Egypt Muslim Brotherhood Leader......
Egypt Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohammed Badie held
Mr Badie had been on the run from the interim authorities amid a wave of arrests of Brotherhood members
The spiritual leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, General Guide Mohammed Badie, has been arrested in Cairo, Egyptian officials say.
Reports said he was detained at a residential flat in Nasr City.
A state of emergency is in force in Egypt amid turmoil following a crackdown on Islamists in which hundreds have died.
A three-day period of mourning has been declared for 25 policemen killed in the Sinai peninsula by suspected Islamists.
And 36 Islamist protesters died in a prison van in the capital Cairo on Sunday.
Almost 900 people, including more than 100 police and soldiers, are reported to have been killed in Egypt since Wednesday, when the army cleared protest camps set up by supporters of deposed President Mohammed Morsi, many of them members of the Muslim Brotherhood movement.
Protests suppressed
Hundreds of members of the Muslim Brotherhood have been detained over recent days.
Mr Badie had been on the run as interim authorities in Egypt try to suppress protests at the ousting of Mr Morsi.
His arrest comes days after his son Ammar Badie, 38, was shot dead during protests in the capital's Ramses Square.
Officials and state media said Mr Badie was detained in a flat in Nasr City in north-east Cairo, near the site of one of the protest camps bloodily broken up last week.
His deputy, Khairat al-Shatir, was arrested in the days following Mr Morsi's overthrow.
Correspondents say his detention will further ratchet up tensions in the deeply divided country, where an indefinite dusk till dawn curfew is in place. BBC
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