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The Tunisian Prime Minister Mohamed Ghannouchi is to stay on in his job but has reshuffled his cabinet, replacing his defence, interior and foreign ministers. Mr Ghannouchi said his government was transitional and would stay in office only until it'd completed its mission of taking the country to democracy. Earlier in the day, the interim Foreign Minister Kamel Morjane resigned from his post.
There's growing concern in South Africa about the health of Nelson Mandela, who's spending a second day in a Johannesburg hospital. Our correspondent Karen Allen is there.
There's been a stream of visitors from Mr Mandela's family and members of the ruling party, the ANC, but still no official word about his condition. President Jacob Zuma, speaking from a conference in Switzerland, called for calm,
reiterating
the line that the former leader is in hospital for a routine checkup, and said medical staff should be left to do their job. But close friends of Mr Mandela say privately at 92 his health has deteriorated over recent months. And the silence over his present condition is doing little to calm an anxious nation.
Prosecutors in Italy have released documents allegedly linking the Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi with an underage Brazilian prostitute. He's already being investigated
on suspicion of
paying a 17-year-old Moroccan dancer for sex, an allegation he denies.
A parliamentary committee has