A Mideast peace conference called for by President Bush will take place in September on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly meeting in New York, an Egyptian envoy said Thursday.

Egypt on Thursday said it had sent medical and food aid to thousands of Palestinians stranded for over a month in increasingly dire conditions on the border with the Gaza Strip.

bmi, Heathrow’s second largest carrier, has today announced that it will launch a new daily service from Cairo to London Heathrow with effect from 28 October this year.