SHARM EL-SHEIKH (Updated) - A shark killed a German tourist in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh Sunday, the fourth attack in days, an official in the Southern Sinai Governorate said.

CAIRO - Egypt went to the polls on Sunday for second-round runoffs in a parliamentary election that President Hosni Mubarak's party is poised to win almost unopposed in the face of an opposition boycott.

CAIRO - Ismail Serageldin, the Director of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Saturday receives the Millennium Excellence Award for Lifetime Africa Achievement Prize 2010, under the theme “Reshaping Africa: New Values, New Strategies” for scientific research in Africa.

CAIRO: Female opposition candidates said the 64-seat quota allocated for women in the 2010 parliamentary elections proved a “failure” and described it as “a method to guarantee the ruling National Democratic Party’s (NDP) additional seats in the People’s Assembly.”

CAIRO: Al-Wafd opposition party will fire the dissident members who decided to compete in the People’s Assembly (PA) runoff elections despite the party’s withdrawal, spokesman Mohamed Sherdy told Daily News Egypt on Friday.

CAIRO - A reshuffle of Egypt's cabinet could soon take place but Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif is likely to stay in place, a state news website quoted sources as saying on Friday.

CAIRO: Egypt lobbied last year to delay southern Sudan's secession vote for four to six years because it feared the new state could fail and the division could imperil its share of Nile waters, a leaked diplomatic cable showed.

CAIRO: The Muslim Brotherhood accused Tuesday the ruling National Democratic Party (NDP) of ballot-rigging during this week’s People’s Assembly (PA) elections, and said it is considering pulling out of the race.

CAIRO: The US Ambassador to Egypt Margaret Scobey responded to leaked documents of embassy dispatches by the site Wikileaks Tuesday, saying that it did not represent official US foreign policy.

CAIRO - International film stars strutted down the red carpet on Tuesday evening at the 34th Cairo International Film Festival, which opens as Egypt attempts to regain its stature as the hub of Middle Eastern cinema.

CAIRO (Updated) - Heavyweights in the ruling National Democratic Party on Monday were declared winners in the legislative elections, the most acrimonious in the nation's parliamentary history.

CAIRO: Violence, polling station closures, vote forgery and restrictions on polling station monitors raise serious doubts about the probity of Sunday’s parliamentary elections, rights groups said Monday.

CAIRO--Scores of activists from different political powers Monday night protested outside the independent Press Syndicate against alleged vote fraud.

CAIRO - Several candidates from Egypt's National Democratic Party Monday won seats in the legislative elections as the party, in power for more than three decades, is expected to sweep the polls.

CAIRO - Scores of Egyptian women of every age Sunday headed to female-only poll stations, to vote in parliamentary elections, marked by a special representation for women as candidates and voters.

TEHRAN: Iran has criticized Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit for reportedly saying Tehran should keep out of the internal affairs of Arab countries and not meddle in Iraq and Lebanon.

Cairo-Egyptians go to polls on Sunday to elect a new parliament amid fears of violence. More than 5,000 candidates from different political parties and independents are vying on Sunday for 508 seats, including 64 seats for women, at stake.

CAIRO - A Cairo administrative court Saturday suspended a decision by the Egyptian telecommunications regulator to examine the content of mobile text messages, known as SMS, as another local court upheld taking off air three satellite TV channels.

CAIRO - A few hours before Egyptians head to polling stations to pick their candidates in the nation's most acrimonious vote in years, the electorate's basic needs for jobs, healthcare, and economic stability are reigning supreme over conversations between these voters and the parliamentary hopefuls.

CAIRO - Heweida Mohamed has seen the leaders of the ruling National Democratic Party (NDP) locked in two televised

CAIRO: Less than 48 hours before the much anticipated People’s Assembly elections, governmental and non-governmental organizations alike are taking last minute action before Egyptians cast their ballots this Sunday.