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The Italian army is being sent to Naples to deal with the city’s continuing rubbish collection crisis.
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More evacuation warnings have been issued in Memphis, as floodwaters from the Mississippi River continue to rise towards record levels.
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The chancellor, George Osborne, suggests Greece may need more financial help but says he does not want the UK to contribute.
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Pakistan has denied knowing Bin Laden was holed up in Abbottabad The White House has called on Pakistan to investigate the network that sustained Osama Bin Laden in his secret compound where he was killed last week.
But National Security Adviser Tom Donilon told NBC TV he had not seen any proof that the government in Islamabad knew the al-Qaeda leader’s whereabouts.
Mr Donilon also said the US wanted to speak to Bin Laden’s three widows, who are in Pakistani custody.
Pakistan has denied knowing Bin Laden was holed up in Abbottabad.
But Mr Donilon said Islamabad needed to establish how the al-Qaeda leader had lived for six years a short drive from the capital and right next to a military academy.
“There was some support network in Abbottabad, Pakistan, with the support of Bin Laden,” Mr Donilon told NBC’s Sunday talk show Meet The Press.
“We haven’t seen evidence that the government knew about that. But they need to investigate that.”
“Are we not on a slippery slope to say that the whole world is a battlefield?”
Christof Heyns UN rapporteur on extrajudicial executionsWas Bin Laden killing legal?
Three of Bin Laden’s wives and 13 children were removed from the house following the US commando raid, which killed the al-Qaeda leader, one of his sons and three others.
Mr Donilon said the Pakistani authorities “need to provide us with intelligence… from the compound that they’ve gathered, including access to Osama Bin Laden’s three wives”.
The US has been poring over computer files seized by American special forces from the hideout.
“It’s [the intelligence cache] about the size, the CIA tells us, of a small college library,” said Mr Donilon.
On Saturday, the Pentagon released five home videos found among the material featuring Bin Laden, with the audio removed.
It included a video message by the al-Qaeda leader to the US and footage of Bin Laden watching an item about himself on TV.
US officials said the Abbottabad hideout was a command and control centre from where Bin Laden had actively led al-Qaeda.
But an unidentified senior Pakistani intelligence official told Reuters news agency on Sunday: “It sounds ridiculous. It doesn’t sound like he was running a terror network.”
There have been suspicions that someone in Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) spy agency, which has a long history of contacts with militant groups, may have known where Bin Laden was hiding.
But Pakistan has dismissed such suggestions.
Meanwhile, a senior United Nations official called on the White House to disclose what orders were given to the US Navy Seals who went into the al-Qaeda chief’s compound.
UN special rapporteur on extrajudicial executions Christof Heyns told the BBC the killing could set a precedent where any country could cross borders to pursue enemies “where there is in practical terms no option to capture”.
“And are we not then on a slippery slope to say that the whole world is a battlefield?”
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Stoke all but end Arsenal’s lingering title hopes with a deserved win at the Britannia Stadium.
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The al-Azraa church went up in flames during the clashes
Egypt’s prime minister has called an urgent cabinet meeting following fatal clashes between Muslims and Christians in Cairo overnight, state media says.
Essam Sharaf has postponed a visit to the Gulf in order to discuss the violence that left 10 people dead and 186 wounded.
The clashes broke out after several hundred conservative Muslims gathered at a church in central Imbaba district.
They alleged a woman convert to Islam was being held there against her will.
What reportedly began as an exchange of words between protesters, church guards and people living nearby developed into a fully-fledged confrontation involving gunfire, firebombs and stone-throwing.
Two churches and some nearby homes were set alight, and it took some hours for the emergency services and the military to bring the situation under control.
The recurrence of yet another serious outbreak of communal violence – as the military government leads a faltering transition to democracy – is a worrying development for Egypt, the BBC’s Jonathan Head in Cairo says.
“Prime Minister Sharaf has called for an emergency meeting of the cabinet to discuss the regrettable events in Imbaba,” Ahmed al-Saman, a cabinet spokesman, told the official Mena news agency.
State TV reported that Mr Sharaf had postponed his visit to Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates, which was scheduled for Sunday.
Both the death and wounded toll kept rising on Sunday morning, with state media putting the latest number of dead at 10 and injured at 186.
Witnesses said several hundred Muslims belonging to the Salafist movement gathered at the Coptic Saint Mena Church in the heavily-populated Cairo district of Imbaba on Saturday evening.
They were protesting over allegations that a Christian woman was being held there against her will because she had married a Muslim man and wanted to convert to Islam, Mena reports.
However, one person in the area, a blogger called Mahmoud, told the BBC that people who saw the violence break out thought that the perpetrators looked like “regular thugs” rather than Salafists.
He had witnessed the burning of a second church in the same district, al-Azraa, and said that many local people were very upset at the burning of the churches and had spent the night helping the firefighters put the flames out.
Similar claims about women being held against their will have been made before by Salafist groups, who have become more assertive in the post-Mubarak era, our correspondent says.
In March, 13 people died in similar clashes in another neighbourhood. Last month, demonstrators in the southern city of Qena cut all transport links with Cairo for a week in protest over the appointment of a Christian governor.
Coptic Christians account for about 10% of Egypt’s population, and have long complained of state discrimination against them.
Now they are expressing fears for their safety if hardline Muslims do well in the election scheduled for September, our correspondent reports.
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Big George won a gold Sony Award in 2002 for best music presenter George Webley, the presenter of the weekday overnight programme on BBC London 94.9, has died aged 53.
Big George, as he was known, had presented the show for the past five years. He won a gold Sony Award in 2002 for best music presenter and was formerly with BBC Three Counties Radio.
He died in the early hours of Saturday, his family said.
He also had a long career as a musician and composed TV theme tunes, including Have I Got News For You.
The cause of death is not known at this stage, the BBC said.
Big George was also a band leader, performer and composer.
BBC London 94.9 Editor David Robey said: “Big George lived up to his name in every sense, a larger than life character with a radio personality to match.
“He was a truly distinctive broadcaster who will be terribly missed by his many devoted listeners and his colleagues at BBC London 94.9.”
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Protesters say they will block all exits to the Stanlow plant Fuel protesters are staging a go-slow on major routes towards Cheshire’s Stanlow oil refinery, where they they plan to impose a blockade.
The M56, M62 and M6 in Greater Manchester and Cheshire are affected along with the A55 in north Wales.
Lorry drivers, farmers and bikers are joining 20mph convoys after an appeal through Facebook.
Organiser Ian Charlesworth said that the aim was to ask the government to reduce fuel tax duty by 24p a litre.
The Stanlow Fuel Protest and Direct Action Group said it will block the Ellesmere Port refinery’s exits.
It will prevent tankers from leaving the plant and will remain in place until their demands are met, Mr Charlesworth added.
“Up to 3,000 ordinary people will be taking part in the go-slow and some of us are going to stay in Stanlow for as long it takes, because without fuel getting through Great Britain plc will be closed,” said Mr Charlesworth.
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A mutiny at a counter-terrorism prison in Baghdad has led to the deaths of at least 10 inmates and eight police officers, officials say.
Al-Qaeda leader Huthaifa al-Batawi, accused of masterminding the deadly siege of a Baghdad church last October, is reported to be among the dead.
One report says he started the incident by grabbing a guard’s gun while being interrogated.
Iraq is bracing itself for reprisals following the death of Osama Bin Laden.
Batawi was among 12 people arrested last November in connection with the siege of a Catholic Church in Baghdad’s Karrada district on 31 October.
More than 100 people were attending mass at the time, and were taken hostage. At least half of them were killed when Iraqi security forces moved in to try to free them.
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Nick Clegg admitted the Liberal Democrats had taken a “real knock” after the election losses Nick Clegg is expected to pledge a more assertive role for the Liberal Democrats in government, after his party’s heavy election losses.
Mr Clegg is also expected to say the Lib Dems must stay in coalition with the Conservatives for the long-term.
The party suffered huge losses in Scotland and England and were defeated in the AV referendum.
His comments come after Lib Dem Vince Cable said the Tories were “ruthless, calculating and very tribal”.
But the business secretary told the BBC the alliance would continue because the government’s “overwhelming priority” was still to resolve the UK’s economic problems.
Senior Lib Dems are said to be furious about personal attacks on Mr Clegg by campaigners for a No vote in the AV referendum.
They believe the decision to target the deputy prime minister was made with the approval of their Conservative cabinet colleagues.
But Conservative MP Philip Davies has accused the Liberal Democrats of going to “desperate” and “pathetic” lengths to woo back supporters.
Prime Minister David Cameron and Home Secretary Theresa May have both said the parties will still work together in the coalition.
Thursday’s referendum on changing the way the UK elects MPs was a key concession secured by the Liberal Democrats as the price of forming a coalition government with the Conservatives almost exactly a year ago.
But the rejection of the proposal by 13,013,123 votes to 6,152,607, in only the second ever UK-wide referendum, potentially marks a new phase in the relationship between the two parties.
“Underlying it all is an identity crisis, long brewing, that these elections have forced on the Lib Dems”
The Lib Dems also lost around 700 councillors in the English local elections – more than a third of the seats they were defending – and 12 of its 17 MSPs at Holyrood, where the SNP scored an historic victory.
The Lib Dems are now expected to become more assertive in their demands over key policy areas, as they attempt to re-establish their party’s identity amid fears of being wiped out at the next general election.
Liberal Democrat peer Lady Tonge said her party should demand that proposed NHS reforms – put forward by the Conservatives – are abandoned.
“I think we should feel free to go back on some of those things, particularly the health service reforms which, of course, actually weren’t in the coalition agreement,” she told the BBC.
Writing in the Observer, Liberal Democrat president Tim Farron said the party had to “assert our identity as a radical and progressive party… and prove that we listen and learn”.
Overall majority
The Lib Dems are also expected to demand a proportional voting system for a directly-elected House of Lords, as well as delays in the introduction of elected police chiefs.
But backbench Tories – many of whom believe their leader has given too many concessions to the Lib Dems since the coalition was formed – are now calling on Mr Cameron not to offer them further policy sweeteners just to keep the coalition together.
Senior Conservative MP Bernard Jenkin said: “The idea that there are going to be some more transactions in this relationship is not going to impress the voters at all… The concessions have been made.”
The Conservatives, who already controlled more councils than all the other parties put together, have increased their number of councillors and gained control of two councils.
Labour made significant gains in town halls in the north of England and in the Welsh assembly elections, where it fell just short of an absolute majority.
Labour also held Leicester South in a parliamentary by-election with an increased majority, although the Lib Dems hung on to second place.
Meanwhile, the Scottish National Party recorded a historic first by becoming the first party to win an overall majority in the Holyrood parliament since devolution.
With all results in, the SNP had 69 seats, Labour 37, the Tories 15, the Lib Dems five, and others three.
In Northern Ireland, the DUP and Sinn Fein won the most seats in the assembly with 38 and 29 respectively.
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Andrew Harding talks to Simon Brooks, head of the International Committee of the Red Cross in Libya, about his aid mission to the port of Misrata.
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Police think the man was stabbed in the back as he approached a house in Brooklyn Road Four people have been arrested after a man was stabbed to death following a disturbance at a party in West Yorkshire, police have said.
The 50-year-old was attacked by a group of people as he approached the house in Cleckheaton, early on Saturday.
Police think the man, who suffered stab wounds to his back, had been on his way to help deal with an “altercation”.
Two 19-year-old men, a 19-year-old woman and a 20-year-old woman are in custody on suspicion of murder.
The 19-year-old woman was arrested on Saturday and the other three arrests were made early on Sunday.
The victim died in Dewsbury District Hospital after the incident in Brooklyn Road, which happened shortly before 0100 BST on Saturday.
A post mortem examination showed that the man, who has not yet been formally identified, died from stab wounds.
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Anti-government protests were held in Homs on Friday after prayers Syrian security forces have moved into parts of the city of Homs, a centre of the nationwide protests against President Bashar al-Assad.
There were reports of heavy shooting in the city and a number of people were arrested.
State media said several “armed saboteurs” had been killed or wounded, arrests made and quantities of arms and ammunition seized.
Police operations are also continuing in Baniyas and Deraa.
Some 15 people were shot dead in Homs on Friday as they staged demonstrations after weekly prayers.
The authorities say 11 soldiers and police were also killed, blaming “armed terrorist groups” for the violence.
On Sunday night, troops and police moved into Homs with tanks, said Syrian state TV, confirming reports from activists and residents.
Heavy machine-gun fire and shelling were heard on the streets.
Electricity and communications to the city of one million people were cut before the operation began, a technique which the security forces are reported to have used before in other cities.
Foreign journalists are banned from entering Syria, so reports are difficult to independently verify.
In the coastal city of Baniyas, activists say six people were shot dead on Friday night and at least 200 people – including a 10-year-old boy – arrested.
“It appears to be designed to punish his parents,” said Rami Abdul-Rahman, director of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
He told reporters that water, electricity and nearly all communication connections to Baniyas city had been cut and that snipers had taken up position on rooftops in the southern districts.
In Deraa, the southern city where the unrest began in March, residents also remain cut off from the rest of the country.
Scores of people have been killed in Deraa during a 10-day security operation.
Across Syria, protesters have been calling for greater political rights and personal freedoms. Some are calling for the downfall of the regime.
The unrest in Syria poses the most serious challenge to Mr Assad since he succeeded his father, Hafez, in 2000.
On Friday, the US said the violence against protesters was “deplorable” and pledged a “strong international response” against Syria’s# government if Damascus does not end its brutal crackdown.
More than 500 people are thought to have been killed since mid-March.
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Climate change fears and the rising cost of fuel may make electric cars attractive to some people Just over a tenth of electric car charging points needed in the UK have been built so far, the BBC has learned.
Only 700 of the 5,000 required by the end of the year are in place and two-thirds of towns with a population of over 150,000 do not have any public charging infrastructure.
David Martell, of charging supplier Chargemaster, said the lack of points can be very stressful for drivers.
The Department of Transport said it plans to install 9,000 points by 2013.
It said it has also provided up to £30m to kick-start installation in ‘test-bed’ areas.
There are about 30 million vehicles on British roads – 3,000 of which are electric vehicles.
Mr Martell said many electric vehicle drivers suffer from “range anxiety”, which concerns their fear that they run the risk of running out of power due to a lack of charging points.
“It’s a concern. It’s a barrier to some people,” he said.
Experts say that nearly two million of the cars on Britain’s roads will be electric powered by 2020.
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Hundreds of migrants from Libya have been rescued off the Italian coast after their boat ran aground
More than 400 migrants from Libya had to be rescued by Italian coast guards after their fishing boat hit rocks on the small island of Lampedusa.
TV images of the dramatic night-time rescue showed some migrants jumping or falling into the sea.
Others held on to ropes strung between the boat and the shoreline as Italian coast guards helped them to shore.
It came hours after Pope Benedict urged Roman Catholics to show more tolerance towards migrants from north Africa.
At a Sunday mass for 300,000 people in Venice, he told them not to fear or reject the new arrivals, but to build bridges between peoples and nations, the BBC’s David Willey reports.
Police official Fabrizio Pisanelli told Associated Press news agency that the boat’s steering had stopped working as the vessel was nearing the port in Lampedusa shortly after 0400 (0200 GMT).
Strong winds and choppy waters pushed the boat against the rocks, and threw some of the passengers overboard.
“It was a difficult situation. Our patrol boats couldn’t come close because of the shallow water and the undertow was very strong,” Antonio Morana, a coast guard spokesman, told AFP news agency.
Mr Pisanelli said three police officers who had earlier boarded helped to control the situation and allow the rescuers to reach the migrants immediately.
He said everyone on board – including women and children – were rescued safely.
Tens of thousands of migrants have reached Lampedusa in recent months amid fighting and political unrest in North Africa.
Mr Berlusconi has called on his European counterparts to do more to help with the worsening humanitarian situation.
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