Sixteen Egyptians were killed in clashes around the country as the people went to the streets to protest against the Government on the fourth anniversary of the uprising that led to the removal of President Hosni Mubarak.
An appeal hearing in Cairo last night ordered a retrial for Australian journalist Peter Greste and his two Al-Jazeera Television colleagues.
It happened just out of Cairo and it really wasn't my idea. I was visiting some pyramids - about the only tourist in town - when the lonely soldier standing guard decided to walk with me.
53: Malcolm Ross was New Zealand's first official war correspondent.
One person has been killed in clashes between Egyptian police and protesters in central Cairo after a court dropped a murder case against ousted strongman Hosni Mubarak.
The ancient Egyptian practice of mummification may be 1500 years older than previously thought, an Australian-led study says.
Israel has resumed its air campaign against Gaza after Hamas rejected a six-hour truce and fired dozens of rockets over the border.
A pseudo-medical device which Egypt's military had previously claimed, in the face of widespread ridicule, would cure both Aids and hepatitis C, has been delayed for "further tests".
An international campaign ranging from diplomacy to petitions has started against Egypt after the jailing of Australian journalist Peter Greste and two Egyptian colleagues.
Australian journalist Peter Greste and his Al Jazeera English colleagues accused of aiding the blacklisted Muslim Brotherhood jailed for seven years in Egypt.
Just how did the ancient Egyptians shift stones weighing as much as 2.5-tonnes with technology no more complex than a sledge?
The most famous of all Egyptian burial sites, Tutankhamun's tomb, has been replicated with a 3D exact facsimile in a project led by a British artist in order to protect the original site from the ravages of mass tourism.
Salam Abdullah repeats a single English phrase while leading tourists across the sandy, sun-blasted slopes above Cairo's Giza pyramids.
Egypt's judges have risked new international outrage by sentencing to death 529 people accused of rioting after a single, two-session trial that ended yesterday.
An Egyptian terrorist should be considered as a prime suspect in the Lockerbie bombing, according to a report by two leading investigators.
The three women - Rasha Azab, Mona Seif and Nazly Hussein - and 11 other women were beaten and dragged off by police during a Cairo protest.
A suicide car bomb has hit a bus convoy of off-duty Egyptian soldiers in the Sinai Peninsula, killing 11 and wounding 37, in the latest of a stepped-up wave of attacks blamed on Islamic militants sympathetic to ousted President Mohammed Morsi.
In an echo of the Cold War, Egypt has given the red carpet welcome to senior Russian officials aiming to expand Moscow's influence through military and economic cooperation with a key US ally in the Middle East.
After four months in secret detention, deposed President Mohammed Morsi has defiantly rejected a court's authority to put him on trial, saying he still was Egypt's leader and that those who overthrew him should face charges instead.
Egyptian anti-riot police fired tear gas at hundreds of supporters of the country's ousted Islamist president, besieging them inside a prestigious Muslim institution after stone-hurling protesters cut off a main road.
Being detained in an Egyptian police station is high on the list of risks facing journalists working in Egypt. Being attacked by armed men is another.
The United States is cutting hundreds of millions of dollars in aid to Egypt in response to the ouster of President Mohamed Morsi and the crackdown by the military-backed government on his supporters.
A string of attacks killed nine members of Egypt's security and military forces and hit the country's main satellite communications station, in an apparent retaliation by Islamic militants.
A New Zealand freelance journalist has been released after being detained in Egypt amid clashes between rival groups.
Egypt's former leader Hosni Mubarak claimed the United States was plotting to overthrow him as far back as 2005.
Egyptian troops and tanks backed by helicopter gunships swept through villages in the northern Sinai Peninsula near the border with the Palestinian Gaza Strip.
Egypt's interior minister narrowly escaped an assassination attempt when a suspected car bomb tore through his convoy, wounding 22 people and leaving a major Cairo boulevard strewn with debris.
A panel of Egyptian judges has recommended the dissolution of the Muslim Brotherhood, adding momentum to a push by authorities to ban the ousted president's main backer and a pillar of political Islam in the region.