Multiply that 88,000 times so it stretches from the tropics to the Arctic, and you have a lowball estimate for the current expanse ... the Suez Canal opened in Egypt in 1869.

Severe flooding in northeastern Nigeria has left 30 people dead and affected more than a million others, authorities said on ...

A decade-old picture of a Philippine city flattened by Typhoon Haiyan, one of the strongest storms ever recorded, has ...

In ancient Egypt, paint was sourced from minerals, such as ocre, that were then ground into a powder, according to research ...

A storm which began at about 4 pm yesterday in Sand Creek, Region Nine, has left several homes without a roof with the occupants having to be temporarily housed in the village guest house until ...

(Photo by Chris Granger, The Times-Picayune) A load of sand is delivered for residents to fill their sandbags at Brown Park getting ready for Tropical Storm Francine on Tuesday, September 10 ...

A narrow strip of scrubland and sand dunes on the Gaza side of the border with Egypt has emerged as a major obstacle in talks ...

Egypt’s “New Administrative Capital,” a new city deep into construction outside Cairo, has prompted plenty of blue-sky thinking. But few ideas have been as ambitious as powering a skyscraper with ...

In Vietnam, the death toll has risen to at least 226 as a result of the storm and the landslides and flash floods it triggered, the government’s disaster agency said Thursday, according to Reuters.

The Egyptian archaeological mission of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, discovered the largest astronomical observatory building from the sixth century BC while excavating at the Temple of Buto in ...

The congregation of St. Mary and St. Kyrillos Coptic Orthodox Church of Hatfield opened its doors and its culture to the community during last weekend’s celebration of the 17th annual Egyptian ...

(WKRG) — As WKRG News 5’s First Alert Storm Team predicts Tropical Storm ... the public works department is offering sand on a first-come, first-served basis at four locations.