Egypt News

Israel and Hamas are close to a deal to swap 1,000 Palestinian prisoners for an Israeli soldier held for more than three years by the Islamic militant group, a Palestinian familiar with the talks said Monday.

Hundreds of Muslim villagers in Egypt's south threw stones at a police station on Saturday where a Christian was being held on suspicion of assault, and they later burned and looted Christian-owned shops, witnesses said.

A mummy undergoes a scan at the City University in central London in July. The hardening of the arteries associated with heart attacks and strokes is not just a modern phenomenon, according to new research showing ancient Egypt's pharaohs suffered from heart disease too.

President Hosni Mubarak entered Egypt's bitter soccer row with Algeria on Saturday, vowing in a televised speech that attacks on Egyptians abroad will not be tolerated.

For years doctors have been trying to figure out why heart disease is such a problem for so many, including those who seem to be living a healthy lifestyle.

Egyptians living 3,500 years ago had signs of heart disease proving that the condition is not a phenomenon on the modern age, a conference has been told.

In this Tuesday, May 19, 2009 file photo, Lebanese model, actress, and singer Haifa Wehbe arrives for the screening of the film 'Los Abrazos Rotos' during the 62nd International film festival in Cannes, southern France.

An international team of scientists who took CT scans of mummified bodies of people who lived in Egypt up to 3,500 years ago found evidence to suggest that hardening of arteries, a risk factor for heart attacks and strokes, is not a modern disease and may have been quite common among ancient Egyptians of high socioeconomic status.

Miyamoto and team carefully examined 22 mummies from the Museum of Egyptian Antiquities using a six-slice CT scanner.

One of the Arab world's biggest pop stars has provoked a torrent of outrage after releasing a song which refers to black Egyptians as monkeys.

Study results are appearing in the Nov. 18 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association and are being presented Nov.

Naguib Sawiris, the chairman of Egypt's giant Orascom Telecom, on Tuesday said the "situation was escalating," after Algerian football fans attacked his company's compound there.

To his supporters he is a voice of reform in a stagnant country. To his detractors he represents the ruling elite responsible for the stagnation of the Arab world's most populous nation.

Ambassador Sha Zukang, the UN Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, addresses the fourth version of the Internet Governance Forum in Egypt's Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh on Nov.

SHEIKH: Egypt's communications minister on Sunday announced the introduction of the first Arabic domain, in a step easing Internet access to millions of Arabic speakers around the world.

When Amank decided to attempt to cross the Egyptian border into Israel, he wasn't thinking about the likelihood that Egyptian guards would shoot at him.

Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki on Saturday invited his Egyptian counterpart to Tehran but did not disclose the date, ISNA news agency reported.

The morning skies have often been filled with the colorful balloons as they drift slowly over the desert landscapes below.

In Egypt, where most women wear the Islamic headscarf, Marwa Sherbini has become known as "the veil martyr". Many Egyptians were angry at the lack of response in Germany There were alerts on state television as news broke that her murderer had been sentenced to life in prison with no possibility of an early release.

Everyone should travel. It broadens the mind says Jennifer Trushka, a political science instructor who spent three weeks touring Egypt last summer.