Mazhar has become the first botanical garden in Egypt to adopt this system, known as the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (APG) system - a modern, molecular-based way of classifying flowering plants.

With air pollution being one of the top five risk factors for disease and premature death in Egypt and the cause of an estimated 10 per cent of premature deaths, the findings could save many lives.

Egypt's capital city is blanketed by an inky haze of pollution that on its worst days can bring noxious, throat-burning fumes. Most people blame the black cloud on farmers burning agricultural ...

On a broad stretch of the River Nile in the heart of downtown Cairo, hundreds of young people work their way along the water’s edge, hauling out handfuls of plastic waste from floating islands of ...