Coast Guard vessels have pulled dozens of bodies from the water today after an Egyptian passenger ferry carrying around 1,300 people (or up to 1,415 according to some reports), mostly Egyptian workers returning from Saudi Arabia, sank in the Red Sea overnight.

An Egyptian passenger ferry carrying around 1,300 people, mostly Egyptian workers returning from Saudi Arabia, sank in the Red Sea overnight, and Coast Guard vessels pulled dozens of bodies from the water today and rescued 30 survivors, officials said.

No Pakistanis were involved in the deadly bombings at the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, the Egyptian ambassador said today.

A Canadian held at the US military jail at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba has been released and sent to Afghanistan.

An Egyptian delegation was due in Gaza today to press Cairo's effort to arrange a truce to end three years of bloody Middle East violence, Egyptian officials said.

In an autobiography that some describe as his last testament, Osama bin Laden’s top lieutenant wrote he may not get another chance to speak out because of ‘‘troubled circumstances’’.