An eight-storey apartment building has collapsed, killing 17 people in Egypt, the second tragic accident in the country as many days.

A speeding train has crashed into a bus carrying children to their creche in southern Egypt, killing at least 49, officials said.

At least 47 children were killed today when their school bus was hit by a train on a level crossing in southern Egypt.

At least 47 children were killed today when their school bus was hit by a train on a level crossing in southern Egypt.

Egypt’s incoming cabinet will have few Islamists and some holdovers from the outgoing military-backed team in key positions, according to a partial list.

Egyptian passengers fed up with waiting for their train to move put logs and rocks on the rails of a nearby track, causing two other trains to collide, an official says.

A prominent Egyptian blogger accused of attacking soldiers during deadly clashes was released today after nearly two months in detention, during which he became a symbol of the pro-democracy activists’ struggle to end military rule in Egypt.

The trial of Egypt’s ousted leader Hosni Mubarak, accused of complicity in the killing of more than 800 protesters this year, has been adjourned until December 28.

THE trial of Egypt’s ousted leader Hosni Mubarak on charges of complicity in the killing of more than 800 protesters this year was adjourned yesterday until December 28.

WOMEN in Cairo’s Coptic hospital wailed for their dead and Christians accused Egypt’s generals of failing to protect them from strict Islamists after 25 people, most of them Coptic demonstrators, were killed in clashes with troops.

Deadly clashes between Christians, Muslims and security forces have dealt a serious setback to Egypt’s transition to civilian rule, the country’s prime minister said today.

Tens of thousands packed central Cairo today on what they dubbed “the day of departure” in their campaign to remove President Hosni Mubarak.

A court in southern Egypt today convicted and sentenced to death a Muslim man for his part in last year’s Christmas drive-by shooting outside a church that left six Christians and a Muslim guard dead.

A car exploded in front of a Coptic Christian church as worshippers emerged from a New Year’s Mass in the Egyptian city of Alexandria early today, killing at least 21 people.

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 TOUR bus slammed into a truck in southern Egypt yesterday, killing eight American tourists and injuring 21 others in the latest fatal crash involving tourists, the state news agency said.

Eight tourists have been killed and 21 others injured when their bus smashed into a truck in southern Egypt today.

EGYPT’S antiquities department says archaeologists have unearthed 12 more sphinx statues along the ancient avenue connecting Luxor and Karnak temples.

Three men in a car sprayed automatic gunfire into a crowd of churchgoers in southern Egypt as they left a midnight Mass for Coptic Christmas, killing at least seven people.

A passenger train collided with the back of a second one ahead of it on the tracks just outside of Cairo tonight, destroying several passenger cars and killing at least 15 people.

A bus packed with passengers plunged into an irrigation canal along a narrow road in southern Egypt, killing 57 people.

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.

A group of 11 tourists were kidnapped today in a remote corner of southern Egypt and taken across the border to neighbouring Sudan.

SCUFFLES erupted at an Egyptian court yesterday when five of six defendants were cleared of blame for a 2006 ferry sinking in which more than 1,000 people died, Egypt’s worst maritime disaster.

HOME to one of the oldest civilisations in the world, a country with a long and luminous history and its fair share of bloodshed, Egypt is now an ‘emerging’ property market’.

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.

ANGRY Muslims attacked and destroyed shops owned by Coptic Christians yesterday in a town in southern Egypt that has been witnessing sectarian tensions, a police official said.

Angry Muslims attacked and destroyed shops owned by Coptic Christians today in a town in southern Egypt that been witnessing sectarian tensions, a police official said.

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

AN American team has found what appears to be an intact tomb in the Valley of the Kings, the first found in the valley since that of Tutankhamun in 1922, one of the archaeologists said on Thursday.

An Egyptian passenger ferry carrying around 1,300 people, mostly Egyptian workers returning from Saudi Arabia, sank in the Red Sea overnight.

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.

A tourist bus overturned on a highway in southern Egypt early today, killing 14 tourists from Hong Kong and injuring 30 more, some critically, Egypt’s news agency reported.

Ahmed and Mohamed Ibrahim arrived in the US more than three years ago as babies joined at the tops of their heads. Tomorrow, the four-year-olds will return home to Egypt as two boys living independent lives.

A rapid series of car bombs and another blast ripped through a luxury hotel and a coffee shop in the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Sharm El Sheik today, killing at least 75, police said.

Three car bombs exploded in quick succession in the Red Sea resort of Sharm El Sheikh early today, ripping through a hotel and a coffee shop packed with European and Egyptian tourists.

A reported four people were killed and 19 injured when an explosion apparently set off by a man on a motorcycle hit a popular tourist bazaar in Cairo’s Old City today.

A man angry with fathering no sons stabbed four of his seven daughters to death as they slept and seriously wounded the other three in southern Egypt today.

A suspected planner of the 1997 Luxor massacre that killed 62 people – mostly tourists – was handed over by Uruguayan authorities to Egyptian police, according to news reports.

A survivor of the Egypt rail tragedy who jumped from the burning train has spoken of his escape.

At least 100 people have died in a fire on a passenger train crowded with Egyptians leaving Cairo for a holiday.

Crowds gathered at a monastery in southern Egypt today to protest at revelations that an excommunicated monk allegedly ran a sex-and-blackmail ring at the sacred site.