A judge in a court in Milan, Northern Italy has convicted 23 Americans, 22 of them CIA agents, of kidnapping a Muslim cleric in a street in the city in 2003.

Police officials have confirmed that train crash just outside of Cairo, Egypt has killed at least 25 people on Saturday after the train went full-speed into the back of another train.

A drunk passenger of Egypt Air flight from Istanbul to Egypt took a knife from the meals served to first class passengers and used it in his attempt to hijack the airplane that was carrying 87 passengers bound for Cairo.

The Palestinian groups Hamas and Fatah, the former being the governing authority in Gaza and the latter in the West Bank, are set to sign a reconciliation deal brokered by Egyptian officials.

Mohammed Sayyed Tantawi, the Grand Sheik of al-Azhar University in Cairo, the most important center of learning in the Sunni Islam world, has announced plans to ban women wearing the niqab, or face veil, from entering any of the university's schools.

Importing a device that can fake a female's virginity should bring the death penalty to those in Egypt, if a scholar has his way.

A Filipino woman was found and freed by Israeli police last week in East Jerusalem. She had been kept captive by the family for almost two years. Israeli police made the announcement that they arrested two people in the case on September 13. 2009.

Amnesty International has joined the chorus of condemnation against the passing of a new Islamic law in Indonesia's Aceh province that calls for adulterers to be stoned to death and homosexuality and premarital sex to be punished by lashes.

Despite readily available vaccines, death rate of sickle-cell anemia in African children remains to be a growing concern, researchers said Thursday.

In what was considered as another astonishing breakthrough in the field of scientific researches, a experiment suggest that the common belief that people tend to walk in circles when lost is really true and not just a product of horror movie plots.