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Egyptian protesters shout in front of anti-riot policemen who block a bridge in Cairo on Friday. The Egyptian capital was the scene of violent chaos, when tens of thousands of anti-government protesters confronted police. Photo: AP The people of Egypt demand President Hosni Mubarak to step down and he [...]

CAIRO – A 25-year-old Egyptian man cut off his own penis to spite his family after he was refused permission to marry a girl from a lower class family, police reported Sunday. After unsuccessfully petitioning his father for two years to marry the girl, the man heated up a knife and sliced off his [...]

A 27-year-old Egyptian woman gave birth to septuplets early Saturday in the coastal city of Alexandria, family members and the hospital director said. Ghazala Khamis was in good condition after having a blood transfusion during her Caesarean section due to bleeding, said Emad Darwish, director of the [...]

Egypt’s chief archaeologist displayed on Tuesday the latest discoveries from the Sakkara cemetery south of Cairo and said many more treasures clearly lay hidden beneath the sands. The new finds, outlined in statements over the past week, also show that Sakkara remained a necropolis, from the Greek [...]