Missing Egyptian Google executive Wael Ghonim has been found! He was in government custody, of course, and he'll be released on Monday. And, as it turns out, Ghonim was a "key figure" in Egypt's ongoing uprising.

Only one day after his goon squad chased ABC's Christiane Amanpour into her car and then kicked and smashed said car, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak granted her an in-person interview at Cairo's presidential palace. What's on your mind, Hoz?

Thousands of Yemeni protesters have kicked off their "day of rage" in Sanaa, the capital.

The Egyptian protests took a surprisingly ugly turn in Cairo today. Mobs tied to the Mubarak regime emerged to beat back protesters and journalists. Here are some somewhat graphic images of the clashes, so turn away if you're easily disturbed.

Egypt! It's so complicated. Is it a popular democratic uprising? Or is it a collusion between the Muslim Brotherhood and Bill Ayers in the hopes of instating global Sharia law? Or is it just a sign of the Muslim antichrist?

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak spoke on Egyptian TV today and, as expected, announced that he wouldn't seek reelection. But he will stick around through an ill-specified "transfer of power," and may torture a few more people along the way.

Google's head of Middle East marketing has reportedly been missing for a week in Egypt after participating in the protests there. His wife has appealed for any information on his whereabouts.

The Egyptian Army gave a major boost to citizens planning a general strike tomorrow by announcing, on state television, that it won't fire on protesters. In other words, President Mubarak can't resort to a bloody clampdown to save his regime.

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak just addressed his country and was not offering much. He says he has no plans to resign. His only concession to protesters? He'll break up his government and personally appoint a new one tomorrow. Gee, thanks.

Outgoing White House spokesman Robert Gibbs started his press briefing after hours of delay this afternoon, and man, did he look terrified! Probably because there's a semi-revolution in a crucial American client state, currently. Will American turn on Egypt's president?

Things are moving quickly in Egypt today. Street protests have consumed Cairo and other major cities, and the army's been called out to quell them. A quick roundup of the latest news, below.

After blocking Twitter, Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak's regime now seems to be cracking down on Facebook. When you're trying to violently suppress a mass uprising, after all, any unfettered venue for news and coordination constitutes a threat.

On Tuesday, tens of thousands of Egyptians took to the streets in Cairo and Suez, protesting the administration of President Hosni Mubarak late into the night. The protestors were gassed and beaten.

There's been a lot of arguing over whether Twitter enables political change, so it's worth noting that Egypt's dictators are sufficiently worried about the microblogging service that they banned it amid increasingly heated street protests.

Facebook will change its "Friend Finder" to not uncontrollably spam your email contacts with Facebook solicitations. But only if you live in Germany, where regulators actually attempt to enforce privacy laws, and where privacy is an actual thing. [NY Times]

A former Swiss banker provided the names of more than 2,000 prominent tax cheats to Wikileaks, which has promised to quickly release details of the evasion — unlike governments and the media, which apparently buried the scandal.

In case you haven't noticed, Tunisia's fallen apart. Its president just fled the country after weeks of riots, and the military has taken control. The U.S. Embassy will still be closed on Martin Luther King Day, though. Holidays are holidays!

Lebanon's government has collapsed after enough Hezbollah ministers and allies withdrew from the prime minister's cabinet. The prime minister has been cooperating with a U.N. investigation into former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri's assassination, which is expected to indict Hezbollah officials.

Ambassador Gene Cretz, the man behind the famous Wikileaks cable about Muammar Qaddafi's "voluptuous blonde" Ukrainian nurse, is being recalled because the disclosure that he wrote a cable about her boobies has "complicated" our relationship with Libya. [Photo: cornell.edu]

Hugo Chávez doesn't like Barack Obama's nomination for US Ambassador to Venezuela, Larry Palmer, who suggested that Chávez's administration is basically a drug cartel, so Palmer was rejected. But Chávez has a few suggestions — famous people who like him!