In this image from Egyptian state television, President Hosni Mubarak announces he will not run for a new term. President Hosni Mubarak defied a quarter-million protesters demanding he step down immediately, announcing Tuesday he would serve out the last months of his term and “die on Egyptian soil.” He promised not to seek re-election, but that did not calm public fury as clashes erupted... 

Egypt’s decision to turn off the Internet last night, denying users access to Twitter, Facebook, and text messaging, couldn’t stop thousands of protesters from taking to the streets of Cairo Friday morning, with similar demonstrations in Suez, Alexandria, and Al Arish in northern Sinai. Supporters of pro-democracy leader Mohammed ElBaradei, who called for the ouster of President Hosni... 

Mohamed Ahmed Hussein was found guilty of pre-meditated murder. Egypt has sentenced a man to death for killing six Coptic Christians and a Muslim policeman in January 2010. Mohamed Ahmed Hussein was found guilty of shooting the group outside a midnight Mass for Coptic Christmas in Naga Hamady, southern Egypt. The attack was thought to be revenge for the alleged rape of a 12-year-old Muslim girl by... 

A Coptic protester in Alexandria hurls an object at riot police who opened fire outside The Saints church, after an attack outside the church that killed 21 people and wounded 79. Egypt said a suicide bomber killed 21 people and wounded 79 outside a Coptic Christian church, in an attack President Hosni Mubarak said was the work of “foreign hands.” Growing numbers of Christians were continuing... 

Authorities inspect the site of a car bomb that targeted midnight Christian worshippers outside the Al-Qiddissine (The Saints) church in the Egyptian port city of Alexandria this morning. A car bombing outside a church killed 21 people in Egypt’s northern city of Alexandria as worshippers gathered to mark the New Year. The Interior Ministry said 24 people were also wounded in the bombing, which...