CAIRO — A local government official says President Hosni Mubarak is in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, 250 miles from the capital Cairo, where protesters are deluging squares and marching on presidential palaces and the State TV building. The official, who asked not to be identified because of the sensitivity of the issue, […]

When I was in high school, there was this Italian kid that I used to tease all the time because he had just that year in, like, 9th grade discovered that Egypt was in Africa. “You know what that means, don’t you?” I’d say with a leer. “Don’t say it, Byers,” he’d warn. I’d just […]