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John F Kennedy, always a US icon, has over the years acquired a life story that's almost all sex and violence. Assassinated on 22 November 1963 in an atrocious public death, JFK and his record have become progressively tarnished by the sexual secrets of Camelot. The names of Judith Campbell Exner, Mary Pinchot Meyer, Gunilla von Post, Marlene Dietrich and two secretaries dubbed "Fiddle" and "Faddle" are now associated with the 35th president's private life as much as Lee Harvey Oswald and...

Pakistan's prime minister, Yousuf Raza Gilani. Photograph: Farooq Naeem/AFP/Getty Pakistan's supreme court has rejected the prime minister's appeal against a summons in a contempt case and is set to charge him on Monday, a move likely to bring fresh political turmoil to the chronically unstable country.If convicted, Yousuf Raza Gilani could face jail, but the case, which has raised tension between Pakistan's civilian leaders and the supreme court, could drag on and paralyse...

Manning will be transferred to Fort Meade, where he will be read all the charges against him and asked to give his plea. Photograph: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images The formal trial stage in the case of the WikiLeaks suspect Bradley Manning will begin on February 23, the US military has announced, when the soldier will be arraigned on all 22 counts relating to the largest leak of state secrets in American history.Manning will be transferred on that day from his current...

Barack Obama and Italian prime minister Mario Monti in the Oval Office of the White House. Photograph: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images President Obama has accused Syrian government forces of responsibility for "outrageous" bloodshed and called again for Bashar al-Assad to step down, as troops sealed off a rebel stronghold in the city of Homs and launched a bombardment using tanks, helicopters and artillery.Speaking after a White House meeting with the Italian prime minister,...

Radovan Karadzic takes his place at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in The Hague in 2008. Photograph: Jerry Lampen/EPA In 1946, Sir Hartley Shawcross, the chief British prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials, gave a noble speech: "Mankind itself, struggling now to re-establish, in all the countries of the world the common simple things – liberty, love, understanding – comes to this court and cries, 'These are our laws – let them...

A collapsed house after an earthquake and landslides struck Negros island in the Philippines. Photograph: Reuters Rescuers have found only bodies while digging for survivors among dozens of people buried by landslides on a central Philippine island after an earthquake. The death toll has climbed to 15, with more than 70 people missing.The 6.9-magnitude earthquake on Monday also collapsed bridges and damaged roads on Negros island. Soldiers and firefighters had to hike into...

Police guard Miramonte elementary school in Los Angeles, where child sex abuse allegations against two teachers have led to the the entire teaching staff being suspended. Photograph: Krista Kennell/AFP/Getty The entire teaching staff has been suspended at Miramonte elementary school in Los Angeles, where two teachers have been arrested on suspicion of sexually abusing children.The Los Angeles school superintendent, John Deasy, announced the extraordinary move, telling parents...

Obama said the new sanctions are required in part because the central bank is using 'deceptive practices'. Photograph: Dennis Brack/EPA Barack Obama has ordered the freezing of Iranian government assets in the US, including transactions by the Iranian Central Bank, in tightened sanctions over Tehran's nuclear programme.The White House said the executive order by the president "re-emphasises this administration's message to the government of Iran – it will face...

Romanian prime minister announces his resignation. Source: Reuters Link to this video The Romanian prime minister and his cabinet have resigned after weeks of sometimes violent protests over widespread corruption and austerity measures.Emil Boc said on Monday he was quitting "to release the tension in the country's political and social situation".During his three-year rule, salaries of state employees were cut by a quarter and VAT increased by five percentage points, while...

Britain and the US recalled their ambassadors to Damascus on Monday in protest at what the British foreign secretary, William Hague, called the "doomed" and "murderous" regime's violent behaviour towards its civilian population.The diplomatic crisis followed a morning in which at least 50 people were killed in attacks on the Syrian city of Homs, according to activists, including the bombardment of a field hospital in which 19 people were killed.Speaking in the House of Commons, Hague said of...