Liverpool's Mohamed Salah has been named as one of TIME magazines 100 most influential people.

Today is Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement for Jewish people. It is 45 years since the war which bore its name.

As a Danish company launches underwear that doesn’t need to be washed for a week, Robert Hume investigates what our ancestors did to keep themselves cool and deal with body odour.

“It won’t be long now…”

Polls opened today in Egypt's presidential election with the outcome, a second term for President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, a foregone conclusion.

WHO to blame for social inequality? Was it the 18th-century British and their expanding empire? The late-19th-century capitalists of the US? Could it be traced back to the city states of Italy or even further to the ancient Romans and Egyptians?

From the demonised beetle to crop rotation, Fiann Ó Nualláin spells out what’s necessary to ensure good soil health and help the environment.

Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi has given a "green light" to systematic torture inside detention facilities, allowing officers to act with "almost total impunity", an international rights group said.

Carol O’Callaghan visits an exhibition dedicated to plywood - an often overlooked material which has now captured the imagaination of architects and designers with its sustainable on-going value.

Latest: Two German female tourists have been stabbed to death while four other foreigners were wounded in an attack at a hotel in an Egypt resort.

Abi Jackson gives seven reasons to fall in love with aloe vera this summer 

Palestinian flag flying atop our municipal buildings is about attaining the summit, in a hierarchy of victims, says Gerard Howlin.

Pope Francis has ended a brief but deeply symbolic visit to Egypt with an open-air Mass for the country's tiny Catholic community.

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Up to 500 migrants may have drowned last week in the Mediterranean when human traffickers crammed people onto an already overcrowded ship, causing it to sink, the UN refugee agency said.

Up to 500 people are feared dead after a boat sank in the Mediterranean Sea last week, the UN refugee agency said.

Latest: Seven people, including three passengers, are being held hostage aboard the EgyptAir plane after it diverted to Larnaca airport on the Mediterranean island during a domestic flight from Alexandria to Cairo.

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Egypt’s president paid tribute to the 2011 uprising that toppled longtime ruler Hosni Mubarak, saying that protesters killed during the 18-day revolt had sought to revive “noble principles” and found a “new Egypt”.

SOUTH AFRICA: A South African mayor has awarded college scholarships to young women for remaining virgins.

Egyptians turned out in low numbers yesterday to vote in the first phase of an election hailed by president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi as a milestone on the road to democracy but shunned by critics who say the new chamber will rubber -stamp his decisions.

EGYPT went to the polls yesterday.

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Egyptian security forces killed 12 Mexicans and Egyptians and injured 10 “by accident”, mistaking a tourist convoy for militants they were chasing in the country’s western desert, the ministry of interior said.

EGYPT: Egyptians in a Nile Delta province were left outraged after a cleric allegedly changed a line in the traditional Islamic call to prayer to mention Facebook.

Arguably, the three most useful words in a sports fans vocabulary are ‘THE – YEAR — OF.’

Police in Sicily have arrested three Egyptians who allegedly were in charge of a smuggling boat on which a 10-year-old Syrian girl with diabetes died after the smugglers threw her insulin overboard.

Kya deLongchamps loosens her stays to give a brief history of a sensuous piece of parlour furniture. 

A suicide bomber blew himself up just steps away from the ancient Egyptian temple of Karnak in Luxor, a southern city visited by millions of tourists every year, security and health officials said.

Egyptian security forces have stepped up sexual violence since the military overthrew the first freely elected president in 2013, a human rights group alleged.

The Halawa family have consistently maintained Ibrahim Halawa, currently held in an Egyptian prison, is an “innocent Irishman”.

Madeline Perry is Ireland’s most successful squash player. Still ranked 18 in the world, she retires from the world tour after today’s Irish Open 2015 final against Nicolette Fernandes at Fitzwilliam Lawn Tennis Club at 3pm.

HAVE you heard about the latest ‘U turn’ in nutritional science? America the land of the ‘egg-white omelette’ is in quite the tizzy about it all.

Egypt has launched air strikes against Islamic State (IS) targets in Libya after the extremist group released a grisly video showing a mass beheading of Coptic Christians held hostage for weeks.