Former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak has been sent back to prison on the orders of the public prosecutor who ruled an improvement in his health meant he no longer needed the care of the military hospital he was moved to last month.
Egypt's new president has ordered the dissolved Islamist-led parliament to reconvene until a new one was elected, challenging the authority of the military generals who had dismissed the assembly based on a court ruling.
Islamist Mohamed Morsy has been declared Egypt's first freely elected president, sparking joy among his Muslim Brotherhood supporters on the streets who vowed to continue to try to wrest power from armed forces reluctant to cede ultimate control.
Egypt's anxious week of waiting for a president, a week marked by street protests and angry accusations between rivals of subverting the new democracy by force, is finally ending.
Egypt's election committee said it may not be ready to announce the results of a run-off presidential vote as planned because it was still reviewing appeals from the two candidates, both of whom claim to have won.
Demonstrators furious that Hosni Mubarak's last prime minister made it into the run-off for Egypt's presidential election have set ablaze his campaign headquarters, witnesses say, underscoring the divisive outcome of the country's historic vote.
Egypt's election committee is considering complaints about a presidential poll that has left voters with what many see as a painful run-off choice between an Islamist apparatchik and a throwback to Hosni Mubarak's era.
Egyptians must choose between a Muslim Brother or an ex-military man in a presidential run-off that highlights the stark rifts in a nation united in euphoria when Hosni Mubarak fell 15 months ago, first-round results indicate.
For Egyptians worn down by a tumultuous military interregnum, the first opportunity to choose their leader freely looked as much like a poisoned chalice as a triumph of democracy.
Three American democracy advocates barred by Egyptian authorities from leaving the country have sought refuge at the US Embassy in Cairo, officials say, as tensions between the two allied nations sharply escalated over a probe into foreign-funded organizations.
Hundreds of Egyptian protesters demanding an immediate end to military rule have clashed with rivals in civilian clothes outside central Cairo's state media building, the same place where 25 people were killed in a demonstration in October.
Thousands of Egyptian women have marched in the streets of Cairo, protesting abuse by soldiers who dragged women by the hair, stomped on them and stripped one half naked on the street while cracking down on anti-military protesters in scenes that shocked many in the conservative society.
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.
Egypt's decision to end its blockade of Gaza by opening the only crossing to the Hamas-ruled Palestinian territory this weekend could ease the isolation of 1.4 million Palestinians there.
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.
The Libyan revolution is losing the battle. Gaddafi's army does not have much logistical capability, but it can get enough fuel and ammunition east along the coast road to attack Benghazi, Libya's second city, at some point in the next week or so.
Thousands of Christians and Muslims have clashed in Cairo, with one Christian man killed and scores wounded as anger rose over the burning of a church in a suburb of the Egyptian capital.
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.
They wouldn't do it for al Qaeda, but they finally did it for themselves. The young Egyptian protesters who overthrew the Mubarak regime on Saturday have accomplished what two generations of violent Islamist revolutionaries could not. And they did not just do it non-violently; they succeeded BECAUSE they were non-violent.