The Egyptian Red Crescent and Philips International Charity Foundation celebrated on Friday a new entry into the Guinness Book of Records at the Giza Pyramids. The entry, a huge heart drawn by bikers who started their routes from different places across Egypt, covered a distance of 6853 km, the same length as the Nile.

During a tour with a large number of school and university students, famous Egyptologist Zahi Hawass revealed that in the upcoming days he would announce a great archaeological discovery, possibly the wife of pharaoh Tutankhamun, Youm7 reported on Friday. Hawass added that for the first time there would be an announcement of a huge archaeological discovery through a 100 percent Egyptian archaeological mission.

Supreme Council of Antiquities announced on Monday that Egyptian archeologists have discovered two engraved standstone tablets during excavation work at the temple of Kom Ombo in Aswan. The tablets belong to the second king of the 19th dynasty King Seti I and King Ptolemy IV. The council’s General-Secretary Mostafa Waziri clarified that the first tablet is 2.30 meters in height and 1 meter wide, with a thickness of 30 cm. It was found broken, divided into two parts though the inscriptions and writings were in good condition.

An upcoming live transmission from New York s Metropolitan Opera will present Aida by Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi, to libretto by Antonio Ghislanzoni, on Saturday, 6 October. The transmission will also reach Egypt with screenings at the Cairo Opera House, Malak Gabr Arts Theatre at AUC, the Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Alexandria and the Technical University of Berlin in El-Gouna, at 7pm.

Some of the actions Aung San Suu Kyi has taken as Myanmar s civilian leader are "regrettable" but her Nobel Peace Prize will not be withdrawn, the head of the Nobel Foundation told Reuters in an interview in Stockholm on Friday. Lars Heikensten, speaking days before the awarding of this year s peace prize, said it made no sense to withdraw awards in reaction to things that happened after they were given, as judges would constantly have to discuss laureates merits.

The Czech archaeological mission operating in Abusir, north of the Saqqara region in Giza and headed by archaeologist Miroslav Barta has uncovered a huge limestone and brick tomb for a man identified as Kaer S, dating back to the middle of the Fifth Dynasty in the eras of King Nyuserre Ini and King Neferirkare Kakai. Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities Mostafa al-Waziry said that the owner of the tomb had several titles, including the “Supervisor of the King’s affairs”, and that his name was found engraved on the walls of the cemetery.

Yomeddine” director Abu Bakr Shawky won Variety s MENA Talent of the Year Award, announced during the second edition of El Gouna Film Festival (GFF), according to Variety s website. “I am deeply honored to receive this prestigious award and look forward to showing Yomeddine to audiences around the world,” Shawki said during the ceremony, which was attended by esteemed critics, as well as actors Lebleba, Hisham Selim and Youssra al-Lozy.

In a village in Vietnam s “elephant kingdom”, a vendor holds up a severed, dried tail dotted with coarse hairs she promises will bring good luck -– a grim new trade that is endangering the country s few remaining elephants. “I ll cut a hair off right in front of you here, so you can be sure it s not fake,” said the saleswoman in Tri A village in the country s forested central highlands.

The World Health Organization said on Tuesday that an Ebola outbreak in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo could worsen rapidly because of attacks by armed groups, community resistance and the geographic spread of the disease. We are now extremely concerned that several factors may be coming together over the next weeks and months to create a potential perfect storm,” WHO s head of emergency response Peter Salama told a news conference in Geneva.

The United Nations (UN) member states, private sector and civil society joined on Monday the Secretary-General António Guterres call to enhance the role of the world s 1.8 billion young people in driving global efforts to promote a peaceful, just and sustainable world, a statement by the UN said. According to the press release, Gueterres launched on Monday Youth 2030: The United Nations Youth Strategy at a high-level event of the 73rd session of the General Assembly, in New York.

The Ministry of Environment on Monday organized a cleaning campaign at the Wadi al-Gamal National Park in the Red Sea Governorate, as part of efforts to increase awareness of national parks and their role in protecting the country s natural resources and biodiversity. The ministry cooperated with members of the Abnaa al-Ababdah (al-Ababdaa Sons) association and the Tourism and Environment Association, along with employees from the diving center in Wadi al-Gamal, to launch the campaign as part of the Egyptian-Italian Environmental Cooperation Program.

More than 3 million people died in 2016 due to drinking too much alcohol, meaning one in 20 deaths worldwide was linked to harmful drinking, the World Health Organization (WHO) said . More than three quarters of these deaths were among men, the U.N. health agency said. And despite evidence of the health risks it carries, global consumption of alcohol is predicted to rise in the next 10 years.

On Tuesday, two big surprises unfolded through the Twitter and Instagram accounts of Egypt s El-Gouna Film Festival, scheduled between 20 and 28 September. Hollywood action legend Sylvester Stallone was revealed to be one of the festival s attendees. The Rambo star will receive El-Gouna s Career Achievement Award.

Egyptian-French star Gamil Ratib passed away on Wednesday at the age of 92, according to his manager Hany al-Tohami, who wrote on Facebook that “artist, father, friend and beautiful actor Gamil Ratib has passed away.” Minister of Culture Inas Abdel Dayem mourned Ratib, saying that he “stays immortal through his works.” She added that the era of the greats is coming to an end and described Ratib as leaving a “mark on Egyptian cinema.”

Excavations carried out by an Egyptian mission near the Aga Khan Mausoleum on Aswan s west bank uncovered an anthropoid sandstone sarcophagus with a mummy inside of a Late Period tomb. Mostafa Waziri, the secretary-general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, told Ahram Online that the mummy inside the sarcophagus is wrapped in linen and in a very good conservation condition.

Egypt’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) announced that the United Nations General Assembly has adopted an Egyptian resolution on sexual abuse, according to a press statement released by the MOFA on Saturday. MOFA said that the main aim of the resolution, titled “Sexual abuse and exploitation: Implementing zero-tolerance policy” aims to prevent all kinds of sexual exploitation utilizing the United Nation system, including agencies, funds and programs.

A joint expedition between the University of Alabama at Birmingham and the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities have discovered more than 800 tombs in Lisht village, southern Egypt dating back to 4000 years BC. According to the Ministry of Antiquities in a Facebook post, the tombs have a specific architectural style and were carved into rock, surrounded by brick and limestone.

The Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) received a collection of 71 artefacts today from Al-Bahnasa archaeological site in the Minya governorate in Upper Egypt. Tarek Tawfiq, GEM Supervisor General, told Ahram Online that the collection includes several important ancient Egyptian pieces, such as the beautiful Nes-Ptah s sarcophagus with an anthropoid lid. Nes-Ptah was a noble and son of Thebes and overseer Montumhat. The sarcophagus is inscribed with hieroglyphic texts and weighs a staggering five tons.

The Toronto film festival cast a spotlight over the weekend on racism and police brutality in director George Tillman Jr. s “The Hate U Give.” Applauded by critics and audiences alike, the adaptation of the best-selling young adult novel by Angie Thomas is “a timely commentary in the Black Lives Matter era,” said the festival s youth committee that chose to screen the movie.

Egypt national women’s squash team made its first victory on Tuesday, in the World Squash Tournament held in Dalian, China, from September 11 to 16. The team won against Australia’s national team 3-0. Nour al-Sherbini, the winner of China’s 2017 Open Squash championship, beat her opponent Donna Lobban 3-0. The results were 11-1, 11-2 and 11-9 in a 20-minute match.

Nations on either side of the whale hunting debate are set for a standoff as the International Whaling Commission (IWC) meets Monday, with Japan hoping to overturn the 32-year-old ban on commercial whale hunting. Japan will unveil proposals during the meeting in Florianopolis, Brazil, that outraged conservationists say are a blatant attempt to overturn the hunting moratorium that has largely held together since 1986.