The Louvre museum has reopened to the public, less than 24 hours after French soldiers shot a machete-wielding assailant who had shouted "Allahu akbar".

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.

Supporters of Egypt’s ousted Islamist president fought street battles with police in Cairo and other cities yesterday, on the fourth anniversary of the country’s 2011 uprising, as clashes left at least 15 people dead and dozens injured.

Supporters of Egypt’s ousted Islamist president have fought street battles with police in Cairo and other cities on the fourth anniversary of the country’s 2011 uprising, as clashes left 13 people dead and dozens injured.

A roadside bomb has gone off on a busy Cairo street near the Nile-side Egyptian Foreign Ministry, killing two senior policemen.

A powerful explosion has ripped through a police headquarters in an Egyptian Nile Delta city killing 13 people, wounding more than 100 and leaving victims buried under rubble in the deadliest bombing yet in a months-long wave of violence blamed on Islamic militants.

Islamist protests descended into a bloodbath across Egypt yesterday, with around 60 killed in Cairo alone on a “Day of Rage” called by followers of ousted president Mohamed Morsi to denounce a crackdown by the army-backed government.

A bomb blast outside the security headquarters in one of Egypt’s Nile Delta cities has wounded 19 people, raising fears of deteriorating security after president Mohammed Morsi’s removal.

Thousands of supporters of deposed president Mohamed Morsi took to the streets of Egyptian cities yesterday to demand the reinstatement of the Islamist leader.

Egyptian liberal opposition leader Mohamed El Baradei said yesterday that the Arab Spring revolution of 2011 had been relaunched by the announcement of an army-sponsored roadmap which removed Islamist president Mohammed Morsi.

The armed forces ousted Egypt’s first democratically elected president today after just a year in power, installing a temporary civilian government, suspending the constitution and calling for new elections.

Protesters have ransacked the Cairo headquarters of president Mohammed Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood Islamist group.

Egyptians were preparing for the worst today as streets once again filled with protesters eager to oust President Mohammed Morsi and Islamists determined to keep him in power.

Thousands of supporters of Egypt’s embattled Islamist president are rallying in the nation’s capital in a show of support ahead of what are expected to be massive opposition-led protests to demand Mohammed Morsi’s removal.

Egypt’s president tonight declared a 30-day state of emergency and night curfew in the three Suez Canal provinces hit hardest by the wave of violence that has left more than 50 dead in three days.

An eight-storey apartment building has collapsed, killing 17 people in Egypt, the second tragic accident in the country as many days.

Overnight clashes in Cairo between supporters and opponents of Egypt's Islamist leader have killed at least five people, according to state television.

Supporters and opponents of Egypt’s president grew more entrenched in their potentially destabilising battle over the Islamist leader’s move to assume near-absolute power.

Irish oil and gas exploration company Petroceltic said it is on target to meet full-year production targets and will drill 10 wells as part of its enlarged portfolio over the next year.

Former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak was last night declared “clinically dead” by his doctors after suffering a stroke and cardiac arrest, the state news agency MENA said.

A group of protestors has set fire to the campaign headquarters of one of the two Egyptian presidential politicians facing each other in a run-off that will decide a new leader after last year’s popular uprising.

Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood candidate has won a spot in a run-off election, according to partial results from the country’s first genuinely competitive presidential election.

A new strain of foot and mouth disease has reached the Gaza Strip and threatens to spread further after first being detected in Egypt and Libya in February, the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation has said.

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.

Police in Cairo fired salvos of tear gas and birdshot at rock-throwing protesters as popular anger over a deadly football riot spilled over into a second day of street violence that left five people dead and more than 1,500 injured, doctors and health officials said.

Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood is leading in initial, partial parliamentary election results but faces stiff competition from more hard-line Islamic groups and a liberal-secular alliance.

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.

Gunmen briefly abducted the 12-year-old grand-niece of the late Egyptian leader Anwar Sadat, security officials said today.

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 military council in Egypt has issued its second statement in three days calling for an immediate halt to all labour unrest.

Industrial unrest unleashed by the turmoil in Egypt continued today despite a warning by the ruling military that protests and strikes were hampering efforts to improve the economy and return life to normal.

Egypt’s long-banned fundamental Islamic rivals to the deposed president today declared they would seek power as a political party in the wake of the country’s revolution.

Mubarak lasted three decades as president but as the crowds in Tahrir Square chanted ‘Leave! Leave!’, he ended his tenure as a symbol of all that is wrong with Egypt, says Lee Keath

He survived assassination attempts and wave after wave of Mideast crises, a solid ally of the West whose stable image reassured many Egyptians.

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.

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.

The Egyptian military today called for an end to more than a week of demonstrations demanding President Hosni Mubarak steps down immediately after nearly 30 years in power.

The wives of two Egyptian Coptic priests, forbidden by the church from divorcing their abusive husbands, desperately sought another way out by converting to Islam.

AT LEAST 18 factory workers were killed when their bus collided with a truck in Egypt’s Nile Delta yesterday, a police official said.

Egyptian authorities detained at least nine Egyptian photographers and cameramen today after economic riots erupted earlier this week, a security official said.

Thousands of demonstrators angry about rising prices and stagnant salaries torched government buildings, looted shops and hurled bricks at police in a gritty industrial town as Egyptians defied government warnings and staged a nationwide strike.

Egyptian health officials today reported the deaths of two women from bird flu, bringing to 19 the number of fatalities since the lethal H5N1 strain first appeared in the country last year.

A 25-year Egyptian woman has died of bird flu after apparently contracting the disease from poultry, the Health Ministry said today.

Three students were killed and dozens injured today when a fire broke out inside a university campus building in Egypt’s Nile Delta, police and hospital officials said.