3 July 2013 Last updated at 08:00 GMT
Egypt tense as army deadline for Morsi looms
Tensions are high in Egypt as an army ultimatum for President Mohammed Morsi to resolve deadly unrest approaches.
Clashes broke out at rival protests across the country overnight, with at least 16 pro-Morsi protesters killed at a demonstration at Cairo University.
The army has said it will shed its blood to defend Egypt against "any terrorist, radical or fool".
Mr Morsi insists he is the legitimate leader and will not give in to "violence and thuggery" by resigning.
In a defiant televised speech on Tuesday evening, he too said he would give his life to defend constitutional legitimacy, and blamed the unrest on corruption and remnants of the ousted regime of Hosni Mubarak.
Europe's young jobless: 'finding work has become a matter of survival'
As youth unemployment rates continue to rise across Europe, people tell of their struggles to get a job and fears for the future
As part of our series on Europe's youth unemployment crisis, we asked readers to tell their stories of frustration and indignation. A selection of responses follows. Have your say below the line.
Rachel Grey, 23, Middlesbrough, UK
I've been unemployed since finishing university in July 2011. My hopes after graduating [with a 2:1 in sociology from a Russell Group university] weren't unrealistic. I was prepared to take any job to build up enough experience to find a job in London. Instead, I've ended up living at home with my parents. I feel incredibly guilty about still having to live with my parents and like I've let them and my partner down by not being able to get a job. I never imagined I could feel as worthless as being unemployed has made me feel. I dread talking to friends and family because I'll have to explain that I still haven't found a job.
This is a man’s world: Shock quiz results show how women are left disengaged by politics
Men score more highly in political quiz in 10 nations because, say campaigners, they dominate the debate
WEDNESDAY 03 JULY 2013
A group of researchers from universities in 10 countries said they were shocked to discover an “unmistakable” gender gap in what men and women knew about current affairs. Sociologists said that the results reflected how marginalised women still feel from public life, where the majority of leading figures are men.
“The fact that throughout the whole world women know less about politics than men and that this is as true for people in Norway as it is in Colombia is really very surprising,” said James Curran, a media professor at Goldsmiths, University of London, one of the project’s 15 researchers.
PAKISTAN
Drone strike in northern Pakistan kills more than a dozen people
A US drone strike in northwest Pakistan has killed more than a dozen people according to Pakistani intelligence officials. It's the biggest drone attack this year and second since Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif took office.
At least 17 people were killed Wednesday during a drone strike in the Sarai Darpa Khel area of the restive North Waziristan tribal region. Most of those killed in the attack were fighters for the Haqqani network, three Taliban commanders and security officials told the Reuters news agency.
A number of people were wounded in the attack, local tribesman Kaleemullah Dawar told Reuters, but rescuers did not immediately respond to the victims because of fears they would also come under attack. Attacks on first responders going to the aid the victims of a first hit, known as "double tap" strikes, are a common tactic of US drone warfare.
Southeast Asia
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In crisis, Malaysia plays the royal card
By Chin Huat Wong
KUALA LUMPUR - When Melissa Gooi posted a comment on Facebook critical of Malaysian King Abdul Halim Mu'adzam Shah's birthday speech in early June, the 32-year-old did not anticipate she would be accused of being an enemy of the state. Neither did her various Facebook friends, four of whom echoed similar sentiments about the monarch.
Malaysia is nominally a constitutional monarchy, and the nine Malay royal houses have always been politically significant as symbolic protectors of the interests of ethnic Malays, who make up around 60% of the national population. This role has frequently made them both allies and rivals of the United Malays Nasional
Organization (UMNO), the political party that has dominated Malaysia since 1955.
Mandela grandson accused over graves in South Africa
Members of former South African President Nelson Mandela's family have laid a criminal complaint against his grandson Mandla.
Police spokesman Mzukisi Fatyela told the BBC officers would investigate allegations of illegal grave tampering.
A public prosecutor would then decide whether to press charges, he said.
It involves the bodies of three of the ex-president's children, who were allegedly moved from a family graveyard about two years ago by Mandla Mandela.
In a separate case, 16 Mandela family members are seeking to move the bodies back to the graveyard in the village of Qunu, where Mr Mandela, who is critically ill in hospital with a recurring lung infection, wants to be laid to rest.
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