More than 250,000 people joined a mass protest in Cairo's main square today in the largest protest yet in a week of unrelenting demands for Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to leave after nearly 30 years in power.

There are reports that the headquarters of the ruling National Democratic Party have been set on fire in Cairo as protestors stay out on the streets despite a curfew.

A passenger train travelling towards a railway station in northern Egypt today collided with a second train, killing at least 58 people and injuring 143 – in the latest accident on Egypt’s dilapidated third-class railway service.

A passenger train sped into a northern Egypt railway station today and collided with a second train, killing 51 people and injuring 138.

Two passenger trains collided in northern Egypt today, killing at least 26 people and injuring 131, railway officials told Egyptian state television.