The Muslim Brotherhood’s presidential nominee attempted to shore up his support in Egypt today by offering to open up senior political positions for Christians and promising not to impose Islamic dress codes for women.

Briton on £1.6m drug smuggling charges

The results of the first round of Egypt's presidential election are at once hugely positive, and hugely negative.

Call for supervision of new doctors

Protest groups left to wonder if struggle to overthrow Mubarak has backfired on them

The fight for Egypt's future looks likely to boil down to a showdown between the Muslim Brotherhood and a former fighter pilot with ties to the old regime, as the last votes were tallied in a presidential election that one leading activist said would lead to a “second revolution”.

The candidate of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood won a spot in a runoff election, likely against a veteran of ousted leader Hosni Mubarak's regime in what would be a deeply divisive battle to become the new president of Egypt, according to partial results today from the first round of voting.

The Military Council is taking the credit for the transition to democracy, but divisions remain

By Alistair Beach

Nation's first democratic election brings long queues – and a contest that's too close to call

One of Google’s most senior executives issued a stark warning tonight that the power of the internet to free some of the world’s most oppressed people risks being overturned by autocratic governments who seek to “Balkanise” the web by controlling what can be accessed.

Millions of Egyptians are going to the polling stations to freely choose their first president since last year's removal of long-time ruler Hosni Mubarak.

Millions set to vote for Muburak's successor in country's first genuinely democratic election