Egypt's Shura Council Members re-elected on Thursday Safwat el-Sherif as speaker of the Egyptian Upper House of parliament for the coming three years, according to Egypt's state-run MENA news agency

Egyptian Investment Minister Mahmoud Mohieldin after nearly two decades of selling off state-owned assets, Egypt's controversial privatization program is slowing down and shifting its focus

CAIRO - One policeman was killed and four others injured when their truck, carrying prisoners, were attacked south of Cairo, police sources said on Wednesday.

CAIRO - One policeman was killed and four others injured when their truck, carrying prisoners, were attacked south of Cairo, police sources said on Wednesday.

The Egyptian Ministry of Finance agreed to pay a state-owned sugar company 1 billion Egyptian pounds to cover the cost of sugar subsidies in the year to June 30

CAIRO - Egypt's top comedian Adel Imam, best known for his political satires, have opened fire at Mohamed ElBaradei, a potential presidential contender, and the Muslim Brotherhood, the country's banned-yet-most influential power.

A group of Bedouin on the Sinai Peninsula attacked seven trucks on their way to Israel after Egyptian police searched Bedouin homes earlier in the day for fugitives, a security source said on Tuesday.

CAIRO: Security bodies again used force to break up a protest against police brutality on Sunday, for the second time in a week.

An Egypt's court ruled Tuesday to halt a decision to sell land to developer Talaat Moustafa for its mixed-use Medinaty project on the outskirts of Cairo

Mohamed ElBaradei, the former chief of the UN nuclear watchdog, has criticised opposition powers, which have chosen to participate in Egypt's parliamentary and presidential elections.

CAIRO: The uncle of Khaled Saeid gave a press conference on Saturday in which he rejected the interior ministry’s allegations against Saeid, who eyewitnesses say was beaten to death by two policemen earlier this month.

Egypt's Maridive and Oil Services said on Monday it won contracts to build two vessels in a Chinese shipyard and had cancelled two jobs in India.

Telecom Egypt said Sunday that the company will pay a 0.55 Egyptian pound dividend for 2009, after earlier distributing 0.75 pounds, putting on hold any immediate plans to expand in mobile

CAIRO-An Egyptian Court Sunday delayed until July 4 a ruling on an appeal filed against the jailing of two lawyers accused of assaulting a prosecutor. As the postponement decision was announced, hundreds of angry protesters chanted pro-lawyer slogans.

Austrian archaeologists located a 3,600-year-old underground city in Egypt, believed to part of the ancient city of Avaris, the capital of the Hyksos,the Egypt's Ministry of Culture announced on Sunday.

A chief coroner of Egypt's province of Alexandria ordered Wednesday the body of the young man killed in an alleged police beating in Alexandria last week Khaled Saeed to exhume for a second autopsy

The Egyptian bourse said Thursday that Egypt's developer SODIC will buy a 50 percent stake worth $40.5 million in Syrian real estate developer Palmyra, adding to a growing list of Egyptian firms interested in Syria

Thirteen-year-old Rasha thought she was leaving her home in rural Egypt to help out an elderly aunt in the city for the summer and would return in time for the new school year

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak discussed efforts to lift the Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, at a meeting with his Palestinian counterpart Mahmoud Abbas.

IN what marks a new turn in a case that has kept the public busy for days now, Egypt’s Chief Prosecutor on Tuesday ordered the exhumation of a man who was allegedly killed by police in the coastal city of Alexandria so that a new autopsy could be performed

A chairman of the Egyptian Mortgage Finance Fund Mostafa El Hayawan said that Egypt’s mortgage lending may increase to 8 billion Egyptian pounds ($1.4 billion) by the end of June next year