A mini-buS carrying holidaysmakers flipped over late Monday in the Upper Egyptian Governorate of Minya, killing at least four people and injuring 17, the police said yesterday.

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