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A new era dawns in Egypt and across the Arab world as history is made over 18 days:

A new era dawned in Egypt on Saturday as this nation of 80 million -- and hundreds of millions beyond its borders -- began to absorb the fact that an 18-day mass movement of nonviolent protest brought down a nearly 30-year military dictatorship and renewed the country's lease on life.

"The People Overthrew the Regime," read the headline in Al Ahram, the flagship state-owned national newspaper and former government mouthpiece, borrowing a line from the protest movement.

Thousands lent a hand to a volunteer cleanup of Tahrir Square, the epicenter of the new Egypt. Sanitation trucks deployed on its outskirts and soldiers removed some of the barricades surrounding the square. The protest organizers had said they would leave it up to the people whether to stay or go. A small group on Saturday seemed intent on staying, for now, saying they wanted Hosni Mubarak, the president driven from office, to be tried.

Click on the photo for the NY Times complete coverage page of the entire revolution:

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