Egypt came in at 98th place with 3.7 out of 10 points on this year's Corruption Perception Index, issued by rights watchdog Transparency International (TI), out of 178 countries on the list

Egypt's largest liberal opposition party Wafd threatened Tuesday to boycott a parliamentary election next month after state television refused to air its political advertisements

CAIRO — The leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt's largest opposition movement, accused the regime of monopolising power through vote rigging and vowed to rally Egyptians to prevent fraud in upcoming parliamentary elections.

CAIRO - Egypt has seen so many deadly road, rail, sea and other accidents over the last half decade. Over 1,000 died when a ferry caught fire in 2006, and a series of train crashes have killed dozens more. There was a fire at the upper house of parliament two years ago. And Egyptians sweated through widespread power cuts this summer.

CAIRO - Egyptian security forces on Tuesday detained 57 campaign workers from the opposition Muslim Brotherhood while hanging election posters in the Mediterranean city of Alexandria ahead of next month's parliamentary vote.

Farmers from Egypt's province of Bahr Gergeba, Fayoum, protest in front of Egypt's Ministry of Irrigation and Water Resources, complaining of a three-year water shortage that has spoiled harvests

CAIRO - An Egyptian administrative court has ruled the state must implement a minimum monthly wage of 1,200 Egyptian pounds ($208) for all workers, enforcing a decision by another court in March, Judge Kamal El Lamei said Tuesday.

CAIRO - Egypt's Health Ministry announced Sunday the cases infected with pinkeye virus reached 1,368 in three governorates, confirming that the recovery from the virus is 100 per cent as it causes no harm to the eyesight.

CAIRO - It's a problem nearly every woman in the Egyptian capital has experienced - leering, whistles, groping or other sexual harassment on Cairo's thoroughfares and backalleys. Soon they'll be able to instantly speak out on the Internet when it happens.

PORT SAID (Egypt) - Egypt reached the African Youth Championship after crushing Senegal 3-0 at home on Sunday in an ill-tempered clash that witnessed three red cards in the dying minutes.

CAIRO - Egypt’s Highest Administrative Court Saturday upheld a previous ruling to ban police officers from patrolling Cairo University, Egypt’s largest public university.

CAIRO - Acriminal court in the Mediterranean city of Alexandria Saturday heard seven witnesses in the high-profile trial of two policemen involved in the death of an Egyptian activist as the hearing was marred by chaos.

The Armenian community of Egypt is facing a number of problems. “Armenians have lived in Egypt since the 11th century, their number reaching 5000 by now,” community representative Suren Bayramian said in Yerevan, when gifting historical maps and books to the National Library of Armenia.

The Armenian community of Egypt is facing a number of problems. “Armenians have lived in Egypt since the 11th century, their number reaching 5000 by now,” community representative Suren Bayramian said in Yerevan, when gifting historical maps and books to the National Library of Armenia.

CAIRO - Egypt's Higher Administrative Court Saturday upheld a ruling issued earlier by another court banning the security guards, posted by the Minister of the Interior, on the nation's public universities.

A Media Head of Egypt's National Democratic Party Ali El Din Hillal gave Thursday the strongest signal yet that Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak, 82, would seek re-election next year, saying he was the party's candidate

CAIRO - Egypt aims to get its economy growing at levels seen before the global financial crisis by the fiscal year 2016/17 and expects the private sector to play a major role in the rebound, a minister said on Saturday.

CAIRO - Egypt's state-owned Nilesat has temporarily suspended 12 television channels for promoting religion hatred, violence and quack medicine, the information minister said on Tuesday.

CAIRO: The decision to allow Egyptians living abroad to vote in presidential elections in 2011 can only be judged when it’s implemented, opposition members said, adding that without a set of other reforms the decision would be meaningless.

CAIRO: Workers from the Information Centers for Local Development (ICLD) say that they will not end the sit-in they have begun at the Egyptian Federation of Trade Unions (EFTU) building in Cairo until EFTU head Hussein Megawer responds to their demands.

CAIRO: A few dozen journalists for the daily independent newspaper Al-Dostor gathered on Monday outside the Higher Press Council’s headquarters in downtown Cairo to protest against the procrastination of the new owner in meeting their demands.