After torching a Franciscan school, Islamists paraded three nuns on the streets like “prisoners of war” before a Muslim woman offered them refuge.

A bomb blast outside the security headquarters in one of Egypt’s Nile Delta cities has wounded 19 people, raising fears of deteriorating security after president Mohammed Morsi’s removal.

Egyptian security officials have said pro-democracy leader Mohamed ElBaradei has been placed under house arrest as nationwide anti-government protests raged into a fourth day.

Thousands of Egyptian anti-government protesters clashed with police in Cairo, who fired rubber bullets into the crowds and used tear gas and water cannons to disperse them.

Thousands of Egyptian anti-government protesters are clashing with police in Cairo, who are firing rubber bullets, tear gas and water cannons to disperse them.

FIFTEEN people have died after a bus packed with 77 schoolgirls was swept off a road by floods in southern Egypt.

Fifteen people have died after a bus packed with 77 schoolgirls was swept off a road by floods in southern Egypt.

A bus packed with passengers travelling along a narrow road in southern Egypt plunged into an irrigation canal, killing 53 people today, government and security officials said.

Eighteen people – 17 passengers and a bus driver – died today when their coach plunged into a dugout branch of the Nile River in southern Egypt, the state Mena news agency reported.

Sixteen people, including six children, died today when a microbus they were in fell off a rickety ferry and sank in the Nile River in southern Egypt, security and local officials said.

A truck ran over a minibus in southern Egypt today, killing 20 people and seriously wounding one, police said.

Egypt has released a leader of the militant group responsible for the assassination of former president Anwar Sadat after nearly 22 years in jail.

Twenty-two people, including two infants, were killed today in Egypt in a crash involving a bus, a truck and two cars.