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The home of Egypt's mummies and King Tutankhamun's treasures is trying to make the best out of the worst times of political turmoil.

Umno president Najib Abdul Razak today apparently sought to defend his wife Rosmah Mansor's controversial flight on a government jet, sharing with delegates her role in helping Malaysians in Ops Piramid unbeknown to the people.

File - People shop at Al Ataba, a popular market, in this general view taken in downtown Cairo, November 11, 2013.

University of Illinois at Urbana professor Dennis Baron, in his article, Reforming Egypt in 140 Characters , gives credit to Twitter for helping to depose Hosni Mubarak and for helping to oust Ben Ali from Tunisia.

CAIRO: Egypt's public prosecutor referred leading political activist Ahmed Maher for trial on Thursday on charges including protesting without permission, a judicial official said.

Hosni Mubarak was overthrown in 2011 after ruling Egypt for more than 30 years, and then, in 2013, a second president, Mohammed Morsi, was deposed.

CAIRO: Egypt promised Wednesday to pay $1.5 billion of the $6 billion it says it owes oil firms, hoping the announcement will revive confidence in an economy battered by nearly three years of political upheaval.

Egypt's most popular television satirist, Bassem Youssef, who was pulled off the airwaves last month after mocking the army chief, said on Wednesday the move showed the military-backed rulers were intolerant of opposing views.

In this Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2013 photo, the solid gold mask of King Tutankhamun is seen in its glass case, in the Egyptian Museum near Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt.

The century-old home of Egypt's mummies and King Tutankhamun's treasures is trying to make the best out of the worst times of political turmoil.

Those who have attempted to rule Egypt in the wake of former President Hosni Mubarak seem to be in a contest to see who can do the worst job, writes H.A. Hellyer , and the failings of the current military rulers are best illustrated by their enforcement of a controversial law against even peaceful protests.

Egypt has postponed any decision on taking a $4.8 billion loan from the IMF as financial aid from Gulf states has given Cairo some breathing space as it starts to conduct economic reforms, Deputy Prime Minister Ziad Bahaa El-Din said on Tuesday.

Prominent Egyptian poet Ahmed Fouad Negm, renowned for his witty criticism of authorities in Egypt, passed away on Tuesday at age 84, state media reported.

Supporters of 28-year-old blogger Khaled Said who died following police questioning before the revolution in 2010, run away from tear gas during a demonstration outside the criminal court in the northern coastal city of Alexandria yesterday.

Photo by In a photo dated September 5, 2000, Palestinian negotiator Ahmed Qurei, a.k.a. Abu Ala of the PLO and then-Israeli diplomat Uri Savir , both principal architects of the Oslo peace accords, sign the 1994 Cairo agreements on Palestinian self-rule in Gaza and Jericho, while the late PLO chairman Yasser Arafat, former Egyptian President Hosni ... (more)

Cairo: - The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information , today, called on Egyptian authorities to release Judge Mahmoud Al-Khudairi, former parliamentarian and former head of Judges Club in Alexandria.

Ahmed Maher, with sunglasses, the leader of the April 6 youth group that had a leading role in the 2011 uprising against former president Hosni Mubarak, tries to turn himself into prosecutors over an arrest warrant that charges him of inciting demonstrations against the new protest law, in Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, Nov. 30, 2013.

Egyptian security forces fired teargas in Cairo's Tahrir Square to disperse anti-government protesters on Sunday, as a new constitution that reinforces the military's political power edged closer to approval.

Ahmed Maher, with sunglasses, the leader of the April 6 youth group that had a leading role in the 2011 uprising against former president Hosni Mubarak, tries to turn himself into prosecutors over an arrest warrant that Copyright 2013 The Associated Press.

CAIRO: Clashes erupted in Cairo Sunday between residents and police after a policeman shot dead a student following an argument, security officials said.