The Middle East peace process is in danger of falling victim to the revolutionary tide sweeping the Arab world, Britain's foreign secretary William Hague has warned.

One of the main internet organisers of Egypt’s protests was freed from custody to a tumultuous welcome from crowds of demonstrators today.

A passenger train collided with the back of a second one ahead of it on the tracks just outside of Cairo tonight, destroying several passenger cars and killing at least 15 people.

An Egyptian passenger ferry carrying around 1,300 people, mostly Egyptian workers returning from Saudi Arabia, sank in the Red Sea overnight.