An Egyptian court on Sunday sentenced 36 students of the prestigious Al-Azhar university to four years in prison each over violent protests backing ousted president Mohamed Morsi, judicial sources said.

Saudi fuel donations to Egypt from last month through August will be worth more than $3 billion, a top Egyptian energy official said, as part of a financial lifeline from the Gulf helping to ease the country's energy crisis.

The news that a Cairo judge recently sentenced a man to a year in prison for sexual harassment was welcomed by those who have fought for such offenses to be recognised as a crime. But daily insecurities and lax law enforcement leave the deck still stacked against Egyptian women.

Presidential frontrunner Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, who ousted elected leader Mohamed Morsi, has prioritised stability over freedoms, insisting it will take up to 25 years for Egypt to achieve “true democracy”.

Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, the former military chief who removed Egypt's elected Islamist president and is poised to win the post in elections later this month, said he has plans to make improvements in people's living conditions within two years but will step down if they rise up against him — without waiting for the army to remove him.

A branch of the April 6 Youth Movement, once a leading revolutionary youth group and now outlawed by interim authorities, said on Wednesday it opposes former army chief Abdel Fattah El-Sisi's presidential candidacy but has not yet decided whether or not to boycott the upcoming poll.

Egypt's Antiquities Ministry says tomb dating back to around 1100 B.C. has been found south of Cairo.

Egyptian shares dropped the most in a month as the pound slid to a record and investors freed-up cash for the country’s first initial public offering in almost four years.

Egypt's coup general and former defence minister Field Marshal Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi has slammed the Turkish government for its stance on Egypt following the ousting of elected Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi on July 3, 2013.

Hamas must recognize the existence of Israel if the Palestinians are to move forward with their hopes of establishing their own state, former Egyptian foreign minister Amr Moussa said Wednesday during his visit to Washington.

An Egyptian court has sentenced 16 defendants in absentia to three years for their involvement in violent clashes that erupted in February 2013, a judicial source said on Wednesday.

The Support Egypt Fund 306306 has successfully collected around EGP 1bn, board of trustees’ member Hani Sarei El-Din told the Daily News Egypt Tuesday, adding that a “new round of fund collection will be announced by the end of June”.

Ex-army chief and leading presidential candidate Abdel Fattah al-Sisi warned Egyptians on Tuesday they will have to be patient and work hard to salvage their economy after three years of unrest.

Egypt's interim government said Wednesday it is restoring daylight saving time this month to alleviate a crippling energy crisis, three years after previous officials abolished it.

Archaeologists in southern Egypt have discovered a 5,600-year-old preserved tomb and mummy predating the First Dynasty of the pharaohs, the antiquities ministry said Wednesday.

An Egyptian court on Tuesday banned the leaders of former president Hosni Mubarak's National Democratic Party from running in any coming elections, the court judge said.

Few have travelled to the pyramids of Egypt and not wondered how an ancient civilisation without modern technology could have constructed structures so large they can be viewed from space. Some have theorised they were built inside out.

An exact replica of King Tutankhamun’s tomb is being installed near the 3,000-year-old original version, in the West Bank of Luxor beside the home of Howard Carter, the legendary British archaeologist who discovered the original tomb in 1922. The facsimilie tomb will then be open to the public on May 1, 2014.

The upcoming Egyptian parliamentary and presidential elections will boost the tourism sector, says Egyptian Tourism Minister Hisham Zaazou.

Gulf oil producers have given Egypt a free fuel lifeling totalling $6 billion in value to help fend off unrest on its streets in the summer when consumption soars, the head of its national oil company said.

Unknown assailants attacked an open-air campaign rally on Monday organised by supporters of presidential candidate Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi in the northern Nile Delta's Damietta governorate.