An Egyptian judge has ordered the release of two Al-Jazeera English journalists.

An Al-Jazeera reporter who spent more than a year in an Egyptian prison has returned home to Australia.

The release of Al-Jazeera journalist Mohamed Fahmy from a prison in Egypt is "imminent", Canadian foreign minister John Baird said.

A freed Al-Jazeera English reporter and his family have called on Egypt to release his two colleagues who remain behind bars, in a case widely condemned as a sham by human rights groups.

Human rights lawyer Amal Clooney, wife of actor George Clooney, has said she was threatened with arrest when trying to publish a report into Egypt's judicial system.

Two of three Al Jazeera journalists jailed in Egypt have applied to be deported under a new law after the country’s highest court ordered their retrial but did not free them as their families had hoped.

An appeals court in Egypt has ordered a retrial in the case of three imprisoned Al-Jazeera English journalists.

Egypt’s president has acknowledged for the first time that the heavy sentences handed down to three Al Jazeera journalists had a “very negative” impact on his country’s reputation, saying he wished they were never put on trial.

A day before Egypt’s deposed Islamist president goes on trial, US secretary of state John Kerry expressed guarded optimism yesterday about a return to democracy in the country, as he began a tour partly aimed at easing tensions with Arab powers.

US Secretary of State John Kerry is in Cairo today pressing for reforms during the highest-level American visit to Egypt since the removal of the country’s first democratically elected president.

Tens of thousands of Egyptians have gathered to mark the first anniversary of the country’s 2011 uprising, with liberals and Islamists on different sides of Cairo’s Tahrir Square in a reflection of the deep political divides.

A powerful steel magnate who was a senior insider in the regime of ousted Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak has been jailed for 10 years after being convicted of corruption.