The President of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe, has called for elections next year as he attempts to win another term in office. Mr Mugabe made the announcement during a speech to the conference of his Zanu-PF party. A BBC correspondent at the conference says the speech was a familiar attack on foreign imperialism. He described Nato as terrorists who had turned Libya into rubble. Mr Mugabe is 87 and reportedly in poor health. But though the party is divided about his ability to lead them, dissent rarely surfaces in public.

The European Union has joined forces with the world's poorest countries to call for a strong agreement at the UN climate talks in Durban in South Africa. From there, Richard Black reports.

The world order is changing. Once the climate negotiations were all about rich versus poor; now they are about countries that want a strong deal soon and those that don't. Ministers from Bangladesh, Gambia, Mozambique and Nepal stood alongside European counterparts calling on China, India, the US and Brazil to move forwards. The US and China have both said they do not object to such a deal provided certain conditions are met, but other delegations say there's a difference between what the two biggest carbon emitters say in public and how they behave during negotiations.

Scotland, the north of England, Wales and Northern Ireland have been battered by storm-force winds. (There winds) In Scotland, winds exceeded more than 250km/h, close to the fastest wind speed ever recorded in Britain. Fifty thousand people have been left without power; most schools have closed; and trains, ferries and flights have been cancelled.