Egyptian courts have jailed two singers for seemingly tame behaviour deemed threatening to society in a country growing increasingly repressive on all fronts.

An Egyptian court today ordered the suspension of parliamentary elections scheduled to begin next month, throwing the country’s politics into deeper confusion.

A suicide bomber sent back to his car to disarm the device by Somali police detonated it instead and killed four people.

Thousands of riot police broke up pro-reform protests today, chasing and roughing up demonstrators who had gathered to support two judges facing disciplinary action after they blew the whistle on fraud in Egyptian elections.