CAIRO — Sunni Islam's top religious body late Saturday slammed comments by an Egyptian Coptic bishop who cast doubt on the authenticity of some verses of the Qu'ran, saying his remarks threatened national unity.

ALEXANDRIA - An Egyptian court on Saturday delayed the trial of two policemen who allegedly beat a young man to death in the city of Alexandria until late October, at the behest of the victim's lawyers.

CAIRO - Egypt is unlikely to offer a second fixed-line telephone licence or a fourth mobile phone licence before 2013, Egypt's telecommunications minister said in remarks published by the daily al-Mal on Sunday.

ISMAILIA (Egypt )- Dozens of armed Bedouins surrounded a police station in central Sinai on Friday, locking in 15 police officers and setting a car ablaze in the worst bout of violence in the region for nearly two months.

Cairo-Six drug barons have been arrested in North Sinai in a crackdown on crime rings and drug-producing areas , the police announced later Friday.

CAIRO: The Muslim Brotherhood does not plan to heed calls for a boycott of November's parliamentary elections, a senior member of the moderate Islamist movement said on Thursday.

CAIRO - Political activists staged a protest in Cairo on Tuesday against what they said plans to hand power to the president's son.

CAIRO: Gammaliya and Manshiyet Nasser Misdemeanor Appeals Court acquitted Tuesday former deputy Cairo governor Mahmoud Yassin of charges of involuntary manslaughter and injury of the Duweiqa residents.

CAIRO - A hi-tech weapon has been unveiled in the battle against sexual harassment in Egypt, where almost half the female population face unwanted attention from men every day.

CAIRO-President Hosni Mubarak is due in Berlin on Wednesday for important tals with German Chancellor Angelica Merkel, Egypt's official Middle East News Agency reported on Tuesday.

CAIRO - Egyptian Housing Minister Ahmed el-Maghrabi said Monday that the $3 billion Madinaty deal of the Talaat Moustafa Group (TMG), the property development company, was "successful and sound" in its timing and execution.

CAIRO: Starting next year, Egypt will embark on a relocation project which should eventually see cement factories moved out of the Helwan governorate.

CAIRO - Egyptian security forces were placed on high alert in Sinai fearing Hamas operatives who infiltrated from Gaza plan to fire rockets at Israel.

CAIRO: Al-Wafd Party has decided to participate in the upcoming parliamentary elections scheduled to take place in November, sparking divisions among Egypt’s opposition groups.

CAIRO: Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research Hani Helal supported a number of universities’ decision to ban faculty members wearing the niqab, or the full face veil, from giving lectures.

CAIRO: About two dozen activists protested Friday morning outside Al-Wafd opposition party headquarters in Giza, as a general assembly meeting was held inside to decide whether the party will join the race for the coming People’s Assembly elections or not.

Lawyers for 11 Egypt's Ministry of Culture officials charged with negligence over the theft of a $55 million Van Gogh painting said on Tuesday their clients were scapegoats and the minister should shoulder responsibility

CAIRO: Opposition MP Mostafa Bakry said that he will present to the Public Funds Prosecution on Sunday 24 documents that prove Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif’s violations in the medical treatment decrees he approved for Minister of Finance Youssef Boutros Ghali.

GIZA (Egypt)-A criminal court Sunday resumes the trial of an editor of an independent Egyptian newspaper accused of inciting the public against a controversial property tax law.

Egypt's opposition Ghad party said Tuesday that it would join Mohamed ElBaradei in boycotting November parliamentary elections

CAIRO- Egypt has secured the wheat quantities it needs to avoid shortages in subsidised bread and would not face a rerun of riots in 2008 over bread shortages, the trade minister said on Saturday.