BBC News with Jonathan Wheatley
The most senior American military officer Admiral Mike Mullen says the militant Haqqani group, which has carried out a series of recent attacks in Afghanistan, is an arm of Pakistan's intelligence service. Admiral Mullen told US senators that Haqqani operatives planned and conducted the recent assault on the US embassy in Kabul with the support of the Pakistani intelligence. Pakistan has rejected the allegations. The BBC's Adam Brooks says the Pentagon has been talking tough.
In Admiral Mullen's testimony before Congress today, he says Pakistan has chosen to use violent extremism as an instrument of policy. Pakistan is using proxies, and that's a reference to these groups that have their roots back in the Afghan war against the Soviet Union. Pakistan still uses these groups, the Americans believe, as an instrument of policy in the region to increase their leverage, and America seems now to be tackling that brawl of Pakistani strategic vision head-on.
Libyan fighters from the National Transitional Council are celebrating in the desert town of Sabha, having taken control of the town from pro-Gaddafi forces there. Sabha was one of the last main pro-Gaddafi strongholds and was seen as a potential hiding place for the colonel and his inner circle, but so far there's been no sign of him there. Two other Gaddafi strongholds - Bani Walid and Sirte - are still offering strong resistance.
Fighting is spreading in the capital of Yemen, Sanaa, between military forces for and against President Saleh, shattering a fragile ceasefire. At least six people are reported to have been killed. Eyewitnesses said snipers shot dead two women in the central square, where anti-government activists have been holding months of protests.