Cairo - The explosion of a suspected homemade bomb targeting a tram station in eastern Cairo wounded at least one person on Saturday, Egyptian security officials said.Since the military ousted Islamist president Mohamed Morsi in July, militants have stepped up...

Saudi Arabia has declared the Muslim Brotherhood to be a terrorist mere days after withdrawing its ambassador from Qatar for that gulf states support for the Brotherhood.

Cairo - The trial of Al-Jazeera journalists accused of supporting deposed Egypt's president Mohamed Morsi's outlawed Muslim Brotherhood heard defendants charge they were tortured and denied medical care.The high-profile trial is seen as a test of the military-...

Cairo - Egypt detained and deported Northern Irish Nobel Laureate and peace activist Mairead Maguire on Wednesday after she tried to enter the country, she and airport officials said.She had intended to join a delegation of activists going to the neighbouring ...

Cairo - The trial of Al-Jazeera journalists for supporting the banned Muslim Brotherhood of ousted president Mohamed Morsi resumes Wednesday in a case that has sparked a global outcry over muzzling of the press.The high-profile trial is seen as a test of to wh...

An Egyptian has banned all activities relating to the Islamist group Hamas, an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood, in Egypt.

Cairo - Egypt's army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said Tuesday he could not ignore demands that he run for president and will take official measures soon, state media reported.Officials close to Sisi told AFP the recently promoted field marshal would step down a...

Cairo - At a news conference earlier last week, an Egyptian Army doctor confidently announced that the country's military had developed a cure for the virus that causes AIDS. This has been met with disbelief throughout the scientific community.

Atlanta - A Georgia lighting contractor claims Akon never paid for the work they did at his Atlanta mansion, and is suing the singer for unpaid bills totaling $95,000 plus interest.

Cairo - An Egyptian criminal court on Wednesday sentenced 26 militants to death for founding a "terror group" that aimed to target ships in the Suez canal, judicial sources said.Prosecutors also accused the defendants of making rockets and explosives while mon...

Cairo - Egypt's military-installed authorities named a former member of ousted strongman Hosni Mubarak's ruling party as prime minister Tuesday ahead of a presidential election expected to bring the army chief to power.Ibrahim Mahlab, a former state-sector con...

Cairo - Egypt's military-backed interim government resigned Monday paving the way for armed forces chief Field Marshal Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to declare his bid for the presidency.

Cairo - Prosecutors Sunday accused deposed president Mohamed Morsi of leaking state secrets to Iran's Revolutionary Guards as part of a plot to destabilise Egypt, at the second hearing of his trial for espionage.The trial, one of three that are under way again...

Cairo - Egypt's deposed president Mohamed Morsi on Saturday urged supporters from a courtroom dock to continue their "revolution", as a protest movement demanding his reinstatement shrinks before a fierce police crackdown.

Cairo - Al-Jazeera journalists, including four foreigners, go on trial in Cairo Thursday for allegedly supporting the blacklisted Muslim Brotherhood in a case that has sparked accusations Egypt is muzzling the media.The trial of journalists for the Qatar-based...

Conspiracy theories abound in our world, including one that suggests the pyramids of Giza was actually built by ancient astronauts, extraterrestrials who came to earth thousands of years ago.

Cairo - Jihadist group Ansar Beit al-Maqdis on Tuesday claimed the suicide bombing in Egypt of a tour bus that killed three South Koreans and their local driver."One of the heroes of Ansar Beit al-Maqdis carried out the attack on a tourist bus heading towards...

Cairo - South Korea voiced shock and outrage Monday at the bombing of a tourist bus in Egypt that killed three of its nationals as well as the Egyptian driver.The bomb tore through the bus carrying 31 South Korean tourists and their guide near an Egyptian bord...

Cairo - Deposed Islamist president Mohamed Morsi was Sunday facing charges of espionage and carrying out "terror attacks" in Egypt, as a third trial against him was due to get under way.The latest court case is part of a relentless government crackdown targeti...

Cairo - Russian President Putin wished Egyptian army chief Abdel el-Sisi luck should he run for president in upcoming Egyptian elections. Putin said he would support the general for president of Egypt.