Mubarak facing retrial in Egypt

Mubarak was convicted and sentenced to life in June for failing to prevent the killing of some 900 protesters during the 2011 uprising that ended his 29-year rule.

The verdict, read out by judge Ahmed Ali Abdel-Rahman during a brief hearing in Cairo, also granted the appeal of Mubarak's security chief Habib el-Adly - who is also serving a life sentence after his conviction on the same charges. He too will be retried.

No date has been set for the start of their retrial.

The ruling came one day after a prosecutor placed a new detention order on Mubarak over gifts worth millions of Egyptian pounds he and other regime officials allegedly received from Egypt's top newspaper as a show of loyalty while he was in power.

The public funds prosecutor ordered Mubarak to be held for 15 days pending the completion of the investigation.