EGYPT

Egyptian Mona Mahmoud arrested after accusing police of torturing and disappearing daughter Zubeida in BBC report. Amnesty says arrest is latest in Egypt's free speech crackdown.

Egyptian singer Sherine Abdel Wahab sentenced to six months in prison after joking about parasites in River Nile.

Palaeontologists consider this find as the "Holy Grail" of discoveries, since dinosaur fossils from the end of the Age of Dinosaurs are hard to find in Africa.

Jailed Brit Laura Plummer remains in Egyptian jail following reports that her presidential pardon has been withdrawn.

Jailed Briton Laura Plummer will be freed in the next two days after receiving a presidential pardon by Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi.

LGBT campaigners accuse government of assault on gender rights to turn attention away from Egypt's serious financial problems.

It comes as no surprise President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi announces he seeks another four-year term.

Laura Plummer's family told media that they worried about the Briton jailed in Egypt as she struggles with conditions inside the Cairo jail.

UK police are investigating how British woman Laura Plummer, who has been jailed in Egypt, obtained the powerful painkiller Tramadol.

Mohamed Salah was crowned CAF African Player of the Year less than a month after scooping the BBC African footballer of the year award.

British tourist Laura Plummer told Egyptian prosecutors she 'didn't do anything wrong' moments after being arrested for bringing Tramadol tablets into Egypt.

Another Egyptian pop singer Leila Amer has been arrested for 'inciting debauchery' in racy music video.

Egypt's Grand Mufti Shawki Allam called for a Bitcoin ban, issuing an official fatwa against the cryptocurrency.

Egypt international Mohamed Salah is currently the second-highest scorer in the Premier League with 15 goals to his name.

Tramadol, a powerful opiate painkiller, is illegal in Egypt but available on prescription in the UK. Plummer claimed the pills were for her Egyptian boyfriend who suffered back pain, and she was not aware they were illegal in Egypt.

British tourist Laura Plummer wept in an Egyptian court on Christmas Day over a drug smuggling charge that could lead to a death penalty.

Coptic Christians make up about 10% of Egypt's 96 million population. Islamic extremists have targeted them in a sereis of brutal attacks in recent years.

The objects include a 3,000-year-old Mycenaean sword, a golden crown with an inscription of the ancient Greek sun god Helios and a bust of Alexander the Great.

The writings include previously unknown Greek mythological and medical works, classical scientific documents, and the oldest surviving copy of the gospels in Arabic.

Shyma's risque pop video in deeply conservative country lands her two-year jail sentence for inciting debauchery.

Laura Plummer, a British woman arrested in Egypt for smuggling prescription drugs, may have to spend more time in jail before her case is properly heard.