Researchers have found signs of heart disease in 3,500-year old mummies, indicating that even though there was no McDonald's around at that time, even the ancients suffered from the condition linked to modern risk factors, such as, fast food, smoking and a lack of exercise. However, these recent findings reveal that these are not the only reasons that arteries get blocked.

Dresden,Germany - The widower of pregnant Egyptian Marwa al-Shirbini described to a Dresden court Monday the rapid sequence of events in which his wife was stabbed to death in the same building earlier this year. Elwi Ali Okaz described events clearly, addressing the court in Arabic on the first afternoon of the trial. The 32-year-old was also stabbed and critically wounded in the attack. He still uses crutches.

Egyptian police killed an unidentified African migrant Friday as he was attempting to enter Israel illegally, a security source said.

Police ordered the man to stop, and opened fire when he failed to do so, the source added.

Arab health ministers have agreed to allow the annual Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca this year, but banned elderly people and young children in order to limit the spread of the H1N1 swine flu virus, a newspaper reported on Thursday.

Egypt has arrested a suspected terrorist cell accused of having online links to al-Qaeda, Egypt's Interior Ministry announced on Thursday.

The alleged leader of the group, which consisted of 25 Egyptians and one Palestinian, admitted that they communicated with other terror cells by internet.

A court in Egypt on Thursday confirmed the death sentence for property tycoon Hisham Talaat Mustafa for the murder of Lebanese pop singer Suzanne Tamim.

The court had earlier found that Mustafa had paid Mohsen al- Sukkari, a former Egyptian security officer, to murder the singer in her apartment in Dubai last July.

After their dramatic 3-0 victory over Egypt in Rustenburg on Sunday night, the United States were moved by their own performance and hit out at critics back home that had slammed the team after losing their first two Confederations Cup matches.

The Egyptian Football Association has lodged an appeal against the red card shown to Mohamed Al-Muhamadi by referee Howard Webb in the 4-3 Confederations Cup defeat to Brazil.

"We have received the protest and will look at the situation," FIFA spokesman Nicolas Maingot said Tuesday in Johannesburg.