Picture released by the Egyptian Presidency on July 4, 2015, shows Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi (2ndR) reviewing military equipment during a visit to the Sinai Peninsula (AFP Photo/Mohamed Abdelmoaty)





 


 
An Egyptian woman and child were killed in a car bomb, and four soldiers died in a separate explosion in the northern Sinai Peninsula, where the military is engaged in a sweeping campaign against jihadists, the army... Saturday, 12 September, 2015 - 08:32
crane collapse at Mecca's Grand Mosque
A powerful storm toppled a construction crane Friday afternoon at the Masjid al-Haram, or Grand Mosque, in Mecca -- killing at least 107 people and injuring 238 others, Saudi Arabia's civil defense authorities said... Saturday, 12 September, 2015 - 08:16
Army tank in North Sinai
Egyptian security forces have killed 98 militants in Sinai during a recent military operation, the military said on Friday. It was not possible to independently confirm the figure. Egypt is battling an insurgency that... Friday, 11 September, 2015 - 22:18
Muslim worshippers at Mecca's Grand Mosque.
 
A towering construction crane collapsed on Friday during a violent rainstorm in Saudi Arabia's city of Mecca, Islam's holiest site, crashing into the Grand Mosque and killing at least 87 people ahead of the... Friday, 11 September, 2015 - 21:00



Picture released by the Egyptian Presidency on July 4, 2015, shows Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi (2ndR) reviewing military equipment during a visit to the Sinai Peninsula (AFP Photo/Mohamed Abdelmoaty)





 


 
crane collapse at Mecca's Grand Mosque
Army tank in North Sinai
Muslim worshippers at Mecca's Grand Mosque.
 

Egypt

Egyptian health ministry
Nine Egyptians were injured when a crane collapsed at Mecca's Holy Mosque, Egypt's Health Ministry reported Friday...
A voter casts his vote on the first day of the second phase of People's Assembly elections, al-Saff, Giza, December 14,2011. The Second phase of parliamentary elections includes: Giza, Sharqeya, Monofeya, Ismilia, Suez, Sohag, Beheyra, Beni Suef, Aswan.
Some 5,037 candidates across the country have so far applied for the upcoming parliamentary elections, the High Elections...
Photo: Michel Euler, APVisitors walk past the 5,4 meters (16,4 feet) high pink granite statue of the God Hapy, Ptolemaic period (305-30 BC), at the Institut du Monde Arabe (Arab World Institute), part of the Osiris, Sunken Mysteries of Egypt exhibition in Paris, France, Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2015. As the cultural world decries the destruction of ancient sites in Syria, Paris' Arab World Institute defiantly celebrates the preservation of ancient culture by holding a never-before-seen exhibit of the remains of the ancient Egyptian city of Heracleion.
 
 French President Francois Hollande and archaeological officials have used an exhibit in Paris of two preserved ancient...

Middle East/North Africa

Migrants rest outside the main Eastern Railway station in Budapest, Hungary, September 2, 2015.
REUTERS/Bernadett Szabo
US President Barack Obama has promised that the United States will admit 10,000 Syrian refugees for resettlement over the...
A Eurofighter Typhoon warplane flies during the Dubai Airshow on November 18, 2013 (AFP Photo/Marwan Naamani)
 Kuwait has agreed to buy 28 Typhoon warplanes, becoming the third country in the Gulf region to order the combat...
Russia called on Friday for military-to-military cooperation with the United States to avert "unintended incidents...

World

Local residents wade through a residential area flooded by the Kinugawa river, caused by typhoon Etau, at Mitsukaido district in Joso, Ibaraki prefecture, Japan, September 12, 2015.
REUTERS/ISSEI KATO
Search teams using boats and helicopters resumed looking on Saturday for at least 16 people still missing after torrential...
Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) leader Peter Robinson (C) speaks to the media in front of Parliament buildings in Belfast Northern Ireland September 9, 2015.
 
Britain and Ireland sought to calm Northern Ireland's political crisis on Friday by urging Protestant unionists and...

Syrian migrants cross under a fence into Hungary at the border with Serbia, near Roszke, August 26, 2015.
REUTERS/Laszlo Balogh
 

 
Hungary's prime minister angrily accused illegal migrants on Friday of "rebelling" against the rule of law in...

Business

IMF chief Christine Lagarde urged African governments to spend responsibly as she visited Liberia on Friday, a week after it...
© AFP/File | Africa's largest oil producer Nigeria has announced a cut in petrol prices, a month before the country votes in presidential and parliamentary elections
 
 
 
Low crude oil prices will lead to a pick up in demand and next year may cause the biggest drop in non-OPEC output in nearly...
A customer uses a petrol nozzle to fill up his tank in a gas station in Nice August 27, 2012.
 
Crude oil prices fell on Friday as a stronger dollar, Saudi Arabia's dismissal of a producer summit and a lower price...

Science

Boys with a low resting heart rate in their late teens run a higher risk of turning to a life of violent crime when grown, a...
Blueberries
Wild blueberry extract could prevent the formation of dental plaque and possibly replace mouthwash as an antibiotic-free...
child
 

 
Pressuring teens to get fit is counter-productive, according to a new study that suggests they are more likely to exercise...

Arts

 
‘The Girl in the Spider’s Web’ passes 200,000 sales in one week

 

 
The fourth book in Stieg Larsson's Millennium Series is flying off the shelves in the US and will debut at the top of...
Star Wars movie character Darth Vader looks on (in black)
Just three months before the release of the highly anticipated "The Force Awakens", Disney is already prepping for...
SCADfash will occupy 930 square metres of public gallery space plus a fashion conservation lab and a media library, displaying garments by designers including Saint Laurent, Oscar de la Renta and Givenchy.
At a time when fashion exhibitions at major museums are enjoying a heyday, a new museum devoted to fashion has just been...

Living

 Tourists use a selfie stick in front of the Louvre Pyramid in Paris on March 7, 2015
The number of international tourists rose by 4.0 percent worldwide during the first half of 2015 although security and...
A woman blows giant bubbles in a street in the town of Appenzell, eastern Switzerland on April 28, 2013
Edging out Norway and Sweden, Switzerland was hailed as the best place in the world for older people to live in a new report...
Britain's Queen Elizabeth 
Queen Elizabeth II reached a major milestone Wednesday, becoming the longest-reigning monarch in Britain's history by...