The Ministry of Health's "your right to plan" campaign begins today in 10 governorates to provide family planning services; free contraception will be available in fixed and mobile health units, public hospitals and maternal and child care centers

The Egyptian Lawyers' Association has announced an "indefinite" strike to protest the jailing of six colleagues over a fight with clerks earlier this month

One Egyptian family, the Sawiris family, tops the list of the five richest families in the Arab world according to Forbes magazine

A sarcophagus dating back to the Late Dynastic Period of ancient Egypt, smuggled into the United States in 2008, has eventually returned home and handed over with a ceremony in Cairo; the country is also holding talks with the UK for the Rosetta Stone

1.200 new mosques were opened across Egypt this year financed by the Ministry of Awqaf, while others were built privately under government supervision - the ministry reports