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.

Egyptian Islamists have warned that the world should brace itself for a backlash after the country's first freely elected President Mohamed Morsi was given a death sentence.

NZ doesn't have a 'realistic option of doing nothing' in the fight against Isis, PM John Key says ahead of Cabinet's decision on whether to send troops to Iraq.

Egypt has ordered a probe into a stampede and clashes at a Cairo stadium that left 19 dead, as pressure mounts on authorities over the country's latest outbreak of violence.

Just days after being freed from an Egyptian prison, Australian journalist Peter Greste says he'd like to return to work as a foreign correspondent.

An Al-Jazeera reporter who spent more than a year in an Egyptian prison returned home to Australia, where he was greeted by friends and relieved family members

Al Jazeera reporter Peter Greste will return home to Australia after being released from an Egyptian jail following a 400-day ordeal.

Sixteen Egyptians were killed in clashes around the country as the people went to the streets to protest against the Government on the fourth anniversary of the uprising that led to the removal of President Hosni Mubarak.

An appeal hearing in Cairo last night ordered a retrial for Australian journalist Peter Greste and his two Al-Jazeera Television colleagues.

It happened just out of Cairo and it really wasn't my idea. I was visiting some pyramids - about the only tourist in town - when the lonely soldier standing guard decided to walk with me.

53: Malcolm Ross was New Zealand's first official war correspondent.

One person has been killed in clashes between Egyptian police and protesters in central Cairo after a court dropped a murder case against ousted strongman Hosni Mubarak.

A pseudo-medical device which Egypt's military had previously claimed, in the face of widespread ridicule, would cure both Aids and hepatitis C, has been delayed for "further tests".

An international campaign ranging from diplomacy to petitions has started against Egypt after the jailing of Australian journalist Peter Greste and two Egyptian colleagues.

Australian journalist Peter Greste and his Al Jazeera English colleagues accused of aiding the blacklisted Muslim Brotherhood jailed for seven years in Egypt.

Just how did the ancient Egyptians shift stones weighing as much as 2.5-tonnes with technology no more complex than a sledge?

The most famous of all Egyptian burial sites, Tutankhamun's tomb, has been replicated with a 3D exact facsimile in a project led by a British artist in order to protect the original site from the ravages of mass tourism.

Salam Abdullah repeats a single English phrase while leading tourists across the sandy, sun-blasted slopes above Cairo's Giza pyramids.

Egypt's judges have risked new international outrage by sentencing to death 529 people accused of rioting after a single, two-session trial that ended yesterday.

An Egyptian terrorist should be considered as a prime suspect in the Lockerbie bombing, according to a report by two leading investigators.