Egyptians defy army and protest in Tahrir Square

Hundreds of Egyptians have defied soldiers who tried to disperse them overnight from Cairo's Tahrir Square and vowed to keep protesting until former President Hosni Mubarak was tried and other demands met.

Some demonstrators, angry at the army's use of tasers and batons to try to drive them out of Tahrir, hurled rocks at a burning army bus and truck. Gunshots had echoed around the square during the night as the army sought to clear the area.

Mubarak and his family are banned from leaving Egypt. The former president, 82, is in internal exile in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh.