EGYPT: Egyptians in a Nile Delta province were left outraged after a cleric allegedly changed a line in the traditional Islamic call to prayer to mention Facebook.

The supreme leader of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood has been arrested, dealing a serious blow to the group as it tries to maintain street protests over the removal of president Mohammed Morsi.

Thousands of grieving Egyptian Copts streamed into St Mark’s Cathedral in Cairo to catch a last glimpse of their spiritual leader Pope Shenuda III, taking pictures and weeping.

Egyptians in nine provinces have started voting in the second round of the first parliamentary elections since a popular uprising ousted president Hosni Mubarak in February.

EGYPTIANS counted the economic cost of more than two weeks of turmoil yesterday as protesters on Cairo’s Tahrir Square looked ahead to their next big push to oust President Hosni Mubarak tomorrow.