A court in Egypt has sentenced to death more than 500 supporters of the now-banned Muslim Brotherhood following violence that broke out in the southern city of Minya last August. The Egyptian Foreign Ministry puts the number of those sentenced at 529.

The death toll after from a boat accident on Lake Albert between Uganda and Democratic Republic of Congo climbed to more than 100, Ugandan authorities announced Monday.

Interim Egyptian President Adly Mansour sent a letter to the family of jailed Al Jazeera journalist Mohamed Fahmy on Sunday telling him that Fahmy "will enjoy all his rights guaranteed by Egyptian law."

Archeologists in Luxor, Egypt have unveiled two massive ancient statues of Pharaoh Amenhotep III to the public.

An Egyptian court sentenced 529 supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood to death Monday on charges related to violent riots in the southern Egyptian city of Minya in August, including murdering a police officer, according to reports.

A British man accused of orchestrating his wife's murder by hit men while they were honeymooning will be extradited to South Africa next month, a South African justice department spokesman said Sunday.

Whom does Gerrie Nel have up his sleeve? That's the question South Africa is asking as the man prosecuting Olympian Oscar Pistorius prepares to rest his case.