Team El-Ahly football players get away from the field during a football match riot at a stadium in Port Said of Egypt on Feb. 1, 2012. The death toll from a football riot in Egypt's Port Said rose to 79, state TV reported on Wednesday night. A riot in the Egyptian city of Port Said has left 79 dead and hundreds wounded after football fans stormed the pitch before engaging in running battles inside... 

Prosecutors in the trial of ousted Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak have called for death by hanging, saying the former leader is personally responsible for every protester death during the country’s recent revolution. ­ “The prosecution demands the maximum penalty against Mubarak, and the rest of the accused, which is death by hanging,” said Mustafa Khater, one of a five-member... 

Egyptian demonstrators burn an Israeli flag as others try to demolish a wall recently built outside the Israeli embassy in Cairo to protect the building. The Israeli military is gearing up to counter future threats from Egypt as an almost certain Muslim Brotherhood election victory could potentially set the two countries on a collision course. ­While the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) remains hopeful... 

Egyptian army forces clash with protesters near Liberation Square, Cairo, December 16, 2011. Egyptian military police have stormed a makeshift hospital near Cairo’s Liberation Square, burning medical supplies and detaining doctors for helping protesters. The regime’s army forces surrounded the makeshift hospital on Saturday and threatened doctors to leave the site, as Egyptian military... 

The "Blue bra girl" atrocity The blogosphere is boiling at the cruel beating of a female protester by Egyptian military police, who continued battling protesters in Tahrir Square on Sunday. The clashes, into their third day now, have left 10 people dead and hundreds injured. ­The video uploaded on YouTube Sunday reveals the extreme cruelty of the country’s law enforcers during the crackdown... 

On the way out? Tourists lap up the sunshine at Naama Bay, Sharm el-Sheikh. Islamist parties want to stop Westerners drinking alcohol and wearing skimpy beachwear Bargain holidays for Westerners looking to get a bit of sunshine and a drink by the pool in the winter could be a thing of the past on Egypt’s Red Sea coast. The Muslim Brotherhood, which won success in the first round of parliamentary... 

Protesters stand opposite police who fired tear gas during clashes between protesters and police near Liberation Square in Cairo November 21. At least 24 people have been killed in clashes between Egyptian protesters and military forces in Cairo’s Liberation Square, Egyptian Health Ministry says. Some 1,700 protesters have also been injured in the country’s recent violence, DPA reported. Medical... 

Cairo: Egyptian protesters clashes with riot police at Cairo's landmark Tahrir Square on November 19, 2011, as Egyptian police fired rubber bullets and tear gas to break up a sit-in among whose organisers were people injured during the Arab Spring which overthrew veteran president Hosni Mubarak. Thousands of police clashed with protesters for control of Cairo’s Tahrir Square on Saturday.... 

Sheikh of Egyptian Azmieh cult Aala Mazi Abulazaem A senior Egyptian religious leader has warned Israel of Jihad in case Tel Aviv embarks on a military strike against the Islamic Republic of Iran. Sheikh of Egyptian Azmieh cult, Aala Mazi Abulazaem, warned that his followers in Egypt are prepared to “fight shoulder to shoulder with their Iranian brothers,” in case Israel and the West wage a war... 

The rumors about the death of Egypt’s toppled President Hosni Mubarak, who stays at the hospital on the outskirts of Cairo, continue to emerge in the media. Al Ahram website said on Monday that Mubarak’s heart stopped beating. Later during the day, though, the publication reported with reference to medical sources that the rumor was not true to fact. Previously, the website said that the... 

Sunday's rally began in the Shubra district of northern Cairo, then headed to the state television building along the Nile. At least 23 Egyptian Christians were killed last night as the country’s worst religious violence since February’s overthrow of Hosni Mubarak, the former president, convulsed the capital Cairo. The city’s fabled Tahrir Square, where people power triumphed... 

Some hundreds of Egyptian activists demolish a concrete wall built around a building housing the Israeli embassy in Cairo, Egypt, to protect it against demonstrators, as they raise their national Friday, Sept. 9, 2011. Protesters in Egypt continued their attacks on Israeli embassy in Cairo after a night of violence which claimed at least three lives and left 450 people injured. Meanwhile, Egypt has... 

At least 231 injured after knife-wielding men attack pro-reform protesters marching to defence ministry in Cairo. More than 231 people have been injured in clashes between groups of armed men and pro-reform protesters marching towards Egypt’s ministry of defence in the capital, Cairo, the country’s health ministry said. Thousands calling for the “downfall” of the country’s... 

Dissatisfaction was the biggest common factor for the thousands who rallied in Cairo’s Tahrir square yesterday. Elsewhere in Egypt several smaller rallies took place to help defend the uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak and to show anger at the new military rulers’ slow pace of reforms. There were men on stages calling for faster trials for ministers associated with the regime. A separate... 

Egypt permanently reopened its border crossing into Gaza on Saturday, opening the door for Palestinians to the outside world and raising fears among Israelis of an increase in militant attacks. Hundreds were expected Saturday to pass through the Rafah border, which had been blockaded by Egypt and Israel after Hamas, an Islamic militant group, took control of Gaza in June 2007. The closure of the border...