Business in Egypt has expanded, marked by the first rise in staffing levels in nearly two-and-a-half years in September, with output and new orders rising sharply, an HSBC report showed on Tuesday.

Secretary of State John Kerry will take part in a conference on rebuilding Gaza, devastated by a 50-day war with Israel earlier this year, a US official said Monday.

Artistic performances in public spaces are not new to Egypt; many folkoric arts used to take place in the street, including the aragoz (an Egyptian puppet show), moulids (street festivals) and the wonderbox (a puppet show inside an enclosed box complete with peepholes, providing visuals to accompany a story being recited).

The Ministry of Manpower has received 64,000 compensation claims from Egyptian workers who fled Libya in 2014 due to ongoing violence, according to a Sunday ministry statement.

A joint South Korean-Saudi delegation will visit Cairo in October to finish all required preparation for establishing a $6 billion solar plant in the Wadi Gedid governorate, Youm7 reported Sunday.

Egyptian security forces in the Suez Canal city of Port Said say they have uncovered a recruitment cell for the radical militant group Islamic State (IS).

Egypt will participate in the Tenth Meeting of the Trade Negotiations Forum with three African blocs scheduled to take place in Burundi this October.

British gas producer BG Group said on Monday it had received $350 million from the Egyptian government following a commitment by Cairo to repay outstanding debts to the energy industry.

Extra police and army personnel in Cairo on Saturday helped limit sexual harassment incidents, a local anti-sexual harassment initiative said.

Frequent power cuts and the sinking of entire regions in darkness, pushed Osama Ayoub, an electricity school teacher in Gerga, Sohag, to invent an electric system to reduce electrical loads while maintaining a current rate enough for lighting and running some small electrical appliances.

Critically ill detained activist Ahmed Doma has been transferred to the Qasr el-Aini public hospital after his health severely deteriorated in prison and following widespread calls on security forces to take measures to save his life.

Egypt's secular political forces have so far failed to unite under a single electoral umbrella capable of winning a majority in the country coming parliament.

In a special message to the world Muslims, US President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama extended greetings to Muslims on `Eid Al-Adha, congratulating them on the annual pilgrimage as the largest most diverse gathering.

A bomb blast hit a government office Thursday afternoon in Egypt's Nile Delta, leaving two injured, Aswat Masriya reported.

The diplomatic war of words between Egypt and Turkey continues as the Egyptian ‎foreign ministry issued a statement early Thursday describing the Turkish prime ‎minister's statements about Egypt as "desperate".

The presidential council and the legal committee of the Salafi Al-Nour Party met on Wednesday to discuss what it called excesses in a high school history textbook.

The Egyptian authorities on Wednesday confiscated all the copies of one of the country’s largest private newspapers in order to censor an article, just days after President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi vowed in an American television interview that there was “no limitation on freedom of expression in Egypt.”

The Turkish Foreign Ministry issued a statement regarding the Egyptian Foreign Ministry's condemnation of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's speech at the World Economic Forum (WEF) held last week.

Political opposition parties are forming a new alliance led by Aboul Fotouh before the fourth anniversary of the 25 January revolution to offer a political alternative to the current regime.

Ali El Sayed, Editor in Chief of Al-Masry Al-Youm newspaper, told Daily News Egypt that a whole page of the newspaper’s Wednesday issue was censored by “governmental officials”.

Activist Ahmed Doma temporarily halted his hunger strike Saturday until an adequate treatment for his “unbearable stomach ulcers pain” is provided, said activist Nourhan Hefzy, Doma’s wife, on Facebook Monday.