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11.33am: The Syrian representative has just finished addressing the UN human rights council. He conceded that the humanitarian situation has deteriorated but blames this on "armed groups".The official, whose name we did not catch, said the UN debate itself is "part of a pre-established plan" to attack the Syrian state and its institutions "under the pretext of humanitarian needs".He ended by saying that Syria is now withdrawing its delegation "from this sterile discussion".11.25am: The...

11.46am: Nobody likes putting themselves through a medical - so no doubt Portugal finance minister Vitor Gaspar is feeling relieved today.Portugal has passed the third review of its €78 bn bailout programme by the European Union and IMF, as it reiterated this year's fiscal goals will be met despite a worsening economic outlook.Gaspar said: The result was positive despite unfavourable conditions. The mission confirmed the fulfillment of the criteria demanded by the...

A teenager opened fire in the cafeteria of his suburban Cleveland high school Monday, killing one student and wounding four others before he was chased from the building by a teacher and captured a short distance away, authorities said. A student who saw the attack up close said it appeared that the gunman targeted a group of students sitting together and that the one who was killed was gunned down while trying to duck under the cafeteria table. FBI officials would not comment on a...

Yemeni security guards inspect the the road outside presidential palace in Mukalla where a suicide bomber blew up a vehicle killing 25 people. Photograph: -/AFP/Getty Images At least 25 people were killed in a car bomb attack outside the gate of a presidential compound in Mukalla, south Yemen, hours after the country's new president Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi was sworn in and vowed to fight al-Qaida.The attack was carried out by a suicide bomber and bore the hallmarks of an...

Nelson Mandela, the 93-year-old former president of South Africa, is said to be suffering from a long-standing stomach complaint. Photograph: Mike Hutchings/Reuters Nelson Mandela was back in hospital on Saturday, triggering a fresh wave of anxiety over the health of the 93-year-old former South African president.Officials insisted that Mandela was "fine and fully conscious" in hospital after undergoing a diagnostic procedure for a long-standing abdominal complaint. He was...

A boy in the city of Homs holds the remains of a mortar, following shelling of the city. Photograph: Reuters The Syrian military took its bombardment of the Baba Amr district of Homs into a fourth week on Saturday as the Red Cross tried to evacuate more traumatised civilians.At least 28 people were killed , nine of them in Homs, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. Thousands are trapped in the Baba Amr suburb.Deploring the outcome of the international...

Pakistani policemen stand guard beside the compound of Osama bin Laden in northwestern Abbottabad town on 26 February, 2012. Photograph: Aamir Qureshi/AFP/Getty Images Pakistani forces have begun demolishing the house where Osama bin Laden was killed by US special forces last May, in the city of Abbottabad.The boundary wall and upper portion of the building had already been destroyed by midnight, Karim Khan, a senior police official in the town, told Reuters. "Yes, we...

Syria has defied international calls to halt attacks on rebel enclaves and at least 89 people have been killed nationwide on the eve of a constitutional referendum that the opposition sees as a ploy by President Bashar Assad's regime.Assad presented the revised charter which allows for at least a theoretical opening of the country's political system as an effort to placate critics and quell the 11-month uprising against his rule.But the Sunday vote is unlikely to overshadow a new round of...

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...