World News from the BBC

There's reported to have been a low turnout in Saudi Arabia's second national election. Only Saudi men were allowed to stand and vote in Thursday's municipal elections. But in response to growing pressure, King Abdullah this week announced that women would be allowed to participate in the next elections. Only half the seats will be decided by voting; the rest are chosen by the king.

Members of parliament in Germany have voted by a large majority to support a more powerful fund to bail out troubled economies in the eurozone. The BBC Berlin correspondent says the German Chancellor Angela Merkel got the measure passed more easily than she might have expected. The enlarged fund, which still has to be approved by other national parliaments in the European Union, would provide more money to help members of the eurozone deal with government debts. Share prices in Europe and New York rose after the German vote.

The Kenyan Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta has appeared before the International Criminal Court in The Hague in connection with the killings that followed the 2007 presidential election. More than 1,000 people died during the violence. Our East Africa correspondent Will Ross reports.

In Kenya, there's huge interest in the events taking place at the International Criminal Court. People have crowded around televisions to see the Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta on the witness stand. He faces charges of crimes against humanity, including murder, rape and forced