At least 25 people have been killed in a train crash in Egypt after a passenger train slammed at full spped into the back of a second train. Another 55 passengers were injured in the accident which happened on Saturday 40 kilometres southwest of Cairo,...

Egypt’s highest Muslim authority has said he will issue a religious edict against the growing trend for full women’s veils, known as the niqab. Sheikh Mohamed Tantawi, dean of al-Azhar university, called full-face veiling a custom that has...

A bent man walks with a sack of garbage draped over him like a shaggy beast, hiding all but his legs as he lopes up the hill toward women and children with quick hands and shrewd eyes for spotting things of value. The man trundles through the stink of...