Hosni Mubarak

Egypt's ousted president Hosni Mubarak left a military hospital today where he had spent much of his six-year detention, his lawyer said.

Egyptians bear down under worst inflation in a decade

Egyptians are bearing down under their worst inflation in a decade, cutting spending as much as possible as prices surge on basic food items, transport, housing, and even some essential medicines.

India has strong interests in Arab world: Sushma Swaraj

"Our strong traditional support to the Palestinian cause remains unwavering even as we pursue good relations with Israel. We commend the Egyptian role in bringing about a ceasefire in last year's Israel-Gaza conflict," External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj said.

Indians rank 16th on leaked HSBC list; Swiss on top

Others in the top-five include France, UK, Brazil and Italy. ICIJ said

Egypt's new finance minister faces daunting task

Ahmed Galal, managing director of the Cairo-based Economic Research Forum since 2007 and for 18 years a researcher at the World Bank, said he had accepted the post of finance minister in the army-backed government of Prime Minister Hazem el-Beblawi.

When is a coup not a coup? Obama faces tricky call in Egypt

At stake as Obama and his aides wrestle with that question in the coming days is the USD 1.5 billion in aid the United States sends to Cairo each year - almost all of it for the military - as well as the president's views on how best to promote Arab democracy.

In Egypt, many complain, but don't protest

For the common man, political squabbling since the revolution that ousted Hosni Mubarak two years ago was making things worse

Insight: Ex-Qaeda allies ready to fight for Mursi in Luxor

When President Mohamed Mursi made a hardline Islamist governor of Luxor, it seemed his latest folly to many in this city, and across Egypt, who depend on tourists already scared off by unrest since the revolution.

Egypt's Morsy goes from prisoner to President

In a reversal of fortunes unthinkable a year and a half ago, an Islamist jailed by Hosni Mubarak has succeeded him as president of the biggest Arab nation in a victory at the ballot box which has historic consequences for Egypt and the Middle East.

FACTBOX - Egypt's Mubarak faces verdict

EGYPT-TRIAL-MUBARAK:FACTBOX - Egypt's Mubarak faces verdict

Verdict in Hosni Mubarak trial expected today

Verdict for ousted Egyptian president expected today

Wavering Egyptians vote for president

Egyptians, choosing their leader freely for the first time in history, voted for a second day on Thursday in an election that is a fruit of last year's popular revolt against Hosni Mubarak.

In post-Mubarak Egypt, it's one 'giant conversation'

Scrambling down the tunnel of a 3,000-year-old tomb decorated with exquisite reliefs and hieroglyphics, watchman Abdel Rahman Sherif accosted a group of Cairo youths to berate them.

Egypt presidential hopefuls rush to register

Candidates in what is being billed as the first free presidential election in Egypt's history were given their first chance to register on Saturday, more than a year after Hosni Mubarak was ousted from office.

Blast hits Egypt's gas pipeline to Israel

An explosion hit a gas pipeline running from Egypt to Israel on Sunday, the latest in a series of attacks on the installation that crosses the increasingly volatile Sinai region, witnesses and state media reported.

In Arab Spring, economic gain may trump pain

Mazen Dajani, chief executive of Jordan's CTI Group, says the Arab Spring accomplished what the global financial crisis of 2008-9 did not: it pushed his company, one of the world's largest shippers of cement, into the red.

Egypt heads for historic vote in turmoil

Egyptians prepared to vote on Monday in the first elections since Hosni Mubarak's ouster, a milestone many hoped would usher in a democratic age after decades of dictatorship. Instead, the polling is already marred by turmoil in the streets and the population is sharply polarised and confused over the nation's direction.

Egypt army picks new PM, protesters plan mass rally

Egyptian former prime minister Kamal Ganzouri accepted a request from the ruling generals to form a new government, state media reported, but protesters brushed away their choice and vowed to hold another mass rally on Friday to demand the army quit power.

Secretive North Korea opens up to cellphones

Secretive North Korea is expected to register the one millionth cellphone user on its new 3G network by the end of the year, ...

Egypt Brotherhood businessman: Manufacturing is key

Manufacturing, a trained labour force and enabling the private sector are the solution to Egypt's economic slump, said Hasan Malek, one of the Muslim Brotherhood's leading businessmen.

Egyptian cabinet to meet over violence that kills 24

Christians clashed with military police, leaving at least 24 people dead in Cairo, and the cabinet called an emergency meeting for Monday, vowing the violence would not derail Egypt's first election since Hosni Mubarak was toppled.

Egypt uprising art brightens Cairo, tempts buyers

A flowering of Egyptian art since the overthrow of Hosni Mubarak is adding colour to the capital Cairo and an upswing in business at the city's galleries, as the pride, anger and optimism of a long-frustrated generation plays out on canvas.

Egypt puts Mubarak on trial, transfixing Arab world

Egypt's Hosni Mubarak was wheeled into a courtroom cage in a hospital bed on Wednesday to face trial for killing protesters -- an image that thrilled those who overthrew him and must have chilled other Arab autocrats facing popular uprisings.

Friday protests sweep Arab world, 22 die in Syria

Protests erupted across much of the Arab world on the Muslim day of prayer, with demonstrators killed in Syria and Yemen while Egyptians staged one of the biggest rallies since President Hosni Mubarak's fall.

Egyptian bourse reopens tomorrow after political crisis

Egyptian stock market reopens tomorrow after remaining suspended for more than seven weeks to stave off a sharp decline following the political crisis that led to the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak.