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CAIRO (AP) — The blue and gold braided beard on the golden mask of famed pharaoh Tutankhamun was hastily glued back on with epoxy, damaging the relic after it became detached during cleaning,...
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At times, social media streaming is a bigger, faster killer than cancer.
Today in the aftermath of terrorist attack on Journalists in Paris many in the News media were analyzing what happened and talking about the enormous influx of Muslims to the EU. One phrase "no go...
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Forty years ago there is an area called Huyton and Kirby. These where so violent areas of Merseyside that they were deemed to be no go areas by lone police officers. At the time these areas had the...
Apparently the expat community has its own bad drivers. A Dutch tourist was reported in the news today to have plowed his car into a donkey cart on the West Bank and the driver of the donkey cart had...
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Was this incident during the hours of darkness? really they should have at least reflective triangles on the back to make them more visible. Regarding the fact they just pull out onto main roads,...
This is exactly the kind of incendiary crap that would be coming out of the Western press about Luxor's festivals:
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I've been eating raw oxo cubes since as long as I can remember, never found any maggots, but they are beef extract so can only enhance the flavor. :eat I do not think that they sell them in Egypt...
The United Nations has expressed its "deep concern" over the acquittal of defendants accused of carrying out FGM on a girl who later died from her injuries, the first trial of its kind in Egypt....
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Egypt court overturns acquittal verdict in FGM death case.
An Egyptian court accepted on Thursday to hear an appeal by prosecutors against an acquittal verdict given to two men charged in relation...
Video of woman giving birth outside Egyptian hospital triggers outcry.
CAIRO (Reuters) - An Egyptian hospital director was suspended on Monday after a video purporting to show a woman giving birth...
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When 1 in 40 infants dies as they do in Egypt, it's not a completely unfounded fear. As strange as some of the practices surrounding childbirth may be to an outsider, they all have their own internal...
The UK’s Metropolitan Police appealed Monday for information on the whereabouts of 16 year-old Beatrice Anita Phillips and her 23 year-old brother, Moses, who is believed to have taken her to Egypt...
Islamic State in Iraq and the Sham (ISIS) called on Monday for more raids in Egypt, praising the operations against “the soldiers of Al-Sisi” in Sinai and urges militants to “continue on this path”,...
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You may be right Carrie. However, there was a hostage negotiator on TV today who said, amongst other things, that appeals from family are generally used as a last resort there is little other hope of...
Nine people were killed and 30 others injured in a road crash Tuesday on the Upper Egypt road.
A bus, travelling from Luxor – in southern Egypt – to Cairo, crashed into a truck loaded with marble,...
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My mechanic is from Gurna he's a Horrabat he, is presently fixing the 'dibriach, the clutch after it came back from having the takeef, air/con not fixed. So spare me their competence at just about...
I’m back because nothing has changed in Egypt. Still the same old tosh and double dealing parading as good government. In this case about civil rights and terrorism, not issues most would put...
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The Saudi students are quite able to graphically elaborate many incidents and just plain old atrocities that us in the west have never had reported in our media.
Nineteen people have been killed and at least a dozen wounded in a road accident involving two microbuses in southern Egypt, state news agency MENA reported, the latest in a series of deadly traffic...
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As a car driver I think the pedestrian hazard is underrated.
There seems to be an invisible contagion in Luxor. It affects tourists soon after arrival along with residents.
At least 38 were killed and 41 injured in the early hours of Friday when two tourist buses collided in Egypt’s South Sinai en route to Sharm El-Sheikh resort, a ministry of health official told Ahram...
Trains to Upper Egypt have been temporarily halted after gas cylinders were found on the track near Ayat station in Giza, announced the National Railways Authority.
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