This week tens of thousands swamped the heart of Cairo, Alexandria, and other major Egyptian cities, facing down anti-riot police, to demand cheaper food, better services, and substantial changes to the regime's modus operandi.
A renowned South African whitewater guide and outdoorsman was apparently pulled from his kayak by a crocodile in the Democratic Republic of Congo and is presumed dead, expedition sponsor Eddie Bauer said.
One hundred tons of diesel leaked into the Nile River after a barge sank in southern Egypt, but an official said the spill posed no danger to people or marine life.
Shooters opened fire at a gathering outside an eastern Egyptian church, killing six during the celebration of a Christian sect's Christmas Eve, Egypt's Interior Ministry reported.
Rescuers were desperately trying to save dozens of people Saturday who were thrown overboard when a boat collided with a ferry in the Nile River in northern Egypt, the nation's government-owned Al-Ahram newspaper reported.
Four strong-minded, self-sufficient adventurers set out on a nearly 1,000-mile journey into the heart of Tanzania, using only basic maps and a compass. Were they vying for a million dollars, trying to knock each other off the route and out of the running?
Steven Strait's mission takes him to the Lost Valley where they take on the terror birds that hunt like sharks.
Let's say you were making a film. Which do you think would be harder? A. Coordinating a mass alien invasion B. Invoking tidal waves and tornadoes C. Telling a prehistoric love story.
Archaeologists believe they have unearthed only a small fraction of Egypt's ancient ruins, but they're making new discoveries with help from high-tech allies -- satellites that peer into the past from the distance of space.
CNN's Ben Wedeman trails Egypt's world-famous archaeologist, Zahi Hawass.
Until recently, desert guides often ran into smugglers in the area but each side left the other alone. Not any more
Ain Shams University Biologist Hebat Abdel Hadi is taking "waste not, want not" to a whole other level.
Archaeologists will excavate hundreds of fragments of an ancient Egyptian wooden boat entombed in an underground chamber next to Giza's Great Pyramid
As protesters in Khartoum call for tougher punishment of Gillian Gibbons for her "blasphemous" classroom teddy bear, the Sudanese government is hamstrung
It was a time when you felt you were covering a profound historic shift.
Egypt's public prosecutor has charged 14 employees of the state's railway authority with negligence which led to the deaths of 56 people in a rail crash last month.
Two passenger trains collided and burst into flames north of Cairo Monday morning, killing at least 57 people and injuring 128 others, according to the Egyptian health minister.
An Egyptian driver freed on Monday after being held hostage for two weeks in Iraq says militants threatened him by holding a sword over his head.
Archeologists say they have evidence that a bond between cats and humans was forged thousands of years before previously thought.
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