Ports of Alexandria and Dakhila were shut down starting Sunday, while Nile Delta cities suffered power outages.

Local Sunni officials in Anbar said the central government had closed the crossing to choke the local economy.

The band are considered as one of the most successful groups in the history of rock music, with an estimated 300 million albums sold worldwide.

Directed by Ed Gass-Donnelly, the sequel to 2010’s “The Last Exorcism” is slated for a March 1 release in the United States.

The W273 is the first ever Walkman from Sony that resists water down to a depth of 2 meters, giving it an IPX8 rating.

The Islamists are pressing for a resignation of the national leadership, whom they believe are too secular.

Germany is sending a total of 350 troops to reinforce the border zone between the two countries, along with the U.S.

Eighty year old German painter, Gerhard Richter, took third place, becoming the top selling living artist.

As-Saqani was arrested in 2008 on suspicion of involvement in the terrorist attack that killed five members of Hamas.

The Osaka-based company eliminated more than 38,800 jobs in the year ended September, or about 11 percent of staff.

Toronto Film Critics Association named “The Master”, Paul Thomas Anderson’s cult-leader drama, as the best movie of 2012.

“Les Misérables” and “Life of Pi” are each nominated in nine categories while “Skyfall” has eight nominations.

Iran’s Ali Akbar Salehi has recently urged all parties concerned to use this opportunity to put an end to bloodshed.

Deputy Police Chief of Kunduz province Ghulam Mohammad says it was not clear if there was a connection between the two attacks.

The Syrian rebel al-Baraa brigade seized the Iranians in early August and had initially threatened to kill them.

The manufacturer unveiled a host of devices equipped with Smart Camera 2.0 technology, which offers a range of shoot, share and editing options.

U.S. military prosecutors are drawing comparisons between the alleged leak of classified documents to U.S. Civil War-era cases.

Told via letters, emails, texts and other doc, the novel tells the story of a brilliant but slightly unhinged woman who suddenly vanishes.

In the follow-up to the 2005 blockbuster, Brolin will play a man whose life falls apart as a woman he once loved tracks him down.

Nikon expanded its Coolpix line of compact cameras at CES with the unveiling of the WiFi-enabled Coolpix S6500 and the stylish S2700.

Huawei has fitted the phone with the Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 MSM8230 dual-core 1.2 GHz processor and Adreno 305 GPU.

India accused Pakistan of triggering a gunfight by sending troops across the heavily militarized line dividing the disputed region of Kashmir.

In 2012 the number of women in Yemen, who became victims of attempted murder, was nearly the double of females accused of killings.

The Islamist movement ousted Fatah from Gaza in 2007 after winning Palestinian elections the previous year.

Ai’s criticism of the Chinese government and alleged human-rights abuses has brought with it a series of legal headaches and tax trouble.

A spoof of the Academy Awards, the Razzies announcement comes a little more than a day before the Oscar nominations.

China is Apple’s fastest-growing market, with the maker of the popular iPhone and iPad opening a raft of retail stores last year.

Most foreign combat troops, will leave Afghanistan by the end of 2014; there are currently about 68,000 U.S. soldiers in the country.

Japan expressed protest over China’s maritime patrols in the waters of the Senkaku islands, which China calls the Diaoyus.

The meeting is intended to support efforts to understand what kind of challenges Syria will face in transition.