The wife of jailed Egyptian opposition politician Ayman Nour, the main challenger to Hosni Mubarak in a 2005 presidential election, said he was assaulted by security men on Saturday in a courthouse stairwell.

Egyptian and Gulf real estate firms bought three large tracts of land near Cairo on Saturday earmarked for housing development, netting LE 13.3 billion ($2.3 billion) for the government, officials said.    

Israel insisted on Tuesday that any information he had divulged was already in the public domain and had been handed over with the blessing of the authorities. insisted on Tuesday that any information he had divulged was already in the public domain and had been handed over with the blessing …