Celebrations have erupted across the Middle East after Hosni Mubarak stepped down as Egypt’s president.

Hezbollah-led opposition groups have called for mass protests to begin tomorrow in downtown Beirut with the aim of bringing down the Western-backed government.

Under a banner showing coffins draped with US, British and Israeli flags, more than 100 Iranian men and women today pledged to become suicide bombers to defend their country and Islam.

Syrian soldiers flashed victory signs and waved automatic rifles as they drove east through Lebanon’s mountains in the first phase of a pullback today.