US Ambassador to Egypt Margaret Scobey paid a visit to Coptic Pope Shenouda III Tuesday to congratulate him on the occasion of Coptic Christmas on 7 January,

ARCHAEOLOGISTS and intellectuals have blasted a controversial draft bill that has been presented to the People's Assembly (the Lower House of the Parliament) aiming

Two more people have died of swine flu on Thursday, bringing to 240 the total number of Egyptians who have been killed by the disease, the Ministry of Health announced on Friday.

Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered a 2,000-year-old temple in Alexandria dedicated to a cat goddess. The temple is the first trace of the royal quarters of the Ptolemaic dynasty to be revealed in Alexandria.

A spokesperson of Egypt's Health Ministry Abdel Rahman Shahin reported that the global AH1N1 pandemic claimed the lives of five more people in Egypt, raising the death toll to 224

Rains washed away mud brick houses in southern Egypt killing two women, and in Israel a woman drowned when her car was caught in a flash flood.

The CAF Africa Cup of Nations Group C game between Egypt and Benin on Wednesday will match the continent’s heavyweights up against the underdogs, who are fired-up to get their first-ever win in the competition.

Egyptian rescue boats searched with fading hope for a British tourist on Sunday who was lost while scuba diving in the Red Sea, one of the rescuers said.

The suspects in a drive-by shooting that killed seven people outside an Egyptian church on Coptic Christmas Eve will be tried in an emergency state security court

BENGUELA, Angola - Egypt continued their quest for an unprecedented third straight African Nations Cup when they reached

Egypt has maintained its position on the list of “unfree” states in the annual report on the state of freedoms in 2010 issued on Thursday by Freedom House, a DC-based international non-governmental organization, known for its close ties also to the US government foreign policy

Egypt's main opposition movement, the Muslim Brotherhood, appointed Mohamed Badie, a conservative figure, as its new leader,

Egyptian Finance Ministry has denied allegations that parliament had requested certain amendments to the real estate tax draft law.

AN Egyptian court will issue a verdict on Wednesday on Orascom Telecom's attempt to block an offer by France Telecom to buy all of Egyptian telecom operator Mobinil's outstanding shares, Reuters reported Saturday.

BENGUELA, Angola - Defending champion Egypt made a strong start to the African Cup of Nations, coming from behind to beat Nigeria 3-1 win in the opening game in Group C.

Four days after a deadly attack on a church in an upper Egyptian town, police are keeping a high profile in Naja Hamad and its surroundings, rocked by violent rioting in the aftermath of the slaying of six Coptic Christians

New tombs found in Giza support the view that the Great Pyramids were built by free workers and not slaves Films and media have long depicted slaves toiling away in the desert to build the mammoth pyramids only to meet a miserable death at the end of their efforts

The Public Funds Prosecution heard yesterday the testimonies of housing officials and employees in 6th of October and New Cairo concerning the report charging former Minister of Housing, Utilities and Urban Development Mohamed Ibrahim Suleiman with corruption.

Egyptian judicial source reported that Egypt's police on Saturday charged three men with premeditated murder over the shooting deaths of six Coptic Christians in a Christmas Eve attack

EGYPT'S antiquities authority has announced the discovery of a new set of tombs for the workers who built the great Pyramids. Zahi Hawass, the director of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, says the tombs are significant

An Egyptian soldier was killed, and four Palestinians wounded, in a gun battle on