Red Sea

PHOTOS: Kidtastic Family Adventures

Kensington Tours | Posted 05.21.2012

Kensington Tours

What is a Kidtastic Family Adventure? It's a holiday that goes far beyond the beach and instead features personalized once-in-a-lifetime activities

Egypt Bus Crash Kills Group Of Hungarian Tourists

AP | By MAGGIE MICHAEL | Posted 01.06.2012

CAIRO -- Eleven Hungarian tourists were killed late Sunday when a speeding tour bus overturned at a Red Sea resort town in southeastern Egypt, police ...

Israeli Air Strikes Hit Gaza After Eilat Attacks

BBC | Posted 10.18.2011

The Israeli military has carried out air strikes over the Gaza Strip, targeting those it blamed for a series of deadly attacks in southern Israel. ...

Egypt Official: Mubarak Leaves Hospital For Trial

AP/The Huffington Post | Posted 10.02.2011

CAIRO (AP) -- An ailing, 83-year-old Hosni Mubarak, lying ashen-faced on a hospital bed inside a metal defendants cage with his two sons standing prot...

Iran Sends Submarines To Red Sea, Highlighting Naval Power

AP | Posted 08.07.2011

TEHRAN, Iran — Iran has sent submarines to the Red Sea in the first such deployment by the country's navy in distant waters, a semi-official new...

Egyptian Military Disperses Protesters Using Tasers And Batons

Reuters | Patrick Werr and Dina Zayed | Posted 06.08.2011

April 9, 2011 6:16:02 AM By Patrick Werr and Dina Zayed CAIRO, April 9 (Reuters) - Hundreds of Egyptians defied soldiers who tried to disper...

Egypt: The Days of Rage and the Days After

Thane Rosenbaum | Posted 05.25.2011

Thane Rosenbaum

Israel and the United States are unlikely to benefit from Egypt's liberation. The Pharaohs of the modern Middle East, ironically, may have been Israel's best hope for a true and lasting peace.

Mubarak Resigns As Egypt's President; Armed Forces To Take Control

The Huffington Post/AP | YASSER IMAM | Posted 05.25.2011

CAIRO -- Egypt's Hosni Mubarak resigned as president and handed control to the military on Friday, bowing down after a historic 18-day wave of pro-dem...

Red Sea Sharks Attacking Humans, Killing Spree Baffles Scientists

TIME | ABIGAIL HAUSLOHNER / SHARM EL | Posted 05.25.2011

Hoping to protect the local tourism industry over July 4, the beach resort's mayor initially downplays the danger of shark attacks - but is forced to ...

I'm With Stupid: Everyone Tastes the Same to a Mako Shark

Todd Hartley | Posted 05.25.2011

Todd Hartley

You have the mako to track people down and the whitetip to chew them up. Clever. Just the sort of scheme you'd expect a brilliant organization like the Mossad to dream up.

Egypt Catches One Killer Shark, Another Still At Large

AP | YASSER IMAM | Posted 05.25.2011

SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt — A top Egyptian official said Wednesday that he believes that one of two sharks involved in attacks on tourists in the R...

Shark Attack RAMPAGE Leads To International Expert Panel

Posted 05.25.2011

Egypt is hastily assembling an investigative team of marine biologists after a series of shark attacks at a Red Sea resort last week, the BBC is repor...

Red Sea Sharks Made in Israel?

Firas Al-Atraqchi | Posted 05.25.2011

Firas Al-Atraqchi

A German tourist was mauled to death by a shark off Egypt's Red Sea coast Sunday, but if popular rumors on the street are to be believed, it was the I...

Shark Attacks 4 Russian Swimmers In Egypt's Red Sea

AP | HADEEL AL-SHALCHI | Posted 05.25.2011

CAIRO — An oceanic white tip shark badly mauled four Russian tourists swimming close to their beach hotels in two separate attacks at an Egyptia...

Biblical Miracles You Can Perform at Home

Todd Hartley | Posted 05.25.2011

Todd Hartley

The latest attempt to prove scientifically that events in the Bible could have occurred comes courtesy of researchers at the National Center for Atmospheric Research and CU-Boulder.

6 Tips to Help Clean the Sea on World Oceans Day

Karin Kloosterman | Posted 05.25.2011

Karin Kloosterman

Coral reefs are at risk as the oceans warm up, plastic bottles are choking sea life, and overfishing is threatening species. World Oceans Day is an opportunity to celebrate what the oceans give us.

Obama's Passover Seder

Thane Rosenbaum | Posted 05.25.2011

Thane Rosenbaum

Israel's head of state ultimately left America as if he had been banished from Egypt, passed over like some dime store diplomat.

Moses vs. the Death Panels: Obama Brings the Ten Commandments Into the Health Care Debate

Bruce Feiler | Posted 05.25.2011

Bruce Feiler

Despite harsh criticism that Obama is injecting religion where it doesn't belong, "bearing false witness" has a long presence in American jurisprudence, as do most of the Ten Commandments.

Charlton Heston the Face of the USA? How Moses Was Chosen for the Great Seal

Bruce Feiler | Posted 05.25.2011

Bruce Feiler

The committee's report offers vivid, behind-the-scenes evidence that the founders of the United States viewed themselves as acting in the image of Moses.

Israeli Warships Cross Suez In Possible Iran Signal

AP | MATTI FRIEDMAN | Posted 05.25.2011

JERUSALEM — Two Israeli warships sailed through the Suez Canal on Tuesday, Israeli and Egyptian officials said, a move that appeared to be a new...

Terrorists, Pirates and Anarchy, Somalia Style

John Prendergast | Posted 05.25.2011

John Prendergast

Somalia has become the poster child for transnational threats emanating from Africa.

Yemen hosts African refugees despite economic woes, social problems

Magda Abu-Fadil | Posted 05.25.2011

Magda Abu-Fadil

Yemen hosts thousands of African refugees fleeing unrest and poverty in their countries every year - with Somalis topping the list - despite its own e...

Somalia: Getting in Front of the Story

Reese Schonfeld | Posted 05.25.2011

Reese Schonfeld

Get your talking heads on television before the other guy does, slant the story your way, and maybe the American public will let you off the hook.

Pirates Free 29 Hostages From Two Ships

AP | ANGELA CHARLTON | Posted 05.25.2011

PARIS — Pirates freed 20 hostages aboard a Turkish freighter commandeered off the Somali coast, as nine captives on a French boat were released ...

Killing the Dead Sea Twice Is Good for Politicians, Not the Environment

Karin Kloosterman | Posted 05.25.2011

Karin Kloosterman

The Dead Sea, shared by Israelis, Palestinians and Jordanians should be listed as one of the Wonders of the World -- and it's in danger of drying up.