The upcoming Egyptian parliamentary and presidential elections will boost the tourism sector, says Egyptian Tourism Minister Hisham Zaazou.

Gulf oil producers have given Egypt a free fuel lifeling totalling $6 billion in value to help fend off unrest on its streets in the summer when consumption soars, the head of its national oil company said.

Unknown assailants attacked an open-air campaign rally on Monday organised by supporters of presidential candidate Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi in the northern Nile Delta's Damietta governorate.

Presidential candidate Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi is scheduled to appear Monday in his first ever TV interview co-hosted by Egyptian media figures Ibrahim Eissa and Lamees Al-Hadidi.

Egypt's Prosecutor-General Hisham Barakat has ordered an investigation into US President Barack Obama and other world leaders over spying allegations.

The Ministry of Tourism announced a programme Monday to entice tourists from Saudi Arabia, United Arab of Emirates, and Kuwait to visit Hurghada .

Egypt's government is likely to postpone its enforcement of the new fuel prices and impose a price rise only on electricity, diesel and natural gas, a senior government official told Aswat Masriya on Monday.

Egypt's Al-Azhar University – the oldest seat of Islamic learning in the Middle East – has expelled 76 students from different faculties for "involvement in riots," Egyptian state news agency MENA reported.

Mohamed Medhat abdel Razeq, deputy education minister in Minya, referred teachers, who made the Arabic test for fourth year students of an industrial school in the province, to investigations over including a question on the 25 January uprising, which violates decision of Education Minister Mahmoud Nasr preventing approaching 25 January and 30 June revolutions for being issues of conflicts that create problems between students.

Egyptian expats will be allowed to vote in the upcoming presidential elections without being residents or pre-registered voters in embassies, The Foreign Affairs Ministry said on Sunday.

Minister of Housing and New Urban Communities Mostafa Madbouly said 50,000 housing units for the average and low-income segments are going to be offered in Qaliubiya next week.

A 19-year-old girl in Cairo jumped from the third-story of a building to escape three men who were attempting to rape her.

The US on Wednesday reaffirmed its commitment to its shared interests with Cairo while at the same time urging political inclusivity in Egypt's progress towards democracy.

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius Wednesday criticised Egypt for imposing death sentences on nearly 700 suspected Islamists.

Egypt's delegate to the United Nations, Ambassador Moataz Ahmadein said on Wednesday 30/1/2014 that Egypt supports Palestinian reconciliation efforts and will do utmost effort to reach a solid Palestinian stance to reach a peace deal between Israel and the Palestinians.

When you picture Egypt's pyramids rising over the country's sands, your vision likely doesn't include water. It should, according to a new study published online Tuesday.

Presidential hopeful Hamdeen Sabahi presented his electoral programme in a press conference on Wednesday in which he said he would run under the slogan of "social justice, democracy and national independence" in order to "achieve Egypt's future hopes and rebuild it from the beginning."

An exact replica of Tutankhamun’s tomb was inaugurated Wednesday in Luxor, attended by ambassadors from the EU, Minister of Tourism Hisham Zaazou and minister of Antiquities Mohamed Ibrahim .

A new Egyptian satellite will track the construction of an Ethiopian hydroelectric dam over which officials in Cairo and Addis Ababa have been locked in a standoff over fears that the project will hinder Egypt's access to the Nile's water.

A law approved by Interim President Adly Mansour to ban appeals from a third party against contracts between the State and investors is “unconstitutional,” said Director of The Arab Center for Integrity and Transparency Shehata Mohamed late Tuesday.

A security source said Cairo Airport security applied the protest law to 120 policemen and dismissed them for participating in a strike.