Three police officers have been killed and five others injured in a drive-by shooting in Cairo, Egypt's Interior Ministry said.

The Pope is preparing to celebrate Mass for Egypt's tiny Catholic community and meet its priests and seminarians before returning to Rome.

Latest: IS has claimed the attacks via its Aamaq news agency, after having recently warned that it would step up attacks on Egypt's Christians.

Ibrahim Halawa's family claim he is in danger of contracting a contagious disease from prison inmates.

Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered a massive statue in a Cairo slum which is thought to be of Pharaoh Ramses II, one of the country's most famous ancient rulers.

Muslim refugees in Europe and the US, and the fear there of Islamist extremism, are bringing the old debate about faith and society to the fore, says Tarek Osman.

The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing at a Cairo church two days earlier that killed 25 people, highlighting a new escalation of violence in Egypt against civilians and Christians in particular.

Bosses at Egyptair have confirmed wreckage found in the Mediterranean Sea was not from the missing jet.

Militants have opened fire on a minivan filled with plainclothes police in a Cairo suburb, killing eight of them, including an officer, in an attack claimed by a local Islamic State affiliate.

At least six people have been killed by a bomb blast during a raid by security forces in Cairo’s twin city of Giza.

A firebomb attack in Cairo has killed 16 people and wounded three others, authorities said.

Twelve people have been killed and five others wounded in a firebomb attack on a nightclub in Cairo, Egypt’s state-run news agency said.

A drive-by shooting near a famed historical site south of Cairo has left four policemen dead, Egyptian officials said.

British prime minister David Cameron has said it is “more likely than not” that a Russian airliner was downed by a bomb as he defended moves to halt flights to and from Sharm el-Sheikh.

A large bomb exploded near a national security building in the Shubra area of Cairo, wounding at least six people including at least one police officer.

A man who was arrested at the same time as Dublin teenager Ibrahim Halawa in Cairo two years ago, has called on the Irish Government to do more to ensure the 19-year-old's release.

Ibrahim Halawa has been allowed to meet with his sister and solicitor in Cairo.

Ibrahim Halawa's trial has been postponed until October 4.

The Chairperson of the Oireachtas Foreign Affairs Committee, Pat Breen, is to visit Ibrahim Halawa.

The trial of an Irish teenager being held in Egypt has been delayed again.

A bomb blast on a bridge leading to an upscale neighbourhood in central Cairo has killed a policeman and wounded at least two passers-by, police said.

A protest will be held outside the Department of Foreign Affairs later, demanding the Government intervene in the case of Ibrahim Halawa.

A suicide car bomber struck Cairo police headquarters, in the first of four blasts in Egypt’s capital that killed six people on the eve of the anniversary of the 2011 uprising.