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These waterways snake their way across the continent for astonishing distances, drawing geographical and political borders along the way.

Burnham-On-Sea author and adventurer Michael Turner has just returned from an incredible journey across Egypt, retracing the steps of British civil engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel.

Gamal Abdel Nasser, Arabic Jamāl ʿAbd al-Nāṣīr, (born January 15, 1918, Alexandria, Egypt—died September 28, 1970, Cairo), Egyptian army officer, prime minister (1954–56), and then president (1956–70) of Egypt who became a controversial leader of the Arab world, creating the short-lived United Arab Republic (1958–61), twice fighting wars with Israel (1956, 1967), and engaging in such inter-Arab policies as mediating the Jordanian civil war (1970). Nasser was born in a mud-brick house on an unpaved street in the Bacos section of Alexandria, where his father was in charge of the ...

CAIRO: A compensation scheme to recompense Nubians affected by the construction of the Aswan High Dam and reservoir has been further extended by the Egyptian government. The awarding of damages is being conducted in line with a set of rules drawn up by a special committee and includes compensation payments, and the replacement of homes and agricultural land lost to the dam

TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT 2001: Some British schools begin handing out the morning-after pill to students, setting off a debate over parental rights as the Government tries to curb an alarming rate of te...