Egypt's court jailed tycoon Hesham Talaat Moustafa Tuesday for 15 years following a retrial for his role in the murder of a Lebanese singer, after an earlier court ruling sentencing him to death was overturned

Egypt's Minister of Interior said Sunday that he expected upcoming parliamentary elections to be "heated", warning that the authorities would clamp down on anyone who stepped outside the law

CAIRO: A group of Christians who converted to Islam and then back to Christianity issued an injunction against both the Minister of Interior and the head of the Civil Status Organization for not implementing a court order that allows them to be identified as Christians on their ID cards.

Egyptian and Chinese industry officials vowed closer bilateral economic ties on Sunday with the signing of an industrial cooperation agreement

Egypt's Minister of Interior said Sunday that he expected upcoming parliamentary elections to be "heated", warning that the authorities would clamp down on anyone who stepped outside the law

Egypt's Minister of Interior Habib el Adli said Sunday that an employee working in a Cairo museum was probably behind the theft of a Van Gogh painting that left Egyptian authorities red-faced

CAIRO - Egypt's government said on Sunday it had approved a legal committee's plan to resolve a land row around the country's biggest listed developer's flagship project, a dispute which has raised concerns across the sector.

Egypt's Minister of Telecommunications Tarek Kamel said Sunday that Egypt is unlikely to offer a second fixed-line telephone licence or a fourth mobile phone licence before 2013

ALEXANDRIA: The trial of two policemen implicated in the death of Khaled Saied continued Saturday, amidst allegations that security bodies are undermining court proceedings.

CAIRO — Sunni Islam's top religious body late Saturday slammed comments by an Egyptian Coptic bishop who cast doubt on the authenticity of some verses of the Qu'ran, saying his remarks threatened national unity.

ALEXANDRIA - An Egyptian court on Saturday delayed the trial of two policemen who allegedly beat a young man to death in the city of Alexandria until late October, at the behest of the victim's lawyers.

CAIRO - Egypt is unlikely to offer a second fixed-line telephone licence or a fourth mobile phone licence before 2013, Egypt's telecommunications minister said in remarks published by the daily al-Mal on Sunday.

ISMAILIA (Egypt )- Dozens of armed Bedouins surrounded a police station in central Sinai on Friday, locking in 15 police officers and setting a car ablaze in the worst bout of violence in the region for nearly two months.

Cairo-Six drug barons have been arrested in North Sinai in a crackdown on crime rings and drug-producing areas , the police announced later Friday.

CAIRO: The Muslim Brotherhood does not plan to heed calls for a boycott of November's parliamentary elections, a senior member of the moderate Islamist movement said on Thursday.

CAIRO - Political activists staged a protest in Cairo on Tuesday against what they said plans to hand power to the president's son.

CAIRO: Gammaliya and Manshiyet Nasser Misdemeanor Appeals Court acquitted Tuesday former deputy Cairo governor Mahmoud Yassin of charges of involuntary manslaughter and injury of the Duweiqa residents.

CAIRO - A hi-tech weapon has been unveiled in the battle against sexual harassment in Egypt, where almost half the female population face unwanted attention from men every day.

CAIRO-President Hosni Mubarak is due in Berlin on Wednesday for important tals with German Chancellor Angelica Merkel, Egypt's official Middle East News Agency reported on Tuesday.

CAIRO - Egyptian Housing Minister Ahmed el-Maghrabi said Monday that the $3 billion Madinaty deal of the Talaat Moustafa Group (TMG), the property development company, was "successful and sound" in its timing and execution.

CAIRO: Starting next year, Egypt will embark on a relocation project which should eventually see cement factories moved out of the Helwan governorate.