The Muslim Brotherhood’s Guidance Bureau issued strict orders to its administrative offices and the Freedom and Justice Party’s secretariats to adopt the necessary security measures to protect Brotherhood headquarters on 25 January.

The second anniversary of Egypt's 25 January Revolution this Friday comes amid an unprecedentedly charged and polarised political atmosphere. Political parties and movements from across the spectrum – both Islamist and non-Islamist – have made plans for the day ranging from protest rallies and marches to public street-cleaning campaigns.

Two years ago today, Egyptians took to the streets to protest the oppressive regime of former President Hosni Mubarak, demanding bread, freedom and social justice. When protests began on 25 January 2011, there was no intention to topple Mubarak, but the demands quickly grew larger, snowballing over the 18 days of the revolution. The protests were organized over Facebook by youth with no political affiliations.

Pakistani health officials Monday called for infants leaving the country to be issued polio vaccinations at airports after virus samples linked to a southern Pakistani city were discovered in Egypt. Two sewage samples from Cairo were analyzed and found to resemble

A six-year-old girl has accused a 70-year-old man of raping her in his apartment in New Cairo. Prosecutors say the suspect lured the victim into his apartment while she was playing on the stairs and raped her.

Almost two months have passed since the rise of the National Salvation Front (NSF). The front came into being in late November to oppose President Mohamed Morsi's "dictatorial" 22 November decree and unite key figures of Egypt's political opposition against the post-revolution ascendancy of political Islam.

The death toll in the Alexandria building collapse has risen to 28, the Egyptian health ministry has announced

The Egyptian central bank offered $75 million to banks on Thursday at its 11th foreign currency auction

Aside from the political and social discourse and change initiated through the country’s revolution, the event shed global light on the impact of social media

An eight-story apartment building collapsed Wednesday in the Egyptian city of Alexandria, killing at least 25 people

An Egyptian prosecutor says ousted President Hosni Mubarak and his family paid back 18 million Egyptian pounds

Egypt’s newly designated central bank governor says signs of an easing of pressure on the local currency are emerging

U.S. Senator John McCain said in an interview that the economic situation in Egypt is “very serious” and he hopes the government can conclude a loan agreement

A secretary at the Constitution Party has died of a heart attack during a heated debate over the selection of the party's representatives in northern Giza

CAIRO — A White House spokesman on Tuesday condemned anti-Semitic comments made by President Mohamed Morsi before he took office, calling on him to “make clear this kind of rhetoric is not acceptable or productive in a democratic Egypt.”

Egypt's opposition figures have condemned the government's response following a tragic train accident that killed at least 19 people and injured 120 others overnight.

A Jeddah Court has sentenced Egyptian lawyer Ahmed al-Gizawy to five years in prison and 300 lashes on Tuesday for smuggling drugs into the kingdom.

Dozens protested at Ramses Train Station Tuesday afternoon after a train accident in the Badrashin district of Giza claimed the lives of 19 central security recruits and injured 117 others.

Egypt's High Constitutional Court (HCC) referred a pending lawsuit against the constitutionality of the Shura Council (the upper house of parliament, currently endowed with full legislative powers) to the State Commissioners' Board – the HCC's advisory board – on Tuesday.

The Egyptian pound dropped 0.3 per cent against the US dollar at the latest currency auction by the central bank on Tuesday.

Nineteen Central Security Forces conscripts were killed and 120 injured when a train carriage derailed minutes before midnight on Monday in the town of Badrashin in Giza, the transport ministry said on Tuesday morning.