Hundreds of thousands of Yemenis are demonstrating to demand President Ali Abdullah Saleh face trial for his regime’s deadly crackdown on months of protests.

Heavy fighting has broken out in the Yemeni capital Sanaa between security forces and an army unit that joined the popular uprising against autocratic President Ali Abdullah Saleh.

Yemen President Ali Abdullah Saleh’s agreement to step down failed to end the violence today as security forces killed five protesters.

Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh has signed an agreement to transfer power to his vice president.

Yemen's President has arrived in Saudi Arabia, where he is expected to sign a deal to transfer power to his deputy.

Yemen’s embattled president must speed up reforms and begin a transfer of power according to a plan backed by the international community, a UN envoy said.

Hundreds of Yemeni women set fire to traditional female veils today in protest at the government’s brutal crackdown against the country’s popular uprising, as overnight clashes in the capital and another city killed 25 people, officials said.

Fighting between troops loyal to Yemen's embattled leader and rival forces killed at least 18 people, including eight supporters of a powerful tribal chief who defected to the opposition in March.

Security forces in Yemen have opened fire on anti-government protesters in the capital, killing at least two people, a medical official said.

The media chief for al-Qaida’s Yemeni branch has been killed along with six other people in an airstrike, Yemen’s Defence Ministry said today.

Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh has said he is willing to leave power in his first major speech since returning to the country.

A Yemen government warplane has mistakenly bombed an army position in the country’s south, killing at least 30 soldiers.

Yemen’s defence minister escaped unscathed today after a suicide attacker driving an explosives-laden car blew himself up next to his convoy, security officials and witnesses said.

Yemen’s defiant president addressed his troubled nation for the first time since returning to the country after an assassination attempt, making no promise to immediately step down but saying he is committed to a deal to end months of spiralling violence.

A Yemeni medic says 16 people have died as government forces and snipers attacked an opposition protest camp in the capital Sanaa.

Yemen’s President Ali Abdullah Saleh has called for a ceasefire after returning to the country, saying the only way out of the crisis is through negotiations.

Yemeni state television and radio said President Ali Abdullah Saleh has returned to the country from Saudi Arabia after an absence of more than three months following a rocket attack on his compound.

Renewed violence in Sanaa killed at least 15 people today as forces loyal to the Yemeni regime and its opponents shelled each other’s strategic positions from hills surrounding the capital, medical and security officials said.

Renewed violence in Yemen’s capital has killed at least nine people as street battles broke out between forces loyal to the regime and its opponents, reports say.

Rapidly escalating street battles between opponents of Yemen's regime and forces loyal to its embattled president spread to the home districts of senior government figures and other highly sensitive areas of the capital today.

Thousands of anti-government protesters in Yemen have stormed the main university in the capital Sanaa, preventing the first day of classes from beginning and tearing down pictures of the long-time leader whose ousting they seek.

Yemen's ailing President Ali Abdullah Saleh called for an end to months of street protests seeking his ousting and urged dialogue during the holy month of Ramadan to end the crisis.

Islamic militants have seized parts of a southern city in Yemen in a surprise dawn attack, security officials said today.

Yemeni soldiers battled Islamic militants today in an attempt to drive them from several southern towns under the control of hundreds of the fighters. The clashes killed 30 people on both sides, officials said.

Yemen President Ali Abdullah Saleh was burned on more than 40% of his body and suffered bleeding in the brain from last weekend’s attack on his palace, US officials said, indicating his wounds were worse than initially reported.

Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh was more badly injured than first thought in a blast at his compound last week.

Violence threatened a return to chaos in Yemen today with at least six people killed after a day of jubilation over the departure of President Ali Abdullah Saleh.

The departure of Yemen’s battle-wounded president for treatment in Saudi Arabia set off wild street celebrations in the capital, where crowds danced, sang and slaughtered cows in hopes that this spelled a victorious end to a more than three-month campaign to push their leader from power.

Protesters danced, sang and slaughtered cows in the central square of Yemen’s capital today to celebrate the departure of the country’s authoritarian leader for medical treatment after he was wounded in a rocket attack on his compound.

Embattled Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh flew to Saudi Arabia for urgent medical care after a rocket attack on his palace, raising the spectre of a violent power grab in the impoverished country shaken by months of protests calling for his ousting.

Yemen’s embattled president accepted an offer from the Saudi monarch to seek treatment in his kingdom after being wounded in a rocket attack, raising the possibility today that he could leave the country after nearly four months of mass protests seeking to end his 33-year rule.

President Ali Abdullah Saleh was wounded when rebellious tribesmen struck his palace with rockets, targeting him for the first time in a dramatic escalation of fighting that has turned parts of the Yemeni capital into a battleground and pushed the country toward civil war.

Wounded Yemen President Ali Abdullah Saleh tonight called on armed forces around the country to move against the “armed gangs” who hit his palace with rockets.

Yemen’s president was lightly injured and four top officials were wounded when opposition tribesmen struck his palace with rockets, a government official has said.

Government forces and tribal fighters exchanged gun and artillery fire in Yemen’s capital Sanaa this morning in fresh fighting that killed at least 41 people.

Soldiers loyal to Yemen’s embattled president have stormed a protest camp in a southern city and fired on the crowds indiscriminately, killing at least 20 people, a medical official has said.

A Yemeni rights activist says a brigade of the powerful Republican Guard run by the son of embattled President Ali Abdullah Saleh has defected to the opposition in a southern province.

A temporary ceasefire was agreed in Yemen today to allow for negotiations after five days of fierce clashes that killed at least 124 people.

Fighting that rocked Sanaa for the past five days spread beyond the capital today as Yemeni tribesmen opposed to the rule of President Ali Abdullah Saleh seized a Republican Guard military camp.

Yemen’s embattled president vowed he would not step down or allow his impoverished nation to become a “failed state” even as urban combat between government troops and armed tribesmen engulfed parts of the capital.

Yemen’s embattled president vowed today he would not step down or allow his impoverished nation to become a “failed state” even as urban combat between government troops and armed tribesmen engulfed parts of the capital.

Gunmen killed six soldiers and wounded a seventh in central Yemen today, a security official said.

Qatar has pulled out of the effort to mediate an end to Yemen’s political crisis, blaming the country’s embattled president for the impasse.

Yemeni security forces fired on thousands of anti-government protesters marching to the cabinet building today, killing one and injuring at least 40.