CAIRO — It is unlikely anyone has ever come to this city and commented on how clean the streets are. But this litter-strewn metropolis is now wrestling with a garbage problem so severe it has managed to incite its weary residents and command the attention of the president.

Egypt's culture minister, who has in the past been accused of anti-semitism, looks set to be elected as the new director-general of the United Nation's cultural body.Farouk Hosni, whose controversial

The holy month of Ramadan has brought out a raging case of cultural schizophrenia, twisting Egyptians into knots over whether their society is secular, Muslim or a muddled mix

Anger and disapproval dominated Al-Ahram yesterday, as journalists and staff called for an inquiry into Hala Mustafa's meeting with Israeli ambassador Shalom Cohen two days ago. Mustafa is the editor

Egypt's controversial candidate for UNESCO director general failed to win an absolute majority in a ballot of world envoys yesterday, with the vote now set to head to a third round, a spokesman said.

Egyptian citizens have been warned not to put their faith in the new health insurance bill, due to be submitted for reading in the People's Assembly in its next session next month. It is apparently

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

Egypt is set to take part in a major strategic maneuver with Saudi Arabia and other Gulf countries, an Egyptian presidential statement said on Tuesday.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) forecast a growth of 4 percent in Egypt's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in 2015, compared to 2.2 percent in 2014, which will continue to grow gradually to 4.3 percent in 2016.

The number of German tourists visiting Egypt increased by 17% during the period between January and March 2015, compared to the same period last year, Egyptian ambassador to Germany Mohamed Hegazy told state-owned MENA news agency.

The head of Egypt’s the liberal Wafd Party has criticised the prime minister’s meetings with political parties on the country's electoral laws, describing them as “useless.”

Egypt's cabinet tasked on Wednesday the Cairo governorate to demolish the building of the defunct National Democratic Party which ruled under toppled President Hosni Mubarak.

Egypt's cabinet approved on Wednesday new drafts of three legislations, prepared to regulate the coming parliamentary elections, and referred them to the State Council for revision.

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.