Egyptian stocks performed well in the week's first trade session, bolstered by the resolution of a tax dispute between Orascom Construction Industries (OCI) – Egypt's largest listed firm in terms of capital – and the government.

Gunmen shot a man dead who was selling alcohol in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula on Sunday in an attack security officials said was likely carried out by Islamist militants.

Five people were arrested after firing birdshot at Prime Minister Hesham Qandil’s motorcade of vehicles on Sunday night.

Public Funds Prosecution ordered Sunday the detention for 15 days of Anas El-Feky, Egypt's former information minister, pending further investigation in fresh graft accusations.

British police arrest a UK-based businessman on suspicion of looting Egyptian antiquities. The Scotland Yard's Art & Antiquities Squad (AAS) made the arrest on Friday, 3 May when international arts auction house, Christie's, reported that it had identified some antiquities which are almost certainly stolen from Egypt recently.

Gunmen shot a man dead who was selling alcohol in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula on Sunday in an attack security officials said was likely carried out by Islamist militants.

Islamist-ruled Egypt is open to visitors who drink alcohol and wear bikinis as it sets out to boost numbers by at least a fifth this year, the tourism minister said on Sunday.

The Egyptian cabinet will be reshuffled by the end of the week, a state-run newspaper reported, pointing to a delay in efforts to revamp a government widely criticized for failing to get the economy moving and to conclude a much-needed IMF loan deal.

Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi has officially withdrawn all lawsuits filed by the presidency against the media, state-run news agency MENA reported Saturday.

Egypt's president has condemned Israel's airstrikes against Syria, calling them a violation of international law and warning they complicate the ongoing civil war in that country.

The Egyptian government has not received any official notification saying that Australia has suspended livestock exports to Egypt after a graphic video circulated purportedly showing animal cruelty in Egyptian abattoirs, prompting Canberra to launch an investigation, the Egyptian Ministry of Agriculture reported Saturday.

A limited cabinet reshuffle will see six ministers replaced in Egypt, state newspaper al-Ahram said on Thursday, citing government sources.

Egyptian Prime Minister Hisham Qandil met with Al-Azhar University students on Wednesday to discuss a second mass food poisoning incident on campus.

A joint venture agreement between EFG-Hermes, the leading Middle East investment bank, and QInvest of Qatar has collapsed because the regulator in Egypt did not give its approval in time.

A US embassy car has crashed in the 6th of October district of Cairo, leaving one employee dead and three injured, including a military attache who was driving the vehicle.

Journalist and political activist Ahmed Doma is being held in Damanhur prison after the appeals prosecution in Tanta ordered him detained for four days, his lawyer said.

Egypt's leading opposition leader Mohamed ElBaradei said Tuesday he believes the Islamist president will eventually be forced to reach out to the opposition because his group is losing support and isn't able to tackle the country's myriad problems alone.

A U.S. congressional delegation reaffirmed Washington's support for Egypt on Tuesday during its meeting with President Mohamed Mursi.

On Monday 29 April the embassy of the Czech Republic in Egypt screened the Czech film Vratne Lahve, or ‘Empties’. The film was shown with Arabic subtitles, after being translated by students from the Czech Language Department of the Al-Alsun Faculty at Ain Shams University. The embassy described their efforts as “the first student activity in Al-Alsun RE/ACT within one of its projects called RE/TRANS”.

Columnist Gamal Abou Al-Hassan tackles the subject of being a woman. He first mentions his daughter Lila, who seems to be “mesmerised” by actress Soad Hosni and her sense of “truthful joy”. He also mentions that Hosni was “unashamed” of her body, and was not shy to announce her admiration for a man in her song Ya Wad Ya Te’eel (Oh, you who are playing hard to get). He describes her as a woman “that looks straight into men’s eyes instead of looking at the floor in coy shyness”.

On Wednesday, Egyptian workers will celebrate the first Labour Day since the election of President Mohamed Morsi, by voicing longstanding demands and unfulfilled promises.