EGYPTIANS staged one of their biggest protests yet yesterday demanding President Hosni Mubarak step down immediately, their wrath undiminished by the vice president’s announcement of a plan to transfer power.

Hundreds of people packed into Cairo’s main airport today hoping for a flight out of Egypt but Western carriers were cancelling, delaying or suspending services after days of violent unrest.

A TOUR bus slammed into a truck in southern Egypt yesterday, killing eight American tourists and injuring 21 others in the latest fatal crash involving tourists, the state news agency said.

Eight tourists have been killed and 21 others injured when their bus smashed into a truck in southern Egypt today.

ONLY one of the seven wonders of the ancient world survives. The pyramids of Giza, just outside Cairo, have been standing for 4,600 years.

FOOTBALL may well be the universal language but sometimes things can get lost in translation.