Hosni Mubarak

Egypt has ordered a retrial of deposed president Hosni Mubarak after accepting an appeal against his life sentence, opening up an old wound in the painful transition from decades of authoritarian rule.

Egyptian prosecutors have demanded the death sentence for former president Hosni Mubarak and other defendants including the former interior minister for their role in the killing of protesters in the uprising that swept him from power.

Hosni Mubarak's lead doctor has denied that the ousted Egyptian president had suffered a stroke or was in a coma, as Mubarak's lawyer claimed.

At least 846 Egyptians died in the nearly three-week-long popular uprising that toppled long-serving President Hosni Mubarak, electrifying the region, a government fact-finding mission has announced.

Egypt's ousted President Hosni Mubarak has been put under detention in his hospital room for investigation on accusations of corruption, abuse of power and killings of protesters in a dramatic step that brought celebrations from the movement that drove him from office.

Egypt's prime minister-designate has named a caretaker Cabinet to help lead the country through reforms and toward free elections after the uprising that ousted President Hosni Mubarak.

Egypt's military rulers called for an end to strikes and protests on Monday as thousands of state employees, from ambulance drivers to police and transport workers, demonstrated to demand better pay in a growing wave of labour unrest unleashed by the democracy uprising that ousted Hosni Mubarak's regime.