235 Egyptians killed in terror attack on Al Rawda mosque

Militants murder Sufi Muslim worshipers in Sinai Peninsula.

Cairo Cathedral Bombing Victims

At least 25 people have died, and dozens more were wounded early Sunday in a bombing attack in a Coptic church in Cairo, Egypt, according to CNN and the government-sponsored Al-Ahram news outlet.

EgyptAir Flight 804 Crash Victims

Rescue crews were searching early Thursday for EgyptAir Flight 804, which French President Francois Hollande said "was lost and that it has crashed" into the Mediterranean Sea with 66 people aboard.

Boutros Boutros-Ghali (1922 - 2016), former secretary-general of the United Nations

Boutros Boutros-Ghali, the Egyptian scholar, statesman and former secretary-general of the United Nations, died Tuesday, Feb. 16. He was 93. Boutros-Ghali became the sixth secretary-general of the United Nations Jan. 1, 1992. Despite the end of the Cold War, his term was fraught with international crises, including the breakup of Yugoslavia, genocide in Rwanda and several other civil wars in Africa. He initiated several reform efforts at the U.N. and broadened peacekeeping missions around the world.

Thor Heyerdahl, Adventurer

In a time when the age of adventurers seemed long past, Thor Heyerdahl became one anyway.