Shoddy materials, illegal construction and a culture of corruption were blamed for the deaths of more than three dozen people buried when a 12-storey apartment building crumbled…

Rescue workers pulled three more bodies from the rubble of a collapsed block of flats in the Egyptian city of Alexandria overnight, bringing the toll to eight dead with many…

The editor of an independent Egyptian daily is to face prosecution over his paper’s coverage of the state of President Hosni Mubarak’s health, the head of the journalists’ union…