Egypt’s High Constitutional Court (HCC) is set to rule Sunday on three highly-anticipated cases of national significance: the constitutionality of the Shura Council (the upper house of parliament that currently holds legislative power), the legality of the second Constituent Assembly that drafted the country’s standing constitution, passed amid controversy late last year, and two appeals against emergency law.

The lawyer of Hosni Mubarak has denied that a recent interview with the deposed president, published in privately-owned Egyptian daily Al-Watan, took place.

Sucking tobacco smoke through a water pipe shared with three fellow farmers during a midday tea break, Osama Abdel-Ghani surveys the ripening wheat that Egypt is counting on to help feed its people.

Three Egyptians were injured on Wednesday after a train car disconnected and derailed on a track in Upper Egypt's Assiut governorate.

Giza Criminal Court has postponed the trial of prominent activists Alaa Abdel-Fattah and Mona Seif until 3 September.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has summoned Israel’s ambassador to Egypt, Yaakov Amitai, to discuss allegations surrounding the mistreatment of staff members from Egypt’s embassy in Israel, the state-owned news agency reported on Wednesday evening. Amitai was also summoned to hear Egypt’s condemnation of recent Israeli airstrikes in Syria and the arrest of the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem.

President Mohamed Morsi pressed for closer bilateral trade and investment ties with Brazil on the first official visit by an Egyptian leader to Latin America’s dominant economic power.

Egyptian Prosecutor-General Talaat Abdullah has referred a number of complaints concerning certain political figures – including prominent Salafist preacher Hazem Abu-Ismail – to military prosecutors, an Egyptian judicial source stated Thursday.

Egypt's court of cassation has refused an appeal by prosecutors over the "Camel Battle" trial.In October, a court acquitted 24 loyalists of deposed president Hosni Mubarak who had been accused of organising an attack in which assailants on horses and camels charged into crowds of anti-regime protesters on February 2, 2011.

Egyptian security forces operating in northern Sinai have arrested a man suspected of collaborating with Israel, while destroying over 150 smuggling tunnels leading into the Gaza Strip, an Egyptian newspaper reported on Tuesday.

Dozens of patients have refused to have dialysis treatment at a hospital in Kom Ombo, Upper Egypt after a woman died in the dialysis room.

EgyptAir is offering its customers a 19% discount on plane tickets and a 25% discount on tickets booked online on 7 May, in celebration of the airline’s 81st anniversary.

Egypt foreign reserves lost value at an accelerated rate last month, even as a cash injection from abroad raised the fund’s net worth for the first time since October.

Tuesday's partial cabinet reshuffle included the replacement of four economic ministers, three of whom are involved in Egypt's ongoing talks with the International Monetary Fund for a proposed $4.8 billion loan.

On Tuesday morning, nine new government ministers were sworn into office in front of President Mohamed Morsi in the second such cabinet reshuffle since Morsi's assumption of the presidency in June of last year.

President Mohamed Morsi is expected to arrive in Brazil on Tuesday on what some suggest is the most important of his overseas missions since he took office about a year ago.

Activist Hassan Mostafa was referred to an Egyptian criminal court on charges of encouraging activists to block Egypt's railway and help suspects evade arrest by police, the Cairo-based Egyptian Centre for Economic and Social Rights stated on Tuesday.

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.