More than 10,000 Egyptians marched from mosques and protested in Cairo’s Tahrir Square today.

The leader of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, the Islamist group expected to dominate the country's next parliament, says it does not seek to get into a power struggle with the ruling military council over the formation of the next government.

The leader of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood, the Islamist group expected to dominate the country’s next parliament, said it does not seek to get into a power struggle with the ruling military council over the formation of the next government.

EGYPT’S deputy prime minister has resigned over clashes that killed 25 people, mainly Coptic Christians, amid mounting anger at the ruling military and calls for the premier to quit.

Egypt’s ruling military and protesters seeking greater and faster change are moving into an outright collision, as the generals try to strip away public support for the movement while cosying up to the fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood.

More than 1,000 people were reported injured as Egyptian security forces clashed for a second day in Cairo with hundreds of youths.

Egypt’s military rulers have sworn in a new cabinet that includes new faces in key ministries, responding to protesters’ demands that the new government be free of stalwarts of ousted President Hosni Mubarak.

Three hundred Irish people have been helped to leave Egypt since the current unrest began.

The Egyptian government has increasingly spread an image that foreigners are fuelling the turmoil that has gripped its streets.

SCENES of mayhem and violence in Cairo added to the fear already running high in the capital of 18 million people after a weekend of rampant looting and lawlessness and the escape of thousands of prisoners from jails in the chaos.

Anti-government protesters clashed violently with supporters of President Hosni Mubarak in Cairo today as Egypt’s political upheaval took a dangerous new turn.