Cairo, May 16 (EFE).- Archaeologists found the 1,400-year-old remains of a Nubian soldier in Aswan, a city in southern Egypt, Minister of State for Antiquities Ahmed Eisa said. The soldier's remains were discovered in a field that dates to the Late Roman Period and Early Middle Age near the border of Egypt and Nubia. The find shows that conflicts broke out periodically along the frontier between Egypt and Nubia, a region that covered parts of southern Egypt and northern Sudan.

Ratings agency Standard and Poor's on Thursday downgraded Egypt's long- and short-term credit rating over the government's failure to meet the country's fiscal needs. Egypt's long-term rating was lowered to 'CCC+' from 'B-', while its short-term rating dropped to 'C' from 'B', the agency said in a statement. "The downgrade reflects our view that the Egyptian authorities have yet to put forward -- either to the Egyptian population or the international donor community -- a sustainable medium-term strategy to manage the country's fiscal and external financing needs," it said.

An American was stabbed in the neck as he came out of the US embassy in central Cairo on Thursday, a security official told AFP. The American was rushed to hospital after the attack in Cairo's Garden City neighbourhood near Tahrir Square, which houses several embassies and has seen a rise in crime and unrest in recent months. Police guarding the embassy managed to arrest the assailant, described only as "an unemployed man" by the security official, who requested anonymity. The motive for the attack and the condition of the victim national remain unclear.