Egyptian troops and riot police have stormed Cairo’s Tahrir Square in their latest attempt to evict protesters who want the ruling military to step down, a field hospital doctor said.

Hundreds of Egyptian soldiers in riot gear swept through Cairo’s Tahrir Square today firing on protesters demanding an immediate end to military rule.

Egyptian doctors said tonight that three people have been killed in a police and army assault to evict protesters at Cairo’s central Tahrir Square.

Doctors say at least three people have been killed in today's violence in the Egyptian capital.

Egyptian army troops and police have launched a major assault to evict protesters from Cairo’s Tahrir Square.

Egyptian riot police firing tear gas and rubber bullets stormed into Cairo’s Tahrir Square today to dismantle a protest tent camp, setting off intense clashes which injured at least 507 people.

ABOUT 50,000 mainly Islamist protesters flocked to Cairo’s Tahrir Square to press Egypt’s military rulers to transfer power to elected civilians after the cabinet launched a move to exempt the army from parliamentary oversight.

A powerful steel magnate who was a senior insider in the regime of ousted Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak has been jailed for 10 years after being convicted of corruption.

Hosni Mubarak’s trial on charges he ordered the killing of protesters during Egypt’s uprising will be held at a police academy on Cairo’s outskirts instead of a convention centre in the heart of the capital, the head of Cairo’s appeals court said.

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Thousands of people have poured into central Cairo’s Tahrir Square for what they called a “second revolution”, calling for Egypt’s military rulers to speed up the pace of democratic reforms.

Doctors in white coats and lawyers in black robes have streamed into Cairo’s Tahrir Square as strikes across the country give powerful momentum to Egypt’s wave of anti-government protests.

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.