Egyptian authorities have arrested two more prominent Islamist figures a day after detaining the Muslim Brotherhood’s supreme leader and spiritual guide, Mohammed Badie.

Egypt’s top security body warned that the clock was ticking for a peaceful end to the stand-off over sit-ins by supporters of ousted president Mohammed Morsi, suggesting authorities would break up the protests unless mediation produced results soon.

Yemen’s Nobel Peace Prize winner Tawakkul Karman has been denied entry into Egypt after she landed at Cairo airport, officials said.

Officials at Cairo’s international airport today confiscated 420lb (190kg) of frozen cow brains from three Sudanese travellers who planned to sell them to Egyptian restaurants, authorities said.

Protesters broke into the Israeli Embassy in Cairo last night and dumped documents out of the windows as hundreds more demonstrated outside, prompting the ambassador and his family to leave the country.

CAIRO airport workers protesting for better pay, textile workers on strike to demand a corruption investigation and residents living by the Suez Canal pressing for the closure of a chemical factory allegedly dumping toxic waste into a lake shows the wave of unrest shaking Egypt has continued.

The exodus of foreigners from Cairo continued today as dozens of evacuation planes arrived, but the airport itself was still in disarray with crowds of more than 4,500 stranded passengers.

Cairo’s international airport was a scene of chaos and confusion today as thousands of foreigners sought to flee the unrest in Egypt and countries around the world scrambled to send in planes to fly their citizens out.

The Department of Foreign Affairs is advising against all travel to Egypt in the wake of violent protests aimed at overthrowing the regime of President Hosni Mubarak."

EGYPT’S top prosecutor says security lapses are to blame for the theft of a Vincent van Gogh painting from a Cairo museum.

Egypt’s culture minister said today that a stolen Vincent van Gogh painting said to have been recovered by airport police was still missing.

A stolen Vincent van Gogh painting valued at £32m (€40m) was recovered by police at Cairo airport today, the Egyptian minister of culture said.

HUNDREDS of Egyptian opposition activists defied warnings to welcome home Nobel Peace laureate Mohamed ElBaradei amid hopes he will run for president.

Heated arguments have erupted as authorities attempt to send home some 500 international activists who were part of an aid convoy to the blockaded Gaza Strip, a Cairo airport security official said today.

AN official at Cairo airport says a foot-long baby crocodile wriggled out of a passenger’s hand luggage and caused panic on a flight from the United Arab Emirates.

OSAMA BIN LADEN’S son Omar was deported from Egypt yesterday after returning from a failed bid for political asylum in Spain, his British-born wife Zaina Alsabah bin Laden said.

Spain has rejected a final appeal for asylum by a son of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden and his British wife and put them on a plane bound for Egypt, the Interior Ministry and a lawyer for the man said today

Nine foreign peacekeepers, including French and Canadian soldiers, were killed today when a French plane attached to the Sinai’s multinational peacekeeping force crashed in a remote mountainous area of the desert, the force’s spokesman and police said.

MP George Galloway received an apology from the President of Egypt today after being held at Cairo airport for more than 12 hours, his Respect party said.

YASSER ARAFAT will be buried at his West Bank headquarters in a stone coffin, not a wooden one, to allow his re-interment at a later time in Jerusalem, top aides said yesterday.

AN Irish surgeon has been released from custody in Egypt after being arrested at Cairo Airport yesterday for attempting to bring a pistol on board a plane in his hand luggage.

An Irish surgeon was arrested at Cairo airport today after security officers allegedly found a pistol and 17 bullets in his hand luggage, airport security officials said.

An Egyptian-American man and his wife were detained in Egypt today after customs agents found two guns and 200 bullets in their luggage, airport officials said.

A British man carrying a penknife has slipped through airport safety checks and on to a plane in Egypt causing a massive security alert.