the public at night for the first time ever, Antiquities Minister Mamdouh al-Damaty said in a statement Saturday.

Egypt's General Authority for Supply Commodities (GASC) is considering extending the exception for importing high-moisture level French wheat beyond August, state agency MENA said on Sunday.

The Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) is set to consider interest rates next Thursday, according to its website, amid expectations of keeping them on hold as inflation rates dropped in June.

Egyptian Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab, currently on a visit to Italy, said that his country's stability is indispensible for wider stability in the region and the world.

One-hundred and two traffic police personnel have started an open-ended work and hunger strike against the disciplining of seven of their colleagues. The seven people have been transferred to the Alexandria Security Directorate.

Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenie’s remarks “incite sectarian violence” in Bahrain, stated Al-Azhar, the most prestigious Sunni institution in the region, and Egypt’s Foreign Ministry.

A ferryboat sunk in the Nile river in Cairo's twin city Giza on Wednesday leaving 15 passengers dead, while six injured passengers were rescued, the Interior Ministry said.

Egypt's prosecution announced on Wednesday that it collected "over 12 billion" Egyptian pounds (more than $1.5 billion) in tax evasion cases and retrieved real estate and hundreds of fedans of state land.

Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia started a new round of talks on Wednesday over the latter’s Grand Renaissance Dam project, which Egypt fears will affect its share of the Nile's water.

An Egyptian court has sentenced Ahmed Nazif, a former prime minister under ousted president Hosni Mubarak, to five years in jail on graft charges in a retrial, judicial sources said on Wednesday.