Egypt News

Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi on 15 May said Egypt's production of wheat this year will reach 9.5 million tones, 30% increase of last year.

A Coptic Catholic bishop has expressed hopes that the historic meeting May 10 between Pope Francis and Coptic Orthodox Pope Tawadros II will lead to the Coptic Orthodox Church recognizing Catholic baptism.

President Benigno Aquino III welcomed the new envoy of the Arab Republic of Egypt to the Philippines who called on him in Malacanang on Monday.

Egyptian police hold signs denoting that the gates are closed and demanding the return of their colleagues, as they gather at the Egyptian crossing point into the Gaza Strip Egypt's army sent dozens of armoured vehicles and personnel carriers across the Suez Canal into North Sinai early on Monday, a security official has told Al-Ahram Arabic news ... (more)

Dum Tak Alternative Arab Music Festival will host some of the biggest independent musicians from all over the Arab world - including several from Egypt - between 28 May and 1 June in the Jordanian capital city Amman.

Outraged by kidnappings, Egyptian police block Gaza crossing for second day Reuters and Ahram Online, Saturday 18 May 2013 Police block Rafah's Gaza crossing for the second day in protest at kidnapped colleagues; Palestinians stranded Egyptian police angered by the kidnapping of seven colleagues by Islamist gunmen kept a crossing into the Gaza ... (more)

It's the ultimate riddle of the sphinx that has vexed scholars for centuries: just why did the Ancient Egyptians stop building the pyramids? And now, some 4,500 years after they were made, an intrepid Welsh structural engineer may just have stumbled upon the answer.

The peak period for baby-making sex in ancient Egypt was in July and August, when the weather was at its hottest.

Cairo, May 16 .- Archaeologists found the 1,400-year-old remains of a Nubian soldier in Aswan, a city in southern Egypt, Minister of State for Antiquities Ahmed Eisa said.

This Travel Alert supersedes the Travel Alert for Egypt dated March 29, 2013, and has been updated to include information about a knife attack on a private U.S. citizen near the Embassy on May 9. This Travel Alert expires on August 15, 2013.

It's been less than 10 months since the world record for a lottery prize. On Saturday night, it could conceivably fall once again.

Hundreds of protesters flocked Friday to central Tahrir Square in Egyptian capital of Cairo to join demonstrations condemning the rule of President Mohamed Morsi and ruling Muslim Brotherhood group.

The pale, young Christian woman sat handcuffed in the courtroom, accused of insulting Islam while teaching history of religions to fourth-graders. A team of Islamist lawyers with long beards sang in unison, "All except the Prophet Muhammad." The case against Dimyana Abdel-Nour in southern Egypt's ancient city of Luxor began when parents of three of ... (more)

Abdel-Nour, the father of 24-year-old school teacher Dimyana Abdel-Nour, who is accused of insulting Islam while teaching fourth graders history of religions, speaks on the phone to a live television show about his daughter from his home in southern Egypt's ancient city of Luxor, Egypt, Thursday, May 16, 2013.

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Pigs once played an important economic role for Cairo's Coptic Christians and helped keep the Egyptian capital clean.

The 2013 Liverpool Art Prize 'People's Choice Award' will be presented in tribute to Joe, who was tragically killed in February of this year in a hot air balloon disaster at Luxor, Egypt.

LOS ANGELES, Calif., Feb. 3, 12:50 p.m. PST -- With some 47 million people living in poverty, 50 million without health insurance, millions jobless and millions more underemployed, President Barak Obama could be less circumspect and more passionate about stimulating our economy.

Authorities investigating the disappearance of Utah mother Susan Powell spent two days this week searching a rural Oregon property for her remains, Powell's father said.

The jury may still be out on whether the "Arab Spring" has actually delivered better living conditions to the bulk of the Middle East and North African region's formerly disenfranchised masses, but not many would argue that the resulting instability has been good for... The first thing you need to do is choose a news reader, if you already don't ... (more)