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Thousands of protesters in Egypt demanding the immediate resignation of President Hosni Mubarak have taken their protests beyond Cairo's Tahrir Square. Crowds have besieged nearby government buildings including parliament and the cabinet office. Jon Leyne reports from Cairo.

Almost by the hour, the protesters are wearing down the government's power. Today, they expanded the area of the demonstration outside Tahrir Square. They moved into the streets surrounding the Egyptian parliament and government ministries, bringing even more of the government and of Cairo to a halt. A large ugly caricature of President Mubarak was hung on the gates of parliament, and the security forces did nothing to stop them.

There's also been a series of strikes across the country. The protests turned violent in several areas. In Assiut, thousands of demonstrators stoned the governor's car.

The US homeland security secretary has warned that the threat of terrorism against the United States is in some ways at its highest level since the attacks of 11 September, 2001. Janet Napolitano said that as well as the danger poised by al-Qaeda, there were threats from people within the United States. She told a congressional committee attacks from that source would come with little or no warning. She said that she couldn't guarantee there would never be another terrorist attack.

The head of the world's largest mobile phone maker Nokia has painted a bleak picture of the company's fortunes. Details of what Stephen Elop had to say appeared in a leaked internal memo, as Rory Cellan-Jones explains.

Stephen Elop compares Nokia to a man trapped on a burning North Sea oil platform, saying "We have multiple points of scorching heat that are fuelling a blazing fire around us." He says that three years after Apple launched its iPhone, "we still don't have a product that is close to their experience." Nokia invented what we now know as the smartphone, and the memo describes the news that the firm has now been overtaken in that market by Google's Android system as unbelievable.

A group representing the owners of much of the world's tanker fleet has warned that unless governments do more to combat Somali pirates, global oil supplies could face severe disruption. The warning follows the latest hijacking of a supertanker in the Arabian Sea. It was heading for the US with $200m worth of oil. Here's Frank Gardner.

It's the length of three football pitches, and it's carrying nearly one fifth of America's daily crude oil imports. The capture by Somali pirates off Oman of the supertanker Irene SL means a bonanza for them. The bargaining will soon begin to ransom the ship, its 25-strong crew and its two million barrels of oil. According to Joe Angelo for the International Association of Independent Tanker Owners, it's symptomatic of a growing crisis for the shipping industry.

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Tribal leaders in Jordan have issued a rare public criticism of the royal family, adding to the pressure from protests inspired by the uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt. Thirty-six leaders of tribes that had long been considered a mainstay of the monarchy signed a petition complaining about corruption. They also criticised King Abdullah's wife Rania for lavish spending and interfering in politics.

A second autopsy on the body of a Bangladeshi girl who died after being publicly whipped has found that she bled to death from multiple injuries. The 14-year-old Hena Begum had been accused of having an affair with a married man and was sentenced to 100 lashes. Anbarasan Ethirajan reports from Bangladesh.

The deputy attorney general Altaf Hossain told the BBC according to the latest post-mortem report, the body of the girl had eight wounds and that she bled to death. He said the court was surprised to see that the two reports differed. The first autopsy done by local doctors at the district headquarter town of Shariatpur said the body had no marks or injuries. The doctors who carried out the initial investigation have been summoned to explain the findings in the High Court on Thursday.The Farc rebel group in Colombia has released the first of five hostages it had promised to free as a gesture of peace to the government. The hostage, a local politician, Marcos Baquero, was handed over at a secret location in the jungle after 19 months in captivity.

A Belgian MP is calling for a sex strike to push country's leaders to form a government. Talks between the Flemish and French-speaking parties on a coalition have been deadlocked since June, and Belgium is now close to the world record for failing to form a government after an election. The parliamentarian Marleen Temmerman is calling for the partners of those involved in the talks to withhold sexual relations until a coalition is formed.