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  Egyptian men wait in line to cast their votes outside a poling center in Giza, Egypt. (Mohammed Asad, AP)
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  Nearly a year and a half after Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak fell from power, Egyptians line up to vote in the presidential election outside a polling station in Cairo, Egypt. (Hasan Jamali, AP)
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  After decades of pre-determined results, for the first time, the outcome of the vote in the Arab world's most populous nation is transparent. (Hasan Jamali, AP)
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  Twelve candidates are running in the election that will take place over two days in 13 000 polling stations nationwide. (Mohammed Asad, AP)
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  About 50 million eligible voters have been called to choose among 12 candidates, with the front runners divided between Islamists who say they will champion the uprising's goals and Mubarak-era ministers. (Hasan Jamali, AP)
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  Two of the candidates are expected to go into June run offs after the May 23 and 24 vote. The number of undecided voters makes the result of the first round extremely difficult to predict. (Mohammed Asad, AP)
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  An Egyptian Army soldier stands guard inside a polling station as women wait to cast their votes. (Maya Al, AP)
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  Egypt's next president will be the nation's fifth since the monarchy was toppled following a 1952 coup that ushered in six decades of de facto military rule.
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  Protesters raise their shoes as they heckle Egyptian presidential candidate Ahmed Shafiq, as he arrives to vote at a polling site in Cairo, Egypt. Presidential Candidate and former Egyptian Prime Minister Ahmed Shafiq was met by scores of protesters as he arrived to cast his vote. Shafiq arrived to vote in an upscale neighborhood east of Cairo to protesters yelling "down with the feloul" or "remnants" of the regime. (AP)
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  The election comes less than two weeks before Mubarak, 84, is due to be sentenced after he was tried on charges of complicity in the killing of some 900 protesters during the uprising against his rule. (Fredrik Persson, AP)
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  Two women show their inked fingers after casting their votes. (Ahmed Gomaa, AP)
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  An Egyptian woman searches for her name on a registration list outside a polling station in Helwan, a southern suburb of Cario, Egypt. (Pete Muller, AP)
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  Waiting hours in line, some debated to the last minute over their vote in a historic election. (Ahmed Gomaa, AP)
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  The generals who have taken over from Mubarak after an 18-day uprising forced him to step down 15 months ago have promised to hand over power by July 1st, ending a turbulent transitional period defined by deadly street clashes, a faltering economy, a dramatic surge of crime and human rights abuses. (Khalil Hamra, AP)
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  Ballot boxes will be kept overnight in the stations, which election commission officials will seal with wax overnight and leave under military and police protection. (Fredrik Persson, AP)
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  Egyptian women wait in line to vote in the presidential election outside a polling station. Nearly a year and a half after the ouster of autocratic leader Hosni Mubarak, millions of Egyptians lined up for hours outside polling stations Wednesday to freely choose a president for the first time in an election that pits old regime figures promising stability against ascending Islamists seeking to consolidate power. (Fredrik Persson, AP)
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  Results are expected on Sunday. (Khalil Hamra,AP)

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