Hosni Mubarak: Egyptian president's political career

President Hosni Mubarak as a young Royal Egyptian Air Force Lieutenant taken before 1952 Photograph: AFP/Getty Images

17 September 1979: As Egypt's vice-president, Hosni Mubarak meets President Jimmy Carter in the Rose Garden of the White House Photograph: Charles Tasnadi/AP

6 October 1981: Egypt's president, Anwar Sadat (right) and vice-president Hosni Mubarak at a military parade. Minutes later, rogue soldiers opened fire from a truck, killing Sadat and injuring Mubarak Photograph: Bill Foley/AP

6 October 1981: Egyptian soldiers firing on President Anwar al-Sadat while reviewing a military parade in honour of the October 1973 war, in Cairo. Mubarak was wounded in the attack and later became Sadat's successor Photograph: Makaram Gad Alkareem/AFP/Getty Images

14 October 1981: Becoming Egypt's president, Hosni Mubarak addresses the people's assembly in Cairo, during the swearing-in ceremony that followed the assassination of President Anwar Sadat Photograph: Bill Foley/AP

August 18, 1981 Vice-president Mubarak, right, meets Israeli PM Menachem Begin in Alexandria Photograph: AP

14 February 1984: President Ronald Reagan (centre), King Hussein of Jordan (left) and President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt walk along the colonnades at the White House Photograph: Barry Thumma/AP

March 19, 1985 Iraqi president Saddam Hussein (centre) welcomes Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak (right) and King Hussein of Jordan during a surprise visit to Baghdad Photograph: AP

Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak (centre), flanked by his defense minister Abdel-Halim Abu Ghazala (left) and chief of staff Lieutenant General Ibrahim Orabi (right), visits the tomb of the Unknown Soldier, April 24 1986 Photograph: Reuters

April 6, 1987: President Mubarak casting his ballot for the first parliamentary elections in Egypt Photograph: AFP/Getty Images

January 27, 1987: President Hosni Mubarak, left, speaks with PLO leader Yasser Arafat in Kuwait Photograph: AP

President Mubarak greets military commanders of the armed forces in Cairo, October 6 1989 Photograph: Aladin Abdel Naby/Reuters

4 April 1989: President George Bush Sr walks with Mubarak as they arrive at the White House in Washington, after spending the afternoon at a baseball game Photograph: Doug Mills/AP

President Mubarak greets Indian PM Indira Gandhi on his arrival in New Delhi Photograph: AP

Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak meets Reverend Jesse Jackson in Cairo, 7 July 1989 Photograph: Reuters

Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak and South Africa's leading anti-apartheid churchman Desmond Tutu meet in Cairo, October 24, 1989 Photograph: Aladin Abdel Naby/Reuters

6 October 1993: PLO chairman Yasser Arafat, (left) joins Mubarak and Israeli PM Yitzhak Rabin (right) at a historic meeting in Cairo Photograph: Denis Paquin/AP

Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak (left) meets Israeli PM Shimon Peres at Ras El-Tinn palace in Alexandria Photograph: Reuters

President Mubarak (second right) and first lady Suzanne with their two sons, Gamal (right) and Alaa (second left), and the latter's wife Heidi al-Sakher (far left) in the Ittihadeya Palace in Cairo Photograph: AFP/Getty Images

British PM John Major and Mubarak at the Presidential Palace in Cairo, October 24 1992 Photograph: Reuters

6 November 1995: Mubarak shakes hands with Leah Rabin (left), widow of the assassinated Israeli PM Yitzhak Rabin, at his funeral in Jerusalem Photograph: Santiago Lyon/AP

US president Bill Clinton (right), Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin (left), Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak (second left) and Jordan's King Hussein adjust their ties in front of PLO chairman Yasser Arafat (far right), September 28 1995 Photograph: Reuters

Diana, Princess of Wales with Mubarak during her visit to Egypt Photograph: Mona Sharaf/AFP/Getty Images

Tunisian president Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali (right) and Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak at the Carthage Palace in Tunis, February 6 2001 Photograph: REUTERS

3 June 2003: US President George Bush shakes hands with Mubarak after the conclusion of their meeting with Saudi Arabia's Prince Abdullah, King Abdullah of Jordan, King Hamad of Bahrain, and the Palestinian prime minister, Mahmoud Abbas, during a multilateral summit in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt Photograph: Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP

Brazilian president Lula (left) with Mubarak in Egypt, December 8 2003 Photograph: Aladin Abdel Naby/Reuters

Mubarak listens to French first lady Bernadette Chirac and French president Jacques Chirac at the Elysée Palace in Paris, May 18 1998 Photograph: AP

Mubarak and Pope John Paul II at Cairo airport, February 24 2000 Photograph: Reuters

Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi and Mubarak in Rome, March 9 2006 Photograph: Max Rossi/Reuters

Mubarak and German chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin, 23 April 2008 Photograph: Fabrizio Bensch/Reuters

March 11 2009: Saudi King Abdullah walks with Mubarak in Riyadh Photograph: AFP/Getty Images

US secretary of state Hillary Clinton meets Mubarak at a hotel in Washington, August 17 2009 Photograph: Kevin Lamarque/Reuters

Mubarak talks to his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev at the presidential palace in Cairo, June 23 2009 Photograph: RIA Novosti/Reuters

Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi (right) welcomes Mubarak (left) in Sirte, east of Tripoli, January 23 2007 Photograph: Mahmud Turkia/AFP/Getty Images

September 4, 2007: Mubarak meets Tony Blair – in his role as Middle East peace envoy – in 2007 Photograph: Khaled Desouki/AFP/Getty Images

France's president Nicolas Sarkozy greets Mubarak at the Elysée Palace in Paris, July 5 2010 Photograph: Philippe Wojazer/Reuters

Mubarak (right) talks to Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas in Cairo, August 12 2010 Photograph: Asmaa Waguih/Reuters

1 September 2010: Barack Obama meets Mubarak in the Oval Office in the White House Photograph: Susan Walsh/AP

1 February 2010: Protesters in Tahrir Square watch President Mubarak's televised speech in which he declared he would not stand for re-election in September, bringing about the end of his 30-year rule Photograph: Sean Smith/Guardian

10 February 2011: An image from Egyptian state television shows President Mubarak, who refused to resign despite rumours to the contrary Photograph: AFP/Getty Images

11 February 2011: The Egyptian vice-president, Omar Suleiman, delivering an address in which he announced that President Hosni Mubarak resigned Photograph: AFP/Getty Images