A new report reveals nearly 1,600 children – an average of almost one every day – were reported dead or missing between 2014 and 2018, though many more go unrecorded.

This year is the 40th anniversary of the release of Monty Python’s Life of Brian. The film met with instant controversy in 1979 and was banned in Ireland, Norway and parts of Britain. In the US, protesters gathered outside cinemas where it aired.

Saudi women have been allowed into a sports stadium for the first time to watch a football match between two local teams.

A British woman accused of smuggling drugs into Egypt has been jailed for three years, her family has said.

How the hell do men rule the world, asks Catherine Shanahan

A Dublin man who died after a freediving accident in Egypt has been named locally as Stephen Keenan, writes Ciara Phelan.

Holidaymakers were evacuated from a UK-bound flight after crew reported smelling burning and smoke was spotted in the cabin just before take off.

Two German tourists were killed in a knife attack at a hotel in the popular Egyptian Red Sea resort of Hurghada, officials have confirmed.

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.

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has met the king of Saudi Arabia and officials from other countries lined up against Qatar as he works to end a rift that has left the tiny, energy-rich state isolated from its neighbours.

Whatever IT is, he’s got it. With his slicked back hair and smart evening jacket, he may be a bit Don Draper of Mad Men from the waist up, but he’s still all denim ‘n’ Elvis from the belt buckle down.

Energetic, joyful and powerful singers, check out the Live At The Marquee audience in the selfie vid Bryan Adams said he'd be uploading to his Instagram page after the show.

An Egyptian court has ruled against the government's decision to hand over two Red Sea islands to Saudi Arabia - a landmark verdict likely to deepen tensions with the kingdom.

An Egyptian man has hijacked an EgyptAir plane and forced it to land in Cyprus, where most passengers were eventually allowed to get off, though the crew remain on board.

An EgyptAir mechanic whose cousin joined Islamic State in Syria is suspected of planting a bomb on a Russian passenger plane that was blown out of Egypt’s skies in late October, according to sources familiar with the matter.

A home-made explosive device brought down a Russian passenger plane over Egypt last month, the head of Russia’s FSB security service has said.

Eight Irish snooker players will travel to Egypt this weekend to represent the Republic of Ireland Billiards & Snooker Association (RISBA) in the 2015 World Men’s, Women’s and Masters IBSF Snooker Championships.

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.

The Russian plane that crashed in Egypt was not struck from the outside and the pilot did not make a distress call before it disappeared from radar, a source in the committee analysing the flight recorders said yesterday.

The death toll from an air strike on a wedding party in Yemen has jumped to 131, medics said, in one of the deadliest attacks on civilians in Yemen’s war, that drew strong condemnation from the UN secretary-general.

Like many Europeans, I’m horrified by the death of Aylan Kurdi, a three-year-old Syrian who washed up on the beaches of Turkey while trying to escape to Greece. Aylan was one of at least 12 Syrians who drowned trying to reach Greece, including Aylan’s five-year-old brother. 

Had the Ottoman empire survived World War I and come to dominate western powers we would be living in a very different, far less tolerant world, suggests Andrew Melsom.

Saudi-led coalition airstrikes hit a residential area in a Red Sea town in Yemen, killing at least 120 people in the deadliest strike against civilians since the March offensive began.

When Aaron Ramsey hit the post in the late stages of Saturday’s FA Cup semi-final, I’m sure I wasn’t the only Gooner wondering if it might be destined not to be our day.

A German citizen has been killed by a shark off Egypt’s Red Sea coast, security officials have said.

President Barack Obama has defended the US government’s willingness to cooperate closely with Saudi Arabia on national security despite deep concerns over human rights abuses.

A Saudi blogger convicted of insulting Islam has been flogged 50 times in the Red Sea city of Jeddah as authorities started carrying out his sentence, which includes 1,000 lashes, a witness said.

Moses wants Ramesses to let his people go. Plagues ensue.

Leaders urged to switch focus away from keeping foreigners out

The British Embassy in Cairo has been forced to close for security reasons, the UK ambassador to Egypt has said.

It may be the slowest crash ever.

The US and and five Arab countries have launched air strikes against Islamic State group targets in Syria for the first time, using fighter jets, bombers and Tomahawk cruise missiles fired from ships in the region.

The whitethroats numbers have been affected by climate change in its winter home in the Sahel.

The Egyptian capital of Cairo saw its first snowfall in many years today, with claims it maybe up to 112 years since the last time the white stuff was seen.

PLANNING a trip to Egypt this year? Don’t, unless you intend only to visit the country’s Red Sea resorts, such as Sharm el-Sheikh, Hurghada, and Dahab.

The Israeli military said it has shot down a rocket launched toward the Red Sea resort town of Eilat, near the border with Egypt.

The US has sharply escalated its drone war in Yemen, with military officials in the Arab country reporting 34 suspected al-Qaida militants killed in less than two weeks.

The airport in Israel’s Red Sea resort of Eilat has been closed on orders of the military.

A suspected US drone strike has killed six alleged al Qaida militants in one of the group's former strongholds in a central Yemeni province.

Yemen says it has foiled plots by al Qaida to take over key cities and attack strategic ports and gas facilities amid heightened anti-terror tension in the country.