EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton was in Gaza City on Thursday for an hours-long visit to the Hamas-ruled Palestinian enclave. Her first stop was a UN-run girls school in the Jabalya refugee camp. The English baroness was also due to hold talks with UN officials during her brief visit to the coastal territory which is still struggling ...

More than 300 reporters for Islam Online camped out in their Cairo offices on Wednesday in protest at alleged efforts by the management in Qatar to assume editorial control of the Islamic website. The Qatari-based website, which has its editorial offices in Egypt, was founded by popular exiled Egyptian cleric Yusef al-Qardawi and posts news items as well as sections ...

A 2-year-old lion, emaciated and barely breathing, is found in a tiny cage off a Beirut highway. Monkeys are hauled through the dark tunnels of Gaza, bound for private zoos. Rare prize falcons are kept in desert encampments by wealthy Arab sheiks. The trade in endangered animals ...

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian archaeologists have discovered two red granite statues in Luxor, one of Tutankhamun's grandfather Amenhotep III who reigned about 3,350 years ago, Egypt's antiquities chief said Tuesday. The second statue was of the ancient Egyptian god of wisdom Thoth, Zahi Hawass said. At four meters high, it is one of the biggest statues of the ...