Egypt's Court of Cassation overturned Sunday the 12-year imprisonment sentence against former Interior Minister Habib al-Adli over money-laundering and profiteering charges, state-run news agency MENA reported.

A microbus overturned Saturday on a desert highway heading to Upper Egypt's governorate of Minia, some 220 km south of the capital Cairo, state-run Al-Ahram Online reported.

Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi will pay a state visit to Pakistan on March 18 at the invitation of his Pakistani counterpart, Asif Ali Zardari, the Foreign Ministry said Saturday.

Six people were killed and eight injured in a car crash on Ismailia-Zagazig desert highway in Egypt, north of the capital Cairo, official news agency MENA reported Friday.

Six passengers were killed and five others rescued after a microbus overturned in a canal in Upper Egypt's governorate of Sohag, some 400 km south of the capital Cairo, official news agency MENA reported Friday.

Egyptian journalists elected Friday political researcher and journalist Diaa Rashwan, head of Al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies, as new chairman of the country's Journalists' Syndicate.

Egypt's Administrative Court decided Wednesday to consider an appeal submitted to challenge a previous ruling suspending the parliamentary elections on Sunday.

A terrorist group linked to al-Qaeda has fired a long-range missile in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, security sources say.

Situation in Egypt remains tense after violent clashes between police and protesters over a controversial court ruling on 2012 soccer riot in the North African country.

Fresh clashes have broken out between Egyptian security forces and hundreds of protesters in the northeastern city of Port Said.

A section of the police headquarters in Egypt's northeastern city of Port Said has been set ablaze as clashes between security forces and protesters continue in the Suez Canal city.

Plainclothes security forces in Egypt have attacked anti-government demonstrators in the capital, Cairo, and the northeastern city of Port Said.

At least five Egyptians, including security forces, have lost their lives and 420 others sustained injuries in overnight clashes in Egypt's northeastern city of Port Said.

US Secretary of State John Kerry has paid a visit to Cairo for talks with Egyptian leaders and opposition amid political and economic turmoil in the North African country.

Egyptian protesters have set fire to a police station in the city of Port Said as US Secretary of State John Kerry lands in the capital, Cairo.

Clashes between police and protesters in Egypt's Nile Delta province of Dakahliya have left at least one person dead and dozens of others injured.

US Secretary of State John Kerry has said that Egypt must reach an agreement with the International Monetary Fund to be able to boost its economy.

Egypt sets the date of the retrial of ousted dictator Hosni Mubarak for April 13, state media say.

Clashes between police and protesters in Egypt's Nile Delta city of Mansura have left at least one person dead and dozens others injured.

Egyptian opposition figures have turned down invitations to meet US Secretary of State John Kerry during his weekend visit to Cairo due to the US pressure on the opposition.