A man who posed for a picture with a hijacker wearing a suspected suicide belt has said he was trying to get a better look at the device.

The hijacker of a domestic Egyptian flight who forced it to divert to Cyprus surrenders to the authorities after hostages are seen fleeing the plane.

Nineteen people have been killed after a bus carrying Egyptian pilgrims crashed in Saudi Arabia, Egypt's state-run Mena news agency says.

Egyptians takes to social media to poke fun at President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi after he said he would sell himself to help the country's economy.

Family members of a 3-year-old Egyptian boy who was sentenced last week to life in prison say they feel relieved after receiving assurances from officials that neither the boy nor his father will be arrested,.

In 2011, activist Esraa Abdel-Fattah helped ignite revolution on the streets of Egypt and was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize. Five years after the fall of autocrat Hosni Mubarak, she is shunned or insulted by Egyptians on those same streets.

Egyptian media says prosecutors refer eight museum employees for trial over the botched reattachment of the beard on the burial mask of the pharaoh, Tutankhamun.

Though Egypt joins the Saudi-led 34-nation Islamic Military Coalition against terrorism and violent extremism, it will not join any military action, says its envoy in Bangladesh.

The University of Birmingham reveals that it has fragments from one of the world's oldest Korans.

Assailants attack a Cairo nightclub Friday with petrol bombs, killing at least 16 people in the ensuing blaze, following an apparent dispute with the staff, the interior ministry says.

Egyptian officials now say they are "90% sure" that there is a hidden chamber in King Tutankhamun's tomb.

David Cameron is holding talks in Paris with French President Francois Hollande on co-operation in the fight against so-called Islamic State.

The Islamic State group has released a photo of the bomb it says was used to bring down a Russian passenger plane in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula last month, killing all 224 people on board.

Russia's security chief says a "terror act" brought down the Russian A321 airliner in Egypt last month, killing all 224 people on board.

Russia says it has flown 11,000 tourists home from Egypt in the past 24 hours, and more will return on Sunday.

Russia orders the suspension of all flights to Egypt following indications that the crash near Sharm el-Sheikh was caused by a bomb.

UK investigators looking at what caused a Russian airliner to crash in Egypt believe a bomb was put in the hold prior to take-off.

Intelligence suggests the Russian plane that crashed in Egypt killing all 224 people on board may have been brought down by a bomb, US and UK officials say.

President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi defends Egypt's sweeping security laws, insisting he is still taking the country on a path to democracy.

Egyptian President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi has described claims that militants linked to Islamic State (IS) brought down a Russian airliner as "propaganda".