Grain prices will likely remain elevated at the end of this year, a Reuters poll showed, providing little relief to food prices while continuing to challenge policymakers battling to tamp down inflation.
Hoping to break a world record and raise awareness of endangered sharks, a couple gathered over 200 divers in Mexico to celebrate their wedding under the sea.
Global consumer confidence fell in the second quarter to its lowest level in a year and a half as an uncertain economic outlook, a deepening euro zone debt crisis and rising inflation made people more cautious, a survey showed on Sunday.
The United States may lose its top-notch credit rating in the next few weeks if lawmakers fail to increase the country's legal borrowing limit and the government misses debt payments, Moody's Investors Service warned on Wednesday.
Thousands of pro-democracy protesters in Egypt making Cairo's Tahrir Square their home until their demands of the thrown out of President Hosni Mubarak and removal of the military rules is met. There is high rage among protester over the merciless killing of those protesters who ousted Housni Mubarak.
Egypt's interim government has sacked hundreds of police officers in response to demands by protesters of cleaning up corruption on the force, according to state-controlled TV.
Perceptions of the U.S. and President Barack Obama have nosedived in the Arab World to levels lower than during the Bush administration, a remarkable reversal for Obama, who made a speech vowing a new era of relations with the Arab world shortly after being elected.
George W. Bush and senior officials responsible for torture and mistreatment of detainees must be prosecuted, if not by the Obama administration then by the international community, a report released on Tuesday by Human Rights Watch charged.
Masked gunmen in Egypt blew up a part of the gas terminal of the natural gas pipeline to Israel and Jordan in a pre-dawn attack on Tuesday.
Health officials confirmed Friday the death of an Arizona man tied to the food-poisoning outbreak in Europe a month after the United States Food and Drug Administration reported a five-state outbreak linked to sprouts.
IBTimes World correspondent Michael Martin talked to Mosa'ab El-Shamy, renowned blogger and democracy activist. El-Shamy was not only present at today's protest, but was arrested and tried at an Egyptian military court after participating in a May 15 protest to commemorate the 1948 loss of Palestine to Israeli forces.
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The United States could sell the government of Egypt 125 M1A1 Abrams tank kits.
E. Coli allegations have resulted in an EU ban on Egyptian fenugreek seeds. Fears loom that the Egyptian economy will take a major hit.
The European Union has banned Egyptian fenugreek seeds.
Egyptians are protesting military trials this week, with the largest protest slated to erupt Friday.
New York City's Department of Parks and Recreation is attempting to answer that question this summer, as it conducts a weathering study of Cleopatra's Needle, which was gifted to the United States government by Egypt as a token to commemorate the opening of the Suez Canal. The obelisk has stood in Central Park since 1881, the New York Times reported.
Moroccan constitutional reform isn't sitting well with some of the North African nation's activists.
A powerful Egyptian leader claims that the September 11th terrorist attacks were made in the USA and the Holocaust is a lie, in a recent interview with The Washington Times.
The deadly E. coli epidemic in Germany and France was most likely caused by fenugreek seeds imported from Egypt, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) said on Tuesday.
Nigeria is positioning its banks to offer Islamic banking products.
Ben Ali left in January, but it's old tricks in Tunis, according to Tunisian politicians.
