Egypt’s newly sworn-in president has apologised in person to a woman who was sexually assaulted by a mob during celebrations marking his inauguration.

The anniversary of Egypt’s 2011 uprising brought a violent display of the country’s divisions, as giant crowds danced at government-backed rallies and security forces crushed demonstrations by rival Islamists and some secular activists.

Security forces and Islamist protesters have clashed around the country, leaving 51 killed, as a national holiday celebrating the military turned to mayhem.

Thirty eight people have been killed in clashes between security forces and supporters of the ousted Islamist president, Egypt’s health ministry said.

Egyptian riot police have fired tear gas and locked down Cairo’s Tahrir Square and several other main streets as clashes broke out during a march by Islamist supporters of ousted President Mohammed Morsi.

At least 37 people have died across Egypt as tens of thousands of Muslim Brotherhood supporters clashed with vigilante residents in the fiercest street battles to engulf Cairo since the country’s Arab Spring uprising.

This week’s first indication that Ireland is indeed a different, peculiar place came yesterday when the European Commission reported that Irish mobile phone users pay, on average, five times more for calls than users in the EU country where calls are cheapest.

Hundreds of thousands of supporters and opponents of ousted Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi gathered in Cairo and Alexandria yesterday, two days after similar gatherings led to nationwide clashes that claimed more than 30 lives.

Egyptians were on edge today after supporters and opponents of ousted president Mohammed Morsi fought overnight street battles that left at least 30 dead across the increasingly divided country.

Seventeen people were reported killed in clashes around Egypt yesterday involving opponents and backers of ousted leader Mohammed Morsi, as well as security forces.

Watching the celebrations in Tahrir Square in Cairo as the army assisted in carrying out the will of people in removing a leader who threatened to turn a bastion of culture into a fundamentalist state, I have pangs of jealousy as we approach the centenary of 1916 and live in a despotic state.

Tens of thousands of Islamists have streamed across a Nile River bridge towards Cairo’s Tahrir Square, threatening a showdown.

A huge cross-section of Egyptians feel Mohammed Morsi and his government failed them. His ouster risks sending a message that Islamists have no place which could have violent repercussions, says Warren Strobel.

The supreme leader of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood has been arrested and flown to Cairo on a military helicopter, security officials say.

Egytian prosecutors have ordered the arrest of the leader of Muslim Brotherhood and his deputy for the killing of eight protesters in clashes outside the group’s Cairo headquarters.

The chief justice of Egypt’s Supreme Constitutional Court was sworn in today as the nation’s interim president, taking over hours after the military ousted the Islamist President Mohammed Morsi.

Egypt’s first democratically-elected president is under house arrest after being overthrown by the military in the same kind of Arab Spring uprising that brought the Islamist leader to power just a year ago.

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.

Egypt’s military has moved to tighten its control on key institutions in preparation for an almost certain push to remove the country’s Islamist president when its ultimatum expires.

His fate hanging in the balance, Egypt’s embattled president last night vowed he would not resign, hours before a deadline to yield to the demands of millions of protesters or see the military install a new leadership.

Egypt’s military issued a “last-chance” ultimatum to President Mohammed Morsi, giving him 48 hours to meet the demands of millions of protesters seeking his resignation or face intervention by the generals, who will impose their own plan for the country.

Egypt’s military has given its president and his opponents a 48-hour “last chance” to reach an agreement to “meet the people’s demands” before it intervenes in the dispute.

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

Hundreds of thousands thronged the streets of Cairo and cities around the country and marched on the presidential palace, in an attempt to force out the Islamist president with the biggest protests Egypt has seen in two years of turmoil.

Thousands of Egyptians demanding the departure of President’s Mohammed Morsi are gathering at Cairo’s central Tahrir Square at the start of a day of massive, nationwide protests which many fear could turn deadly.

An upbeat Hosni Mubarak was wheeled into a Cairo courtroom today for his retrial for alleged complicity in the killing of demonstrators during the 2011 revolt that ousted him.

Egypt's security forces are on high alert today, ahead of pro-democracy protests to mark the second anniversary of former President Hosni Mubarak's fall from power.

Looters broke into a Nile-side luxury hotel in the Egyptian capital today, taking advantage of clashes in the streets outside to wreck shops and the lobby before police and demonstrators alerted via social media drove them out.

Police fired tear gas at rock-throwing protesters in Cairo today, a day after Egypt’s president declared a state of emergency in three provinces hit hardest by political violence.

Four people were shot dead in the Egyptian city of Suez during nationwide protests against president Mohamed Mursi yesterday, the second anniversary of the uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak.

Egyptian riot police fired tear gas and clashed with dozens of protesters all day today as they tried to tear down a cement wall built to prevent demonstrators from reaching the parliament and the Cabinet building in central Cairo. Some in the crowd threw rocks and Molotov cocktails

Last year ended for India on a note of public outrage that has burdened the country with anger, frustration, and pessimism.

Egypt’s judges yesterday said most of them would not oversee a nationwide referendum on a contentious draft constitution, as tens of thousands of opponents and supporters of the country’s Islamist president staged rival rallies in Cairo, four days ahead of the vote.

Thousands of opponents and supporters of Egypt’s Islamist president have flocked to key locations in the nation’s capital ahead of rival mass rallies, four days before a nationwide referendum on a contentious draft constitution.

Egypt delayed early voting on a contentious draft constitution and might even call off the entire referendum, in the first signs that Islamic leader President Mohammed Morsi is finally yielding to days of protests and deadly street clashes.

A protest by at least 100,000 Egyptians outside the presidential palace in Cairo turned violent today as tensions grew over Islamist president Mohammed Morsi’s seizure of nearly unrestricted powers and a draft constitution hurriedly adopted by his allies.

Protests by Islamists allied to Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi forced Egypt’s highest court to adjourn its work indefinitely yesterday, intensifying a conflict between the country’s top judges and the head of state.

Tens of thousands packed Cairo’s Tahrir Square to protest a power grab by Mohamed Morsi, piling pressure on Egypt’s Islamist president as he faces his most divisive crisis since taking power in June.

Egypt’s president negotiated with judges yesterday to try to defuse a crisis over his seizure of extended powers which set off violent protests reminiscent of the uprising that thrust his Islamist movement into power.

Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi’s decree that put his decisions above legal challenge until a new parliament has been elected has caused fury amongst hisopponents who accused him of being the new Hosni Mubarak and hijacking the revolution.

Thousands of opponents of Egypt’s Islamist president clashed with his supporters in cities across the country today, burning several offices of the Muslim Brotherhood.

Egyptian protesters have firebombed an office of satellite broadcaster Al-Jazeera in the third day of violence in central Cairo.

Egypt’s president has ordered his interior minister to investigate a rash of sex assaults during a just-completed Muslim holiday.

Angry demonstrations against an anti-Islam film spread to their widest extent yet today, targeting British and German embassies and clashing with security forces around the Middle East and other Muslim countries.