Egyptian presidential election result delayed

The result of Egypt's presidential election has been delayed, state television has said.

It had been scheduled to be announced on Thursday, but the Supreme Elections Commission (SPEC) says it needs more time to look into complaints presented by the candidates.
The two candidates, Mohammed Mursi and Ahmed Shafiq, both say they won.
There have been some 400 election complaints and no new date has been set for the announcement of the result.
Nader Omran, a spokesman for Mr Mursi's Muslim Brotherhood, told the BBC that the result announcement should not be delayed.
"It will bring more tension to the people - they should end the story tomorrow (Thursday)", he said.
Meanwhile, former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak remains in critical condition in an army hospital in Cairo.
He is said to have had a series of strokes and to be on a life-support machine, but there has been no official word on his condition.
'Limbo'
Mr Mursi's campaign has claimed that results show he won the vote, but at a press conference on Wednesday evening an adviser to Mr Shafiq insisted that official results may hand Mr Shafiq victory.
Thousands of people are in Cairo's Tahrir Square, where they have gathered to protest against the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (Scaf) - the military council that has led the country since Mubarak's downfall last year.
Mr Omran said the Muslim Brotherhood had called people into the square to protest against recent constitutional amendments brought in by the Scaf.
But he said the gathering would now also focus on the election delay.
One protest group has called for a sit-in in Tahrir and in other squares across Cairo to pressure the Scaf to hand over power to an elected president before the end of the month as promised.
The BBC's Lyse Doucet in Cairo says Egypt appears to be in political and constitutional limbo.
In  the presidential election, a group of international election monitors headed by former US President Jimmy Carter voiced concerns about the "political and constitutional context" of the vote.
"I am deeply troubled by the undemocratic turn that Egypt's transition has taken," Mr Carter said.
"The dissolution of the democratically-elected parliament and the return of elements of martial law generated uncertainty about the constitutional process before the election," he added.