With the unrest entering its 12th day, protesters camped out in Tahrir Square, the hub of demonstrations in the heart of Cairo, prepared on Saturday to wait him out.
"Mubarak must go, Mubarak must go," someone shouted over a loud speaker, after a brief burst of heavy gunfire shortly before 2 a.m. local time.
Protesters say they want a real transfer of power, rather than to see Mubarak to be replaced by another ruler backed by the military. Obama has also called for "meaningful" change.
Seeking to deflect criticism of interference in Egypt's affairs, Obama said on Friday: "The future of Egypt will be determined by its people."NOW the financial crisis has passed, people here are most concerned with putting more cash aside for retirement and rebuilding their savings, according to a new survey.
About 70 per cent of respondents believed their Central Provident Fund (CPF) savings will provide only some or a little of their retirement income.
About 52 per cent indicated that they would continue to work as long as possible. The same number also said they would rely on insurance proceeds, while 51 per cent would turn to investment products.
Washington (CNN) -- The family of a man who fought alongside U.S. troops in Vietnam have been told their relative will not be allowed to be buried at Arlington National Cemetery.
Maj. Gen. Vang Pao led thousands of Hmong soldiers as they fought alongside the United States against the North Vietnamese Army during the war in Southeast Asia, according to a news release from Rep. Jim Costa, D-California.
A Park51 imam announced his resignation Friday, just three weeks after being appointed to his post at the embattled Islamic community center in New York, according to a written statement Friday.
"I wish the project leaders well," said Imam Adhami, saying he needed more time to complete a book meant to assist English readers in understanding the Quran.
His resignation comes on the heels of a controversial post on his website, sakeenah.org, in which he claimed that "an enormously overwhelming percentage of people struggle with homosexual feeling because of some form of violent emotional or sexual abuse at some point in their life."
Park51 officials later attempted to distance the community center from Adhami's comments, tweeting that "Adhami's personal statements do not reflect the position of p51."
Washington (CNN) -- Astronaut Mark Kelly will command the upcoming flight of the space shuttle Endeavour, according to a statement released Friday by NASA.
Command of the shuttle flight -- set to launch April 19 -- came under question after the January shooting of Kelly's wife, U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords.
Kelly spent the days after the Tucson, Arizona, shooting at his wife's hospital bedside, and NASA had named a backup shuttle commander for the mission.
"I am looking forward to rejoining my (fellow) crew members and finishing our training for the mission," Kelly said in the statement. "We have been preparing for more than 18 months. ... I appreciate the confidence that my NASA management has in me and the rest of my space shuttle crew."
EVERY Chinese New Year, campaigns by conservation groups ask diners to stop eating shark's fin.
Look, how would you like it if your arms and legs were all chopped off and then you're left to die bleeding from your stumps?
But recent figures show that Singapore's imports of the delicacy have nearly doubled since 2003. The Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority (AVA), which supplied the numbers, said nearly 2,500 tonnes were imported last year, up from 1,300 tonnes eight years ago.
The figures include dried, salted and canned fins, and refer to those meant for both domestic consumption and export.
And last week, conservation group Traffic delivered more alarming news: a report that a decade-long United Nations shark conservation scheme has failed.
Shark's fin importers here say that demand is rebounding, after a small dip due to 2009's economic crisis.
The price of shark's fin goes up 10 to 15 per cent a year, but demand is rising even quicker thanks to growing affluence in East Asia.
Greed was the clear motivation for the most serious case of insider trading to appear before a British court.
After all, Christian Littlewood, an investment banker who made his way up the ranks to director at Dresdner Kleinwort, had already been earning £400,000 (S$820,000) a year. And yet he still used information gleaned from the office to make £590,000 in profit from illegal insider trading.
He made his Singaporean wife Angie, 39, to use her maiden name, Lew Siew Yoon, to buy the shares in her name to avoid detection. She teamed up with her Singaporean friend, Helmy Omar Sa'aid, in using her husband's price-sensitive tip-offs to trade 2.15 million pounds worth of shares.
All three pleaded guilty to eight counts of insider trading for the scam that they had been doing for eight years - from 2000 to 2008 - at different London Stock Exchange and AIM listed shares.
Christian Littlewood, the most senior banker caught while still working by the Financial Services Authority, now faces three years and four months in jail.His wife, Angie, was given a 12-month jail sentence, suspended for two years. She will be electronically tagged for the first three months of her suspended sentence and will be under curfew at her home between 8am and 7pm.
Sa'id received a two-year sentence, and will be deported to Singapore. He had already spent almost one year in jail since being extradited from the Comoros Islands in the Indian Ocean last March.ELDON, Missouri - Five children who were abducted near the Lake of the Ozarks were found safe.
Patrol Sgt. Collin Stosberg with the Missouri Highway Patrol said 42-year-old Michael Minor was stopped around 6:20 p.m. by a highway patrol trooper on 50 Highway in Sedalia. He was pulled over because his vehicle matched a description that had been part of an Amber Alert issued earlier in the day.
He was arrested without incident.
Minor's five children were in the car and are to be reunited with their mother. Stosberg said all the kids are OK.
The Amber Alert was issued after the children, 10-year-old Marissa Cochran, 8-year-old Grace Minor, 6-year-old Stephanie Minor, 4-year-old Chloe Minor and 2-year-old Zackary Minor, disappeared from their home in the 16500 block of Old Tuscumbia Road in Eldon early Friday morning.
Minor did not have custody of the children.
