Cairo, Egypt News

CAIRO, Egypt – A doctor who blew the whistle on the torture of jailed protesters in Iran died of poisoning from an overdose of an anti-hypertension drug in his salad, prosecutors say, fueling opposition fears that he was killed because of what he knew about the abuse.

Tiger Woods did not suffer facial lacerations from a car accident. They were inflicted by his wife, Elin Nordegren -- according to a conversation Woods had Friday after the accident.

The sun sets behind the twin minarets of one of the city's many mosques on June 2, 2009 in Cairo, Egypt.

CAIRO, Egypt - A 16-year-old Christian girl from southern Sudan said Friday she was lashed 50 times for wearing a skirt deemed indecent by authorities in the north who enforce a strict version of Islamic law.

Iran says it is not opposed to sending its low-enriched uranium abroad for further enrichment, as long as it receives fuel for its nuclear reactor at the very same time.

When Arab health ministers met in Cairo, Egypt, a few months back, it looked like several groups might even be banned from this year's event because of the flu.

To the Editor: The current epidemic of atherosclerosis is commonly ascribed to risk factors associated with the modern human lifestyle.

Al-Azhar University in Cairo, Egypt is one of the worlda s first universities. In the last few years, universities have been sprouting up all over the Middle East.

The U.N. is celebrating the success of its treaty guaranteeing children's rights, while focusing on more than a billion youngsters that need more help.

Egyptians living 3,500 years ago had signs of heart disease proving that the condition is not a phenomenon on the modern age, a conference has been told.

For years, doctors have blamed fast food, lack of exercise , smoking , and other detrimental lifestyle factors of modern life for our predisposition to heart disease .

Cairo - Egypt is to create the world's first Arabic language internet domain, with registration opening Monday, the country's telecommunications ministry said Monday.

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Chris Harman was editor of Socialist Worker for more than 20 years. In 2005 Chris Harman was writing about how the 30-year project to publish the collected works of Marx and Engels was done.

CAIRO - Egypt's famous Tomb of Tutankhamun will undergo a five-year project to clean and restore the lavish wall paintings in the underground chambers of the boy king whose golden mask and artifacts have long awed the world.

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, left, meets with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, right, at the presidential palace in Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, Nov.

Submitted by Teneshia LaFaye on Thu, 11/05/2009 - 23:58. Islamic and Arab leaders are angered that Beyonce's "nudity concert" is coming to Cairo, Egypt to corrupt their women, including entertainers who are to be covered from their shoulders to their knees.

On a day when children costumed as mummies go trick-or-treating, it's appropriate that new information has been acquired and new conservation efforts made for the only two Egyptian Indiana museum-owned mummies.

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak greets attendences before he dlivers a speech in Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, Oct.31, 2009 .

The son of Egypt's president took center stage at his father's ruling-party conference Sunday.