Immediate action is needed to protect the Syrian people but it should be "rooted in the principles of the United Nations and international law," UN political affairs chief Jeffrey Feltman said on Friday.... Friday, 7 April, 2017 - 19:03
Arab League meeting
Fourteen Arab countries signed a memorandum of understanding to establish a joint Arab electricity market on the sidelines of the twelfth session of the Arab Ministerial Council for Electricity during a ceremony at the... Friday, 7 April, 2017 - 13:46
Pope Francis arrives for the Divine Liturgy at the Ecumenical Patriarchate in Istanbul, November 30, 2014. CREDIT: REUTERS/OSMAN ORSAL
Bishop Emmanuel, Archbishop of Luxor's Catholic Christians and Chairman of the Organizing Committee for the Visit of Pope Francis, the Pope of the Vatican, to Egypt, considered the Pope's anticipated visit on... Friday, 7 April, 2017 - 12:24
The United States on Friday fired dozens of cruise missiles at a Syrian airbase from which it said a deadly chemical weapons attack was launched this week, an escalation of the U.S. military role in Syria that... Friday, 7 April, 2017 - 10:08
Arab League meeting
Pope Francis arrives for the Divine Liturgy at the Ecumenical Patriarchate in Istanbul, November 30, 2014. CREDIT: REUTERS/OSMAN ORSAL

Egypt

Image released by the US Navy shows the USS Porter launching cruise missiles at a Syrian airbase, April 7, 2017 (Ford Williams / US Navy / AFP).
The Egyptian Foreign Ministry has issued a statement expressing concern over the US missile strike in Syria earlier today....
Meteorologists expect a rise in temperatures Saturday, with milder weather to the north as well as in Cairo and Lower Egypt...
Egypt's female plummer, Om Bassem (Screenshot from Associated Press video).
When Om Bassem first told her children she was going to start working as a plumber, they felt so ashamed -- to the extent...

Middle East/North Africa

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said there is no "option except victory" in the country's civil war in an...
Islamic militants unleashed multiple suicide attacks in the city of Tikrit, north of Baghdad, killing at least 22 people, a...
A suspected gas attack by Syrian government or Russian jets killed at least 35 people, including nine children, in the northwestern province of Idlib on Tuesday, a British-based war monitoring group said (Khan Shaykhun / AFP).
The death toll from a suspected chemical attack on a northern Syrian town rose to 72 on Wednesday while activists and rescue...

World

US cruise missile strikes on a Syrian air base were one step away from clashing with the Russian military, Russian Prime...
People were killed when a truck crashed into department store Ahlens on Drottninggatan, in central Stockholm, Sweden April 7, 2017 (Anders Wiklund / TT News Agency via Reuters).
Three people were killed when a truck drove into a crowd on a shopping street and crashed into a department store in...
Russia's largest mosque
Within the next 20 years, the number of babies born to Muslim parents is expected to surpass births to Christians -- and all...

Business

President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi met with Christine Lagarde, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund,...
FILE PHOTO US dollar notes are seen in this November 7, 2016 picture illustration (Dado Ruvic / Reuters Illustration / File Photo).
US dollar exchange rates witnessed relative stability during trading sessions on Thursday. The purchasing rate reached LE17....
Tourists visit the Sphinx at the Giza Pyramids on the outskirts of Cairo, Egypt, November 8, 2015 (Amr Abdallah Dalsh  /  Reuters).
The US State Department's statement saying that Egypt is a "safe country" and advising its citizens to travel...

Science

vaccine
We are one step closer to a vaccine against the Zika virus. Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy...
A dolphin was found dead on coast of Abu Galum protectorate, located in the gulf of Aqaba. Weighing about 1 ton and reaching...

File photo - A baby is baptized during a mass baptism ceremony in Tbilisi, January 19, 2011 (David Mdzinarishvili / File Photo / Reuters).

 
Babies cry more in Britain, Canada, Italy and Netherlands than in other countries, while newborns in Denmark, Germany and...

Arts

Egyptian political satirist and comedian Bassem Youssef poses at the SLS Hotel on April 6, 2017, in Los Angeles, California. Youssef has been called "The Jon Stewart of Egypt" as Stewart's television program "The Daily Show" was the inspiration for his career as outspoken political critic (Valerie Macon / AFP).
Not long ago, the Egyptian heart-surgeon-turned-comedian Bassem Youssef was hosting the most popular political satire...
The British Daily Mail published a series of photographs of the American star Lindsay Lohan where the actress, who recently...
Walt Disney World company, known as Disney, has decided to seek the stars of the new Aladdin film in the Middle East,...

Living

Emirates plane
Emirates airline said on Wednesday it would start lending first and business class passengers tablets in response to the US...
The seven domes of the new Yazidi temple in Aknalich in Armenia represent the seven angels revered by the Yazidis, who number around 35,000 in Armenia today but currently have just one tiny temple in the Caucasus country. The Yazidis hold unique beliefs that have integrated elements of Judaism, Christianity and Islam (Karen Minasyan / AFP).
 
A gleaming white structure topped with seven domes, set to be the world's biggest Yazidi temple, is currently being...
A growing number of Tajik women have been following a government recommendation to wear the Atlas and other traditional forms of dress
 
Clothing factories in Tajikistan are churning out brightly coloured national dresses amid a surge in sales, and it's not...