At least 40 school children were killed in Egypt on Saturday when a train collided with the bus in which the pupils were travelling, media reports said.

The crash took place around eight a.m. in sout

At least 40 school children were killed in Egypt on Saturday when a train collided with the bus in which the pupils were travelling, media reports said.

The crash took place around eight a.m. in sout

At least 40 school children were killed in Egypt on Saturday when a train collided with the bus in which the pupils were travelling, media reports said.

The crash took place around eight a.m. in sout

Bishop Tawadros was chosen as new pope of Egypt's Coptic Christians Sunday when a blindfolded altar boy picked his name from a chalice in a ceremony invoking divine guidance for the beleaguered minor

The Syrian government and a number of rebel leaders have agreed to a ceasefire during this week's Muslim Eid holiday, international peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi said in Cairo on Wednesday.

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Angry crowds of protesters clashed with police outside the US embassy on Thursday, leaving 70 people injured, as Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi appealed for calm and warned against the use of violen

Violence returned to Cairo streets on Thursday as Egypt's police clashed with a stone and bottle throwing crowd protesting outside the US embassy in Cairo against a film deemed as offensive to Islam.

Egypt's Islamist President Mohammed Morsi on Sunday ordered the surprise retirement of his powerful defence minister and scrapped a constitutional document which handed sweeping powers to the military

Egypt's new, civilian president dismissed Cairo's two top generals on Sunday and quashed a military order that had curbed Islamist Mohamed Mursi's powers, in a dramatic move to free himself of some of the restrictions of military rule.

An Egyptian court ordered the Saturday editions of a newspaper confiscated over allegations it insulted Islamist president Mohammed Morsi and instigated sectarian discord, Egypt's official news agency