The H5N1 strain of the flu is extremely dangerous, killing up to 60 percent of people who contract it.
For John Salemme, the mention of Egypt brings to my mind one thing: a lonely, tearful train ride on New Year’s Eve.
Egyptian prosecutors and police raided offices of 17 pro-democracy and human rights groups Thursday - including several funded by the United States - in what rights defenders described as a campaign against them by the military rulers.
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Ex-Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak appeared in court on Wednesday.
The Muslim Brotherhood's party, leading in a parliamentary election, wants to boost tourist numbers to Egypt and will not take steps that would harm the industry, a party official told a rally in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh.
Oh Baby! A very pregnant Beyonce is reportedly getting ready to check in to a New York Hospital to give birth any minute now, according to multiple reports. Beyonce confirmed in September that she was six months pregnant, so she would be due around this time.
Who will be the five people to shape 2012? It could be anyone on list, or it could be none of them. Such is the state of geopolitics at this important moment in history.
From stories of Scott Olsen at Occupy Oakland and the riots in Tahrir Square, to a hilarious cache of old photos and LOTR's Eye of Sauron in a glass door's reflection, reddit has broken some of the biggest stories of the year, and given us plenty of hilarity in between. Here, see the top scoring links of 2011 as voted by reddit users.
Controversial Egyptian blogger, Aliaa Magda Elmahdy, whose nude photographs shocked her country, has asked those of her countrywomen who wish to remove their veils to send her photographs of their faces, to be published online.
The Egyptian economy, battered after months of uncertainty and violence that has followed the political upheaval in that country, is hovering dangerously close to crisis status.
National Geographic Films, which is associated with the hit documentary March of the Penguins in 2005, is shutting down, according to two individuals with knowledge of the independent studio.
Commenting on the shocking photograph of a woman, stripped by soldiers, during the clashes between Egypt's armed forces and anti-military protesters, Egyptian Sheikh Khaled el-Gendy said that the woman was responsible for whatever happened, by being in the protest in the first place.
Due to Kenya’s soaring unemployment rate, the men are easily fooled into this trap.
Workers began culling 17,000 chickens at a wholesale poultry market in Hong Kong on Wednesday after a dead chicken there tested positive for the deadly H5N1 avian virus, a government spokesman said.
At least 43 journalists were killed worldwide in direct relation to their work this year according to the year-end survey on journalists killed in the line of duty by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) .
Egyptian police and soldiers fired weapons and used batons and teargas for a fifth day Tuesday in the latest effort to clear Cairo's central Tahrir Square of opponents of army rule, amid mounting international concern about the violence.
Graphic images of the clashes between Egypt's armed forces and the anti-military protesters continued to shock the world on Sunday, the third consecutive day of ongoing fight, which have left ten protestors dead and 505 others injured; 81 of whom admitted to hospital. Total of 106 security troop members including three high ranking officials were also injured as demonstrators hurled stones and crude bombs at the armed forces, Egyptian officials said.
An Egyptian pipeline carrying gas to Israel and Jordan was bombed Sunday, the 10th such attack this year, but no fire erupted because the line that runs through North Sinai was already disabled, a security source said.
Soldiers baton-charged demonstrators in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Saturday, a day after street clashes killed eight people and wounded more than 300, marring the first free election most Egyptians can remember.
Egyptian government forces cracked down on pro-democracy activists in Cairo Friday. Government sources confirm at least two dead and 150 injured.
Staying in Syria would tacitly suggest that Hamas supports Assad, who has already become the loneliest and most isolated leader in the Middle East.
