STORY HIGHLIGHTS Mubarak's health is deteriorating He remains in Sharm el-Sheikh The ex-president is under investigation Cairo (CNN) -- Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's won't be moving to a military hospital in Cairo at present because his "health has deteriorated and transferring him may be life threatening at the moment," the country's prosecutor-general said Tuesday. Adel Saeed, the prosecutor's spokesman, said the Interior Ministry, which is organizing the move, made the decision after the medical team in charge of Mubarak submitted a new medical report that determined he would be at risk if he were transferred. Mubarak has been under detention at a hospital in the Red Sea resort city of Sharm el-Sheikh and Egyptian authorities ordered that he will be transferred to "Tora Prison hospital once it is ready to receive him." Authorities are investigating him for the deaths of hundreds of activists during the recent uprising in Egypt, and he is also being probed for allegations of corruption and misuse of state funds
Online chatter about the death of Osama bin Laden was so intense on Sunday night that Twitter set a new record. During President Barack Obama’s address, Twitter users posted messages at an average rate of 3,440 tweets per second, according to the company’s official public relations news feed.
“Last night saw the highest sustained rate of tweets ever. From 10:45 p.m. – 2:20 a.m. ET, there was an average of 3,000 tweets per second,” the company wrote, before updating that number to 3,440.
It’s unclear what events Sunday’s news beat out to claim that record. At the peak of this online conversation, Twitter users posted 5,106 tweets per second, according to the company.
The fastest rate of tweeting ever occurred on New Years Eve in Japan, when users posted 6,939 tweets per second, a measure of online conversation that Twitter refers to, in all seriousness, as “TPS.”
“At 11 p.m. ET, there were 5,106 Tweets per second. At 11:45 p.m. ET, when Pres. Obama finished his remarks, there were 5,008 TPS,” the company wrote.
Many people reported hearing about the news of bin Laden’s death via social media sites and mobile gadgets. Alerts went off on iPads; Facebook friends shared the news; and some claim Twitter users “broke” the story.
