The Russian airline Kogalymavia blames "external influence" for Saturday's Sinai plane crash which killed 224 people.

The bodies of 144 of those killed in Saturday's air crash in Egypt are flown back to the Russian city of St Petersburg as an investigation into the cause continues.

A Russian airliner which crashed in Egypt's Sinai peninsula, killing all 224 people on board, broke up in mid-air, a Russian official says.

An investigation is under way after a Russian airliner crashed in Sinai, killing all 224 people on board.

A Russian airliner crashes in central Sinai killing all 224 people on board, Egyptian officials say.

The world's oldest bible is among 200 objects tracing Egypt's religious evolution in an exhibition at London's British Museum that spans the 1,200 years since Cleopatra's death.

A team of researchers at Alexandria University in Egypt have bypassed these power-hungry methods and created a simple filtration technique to remove salt from water with minimal power.

The University of Manchester academics rejects the story that Cleopatra, ancient queen of Egypt, was killed by a snake bite as "impossible".

The death toll from last month's hajj stampede has topped 2,100, according to tallies given by foreign officials, making it by far the deadliest disaster in the pilgrimage's history.

Security forces in Egypt have mistakenly killed 12 people, including Mexican tourists, during an anti-terror operation, the interior ministry says.

Egypt's Prime Minister Ibrahim Mehleb and his Cabinet resigns amid a corruption investigation that led to the arrest of the agriculture minister last week.

The Italian energy company Eni SpA announces it has discovered a "supergiant" natural gas field off Egypt, describing it as the "largest-ever" found in the Mediterranean Sea.

Three al-Jazeera journalists convicted in Egypt of "spreading false news" have been sentenced to three years in prison at their retrial in Cairo.

Egyptian President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi has approved stringent new counter-terrorism laws to fight a growing Islamist insurgency.

At least 25 people have died in a fire at a furniture factory north of the Egyptian capital Cairo, officials say.

At least 29 people die in a crash between a cargo vessel and a passenger boat on Egypt's River Nile.

A large explosion struck outside the Italian Consulate in Egypt's capital Cairo, severely damaging the building and killing one civilian, and injuring four others, officials say.

A group affiliated with Islamic State says it fired three rockets into Israel from Egypt's Sinai peninsula.

Egypt says its army will continue an offensive in the Sinai Peninsula, after clashes with Islamic State (IS) militants left more than 100 dead.

Islamic State militants have launched a wave of attacks on the security forces in Egypt's restive Sinai Peninsula.