The wife of ousted Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak, was in intensive care today after suffering severe chest pains when she heard the news that she had been arrested over corruption claims.

Egyptian authorities have ordered the detention of Suzanne Mubarak, wife of deposed President Hosni Mubarak, the government-run MENA news service says.

Ousted Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak could face the death penalty if he is convicted of ordering the shooting of protesters during the uprisings which brought him down, the country’s justice minister said today.

Pop star Ricky Martin has travelled to Cambodia to help in the fight against child trafficking.

HOLLYWOOD star George Clooney has been nominated for the Tipperary Peace Prize for his work on Darfur, it emerged today.

Hollywood star George Clooney has been nominated for the Tipperary Peace Prize for his work on Darfur, it emerged today.

Intense emotions of both sorrow and defiance continue across the Middle East today, the day Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat is honoured by international dignitaries with a military funeral in Egypt.

Sobbing and holding each other up, relatives of the 148 people killed in the Egyptian charter jet crash mourned their loved ones today in an open-air tent facing the waters of the Red Sea where the plane went down.

THE French Navy deployed a robot submarine as France and Egypt stepped up a major search to find the fuselage and flight data recorders of the aircraft that crashed into the Red Sea, killing 148 people.