All diving and water sports were suspended in the Red Sea resort cities of Hurghada and El-Gouna Thursday due to unstable and bad weather conditions, Egyptian news websites reported.

Two Hollywood stars, Tom Hanks and Daniel Craig, have sent letters of congratulation to director Mohammed Diab on the occasion of the long-awaited Egyptian release of film "Eshtibak" (Clash, 2016).

It was a warm evening with a cool wind occasionally making its way to the River Hall of at El Sawy Culturewheel, where on 25 July, a band consisting of brass players performed to a small and enthusiastic crowd of listeners.

The recently-appointed Israeli ambassador to Egypt David Goverin visited on Tuesday famous Jewish synagogues in Cairo with the Israeli embassy staff, the embassy announced on Wednesday.

Part of a network of "walls" documenting in images the memory of the city, the Danish-Egyptian Dialogue Institute's (DEDI) Sanduq El-Dunia hosts a collection of personal and public images showing Cairo's daily life and landscape, its memory and heritage.

The Ice Bucket Challenge that went viral in 2014 has funded an important scientific gene discovery in the progressive neurodegenerative disease ALS, the ALS Association says.

When it comes to height, Dutch men and Latvian women tower over all other nationalities, a study reveals.

Although many previous studies have shown that too much sedentary time increases the risk of a variety of diseases, including type 2 diabetes, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, heart disease, stroke, and high blood pressure, as well as contributing to an increase in waist measurement and an increased mortality risk, until now there was no number attached to the amount of time an individual could be sedentary for before it begins to have a negative effect on health.

Renowned Egyptian film director, Mohamed Khan, died Tuesday morning at the age of 73 in a Maadi hospital, Ahram Arabic news website reported.

It is safe to claim that a large share of the world’s population dreams of spending a vacation in enchanting Morocco. The North-African country has some of the world’s most attractive monuments and natural destinations. However, the true beauty of the country is captured in the subconscious of the masses through a rainbow of patterns displayed in architecture and fashion.

awllflower is a southern European plant that blooms in the early spring. Its yellow and dark shades of red make it beautifully and subtly blend with nature’s green landscape. With that said, in each gathering a wallflower commonly falls back to the corners of the room─a person who is too shy to standout or draw strong attention, so he or she prefers to silently blend in. For the Spring/Summer Season 2016 (SS16), fashion designer Norine Farah decided to shed light on that particular wallflower rather than on the star of the party. Her new collection is both dreamy and romantic, and fully dedicated to the shy woman who deserves to elegantly standout. The designer came across the collection’s main fabric more than a year ago. The Valentino-produced pattern captured Farah and remained at the back of her mind despite her ongoing parade of seasonal collections.

Syrian opposition groups have taken advantage of a global Pokemon craze to draw the world's attention to the plight of children caught up in the country's five-year civil war.

A leading Egyptian Sunni Muslim cleric has warned against the dangers of playing too much of the wildly popular mobile phone application "Pokemon Go," adding to Mideast religious voices that have sometimes been sterner in their critique of the game.

Amr Ibrahim al-Batanony, one of the Egyptian soldiers who implemented the blowing up of Eilat port during the war of attrition with Israel, has passed away at the age of 73.

Wednesday 21 July will witness launch of the Maulana Azad Centre for Indian Culture (MACIC) Film Club, an initiative which will see monthly screenings of Indian films, including the Bollywood productions.

A man sits on one side of a sofa, his face covered with a white mask, and he carries a yellow yarn ball in one hand. A white piece of clothing sits next to him, with tangled threads on top. A knitted piece along with two knitting needles rest upon the vacant part of the sofa, some how suggesting that it once housed the body of another person, possibly the man’s own partner.

Saudi Arabia's top clerics have renewed a religious edict that warns against playing Pokemon - this time as a mobile phone application called "Pokemon Go".

Indonesia has ordered police not to play Pokemon Go while on duty and will soon ban military personnel as well, officials said Wednesday, as the armed forces chief warned the smartphone game was a security threat.