Thousands of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip poured into an Egyptian border town, early Wednesday, after militants blew a large hole in the border wall overnight that separates Gaza from Egypt. VOA's Jim Teeple has details from our Jerusalem Bureau.

President Bush has ended his Middle East tour on a positive note, with a show of support for the Israeli-Palestinian peace process from Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. VOA White House Correspondent Paula Wolfson reports the leaders spoke after seaside talks in the Egyptian resort of Sharm El-Sheikh.

Egypt's health ministry has announced a second bird flu death in less than a week.

A fellow blogger Misr Digital (misrdigital.tk/) and Human Rights activist, who has won awards for his efforts is being silenced by YouTube and Yahoo!.

A palm tree at Egypt's Cairo international airport has saved hundreds of passengers on board an Ethiopian Airlines' flight from certain death, the Al-Ahram weekly paper said on Monday.

The mummy of the boy pharaoh Tutankhamun who who died more than 3,000 years ago will be visible to the general public from Monday in his tomb in the Valley of the Kings.

President Hosni Mubarak says Egypt is to build several nuclear power stations, relaunching a nuclear program frozen more than 20 years ago.

The unfinished Obelisk Quarry in Aswan, Egypt, has a canal that may have connected to the Nile and allowed the large stone monuments to float to their permanent locations, according to an international team of researchers. This canal, however, may be allowing salts from ground water to seep into what has been the best preserved example of obelisk quarrying in Egypt.

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice won tempered Egyptian support in her quest to nudge Israelis and Palestinians closer together ahead of a Mideast peace conference to be held in November or December.

More than 20 Egyptian independent and opposition newspapers were not on newsstands on Sunday as part of an effort to protest the country's crackdown on press freedom.

A ancient template going as far back to the reign of pharaoh Ramses II was found in a mosque in Luxor, Egypt.

A ferry carrying hundreds of people for a wedding party has sunk in the Nile south of Cairo, police said dozens of passengers were missing, while at least six have been injured.