BBC News with Zoe Diamond
Officials in Pakistan say at least 59 people have been killed in attacks at mosques in the northwest of the country. In the second attack, a grenade was thrown into a mosque on the outskirts of Peshawar, killing at least four people. In the earlier incident, a suicide bomber blew himself up as people were leaving a mosque after Friday prayers in a suburb of Darra Adam Khel, killing 54 people, including the son of this eyewitness, Fazal Ur Rehman.
"The prayers finished and the Mullah stood to offer a khutbah, the speech for the Jummah prayer. He, the suicide bomber started running on the steps. He was wearing a red shirt and he had a long beard. And as he reached the door, suddenly the blast occurred, and it became dark everywhere. In this incident, my child died."
For a second successive day, a plane operated by the Australian airline Qantas has made an emergency landing in Singapore. The Boeing 747-400 bound for Sydney landed safely. A Qantas spokesman said that shortly after take-off, the captain reported a concern about one of the engines. On Thursday, a Qantas Airbus A380 was forced to land in Singapore after an engine broke up in flight.
President Barack Obama has described new job figures in America as "encouraging" but said they didn't make a difference if you were still one of the millions looking for work. In its monthly report, the US Labor Department outlined a net rise of over 150,000 jobs, the first time since May that there have been more jobs created than lost. However, the overall rate of unemployment remains at 9.6%. President Obama warned that there was more work to be done and that would require bipartisan cooperation.