Malaria is not ordinarily much of a killer, but in Upper Egypt last week it was as lethal as the plague. Accepted estimate was that in two years it has caused about 86,000 deaths in Qena and Aswan ...

But the pharaoh still said no, so God sent ten plagues to Egypt. The final plague was the death of the first born son. Image caption, God told Moses that the Israelites should mark their doorposts ...