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Archaeology chief Zahi Hawass said the statue could belong to King Ptolemy IV and represented the traditional shape of an ancient Egy...

  The Rosetta Stone at the British museum in London Photo: AP The demand, issued in Cairo at the end of a two-day conference...

Two fragments of papyrus featuring the handwriting of Cleopatra Photo: REUTERS The document with the Greek inscripti...

Policemen stand guard at the site of the shooting in Cairo. Photo: KeystoneUSA-ZUMA / Rex Features Mahmud Taha Ahma...

  A Greek man has received compensation after a Swedish dairy used his picture on a Turkish-recipe yoghurt pot. The 77-year-old man,...

The centre of the casino world in North Cyprus is Kyrenia The Turkish enclave of Cyprus has announced proposals for a s...

Mr Putin said that the spies "had a tough life"

Mr Nasrallah claimed the UN-backed tribunal was politically motivated

The Chirinos Chinas family are performing in the Guelaguetza An old Mexican man, with a big moustache and wearing a wide sombrero,...

Monday's celebrations recall the start of the Cuban revolution Cuban President Raul Castro is set to make one of his rare tele...

The files have been passed on to three news organisations

Burma and India have enjoyed warm relations over the last 10 years Burmese military ruler General Than Shwe has arrived in India f...

Michel Germaneau, a 78-year-old retired engineer, was kidnapped in Niger in April

The leaks raise "serious" questions about US policy in the region, a senior US senator has said

  Rescue workers treat an injured person as firefighters and policemen survey the scene

The Taliban have offered to exchange the body of a US navy member they say was killed in an ambush two days ago in exchange for insurg...

Tony Hayward's departure will be announced tomorrow Photograph: Reuters/Suzanne Plunkett Tony Hayward, ch...

Asking Eamonn not to act like a plonker is as pointless as arguing against gravity' . . . Holmes pictured with co-presenter Ruth Langsfo...

  Tahir Shah in the restored library of Dar Khalifa, and its original pool Photograph: Ingrid Pullar Seven years ago, exasperated by l...

  Tune in for an update on the status of Didier Drogba's groin injury. Photograph: Tom Jenkins With most of the big free-to-air sport ...

Liverpool are uncertain of holding on to their star striker Fernando Torres. Photograph: Michael Regan/Getty Images Roberto M...

  Kansas City Wizards celebrate Davy Arnaud's opener against Manchester United. Photograph: Charlie Riedel/AP

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Saving grace: Dr. Jerone Landstrom, a Navy reservist and Guam surgeon who specializes in microsurgery was deployed to Afghanistan in March t...

[Graduation: July 23, 2010 - C&Q Officers Gerard T. Aflague, Christopher J. Baza, Jesse J.M. Borja, and Ike J.R. Reyes with Customs C...

Sorting and washing bananas in Martinique, where chlordecone was used to combat the banana weevil. Photograph: Jean-Daniel Sudres...

Kim Kardashian has revealed she is not ready to have children

Max Marambio. Photograph: Observer

GETTY IMAGES Tony Hayward during a hearing on 'The Role Of BP In ...

AP – Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, right, rides Harley Davidson Lehman Tr...

Death toll from German music festival rises to 19 (AP) AP - The death to...

Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro talks to Cuban journalist Katiuska Blanco during a visit to the Mausoleum of the Heroes of the Revolution ...

Spoilt for choice ... Mykonos bathed in afternoon sunlight. Photograph: Jean-Pierre Lescourret/Corbis

Actor Tom Felton arrives at a sneak peek of a trailer for the latest Harry Potter film. Photo / AP

Kings of Leon bassist Jared Followill wasn't grinning when pigeon droppings rained down on him during a concert. Photo / Richard Robin...

  Mexico is fighting an ongoing battle against drugs. Photo / AP

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