The US administration is in a listening mood, Egypt's ambassador to Washington tells Dina Ezzat

The release of Egyptian prisoners from Israeli jails is being hailed as a success for diplomatic intervention, but the performance of Egypt's embassies abroad is wanting, reports Doaa El-Bey

A conference deliberated several scenarios of facing off the Avian Flu virus if it mutates into a human-to-human strain. Reem Leila attended

Dina Ezzat reports on Egyptian attempts to underline Cairo's crucial role in maintaining channels of Arab-Israeli communication

Relations between the government and the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood took a turn for the worse in the People's Assembly this week, writes Gamal Essam El-Din

A crisis threatens to tear the Nasserist Party apart, reports Mona El-Nahhas

Recent discoveries in two different areas of Saqqara shed more light on the history of this great necropolis, reports Nevine El-Aref