Rains washed away mud brick houses in southern Egypt killing two women, and in Israel a woman drowned when her car was caught in a flash flood.

The CAF Africa Cup of Nations Group C game between Egypt and Benin on Wednesday will match the continent’s heavyweights up against the underdogs, who are fired-up to get their first-ever win in the competition.

Egyptian rescue boats searched with fading hope for a British tourist on Sunday who was lost while scuba diving in the Red Sea, one of the rescuers said.

The suspects in a drive-by shooting that killed seven people outside an Egyptian church on Coptic Christmas Eve will be tried in an emergency state security court

BENGUELA, Angola - Egypt continued their quest for an unprecedented third straight African Nations Cup when they reached

Egypt has maintained its position on the list of “unfree” states in the annual report on the state of freedoms in 2010 issued on Thursday by Freedom House, a DC-based international non-governmental organization, known for its close ties also to the US government foreign policy

Egypt's main opposition movement, the Muslim Brotherhood, appointed Mohamed Badie, a conservative figure, as its new leader,

Egyptian Finance Ministry has denied allegations that parliament had requested certain amendments to the real estate tax draft law.

AN Egyptian court will issue a verdict on Wednesday on Orascom Telecom's attempt to block an offer by France Telecom to buy all of Egyptian telecom operator Mobinil's outstanding shares, Reuters reported Saturday.

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