Actor Brad Pitt's request to seal court documents in his high-profile custody and divorce proceedings involving actress Angelina Jolie was rejected by a Los Angeles judge on Wednesday.

For the second time, the Goethe-Institute in Alexandria in partnership with the Planetarium Science Center of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina and the Academy for Scientific Research and Technology (ASRT) is hosting a new edition of the Science Film Festival between 29 November and 19 December. This year, the theme of “Material Science” was selected to create an understanding of how materials can be put together, how they can be used, and how they can be changed and used to do amazing things.

Cairo is filled with art showrooms that display various pieces and work. Starting from paintings, to sculptures, all the way to photography, each platform presents a talented artist who is unique and stands out among others. But to have one huge area combining all different walks of art in its different forms … that is something rarely found in Egypt. However, soon enough this will be found here at the Cairo Art Fair II.

The calendar is published by the Pirelli company’s United Kingdom subsidiary and is usually distributed as a gift to a small number of celebrities and clients. The calendar has typically been an assortment of nude and semi-nude photographs, but the 2016 and 2017 calendars have seemingly broken away from that tradition.

Photography has always been a form of stating reality. It’s the window through which people can look into the lives of others and the portrait that displays their daily life events.

Maher Hamoud has spent much of his professional life as a journalist. The bulk of that time was spent working in his home country of Egypt, always deeply rooted in the events on the street even during his tenure as editor-in-chief of this very paper. Hamoud is a trained economist, an experienced journalist, and an outspoken commentator on Egypt, the Middle East, and “East-West” relations. It is perhaps surprising then that the first book he would publish is not a treatise on modern politics or socioeconomics. Instead, Hamoud has written a travel memoir that is deeply personal yet accessible to any reader who has ever had to navigate the awkwardness of a new culture.

France and the United Arab Emirates on Saturday launched a $100 million fund to protect heritage sites threatened by extremism and conflict after the destruction last month of an ancient palace by Islamic State militants in Iraq.

Despite its theatrical release, "Jackie" by all rights should have been a cable-TV movie. Indeed, in many respects it's a sort-of companion to HBO's recent stage adaptation "All the Way," which picked up in virtually the same window, with Lyndon Johnson being sworn in as president.

Swiss authorities said Friday they had seized cultural relics looted from Syria's ancient city of Palmyra, as well as from Libya and Yemen, which were being stored in Geneva's free ports.

The company organizing Amr Diab’s concert at a New Cairo hotel, scheduled for December 25th on the occasion of Christmas, will ban attendance of female veiled fans and those below 18 years of age.

For young adults who smoke, the risk of a major heart attack is 8 times higher than for their peers who never smoked or who gave it up, a UK study found. Older adults who smoke are also more likely than non-smokers their age to end up with heart attacks, researchers say.

Disney's "Moana" sailed to the top of the Thanksgiving box office, earning a mighty $81.1 million over the five-day holiday period and $55.5 million for the weekend.

Memory is not really under our control. It is not something we can control nor is it something that we really own. It is only something that brings us together with people and it will remain that way.

Doctors are warning about vitamin D again, and it's not the "we need more" news you might expect. Instead, they say there's too much needless testing and too many people taking too many pills for a problem that few people truly have.

For the past couple of years, young Egyptianrapper Zap Tharwat has been the voice of many silent tongues. Through his songs, Tharwat voiced his generation’s fears, concerns, ambitions, hopes, and dreams surrounding the main social and political issues gripping Egypt. Hissongs spoke of revolution, sexual harassment, drug addiction, and most recently gender inequality in his hit song Nour.

The Egyptian drama Mawlana (The Preacher) will get a special evening gala screening on Saturday, 10 December, within a lineup of special gala screenings taking place at Madinat Arena throughout the Dubai International Film Festival (DIFF).

Many people who undergo laser surgery to correct their vision experience new eye problems months after the procedure, according to a new study from the U.S. government.

Moroccan film Mimosas has won the Golden Pyramid award for Best Film while its leading star Shakin Ben Omar won Best Actor at the 38th Cairo International Film Festival.

At a very small store at the corner of Al-Ahram and Ibrahim streets in Heliopolis, a large group of young women and men queuing at the beginning of the weekend -- waiting for their turn at fried ice cream or ice cream rolls.

There is more to a serene Ancient Egyptian face than her fine-features suggest. Researchers (from multiple faculties) at the University of Melbourne have combined avenues like medical research, forensic science, CT scanning and Egyptology, to recreate the visage of Meritamun (‘beloved of the god Amun’), an Ancient Egyptian woman who lived at least 2,000 years ago. And the interesting part is – the scientists only had access to Meritamun’s mummified head, which on analysis alludes to how she met her demise at a young age of 18 to 25. But beyond her beautiful face, the researchers with their reconstruction project are looking forth to uncover more clues from the Egyptian’s ancient life, ranging from her actual time-period, diet to even the diseases she contracted during her lifetime.

Egypt has unearthed a more than 7,000-year-old city and cemetery dating back to its First Dynasty in the southern province of Sohag, the Antiquities Ministry said on Wednesday.