Oscar Wilde's renovated Paris tomb was unveiled on Wednesday, complete with a new glass barrier to shield the monument to the quintessential dandy's life from a torrent of admiring kisses.
Kiss upon lipsticked kiss in honor of Wilde, who died (...)
CAIRO: Sudanese President Omar Al-Beshir met his Egyptian counterpart Hosni Mubarak in Cairo on Wednesday on his second trip visit since an international court ordered his arrest for war crimes in Darfur.
Mubarak met Beshir at the airport and (...)
CAIRO: Every Friday, thousands of Christians and a handful of curious Muslims pour into Cairo's St Mark's Coptic Church to hear Father Makari Yunan preach, drawn by his power to exorcise demons.
Vigorously splashing holy water from a gardening (...)
CAIRO: A rising tide of travelers seeking out the new frontier of Egyptian tourism is threatening priceless rock art preserved for millennia in one of the most-isolated reaches of the Sahara.
In Egypt s southwest corner, straddling the borders of (...)
CAIRO: Bayonets fixed, the soldiers scrambled onto the island in the middle of Cairo, rolled out barbed wire and set up camp. The reasons why they did so are as murky as the Nile waters that flow around them.
Al-Qursaya island is home to 5,000 (...)