BBC news with Sue Montgomery.
Harrowing eyewitness accounts have been emerging from the Syrian town of Houla where more than 100 people were killed on Friday in what the United Nations is calling a brutal massacre. Several survivors spoke to the BBC. One said only four of her 20 family members (survived) after Alawite militia and Syrian security forces burst into the house with knives and Kalashnikovs automatic rifles. The international envoy to Syria Kofi Annan who's in Damascus said he was shocked and horrified by the killings. At the same time, violence across Syria shows no sign of easing. As Jim Muir reports.
Activists reported clashes and death in at least seven different parts of the country as the fallout from the Houla massacre continued to be felt both in Syria and around the world. Kofi Annan arriving in Damascus, said it was a critical moment. He would be having "serious and frank" discussions with president Assad, he said, trying to persuade him to take bold steps to prove he was serious about peace. He'll be pressing Mr Assad to make good on his earlier promise under the peace plan to (withdraw) his military and the heavy weapons back to barracks.
The Sudanese army says it will pull its troops out of the (disputed) border region of Abyei which it unilaterally seized a year ago, forcing some 100,000 civilians to fleed the area. A spokesman in Khartoum described the move as a goodwill gesture a day ahead of talks with South Sudan in neighbouring Ethiopia under African Union mediation.
A fire at a shopping mall in the Qatari capital Doha has killed at least 19 people. It's believed the fire started at a nursery. Caroline Hawley reports.
Officials say the fire broke out to the Gympanzee nursery on the fourth floor of the vast shopping mall. Emergency services had to break through the roof to reach the children who'd been trapped when a staircase (collapsed). But the firefighters were too late to save seven young girls and six boys who died with four of their teachers. Questions are being asked about safety procedures at the popular Italian-themed shopping mall which builds itself as the largest family entertainment destination in Doha.
Some news just in. Fire has broken out to take (campaign office) in Cairo of the presidential candidate Ahmed Shafiq. Television pictures showed a sizable blaze but there's no indication so far of the cause. Details are still coming in. Mr Shafiq, the last prime minister under Husni Mubarak, is one of the two men confirmed to fight a run-off election next month.
Two Israeli police officers have been convicted of negligent homicide over the death of a Palestinian man whom they (abandoned) by the side of the road even though he was seriously injured. The policemen have taken custody of Omar Abu Jariban who'd crashed a stolen car several weeks earlier. He'd been treated in hospital but was still in a weak physical state. The senior of the two policemen ordered him to be dumped by the road where he died.
BBC news.