CAIRO – Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak announced he is handing his
powers over to his vice president, Omar Suleiman, and ordered
constitutional amendments. But the move means he retains his title of
president and ensures regime control over the reform process, falling
short of protester demands.

Protesters in Cairo's central Tahrir Square, hoping
he would announce his resignation outright, watched in stunned silence
to his speech, slapping their hands to their foreheads in anger, some
crying or waving their shoes in the air in a sign of contempt. After he
finished, they resumed their chants of "Leave! Leave! Leave!"