CAIRO — An Egyptian security official says authorities have confiscated two pick-up trucks carrying 60 anti-tank missiles smuggled across the border from Libya.
The official says two truck drivers were arrested and the weapons seized just south of (...)
Desert safari driver Ahmed Bakrin building a small bonfire to make mint tea before sunset during a trek through the Great Sand Sea outside the Egyptian oasis of Siwa, a Berber town of some 27,000 people roughly 725 kilometers southwest of Cairo. The (...)
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) on Tuesday released its first color photo from Mars and a video showing over two minutes of its dive through the atmosphere, and spacecraft landing.
NASA's Curiosity rover took the picture on (...)
PASADENA, Calif. — NASA's Curiosity rover has beamed back its first color photo from the ancient crater where it landed on Mars and a video showing the last 2 1/2 minutes of its white-knuckle dive through the Martian atmosphere, a sneak peek of a (...)
India's space agency plans to send an orbiter to
Mars in November 2013 once the federal cabinet approves the project, dpa quoted officials as saying Thursday.
The final approval for the project - estimated to cost 4.5 billion
rupees (about 80 (...)
JEDDAH: A delegation from the Egyptian Tourist Authority visited Jeddah Sunday aimed at promoting Egypt tourism.
Under the theme "Egypt where all it begins", the group endeavored to woo Arab tourists to visit Egypt.
Joined by Egyptian Consul (...)
THE carpets were being unloaded off the bus and a mild frenzy erupts – “That is mine! No its mine!”.
As the owners identify and reclaim their treasures, one is reminded why the purchase was made. Look at that wonderful texture and pattern; detailed (...)
ON a sunny morning in November, I found myself sitting on the pillion seat of a stationary brand new Harley-Davidson Ultra Classic Electra Glide in Egypt. We were part of a group of ten Harleys that were heading from Port Ghalib on the Red Sea to (...)
OPEC member Kuwait may delay some planned investments in the oil sector in light of the sharp drop in crude prices but will keep the main plans intact, Oil Minister Mohammad Al-Olaim said on Monday.
“We are in the process of assessing our (...)
The night air was cold and damp on the narrow, walled streets of Tunis's medina, and the markets and stores all dark and locked up tight for the night. But all it took was a single rap of the iron knocker on the wooden door at 5, rue Dar El Jeld and (...)
Egyptian rescuers said Tuesday they had lost hope of finding four missing scuba divers alive, four days after they disappeared off the coast of a Red Sea resort, AP reported.
The divers _ two Russians, a Dutchman and an Egyptian _ were reported (...)
Three foreigners and an Egyptian
were missing Sunday after they went scuba diving in the Red
Sea the day before, an Egyptian diving association said, according to The Associated Press.
The Red Sea Association said one Egyptian guide, (...)
