BENGUELA, Angola - Defending champion Egypt made a strong start to the African Cup of Nations, coming from behind to beat Nigeria 3-1 win in the opening game in Group C.

Four days after a deadly attack on a church in an upper Egyptian town, police are keeping a high profile in Naja Hamad and its surroundings, rocked by violent rioting in the aftermath of the slaying of six Coptic Christians

New tombs found in Giza support the view that the Great Pyramids were built by free workers and not slaves Films and media have long depicted slaves toiling away in the desert to build the mammoth pyramids only to meet a miserable death at the end of their efforts

The Public Funds Prosecution heard yesterday the testimonies of housing officials and employees in 6th of October and New Cairo concerning the report charging former Minister of Housing, Utilities and Urban Development Mohamed Ibrahim Suleiman with corruption.

Egyptian judicial source reported that Egypt's police on Saturday charged three men with premeditated murder over the shooting deaths of six Coptic Christians in a Christmas Eve attack

EGYPT'S antiquities authority has announced the discovery of a new set of tombs for the workers who built the great Pyramids. Zahi Hawass, the director of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, says the tombs are significant

An Egyptian soldier was killed, and four Palestinians wounded, in a gun battle on

The Egyptian Government will soon propose a third economic stimulus package totalling LE11.2 billion ($2 billion) to Parliament, Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif said on Tuesday.

The Egyptian Ministries of Health and Education will start vaccinating school students next Saturday, in six different governorates against AH1N1, commonly known as Swine Flu.

Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood (MB) First Deputy General Guide Mohamed Habib said the group's Guidance Bureau formed a committee to amend the internal rules and regulations.

Egyptian Finance Ministry plans to deepen the country’s bond markets by selling fewer benchmark maturities in larger amounts, helping reduce borrowing costs and providing better guidelines for corporate borrowers

International activists from 43 countries have appealed to Egypt to reverse a decision denying them access to the blockaded Gaza Strip for a solidarity march

A senior member of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood group reported that the next leader of the group will have to heal divisions between moderates and conservatives if the opposition group is to have any political role

French protesters camped out in front of the their embassy in Cairo to protest a ban on them from travelling from Egypt to Gaza for a march in support of the blockaded Palestinian enclave.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday he would hold talks in Egypt on Tuesday with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.

The Islamic Hamas movement sent dozens of children to demonstrate on Gaza's southern borders with Egypt Saturday in protest against an underground barrier Egypt is building to curb smuggling into the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip.

A Spokesman of Egyptian Foreign Ministry Hossam Zaki reported that a Gaza-bound aid convoy in Jordan led by British MP George Galloway will not be allowed into Egypt through the Red Sea port of Nuweiba -- the most direct route

General Secretary of the Arab League, Amr Moussa reported running for president in Egypt's 2011 elections is a "difficult matter or even impossible."

The Egyptian government announced that there were over 40,000 refugees living in Egypt, from 38 countries, with Iraq, Sudan, and Somalia being in the majority

Egypt's antiquities chief Zahi Hawass announced on Wednesday that he will hold a conference in the first quarter of 2010 to coordinate the strategy of African and Asian countries who had artifacts 'stolen' from within their borders

German officials have ruled out returning an ancient bust of Queen Nefertiti to Egypt - saying it is too fragile to be transported. And they have insisted that the bust was acquired legally by the Prussian state nearly a century ago.