EGYPT

From “superstorms” to mega disasters, 2012 was, by all accounts, an eventful year. More than 1 billion people traveled - led by the ramp-up in Chinese tourists.

Despite a few concessions in the president's speech, secular forces still demand Morsi call off his power-grabbing decree and referendum.

After living in exile for 45 years, Hamas's political leader Khaled Meshaal will visit Gaza for the first time for Hamas's 25th anniversary.

Five people were reported dead on Thursday as clashes between secular supporters and Islamist supporters continue in Cairo.

Egypt descended into further chaos overnight Wednesday as clashes between Egypt’s Islamist supporters and opponents claimed at least five lives.

NASA lost one of its most memorable and unique astronauts this week: Nefertiti the space spider. Nefertiti, a jumping spider, became the first spider to survive a journey into space after spending 100 days in the International Space Station.

Four reported dead as Egyptian Islamists and secularists fight by the thousands in the streets around the presidential palace.

A real-life “Snakes on a Place” scenario broke out in the air over Egypt on Monday when a cobra bit a man during an Egypt Air flight from Cairo to Kuwait.

The head of the world's oldest Christian church, Ignatius IV of Damascus, died Wednesday of complications from a stroke.

27 people were reported injured on Wednesday as protests continue against the Egypt's constitution draft and President Morsi.

More than a dozen news outlets in Egypt are going on strike to protest the country's draft constitution, which they say does not protect the rights of journalists.

Despite violent protests, Morsi has called a nationwide referendum on the constitution for Dec. 15.

Just one day after announcing the iPhone 5 in 54 new countries, Apple released the iTunes Store in 56 countries around the world on Tuesday, including Russia, India and South Africa.

President Morsi's new Egypt is guilty of some old sins, at least in the Islamist-led Constituent Assembly, according to the human rights group.

Look for Tuesday protests, including a media blackout, in reaction to the constitution draft, pushed through the Assembly last week.

Egypt's Supreme Constitutional Court has suspended work, and judges are refusing to cooperate with the vote on a new constitution.

Egypt's controversial draft constitution will be put to a referendum Dec. 15, President Mohammed Morsi announced at a meeting of the country's Islamist-dominated Constituent Assembly Saturday.

Egypt's assembly passed a draft of its constitution, with Morsi's judicial immunity intact, despite protests of hundreds of thousands of people in Tahrir Square.

There has never really been a sovereign state called Palestine.

Before the Thursday's vote on the status of the Palestinian Territories at the U.N., Israeli Ambassador Ron Prosor asserted that such an upgrade would stall the peace process even further.

Egypt’s Islamist lawmakers approved a draft constitution Friday to pre-empt a judicial review Sun on the constitutional assembly's legitimacy.