World News from the BBC

The French President Nicolas Sarkozy has said Turkey should accept responsibility for the genocide of more than a million Armenians during the collapse of the Ottoman empire.

Speaking on a visit to Armenia, Mr Sarkozy said collective denial was unacceptable and Turkey should

look its history in the face

. Turkey insists that those who died in 1915 were casualties of war, not victims of a deliberate campaign of genocide.

Reports from North Korea say children in areas of the country hit by heavy flooding earlier this year are severely

malnourished

. Pictures showing children in a rural hospital and orphanage have been published by Reuters television, which was invited in by the North Korean government to report on the situation.

The Pakistani Supreme Court has told political parties they should cut their links with criminal gangs in Karachi, which have been responsible for more than 1,000 deaths this year. The court warned that gangs had inflicted unimaginable brutality and were threatening to plunge the city into chaos. It said criminals had succeeded in infiltrating political parties. From Karachi, Shoaib Hasan reports.

Most of the observations made by the Supreme Court in its findings don't come as a surprise, but they do reaffirm the fact that the senseless and increasingly brutal killings have been carried out with official

complicity

. While the Supreme Court held all political parties responsible, it stated the MQM political party was especially at fault. The MQM controls Karachi and is one of the main partners in the ruling coalition. It denies all such allegations and says it has been victimised for its liberal anti-establishment views.