EGYPT

The hacking group Anonymous is threatening to "destroy" Facebook on Nov. 5.

Smartphone makre RIM has said it will help police investigate BlackBerry users who have used its messenger service to aid the London riots.

Syrian forces killed at least 30 people and moved into a town near the Turkish border on Tuesday, an activist group said, even as Turkey's foreign minister pressed President Bashar al-Assad to halt assaults on protests against his rule.

An Egyptian judge on Monday asked to see minutes of a meeting when a decision was taken to cut mobile and Internet services during an uprising that toppled President Hosni Mubarak, a move that could draw the ruling military into the controversy.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad pressed on with a tank onslaught against a city on Monday, but was plunged deeper into international isolation by Arab neighbours who denounced his violent crackdown and recalled their envoys from Damascus.

Scientists have identified an emerging "superbug" strain of salmonella that is highly resistant to the antibiotic ciprofloxacin, or Cipro, often used for severe salmonella infections, and say they fear it may spread around the world.

Former Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak pleaded "not guilty" to charges of corruption and complicity in a Cairo court Wednesday.

The images of former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak attending court proceedings lying down on a hospital stretcher, placed inside a meshed cage full of defendants, complete the story of mighty backlash. The court proceedings were televised live across the world, adding insult to his injury. But the majority of Egyptians are reckoning that Mubarak, who ruled the country with an iron fist, has got his comeuppance.

Egypt's Hosni Mubarak, accused of corruption and involvement in killing protesters, went on trial Wednesday, delighting those who overthrew him and ringing an alarm bell for other autocrats around the Arab world.

A crop circle is a flattening of a crop, and another mysterious one has been found in England.

"I am convinced that the Israel government would have accepted him, but he declined the offer because he was a patriot."

The former Egyptian leader said he was innocent at a Cairo court on Wednesday

Epidemics of HIV are emerging among gay and bisexual men in the Middle East and North Africa and high levels of risky sexual behavior threaten to spread the AIDS virus further in the region, researchers said Tuesday.

The male descendants of pharaohs are still around! A new study suggests that most of the European men share the DNA of the most famous Egyptian pharaoh, Tutankhamun, also called the boy King Tut.

The Islamic religious month-long holiday incorporates Qur'an recitation, fasting, charity and prayer to celebrate this festival of giving and sharing.

Robin Williams, Samuel L. Jackson and Brendan Fraser have signed on as hosts for Discovery Channel's upcoming series "Curiosity," the cable outlet announced at the Television Critics Assn. press tour on Friday.

The trial of Hosni Mubarak and others over their involvement in killing protesters will be held in Cairo next week, a senior official said on Thursday, ending talk it could be moved to a resort where the former president is hospitalised.

A majority in each country polled (except Lebanon) thinks Iranian involvement in the Middle East is largely negative.

Ancient texts found in Egypt have been released by Oxford University in hopes the public can aid in deciphering the ancient Greek text, which could possibly be the "Lost Gospel."

A majority in each country polled (except Lebanon) thinks Iranian involvement in the Middle East is largely negative.

Oxford University is enlisting the help of "armchair archaeologists" to help unlock the meaning of ancient texts found in Egypt, some of which contain forgotten Biblical episodes or works by master poets.