Retailers are losing millions of dollars to fraud, including a case involving a Northfield-area man who’s expected to plead ...

From bustling florists to packed concert halls across the country, Christmas in Egypt blends religious devotion, festive ...

Nashwa Farouk investigates the growing phenomenon of illegal migration among young people in Egypt, with some children as ...

The victory of New York City's new mayor on November 4 was also a victory for his Queens neighborhood, Astoria, which he made ...

The actual man whom our modern Santa is based on, was St. Nicholas of Myra, sometimes called Nicholas the Wonderworker. The actual St. Nicholas is said to have been born to an affluent Greek-speaking ...

Today in History for Jan. 1: In 1622, the Roman Catholic church adopted Jan. 1 as the beginning of the year, rather than March 25. In 1653, Newfoundland's Coat of Arms was granted by King Charles I.

From the spinning Tanoura skirts in Cairo to the juice boxes and the smell of Kaak on Beirut’s corniche, sisters Asmaa and Mentalla, founders of Doodle and the Gang, turn the cities they’ve lived in ...

In this excerpt from New Byzantines, Sean Mathews writes about the Christian minority being sidelined despite a burgeoning ...

St. Mary’s Coptic Orthodox Church along Route 53 in Rolling Meadows has proposed construction of a two-story, ...

LUXOR, Egypt (AP) — Egypt on Sunday revealed the revamp of two colossal statues of a prominent pharaoh in the southern city ...

Archaeologists have uncovered part of a 4,500-year-old Egyptian temple that was part of a complex built to honor the Sun god ...