The Cairo Criminal Court has sentenced 11 persons to between two and five years in prison each for child-trafficking activities. Guilty parties were also slapped with financial penalties of LE 100,000 each.

Despite the disparity of swine flu pandemic preparedness between public and private schools, the hype of schools’ closure has reached both alike.

EGYPTIAN border guards shot dead two sub-Saharan migrants yesterday,a security official said,bringing to at least 14 the number killed this year as they tried to cross illegally into Israel,AFP reported yesterday.

Egypt's Doctors Association yesterday appealed to King Abdullah bin Abdelaziz of Saudi Arabia to release two Egyptian doctors, detained in the kingdom.

Citizens across Egypt have almost stopped visiting governmental offices entirely, because they say it's impossible to get civil servants to do anything for them during the holy fasting month of Ramadan.

Culture minister Farouk Hosni will present his plans for the UNESCO presidency today in his bid to be elected to the top post at the United Nations cultural organization. The election begins next Thursday

COPTIC Christians in the Upper Egypt governorate of Qena have urged President

The campaign aiming to enable former International Atomic Energy Agency director Mohamed ElBaradei to demand constitutional change has abandoned the the idea of obtaining individual proxies

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.

Egyptian archaeologists have unearthed the largest tomb yet discovered in the ancient Saqqara necropolis,

KUWAIT CITY (Reuters) - Global Investment House said on Tuesday it was in initial talks with Cairo-based Arab African International Bank (AAIB), to sell a stake in an investment in Egypt, but not as part of its debt settlement plan.

Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood (MB) Deputy General Guide Mohamed Habib, who apparently lost in the last elections of the group's Guidance Bureau, threatened with resigning from the bureau and the Shura Council

President Hosni Mubarak Sunday ordered a limited Cabinet reshuffle that introduced two new ministers to the Government of Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif, Egypt's official Middle East News Agency (MENA) reported.

Egyptian Tax Authority President Ashraf el-Arabi said the new real estate tax law is 100 percent in conformity with the constitution.