Moments after the explosion rocked her church, Mona Faiez's phone rang.

The blasts came at the start of Holy Week leading up to Easter.

UK to ban electronic devices on UK-bound flights from Middle East.

Once again, the question seeks an answer: Is there a secret chamber inside what is arguably the world's most famous tomb?

An Egyptian woman, reportedly the world's heaviest at 500kg, has been lifted into a hospital in India by crane for lifesaving surgery.

The museum is is welcoming visitors for the first time since it was damaged in a car bombing three years ago.

Egypt says traces of explosives have been found on bodies from the EgyptAir crash in May, which killed all on board. A ministry statement

The world's heaviest woman hasn't left her home for more than two decades. But she will travel 4,345 kilometres to Mumbai for potentially life-saving surgery.

Egypt's health ministry has uncovered an illicit human organ trade in which migrants are selling body parts to reach Europe.

An ancient Egyptian city and graveyard has been uncovered by archaeologists.

West Coast author Wendy Scott has picked up a second international award for her teen novel Hieroglyph.

COMMENT: It came as no surprise to pyramid buffs that scans picked up previously unknown "passages" or "rooms" in the Great Pyramid of Giza.

Journalist Jakub Kyncl was granted a rare chance to photograph the historic tombs.

A leopard has reportedly killed a nine-year-old girl in Egypt after escaping from a wildlife farm in a village south of Cairo.

Queen Nefertiti's whereabouts is the greatest mystery in archaeology. Have the ancient Egyptians duped us all along?

British Airways has suspended flights to Sharm el-Sheikh "indefinitely" amid continued security concerns after a Russian jet was bombed out of the sky over Egypt.

EgyptAir plane crashed into the Mediterranean last month, killing all 66 people on board.

What impact will the crash of EgyptAir flight MS804 have on visitor numbers to Egypt?

The EgyptAir plane that crashed into the Mediterranean Sea was emblazoned with the words "we will bring this plane down" two years ago.

The EgyptAir flight disappearance could be the result of a bomb, according to a prominent counter-terrorism researcher.

Egypt is confident of luring back millions of foreign visitors and putting a smile on their faces

The moderation and maturity of Muslims in New Zealand was evident once again in their response to the Egyptian initiative.

Frozen chickens, opera singers and sleeping passengers - those on board the hijacked EgpytAir flight tell their stories.

The man who hijacked an EgyptAir plane is a jailed fraudster whose passport was blacklisted after he escaped prison in 2011, it is claimed.

Of all the freedoms Egyptians thought they had won with the Tahrir Square Revolution, the one they thought irreversible was the right to demonstrate.

Investigators of the Russian plane crash are pursuing the theory that a bomb could have been placed inside a passenger's luggage by hotel staff.

President Vladimir Putin has suspended all Russian flights to Egypt and asked for up to 50,000 holiday-makers in Egypt to be brought home.

For those with a sense of adventure, visiting Egypt now has big advantages, discovers Courtney Bonnell.

If there were a rule book setting out how to handle a disaster that has claimed hundreds of innocent lives, Egypt and Russia on Saturday contrived to ignore every page.

Three major airlines announced yesterday that they would no longer fly over the Sinai Peninsula after a Russian passenger plane crashed in the area.