Although confusion still abounds, one of Hosni Mubarak's lawyers said on Wednesday that the former Egyptian president is in a stable condition.
Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is reportedly regaining consciousness after early claims on Wednesday morning that he had slipped into a coma, or perhaps even died.
Egypt's ex-president Hosni Mubarak is not dead but unconscious and on a respirator, according to Reuters, which obtained the information from security sources.
However, there is some confusion as to whether he has died or is just near death.
Hosni Mubarak, who ruled Egypt for three decades until overthrown by a revolution in the Arab Spring last year, was declared clinically dead by his doctors on Tuesday, the state news agency MENA said in a report confirmed by a hospital source.
Julian Assange, the head of Wikileaks, has fled to the Ecuadorean embassy in London to avoid extradition to Sweden, Foreign Minister Ricardo Patrino said.
Alongside prominent -- and predominantly secular -- revolutionary groups, Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood has launched the latest million-man march in protest of the ruling Supreme Council of Armed Forces.
If you say the weight of the world is on your shoulders, now you'll be able to quantify it, thanks to a new study that found the world's population weighs 316 million tons, or about 287 million metric tons.
Although it is not entirely clear what the council will do, it does not have a precedent in recent Egyptian political history.
A deft political move by the ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, or SCAF, led by Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, has all but annulled the significance of the presidential elections.
A member of the committee in charge of Egypt's presidential election said that Muslim Brotherhood's candidate Mohamed Morsy was leading, soon after the group's declaration that its candidate had won the first presidential race in the post-Mubarak era.
As ballots cast in Egypt's presidential election continue to be counted on Sunday, Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, the head of the country's Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, or SCAF, has renewed the military's commitment to hand over power to a civilian authority on July 1.
Very low turnout was reported Sunday in the second day of Egypt's presidential runoff.
Caught in the middle of a bloody 15-month-long uprising are Syria's 2 million Christians, who are wary of leaving behind a repressive and totalitarian regime.
Sean F. White's video Terra Sacra Time Lapses offers a mesmerizing glimpse of life on all seven continents.
A trip to Greece in the coming weeks may feel like an intrusion -- a sojourn into a land of private grief and public fury. But not visiting only makes things worse.
This Saturday and Sunday, Egyptians will head for polling station to choose who will be their first democratically elected president, but they are faced with a hard choice now that the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, or SCAF, has seized greater control.
The major powers' central banks have prepared measures to head off disaster in the financial markets after Sunday's Greek election by providing liquidity and preventing a credit squeeze, G20 officials say.
Authorities in the world's major economies are preparing for a possible market storm or public panic after cliffhanger Greek elections this weekend, officials said on Thursday, should radical leftists win and cast doubt on the nation's future in the euro zone.
Many Egyptians are outraged following the Supreme Court's decision to dissolve the lower house of parliament, temporarily transferring power to the Military Council until new elections are held.
Egypt's High Constitutional Court ruled that the election of one-third of Egypt's parliament was unconstitutional, which could effectively disband the legislative body while its still in its infancy
When Beyonce gave birth to Blue Ivy Carter in January, everyone oohed and aahed over the uniqueness of her baby's name and the potential meaning behind it. So what's in a name? Beyonce posted a poem on her Tumblr revealing more information about her first child's name.
