CAIRO - A pledge recently made by two leading members of the Muslim Brotherhood, the strongest opposition force in Egypt, to set up a purely Islamic state in this country, has fuelled fears about the Islamists' agenda in post-Mubarak Egypt.

CAIRO: Disbanding former ruling National Democratic Party (NDP) was a big strike to the endeavors of some members to give it a new shape relatively different from the old one, political analyst Nabil Abdel-Fatah told Daily News Egypt on Sunday.

TEHRAN - An Egyptian Islamist and a long-time opponent of the regime of ousted President Hosni Mubarak has held talks with Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi, the official IRNA news agency reported on Monday.

SHARM EL-SHEIKH - Egyptian former President Hosni Mubarak is still in Sharm El-Sheikh Hospital along with his wife Suzanne, Egypt's state news agency MENA quoted an official source as saying on Sunday.

CAIRO (Update 1) - Egypt will put on trial the former prime minister and his finance minister on charges of profiteering and squandering public funds, the public prosecutor's office said on Sunday.

CAIRO - Zahi Hawass, Egypt's Minister of State for Archaeological Affairs, has announced that a foreign company is going to market and sell the clothes he wore while engaged in archaeological excavations, with the proceeds going to the Children Cancer’s Hospital 57357, an international-standard charitable institution.

CAIRO: Egypt's state prosecutor decided Friday to move ailing ex-president Hosni Mubarak to a military hospital, then to prison when his health improves, in a probe over a deadly crackdown on protesters that could send him to the gallows, state media reported.

CAIRO (Update) - Saturday Egypt's Higher Administrative Court ordered the dissolution of the previously ruling National Democratic Party (NDP), meeting one major demand of the protesters, after the detention of ailing former President Hosni Mubarak and key figures of his regime.

CAIRO: Twenty newly-appointed governors will be sworn in on Saturday before the head of the ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces Mohamed Hussein Tantawy.

CAIRO (Updated 4) - Egyptian ex-president Hosni Mubarak's sons Gamal and Alaa arrived Wednesday at a Cairo

CAIRO - Egypt’s benchmark stock index gained the most in almost two weeks after the country’s public prosecutor detained former President Hosni Mubarak and his sons while they are being investigated for alleged corruption.

CAIRO - A criminal court in Cairo Wednesday upheld a decision made by the Ministry of Justice to freeze the liquid assets of the former Minister of Petroleum Sameh Fahmi and his wife until investigations have been finished.

CAIRO: Hundreds of protestors in Tahrir Square said Monday that they will continue their sit-in until their demands of prosecuting ousted president Mubarak and his family and appointing a civil presidential council are met.

CAIRO (Updated 2) - Egypt's former President Hosni Mubarak received a summons to appear before a Cairo court for questioning and special security is being arranged, state-run al-Ahram newspaper quoted the interior minister as saying.

CAIRO: A military court sentenced blogger Maikel Nabil to three years in prison on Sunday night despite announcing earlier that his trial was adjourned till Tuesday to examine the defense documents. In an article he wrote in prison which he gave to his friend during a visit, Nabil expressed concerns about his safety inside.

CAIRO - Egypt's public prosecutor has detained former Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif for 15 days as part of investigations

CAIRO: Egypt's ousted president Hosni Mubarak denied in a recorded audio message aired on Al-Arabiya channel all corruption allegations against him, confirming that neither he nor his family posses any assets abroad.

CAIRO - Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu starts an official visit to Egypt Sunday aimed at bolstering ties between Cairo and Ankara, Foreign Ministry officials said.

CAIRO: Tahrir has recently been the epicenter of intense emotions, and news from

CAIRO - The ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces has decided to impound the sites of the formery ruling National Democratic Party and freeze its assets nationwide, official TV reported Saturday.

CAIRO - Thieves stole around 1,000 relics from museums and archeological sites across Egypt since protests against the government broke out in January, Egypt's minister for antiquities Zahi Hawass said Sunday in a newspaper interview.