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The new French President Francois Hollande has stressed the need for growth in Europe at a news conference in Berlin with the German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Addressing the deepening crisis in the eurozone, he said everything must be put on the table at a forthcoming European Union summit. Mr Hollande, who has opposed some of the austerity policies backed by Mrs Merkel, reaffirmed France's commitment to a strong relationship with Germany.

"I consider the relationship between France and Germany is a balanced and respectful one – balanced between our two countries, respectful of our political sensibilities and equally respectful as partners of Europe and the European institutions. We want to work together for the good of Europe, but by mobilizing all the other countries in Europe."

Both leaders said they wanted Greece to remain a member of the eurozone as doubts continue about its future at the single European currency. Earlier, the latest effort to form a new government in Greece failed. The country now appears to be heading towards fresh elections with a formal announcement expected on Wednesday. The parties remain deeply divided over whether to continue with austerity measures linked to the international bailout.

The Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari is likely to attend a Nato summit in Chicago this weekend to discuss Afghanistan's future. The Nato invitation came as Pakistani civilian and military leaders met to consider reopening the alliance's supply route to Afghanistan, which closed after the death of Pakistani soldiers in Nato airstrikes. Jonathan Marcus reports.

The closure of the crucial supply lines means that Nato has had to rely upon more expensive and circuitous routes through central Asia and Russia. The closure marked a new low in relations between Pakistan and the alliance, worsened by disagreements about US drone strikes against militants. Such tensions are likely to continue. But the opening up for the supply routes, if they can be secured, will be important, not least for the eventual withdrawal of Nato equipment, thus troop numbers in Afghanistan begin to wind down .

The Vatican says it's received an unconditional apology from the Italian clothing company Benetton in a legal settlement over a controversial advertising campaign depicting Pope Benedict appearing to kiss a Muslim cleric. From Rome, David Willey.

The official Vatican spokesman, Father Federico Lombardi, said that a legal settlement had been reached with an unconditional apology by Benetton for publishing a provocative image of Pope Benedict apparently kissing an imam, the grand sheikh of the al-Azhar mosque in Cairo. Benetton has agreed to pay an undisclosed sum of money to a Vatican charity in recognition of the legal settlement.

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The former chief executive of Rupert Murdoch's British newspaper empire, Rebekah Brooks, has been charged along with her husband, Charlie Brooks, with conspiring to pervert the course of justice. Prosecutors accuse the couple and four other former employees of News International of concealing evidence from a police investigation into the phone-hacking scandal at the News of the World newspaper.

The emergency services in Colombia say at least two people have been killed and more than a dozen injured in an explosion in the capital Bogota. One of those wounded is the former Interior Minister Fernando Londono.

One person has been killed and several wounded in an attack on a restaurant in the Kenyan coastal city of Mombasa. One gunman is reported to have opened fire when guards prevented him and two accomplices from entering the building. The gunmen then threw two grenades and fled. It's unclear who carried out the attack.

The Mexican author Carlos Fuentes has died. He was 83. From Mexico City, Will Grant looks back at his career.

A contemporary of other great Latin American writers, such as Gabriel Garcia Marquez and fellow Mexican Octavio Paz, Carlos Fuentes was a prolific novelist and essayist. He gained international acclaim for his works, The Death of Artemio Cruz in 1962, and more recently The Eagle's Throne, which imagined a world in which the United States had knocked out all of Mexico's telecommunications. He was never awarded the Nobel Prize for literature, but was bestowed with practically every other literary award in the Spanish-speaking world.

It's reported that the American FBI has launched an investigation into the $2bn trading loss suffered last week by America's largest bank, JPMorgan Chase. The move follows news that the US finance regulator has also started investigations into the cause of the loss. A BBC correspondent in New York says the FBI's involvement suggests a maybe criminal inquiry.

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